Wow! Strong piece at AlterNet about “7 Dangerous Food Practices Banned in Europe But Just Fine in America”, including arsenic, chlorine washes, and feeding cows “poultry litter” which is exactly and regrettably what you think it is.
In this handout I usually emphasize what's to be found at “the edges of the store” – the part of the supermarket where the least-processed foodstuffs are to be found. But Fooducate has a handy set of pointers on what to shop for in the middle of the store: oils, canned goods, frozen foods, bulk stuff. (And whatd'ya know, I've been mentioning those things all along!) Darya at Summer Tomato has her own take on the ChooseMyPlate.gov meal-planning system: hers involves filling half your plate with veggies “cooked in natural oils”, putting fruit off to the side, and treating dairy products as optional, not requisite. Oh, and a ten-inch plate: “Dinner plates have become enormous, and since a clean plate is a powerful psychological indicator that a meal is over, it can be helpful to use smaller plates if you’re looking for a painless way to cut down on your daily calories without noticing.”
Taco Bell has invented a breakfast taco made out of waffles. Scrambled egg on top of a sausage patty on top of a waffle, fold the whole thing in half like a taco. Fast food just gets weirder and weirder.
Recipes! A couple at Fooducate, which isn't usual for them, but this week they've got a swiftish vegetarian tamale pie (with step-by-step instructions for making the cornbread topping, and then the utterly sensible notation “Feel free to use cornbread mix”) and a “Super Simple Summer Squash Sauté” that I'm making soon. Chow.com has what they claim is the easiest way to make Eggs Benedict (a base canard: if it doesn't involve poaching the eggs in Saran Wrap, it's not the easiest), road-trip food, fifty-two recipes for a “Memorial Day Grilling Feast” (it will be one hell of a feast if you make fifty-two different dishes), and how to peel a kiwifruit.
Sprouted Kitchen has baked-herb-and-pistachio falafels. Smitten Kitchen has Japanese veggie pancakes and a heart-rending chronicle of a failed rhubarb meringue tart. And Snack Girl has rhubarb, how to make your own convenience foods, all-fruit icepops, and the absolutely essential and necessary information that a Bloody Mary has lycopene and Vitamin C.
The 20th, this Monday, is Pick Strawberries Day. If the only feasible way for you to pick strawberries is to pick three boxes for a dollar at Superstition Ranch Market by all means do so, as the day after is National Strawberries and Cream Day.
May 15th: National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
May 16th: National Coquilles St. Jacques Day
May 17th: National Cherry Cobbler Day
May 18th: National Cheese Soufflé Day
May 19th: National Devil's Food Cake Day, World Baking Day
May 20th: Pick Strawberries Day
May 21st: National Strawberries and Cream Day
May 22nd: National Vanilla Pudding Day; 1931, Mr. George K. End of Arcadia, Florida, begins marketing canned rattlesnake. It is not precisely a rip-roaring success.
Albertson's:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $3.99/lb
Beef tri tip roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef chuck roast, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $7.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast OR London broil, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
85/15 ground beef, $2.89/lb
Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.98/lb
Pork loin chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.98/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, jumbo pack, $1.49/lb
Tilapia fillets, 1 lb IQF bag, $9.99, buy 1 get 3 free and that is a hell of a lot of fish
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Albertson's eggs, AA large, dozens, $1
Albertson's sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1
Albertson's cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $2.49
Deli: Dietz & Watson maple or Virginia ham OR classic or Santa Fe turkey breast, $7.99/lb
Dietz & Watson lacy or baby-Swiss cheese, $7.99/lb
Jennie-O “Blue Ribbon” turkey breast, $4.99/lb
Signature Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Stella Muenster or Provolone cheeses, $4.99/lb
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, $1
Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, $1
Ro*tel tomatoes, $1
Hunt's tomato sauce, 15 oz cans, $1
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, $1
Healthy choice frozen entrées, 5/$10
Whole seedless watermelons, $1.99
Red cherries, from California, $4.99
Whole jumbo cantaloupes, 2/$5
Apricots, from California, $2.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries/raspberries/blueberries, 6 oz boxes, $2.99
Roma tomatoes, $1/lb
Earthbound Farms box salads, $2.99
English cucumbers, $1 ea
Vidalia onions, $1/lb
Eggplant, $1 ea
Zucchini squash, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef petite sirloin steaks, value pack, $2.97/lb
Beef breakfast steaks, $3.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast, $4.49/lb
Beef sirloin tip roast, $3.49/lb
Ground beef sirloin, fat content not listed, value pack, $2.87/lb
Assorted pork chops, value pack, $1.57/lb
Center cut pork chops, value pack, $1.99/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, 99¢/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Mahi mahi OR cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Kraft cheeses, 7-8 oz chunk or shreds, 2/$5
Food Club canned veggies or tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Hunt's canned tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 69¢
Ro*tel tomatoes, 69¢
Red seedless grapes, 99¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Whole pineapples, 2/$5
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb (organic, $1/lb higher)
Leaf lettuce, green or red, 99¢
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Zucchini squash, 99¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $3.77/lb
Beef NY strip steaks, bone in, $6.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, $2.49/lb (3 lb chub)
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, family pack, $1.99/lb
Foster Farms boneless skinless chicken breast or tenders, $2.99/lb
Corvina OR Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Fry's milk, gallons, $1.79
Kroger cottage cheese OR sour cream incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $1.79
Kroger butter, 2/$5
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $1.79
Smart Ones frozen entrées, 5/$10
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 97¢
Apples: Gala, Fuji, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Red cherries, $4.99/lb
Whole seedless watermelons, $4.99 ea
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Organic “Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, $1.29
Safeway:
Beef top sirloin steak, boneless, value pack, $4.99/lb
Beef London broil, boneless, value pack, $2.59/lb
Beef chuck steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef chuck short ribs, $3.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Center cut pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb
Pork sirloin country style ribs or chops, boneless, value pack, $2.49/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $2.29/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, value pack, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon whole fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb (cut fillets, $1/lb higher)
Tilapia or Swai fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79/lb
Lucerne cheeses, 8 oz shingle pack, 2/$5
Lucerne cheeses, 1 lb chunk or shreds, $3.99
Deli: Primo Taglio ham, $7.99/lb
French Swiss cheese, $7.99/lb
Deli Counter Virginia ham, $5.99/lb
Bush's baked or “Grillin'” beans, 21-28 oz cans, 3/$5
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, $1.85
Red seedless grapes, $1.28/lb
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
Red cherries, $4.99/lb
Seedless watermelons, $5.99/lb
Yellow nectarines, $2.99/lb
Organic strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Sweet corn, 3/$1
Sprouts:
Beef rump roast OR London broil, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef New York steak, bone in, $7.99/lb (boneless, $2/lb higher)
93/7 ground sirloin, $4.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast OR ground pork, $2.99/lb
All boneless chicken, 50% off
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Steelhead fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Albacore tuna steaks, bone in, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Northern Chef frozen seafood, 20% off
Seedless watermelon, 5 lbs/$1
Yellow mangos, 49¢ ea
Whole pineapples, 2/$3
Organic cantaloupe OR honeydew melons, 99¢/lb
Yellow peaches OR nectarines, 2 lbs/$5
Vine tomatoes, 2 lbs/$3 (organic, $1.99/lb, AZ grown)
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Bargain guide, week beginning May 8th:
DYK of the week, per Fooducate: the propellant in squirty-type whipped topping is nitrous oxide. Laughing gas, the stuff your dentist gives you.
Also from Fooducate, a take on the nutritional differences between raw and cooked broccoli. They are negligible except that one serving of cooked broccoli has only an entire RDA of Vitamin C, while the raw one has half again as much. Darya Rose at Summer Tomato has a rumination on losing weight by changing habits, rather than by using willpower. Like a muscle, she points out, willpower becomes fatigued when it's used too heavily: “Ironically, increasing your blood sugar can help restore willpower to some extent. But finding a healthy way to raise blood sugar in a state of depleted willpower can pose quite the dilemma....” Marion Nestle at Food Politics takes on the Grocery Manufacturers' Association's new front-of-package nutrition label system, “Facts Up Front”, which she regards as “the industry's end run around the FDA's long delayed attempt to make front-of-package nutrition information actually useful to consumers.” And by way of Grist, the account of two young men who lived for a week, one on strawberry licorice, the other on the Canadian version of Cheetos. Apparently Just Because They Could.
Recipes! Pickings are a bit thin at Chow.com, although Supertaster has a video review of KFC's new “Original Recipe Boneless Chicken” (or as it's been known to the rest of the world for several decades now, chicken strips), an intriguing tomatoless salsa of mangoes and jicama, a rather odd selection of “Easy Recipes for Campsite Cooking”, some of which seem to have little to do with “campsite” or for that matter “easy”. And over at Simply Recipes there's a radish salad with mint and pistachios, and baked salmon with (possibly to do with this being National Salsa Month) another tomatoless salsa, this one involving mangoes and avocado.
This second week in May is National Hamburger Week. Thank you, I will pass and wait for this Friday which is National Shrimp Day. And Saturday, the 11th, is National Eat What You Want Day – which I propose we modify to read Eat What You Want and stop when you're satisfied. And the 11th is also the Letter Carriers' Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive: postal carriers will collect non-perishable food donations, so leave those beside your mailbox. And Sunday of course is Mother's Day.
May 8th: National Empanada Day, National Coconut Cream Pie Day, Have a Coke Day
May 9th: National Butterscotch Brownie Day, National Moscato Day
May 10th: National Shrimp Day
May 11th: Eat What You Want Day, National Mocha Torte Day
May 12th: National Nutty Fudge Day
May 13th: National Apple Pie Day (not to be confused with Pi Day, which is 3/14), National Fruit Cocktail Day
May 14th: National Buttermilk Biscuits Day
May 15th: National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
Albertson's:
Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, 50% off
Beef London broil, $2.77/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef top sirloin OR tri tip steak, $4.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round roast or family pack steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb
Assorted pork chops, bone in, $1.79/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken breast/drums/thighs/leq quarters, bone in, 99¢/lb
Unbranded (store) boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.49/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Tilapia OR catfish fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.79
Knudsen sour cream OR cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 2/$4
Deli: Jennie-O “honey smoked” or “oven brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
Jennie-O Signature ham, $5.99/lb
Charlie's Pride Italian roast beef, corned beef, beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
Deli Fresh Provolone/pepperjack/Muenster, $5.99/lb
Bertolli pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, $1.99
Wild Harvest organic pasta sauces, 24 oz jars, 2/$4
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 2/$5
“Mini seedless” watermelons, $2.99 ea
Cut up strawberries or pineapple, 20 oz bowls, $3.99
Cut up “fruit medley”, 36 oz bowls, $5.99
Vine tomatoes, $2.49/lb
Sweet corn, 4 pk, $2.99
Cabbage, 49¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef tenderloin steaks, $8.99/lb
Beef petite top sirloin steaks, $5.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast or value pack steaks, $3.99/lb
Ground beef round, fat content not listed, value pack, $1.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $3.99/lb
Center cut pork chops, boneless, value pack, $1.99/lb
Boneless pork roast, $1.99/lb
Bashas' boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.87/lb
Bashas' milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Borden cheeses, 6-12 oz chunk/shreds/sandwich slices, 5/$10
Daisy sour cream incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $2.99
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, 99¢
PictSweet frozen veggies, 10-12 oz pkg, 2/$3
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 5/$11
Mornintstar Farms frozen, 5-12 oz boxes, $3.99
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 88¢ (first 4)
Organic strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.49
Whole seedless watermelons, 19¢/lb
Fuji or Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, regular or organic, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢
“Extra large” artichokes, 2/$3
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Red or gold bell peppers, 10/$10
Small Hass avocados, 2/$1
Fry's:
Beef NY strip steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.67/lb
Beef tenderloin, whole in bag, $9.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (2 lb chub)
Pork loin center chops, boneless, family pack, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.77/lb
Foster Farms chicken thighs/drums, bone in, $1.69
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Fry's eggs, AA large, dozens, 88¢
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds, $2.18
Nabisco snack crackers (Triscuits, Wheat Thins), 5-10 oz boxes, 2/$4
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 6/$12 (must buy 6)
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Dulcinea “mini seedless” watermelons, 99¢ ea
Red seedless grapes, $1.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries, 6 oz box, 2/$5
Organic mangoes, 4/$5
English cucumbers, AZ grown, 99¢ ea
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, AZ grown, 99¢
Safeway:
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $2.49/lb
Beef chuck 7-bone steak, bone in, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef bottom round steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steak OR tri tip roast, boneless, $3.97/lb
Beef ribeye steak, bone in, $5.97/lb
Beef tenderloin roast, whole in bag, $9.97/lb
Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $2.49/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, value pack, $1.29/lb
Atlantic salmon, farm raised, whole fillet, $6.99/lb (cut fillets, 50¢/lb higher)
Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb “weather permitting”
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Kraft cheeses, 6-8 oz shreds or shingle pack, $2.99
Hunt's tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Smart Ones frozen entrées, 5/$10
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 4/$10
Strawberries, 2 lb box, $1.99
Cantaloupes, $2.49 ea
Red or black seedless grapes, $2.99
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Red or Ataulfo mangos, 10/$10
Fuji apples, $1.39/lb
Sweet corn, white, 4/$1
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Zucchini OR yellow squash, $1.49/lb
Iceberg, $1.29
Sprouts:
Beef filet mignon steak or roast, boneless, $14.99/lb
Beef sirloin tip roast/steaks/carne asada, boneless, $3.99/lb
Center cut pork loin roast or chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Pork or chicken sausage, bulk or links, hot or sweet, $2.99/lb
Turkey tenders OR ground turkey breast, $3.99/lb
Swordfish or ahi tuna steaks, bone in, $7.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 99¢
Ataulfo (yellow) mangos, 3/$1
Blueberries, 4 oz box, 2/$5
Braeburn or Granny Smith apples, 99¢/lb
Organic Fuji or Cameo apples, 3 lb bag, $3.49
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$4
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 2 lbs/$3
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Eggplant, 99¢ ea
Spinach, 99¢/bunch
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢
Also from Fooducate, a take on the nutritional differences between raw and cooked broccoli. They are negligible except that one serving of cooked broccoli has only an entire RDA of Vitamin C, while the raw one has half again as much. Darya Rose at Summer Tomato has a rumination on losing weight by changing habits, rather than by using willpower. Like a muscle, she points out, willpower becomes fatigued when it's used too heavily: “Ironically, increasing your blood sugar can help restore willpower to some extent. But finding a healthy way to raise blood sugar in a state of depleted willpower can pose quite the dilemma....” Marion Nestle at Food Politics takes on the Grocery Manufacturers' Association's new front-of-package nutrition label system, “Facts Up Front”, which she regards as “the industry's end run around the FDA's long delayed attempt to make front-of-package nutrition information actually useful to consumers.” And by way of Grist, the account of two young men who lived for a week, one on strawberry licorice, the other on the Canadian version of Cheetos. Apparently Just Because They Could.
Recipes! Pickings are a bit thin at Chow.com, although Supertaster has a video review of KFC's new “Original Recipe Boneless Chicken” (or as it's been known to the rest of the world for several decades now, chicken strips), an intriguing tomatoless salsa of mangoes and jicama, a rather odd selection of “Easy Recipes for Campsite Cooking”, some of which seem to have little to do with “campsite” or for that matter “easy”. And over at Simply Recipes there's a radish salad with mint and pistachios, and baked salmon with (possibly to do with this being National Salsa Month) another tomatoless salsa, this one involving mangoes and avocado.
This second week in May is National Hamburger Week. Thank you, I will pass and wait for this Friday which is National Shrimp Day. And Saturday, the 11th, is National Eat What You Want Day – which I propose we modify to read Eat What You Want and stop when you're satisfied. And the 11th is also the Letter Carriers' Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive: postal carriers will collect non-perishable food donations, so leave those beside your mailbox. And Sunday of course is Mother's Day.
May 8th: National Empanada Day, National Coconut Cream Pie Day, Have a Coke Day
May 9th: National Butterscotch Brownie Day, National Moscato Day
May 10th: National Shrimp Day
May 11th: Eat What You Want Day, National Mocha Torte Day
May 12th: National Nutty Fudge Day
May 13th: National Apple Pie Day (not to be confused with Pi Day, which is 3/14), National Fruit Cocktail Day
May 14th: National Buttermilk Biscuits Day
May 15th: National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
Albertson's:
Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, 50% off
Beef London broil, $2.77/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef top sirloin OR tri tip steak, $4.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round roast or family pack steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb
Assorted pork chops, bone in, $1.79/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken breast/drums/thighs/leq quarters, bone in, 99¢/lb
Unbranded (store) boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.49/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Tilapia OR catfish fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.79
Knudsen sour cream OR cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 2/$4
Deli: Jennie-O “honey smoked” or “oven brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
Jennie-O Signature ham, $5.99/lb
Charlie's Pride Italian roast beef, corned beef, beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
Deli Fresh Provolone/pepperjack/Muenster, $5.99/lb
Bertolli pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, $1.99
Wild Harvest organic pasta sauces, 24 oz jars, 2/$4
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 2/$5
“Mini seedless” watermelons, $2.99 ea
Cut up strawberries or pineapple, 20 oz bowls, $3.99
Cut up “fruit medley”, 36 oz bowls, $5.99
Vine tomatoes, $2.49/lb
Sweet corn, 4 pk, $2.99
Cabbage, 49¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef tenderloin steaks, $8.99/lb
Beef petite top sirloin steaks, $5.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast or value pack steaks, $3.99/lb
Ground beef round, fat content not listed, value pack, $1.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $3.99/lb
Center cut pork chops, boneless, value pack, $1.99/lb
Boneless pork roast, $1.99/lb
Bashas' boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.87/lb
Bashas' milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Borden cheeses, 6-12 oz chunk/shreds/sandwich slices, 5/$10
Daisy sour cream incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $2.99
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, 99¢
PictSweet frozen veggies, 10-12 oz pkg, 2/$3
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 5/$11
Mornintstar Farms frozen, 5-12 oz boxes, $3.99
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 88¢ (first 4)
Organic strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.49
Whole seedless watermelons, 19¢/lb
Fuji or Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, regular or organic, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢
“Extra large” artichokes, 2/$3
Green bell peppers, 2/$1
Red or gold bell peppers, 10/$10
Small Hass avocados, 2/$1
Fry's:
Beef NY strip steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.67/lb
Beef tenderloin, whole in bag, $9.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (2 lb chub)
Pork loin center chops, boneless, family pack, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.77/lb
Foster Farms chicken thighs/drums, bone in, $1.69
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Fry's eggs, AA large, dozens, 88¢
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds, $2.18
Nabisco snack crackers (Triscuits, Wheat Thins), 5-10 oz boxes, 2/$4
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 6/$12 (must buy 6)
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Dulcinea “mini seedless” watermelons, 99¢ ea
Red seedless grapes, $1.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries, 6 oz box, 2/$5
Organic mangoes, 4/$5
English cucumbers, AZ grown, 99¢ ea
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, AZ grown, 99¢
Safeway:
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $2.49/lb
Beef chuck 7-bone steak, bone in, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef bottom round steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steak OR tri tip roast, boneless, $3.97/lb
Beef ribeye steak, bone in, $5.97/lb
Beef tenderloin roast, whole in bag, $9.97/lb
Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $2.49/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, value pack, $1.29/lb
Atlantic salmon, farm raised, whole fillet, $6.99/lb (cut fillets, 50¢/lb higher)
Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb “weather permitting”
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Kraft cheeses, 6-8 oz shreds or shingle pack, $2.99
Hunt's tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Smart Ones frozen entrées, 5/$10
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 4/$10
Strawberries, 2 lb box, $1.99
Cantaloupes, $2.49 ea
Red or black seedless grapes, $2.99
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Red or Ataulfo mangos, 10/$10
Fuji apples, $1.39/lb
Sweet corn, white, 4/$1
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Zucchini OR yellow squash, $1.49/lb
Iceberg, $1.29
Sprouts:
Beef filet mignon steak or roast, boneless, $14.99/lb
Beef sirloin tip roast/steaks/carne asada, boneless, $3.99/lb
Center cut pork loin roast or chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Pork or chicken sausage, bulk or links, hot or sweet, $2.99/lb
Turkey tenders OR ground turkey breast, $3.99/lb
Swordfish or ahi tuna steaks, bone in, $7.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 99¢
Ataulfo (yellow) mangos, 3/$1
Blueberries, 4 oz box, 2/$5
Braeburn or Granny Smith apples, 99¢/lb
Organic Fuji or Cameo apples, 3 lb bag, $3.49
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$4
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 2 lbs/$3
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Eggplant, 99¢ ea
Spinach, 99¢/bunch
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Wren's bargain guide, week beginning May 1st:
Occasional explanation and disclaimer: this is my compilation of the week's healthy/low-PointPlus grocery bargains, extracted from the newspaper grocery flyers. Not the entire contents of the flyers, only the things that strike me as being healthy, minimally processed, or otherwise Good For You. And this is most assuredly not IN ANY WAY to be taken as an official Weight Watchers item.
Interesting piece at NBCNews.com: you may be consuming far more sugar than you realize. A lot of added sugars are concealed in products you don't normally think of as sugary, such as ketchup and even bread. Check those labels. Fooducate has a fascinating review of what looks to be a fascinating new book: Mark Bittman (How to Cook Everything) has taken up a new eating system he calls “VB6”, or eating vegan before 6:00 p.m. After that he eats pretty much what he damn pleases, but in reasonable portions. Sounds as though it might be worth a try, or at least a look.
Yoni Freedhoff, at Weighty Matters, has a short but inspiring piece on the difference between “perfection” and doing your best: “Bests aren't perfection. Bests are affected by real life. Bests need flexibility. And bests change depending on circumstances.” Lifehacker has an interesting article on the altogether too familiar phenomenon of portion control fail: “When food's placed in front of us, we tend to follow mom's advice and clean our plates, even when it's more than we actually want.” Why is that, and what can we do about it?
Recipes! Chow.com has you fixed for the weekend: Saturday is the Kentucky Derby, so they've collected a set of “Southern favorites” ranging from mint juleps and pimento cheese to God help us elk meatballs in barbecue sauce; and Sunday being Cinco de Mayo, they've collected every imaginable variation on the taco or the margarita. On video they've got 7 ways to get ketchup out of a glass bottle, and Supertaster reviews something called “SEXCEREAL”. Smitten Kitchen has spring-veggie potstickers, Simply Recipes has Yucatan-style chicken soup with lime. And at Sprouted Kitchen, a phenomenally delicious-looking grilled asparagus plate.
Grilling season is starting, and May is National Barbecue Month and National Hamburger Month – along with the possibly less nutritionally fraught items of National Salad Month, National Strawberry Month, National Asparagus Month, National Mediterranean Diet Month and National Gazpacho Aficionado Month. This first week of May is both National Raisin Week and National Herb Week. And Monday, the 6th, is International No Diet Day*. Well, we at WW are not on a “diet”, are we?
May 1st: National Chocolate Parfait Day
May 2nd: National Truffles Day (my sources conflict on whether this refers to the pungent fungus or the chocolate)
May 3rd: National Raspberry Tart Day
May 4th: National Orange Juice Day, National Candied Orange Peel Day (you have to do something after you've juiced them), National Homebrew Day
May 5th: Cinco de Mayo, National Chocolate Custard Day, National Hoagie Day, Totally Chipotle Day
May 6th: National Crepes Suzette Day, International No Diet Day
May 7th: National Roast Leg of Lamb Day
May 8th: National Empanada Day, National Coconut Cream Pie Day
* In the print version I put "National" by mistake. Apologies.
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $7.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib roast or (family pack) steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.99/lb
Pork sirloin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.47/lb (chops, $1.99/lb
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.47/lb
Pork blade steak OR country-style ribs, bone in, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.88/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, jumbo pack, $1.49/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $3.99/lb
Tilapia or swai fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Deli: Jennie-O oven roasted turkey breast, $4.99/lb
“Signature Ham & Provolone or Muenster Cheese” – decipher that if you can – $4.99/lb
Charlie's Pride regular or Italian roast beef, $6.99/lb
Stella Swiss cheese, $6.99/lb
Skinny Cow ice-cream novelties, 4-12 ct, $3.99
Whole jumbo cantaloupes, $1 ea
Mangos, 3/$1
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries, 6 oz box, 2/$5
Maridol papayas, 99¢/lb
Gala apples, $1.49/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Tomatillos, 99¢/lb
Vidalia onions, $1.29/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR spinach, 99¢/bunch
Bashas':
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $4.77/lb
Beef porterhouse steaks, $6.27/lb
Beef New York steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast, $3.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, $2.69/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, $2.49/lb
Center cut pork chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Bashas' chicken breast or leg quarters, bone in, 97¢/lb
Sockeye salmon, wild caught, 5 oz portions, $4.99 ea
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Swordfish steaks, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Fresh clams (cherrystone?), $2.99/lb
Bashas' sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 4/$5
Bashas' cottage cheese incl. low-fat, 16 oz tubs, 2/$3
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 88¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 99¢
Mangos, 2/$1
Whole pineapples, 99¢
Organic Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Summer squashes, zucchinni/yellow/grey, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
Fry's:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $4.79/lb
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.77/lb, sliced & wrapped free
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.69/lb
Pork loin center chops, boneless, family pack, $2.99/lb
Cook's half ham, bone in, smoked, $1.79/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, $1.88/lb
Chicken thighs or drums, bone in, $1.19/lb
Catfish fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Fry's milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 10/$10
Ragu pasta sauce, 16-26 oz jars, $1.79
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 4/$5
Kroger frozen veggies, 9-12 oz pkg, 10/$10
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 97¢/lb
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Sweet corn, 2/99¢
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, 99¢
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Hass avocados, 88¢ ea
Jalapeño peppers, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢
Safeway:
Buy $20 worth of Weight Watchers items with club card, save $5!
Beef chuck OR bottom round roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef chuck steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef eye or found roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb (boneless, $1/lb higher)
Pork sirloin chops or country style ribs, boneless, value pack, $1.69/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.49/lb
Pork shoulder country style ribs, bone in, $2.29/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken thighs/drumsticks, bone in, $1.79/lb
Jennie-O Turkey Store lean ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $3.99
Atlantic salmon fillets, whole side of a fish, $6.99/lb (cut fillets, 50¢/lb higher)
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79
Lucerne cheeses, 16 oz chunk or shreds, $3.99
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Classico pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, 2/$5
Bush's Best variety (non-baked) beans, 15-16 oz cans, 5/$5
Safeway Kitchens frozen veg, 14-16 oz pkg, 2/$3
Safeway frozen fruit, 12-16 oz pkg, 10% off
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Blackberries, 6 oz box, $2.99
Red seedless watermelons, $2.99 ea
Red mangos, 10/$10
Apples, Fuji or Red Delicious, $1.39/lb
Red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Sweet corn, white, 2/$1
Tomatillos OR jalapeño peppers, 99¢/lb
Sprouts:
Beef rump roast OR stew meat, boneless, $4.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork baby back ribs, $2.99
Pork shoulder roast OR country-style ribs, boneless, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack $1.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Jonagold or Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$4
Organic Cameo apples, 99¢/lb
Whole seedless watermelon, 4 lbs/$1
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Grapefruit, 99¢ ea
Organic D'Anjou pears, $1.49/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢/bunch
Green bell peppers, 49¢ ea
Red bell peppers, 4/$1
Sweet corn, white, 4/$1
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Interesting piece at NBCNews.com: you may be consuming far more sugar than you realize. A lot of added sugars are concealed in products you don't normally think of as sugary, such as ketchup and even bread. Check those labels. Fooducate has a fascinating review of what looks to be a fascinating new book: Mark Bittman (How to Cook Everything) has taken up a new eating system he calls “VB6”, or eating vegan before 6:00 p.m. After that he eats pretty much what he damn pleases, but in reasonable portions. Sounds as though it might be worth a try, or at least a look.
Yoni Freedhoff, at Weighty Matters, has a short but inspiring piece on the difference between “perfection” and doing your best: “Bests aren't perfection. Bests are affected by real life. Bests need flexibility. And bests change depending on circumstances.” Lifehacker has an interesting article on the altogether too familiar phenomenon of portion control fail: “When food's placed in front of us, we tend to follow mom's advice and clean our plates, even when it's more than we actually want.” Why is that, and what can we do about it?
Recipes! Chow.com has you fixed for the weekend: Saturday is the Kentucky Derby, so they've collected a set of “Southern favorites” ranging from mint juleps and pimento cheese to God help us elk meatballs in barbecue sauce; and Sunday being Cinco de Mayo, they've collected every imaginable variation on the taco or the margarita. On video they've got 7 ways to get ketchup out of a glass bottle, and Supertaster reviews something called “SEXCEREAL”. Smitten Kitchen has spring-veggie potstickers, Simply Recipes has Yucatan-style chicken soup with lime. And at Sprouted Kitchen, a phenomenally delicious-looking grilled asparagus plate.
Grilling season is starting, and May is National Barbecue Month and National Hamburger Month – along with the possibly less nutritionally fraught items of National Salad Month, National Strawberry Month, National Asparagus Month, National Mediterranean Diet Month and National Gazpacho Aficionado Month. This first week of May is both National Raisin Week and National Herb Week. And Monday, the 6th, is International No Diet Day*. Well, we at WW are not on a “diet”, are we?
May 1st: National Chocolate Parfait Day
May 2nd: National Truffles Day (my sources conflict on whether this refers to the pungent fungus or the chocolate)
May 3rd: National Raspberry Tart Day
May 4th: National Orange Juice Day, National Candied Orange Peel Day (you have to do something after you've juiced them), National Homebrew Day
May 5th: Cinco de Mayo, National Chocolate Custard Day, National Hoagie Day, Totally Chipotle Day
May 6th: National Crepes Suzette Day, International No Diet Day
May 7th: National Roast Leg of Lamb Day
May 8th: National Empanada Day, National Coconut Cream Pie Day
* In the print version I put "National" by mistake. Apologies.
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef ribeye/t-bone/New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $7.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib roast or (family pack) steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.99/lb
Pork sirloin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.47/lb (chops, $1.99/lb
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.47/lb
Pork blade steak OR country-style ribs, bone in, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.88/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, jumbo pack, $1.49/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $3.99/lb
Tilapia or swai fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Deli: Jennie-O oven roasted turkey breast, $4.99/lb
“Signature Ham & Provolone or Muenster Cheese” – decipher that if you can – $4.99/lb
Charlie's Pride regular or Italian roast beef, $6.99/lb
Stella Swiss cheese, $6.99/lb
Skinny Cow ice-cream novelties, 4-12 ct, $3.99
Whole jumbo cantaloupes, $1 ea
Mangos, 3/$1
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries, 6 oz box, 2/$5
Maridol papayas, 99¢/lb
Gala apples, $1.49/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Tomatillos, 99¢/lb
Vidalia onions, $1.29/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR spinach, 99¢/bunch
Bashas':
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $4.77/lb
Beef porterhouse steaks, $6.27/lb
Beef New York steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast, $3.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, $2.69/lb
Pork loin roast, boneless, $2.49/lb
Center cut pork chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Bashas' chicken breast or leg quarters, bone in, 97¢/lb
Sockeye salmon, wild caught, 5 oz portions, $4.99 ea
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Swordfish steaks, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Fresh clams (cherrystone?), $2.99/lb
Bashas' sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 4/$5
Bashas' cottage cheese incl. low-fat, 16 oz tubs, 2/$3
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 88¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 99¢
Mangos, 2/$1
Whole pineapples, 99¢
Organic Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Summer squashes, zucchinni/yellow/grey, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
Fry's:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $4.79/lb
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.77/lb, sliced & wrapped free
Pork shoulder butt roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.69/lb
Pork loin center chops, boneless, family pack, $2.99/lb
Cook's half ham, bone in, smoked, $1.79/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, $1.88/lb
Chicken thighs or drums, bone in, $1.19/lb
Catfish fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Fry's milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 10/$10
Ragu pasta sauce, 16-26 oz jars, $1.79
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 4/$5
Kroger frozen veggies, 9-12 oz pkg, 10/$10
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 97¢/lb
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Sweet corn, 2/99¢
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, 99¢
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Hass avocados, 88¢ ea
Jalapeño peppers, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢
Safeway:
Buy $20 worth of Weight Watchers items with club card, save $5!
Beef chuck OR bottom round roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef chuck steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef eye or found roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb (boneless, $1/lb higher)
Pork sirloin chops or country style ribs, boneless, value pack, $1.69/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.49/lb
Pork shoulder country style ribs, bone in, $2.29/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken thighs/drumsticks, bone in, $1.79/lb
Jennie-O Turkey Store lean ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $3.99
Atlantic salmon fillets, whole side of a fish, $6.99/lb (cut fillets, 50¢/lb higher)
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79
Lucerne cheeses, 16 oz chunk or shreds, $3.99
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Classico pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, 2/$5
Bush's Best variety (non-baked) beans, 15-16 oz cans, 5/$5
Safeway Kitchens frozen veg, 14-16 oz pkg, 2/$3
Safeway frozen fruit, 12-16 oz pkg, 10% off
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Blackberries, 6 oz box, $2.99
Red seedless watermelons, $2.99 ea
Red mangos, 10/$10
Apples, Fuji or Red Delicious, $1.39/lb
Red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Sweet corn, white, 2/$1
Tomatillos OR jalapeño peppers, 99¢/lb
Sprouts:
Beef rump roast OR stew meat, boneless, $4.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork baby back ribs, $2.99
Pork shoulder roast OR country-style ribs, boneless, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack $1.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Jonagold or Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$4
Organic Cameo apples, 99¢/lb
Whole seedless watermelon, 4 lbs/$1
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Grapefruit, 99¢ ea
Organic D'Anjou pears, $1.49/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢/bunch
Green bell peppers, 49¢ ea
Red bell peppers, 4/$1
Sweet corn, white, 4/$1
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Bargain guide, week beginning April 24th:
From Fooducate: should chocolate milk made with artificial sweeteners have to be labeled as such? Discuss. (The dairy industry is petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to rule that artificially sweetened chocolate milk can be labeled “chocolate milk”, not “reduced-calorie chocolate milk”.) Also, everything you need to know about mozzarella cheese and how to make insalata Capresa!
From Grist, a McDonald's hamburger that's fourteen years old and still looks nearly as fresh as the day it was made. Marion Nestle at Food Politics touches on the artificial-sweeteners-in-chocolate-milk issue as well, along with the National Education Policy Center at University of Colorado, Boulder's new report, Promoting Consumption at School: Health Threats Associated with Schoolhouse Commercialism, which looks like interesting reading. Darya Pino, at Summer Tomato, has a great piece on “6 Ways Eating Out Causes Overeating (And How To Stop It)”. And here is her handy flowchart graphic for “How To Find Real Food At The Supermarket”.
Recipes! Chow.com has eight ways to make chicken-and-rice, a salad of snap peas, Supertaster's review of the new Kashi “Steam Meals”, and two perfectly timed videos: one on how to choose and store asparagus (yum), the other on a shrimp-pasta dinner in ten minutes – toss in some white wine and you've got an emergency version of scampi, just in time for National Shrimp Scampi Day next Monday. Simply Recipes has simple pasta with garlic and Parmesan cheese, and a shrimp-and-snow-peas stirfry. And Snack Girl has ways to lighten up deviled eggs, chocolate-dipped strawberries at 1 PointsPlus per strawberry, and DIY Doritos!
The aforementioned Shrimp Scampi Day is not the only food holiday this week: tomorrow is National Zucchini Bread Day, followed sequentially by National Pretzel Day and National Prime Rib Day. The 30th is National Raisin Day. And of course one week from today is May Day, International Workers' Day, ancient fire festival of Beltane, the very balance-point of Spring and Summer:
April 24th: National Pigs In A Blanket Day
April 25th: National Zucchini Bread Day
April 26th: National Pretzel Day
April 27th: National Prime Rib Day
April 28th: National Blueberry Pie Day; 1796, Amelia Simmons publishes American Cookery, first cookbook written by an American
April 29th: National Shrimp Scampi Day
April 30th: National Raisin Day, National Oatmeal Cookie Day; Mr. Potato Head Day (1952, the Mr. Potato Head toy first marketed; first toy to be advertised on television; The original version included hands, feet, ears, four noses, two sets of eyes, two mouths, three hats, eyeglasses, and a pipe. You supplied your own potato)
May 1st: May Day; National Chocolate Parfait Day
Albertson's:
Beef London broil, boneless, $2.77/lb
Beef ribeye, NY, or t-bone steaks, bone in, $7.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round roasts or family pack steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb (3 lbs or more)
Assorted pork chops, bone in, $1.59/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.99/lb
Pork picnic shoulder roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.29/lb
Hormel Cure 81 spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.29/lb
Sanderson Farms whole frying chickens OR jumbo pack leg quarters, 88¢/lb
Unbranded (store) boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Jennie-O 93/7 ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $3.99
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Catfish/tilapia/swai fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.79
Albertson's eggs, AA large, dozens, $1.27
Essential Everyday cheeses, 8 oz chunk, $1.99
Deli: Jennie-O “deli style” turkey, $4.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $4.99/lb
Charlie's Pride pastrami OR corned beef, $4.99/lb
Deli Fresh Muenster/Provolone/pepperjack/mild Cheddar cheeses, $4.99/lb
Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, $1
American Beauty pasta, 12-16 oz pkg, $1
Hunt's diced tomatoes OR tomato sauce, 14-15 oz cans, $1
Filippo Berio olive oil, half litre bottles, $3.99
Essential Everyday frozen veggies, 1 lb bags, $1
PictSweet “Steamables” frozen veg, 8-12 oz pkg, 2/$5
Smart Ones “Bistro Selections” frozen entrées, 4/$10
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Fuji apples, $1/lb
Navel oranges, $1/lb
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Sweet corn, 4 pk, $2.99
Cambray (bulbed) green onions, 69¢/bunch
Whole seedless watermelons, $2.49 ea
Bell peppers, red/yellow/orange, $1 ea
Iceberg, $1 ea
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef London broil, value pack, $2.77/lb (regular pack $1/lb higher)
Beef top round steaks, $3.77/lb
Ground beef round, fat content not listed, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork country style ribs, bone in, value pack, 99¢/lb
Pork shoulder steak, value pack, $1.99/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, value pack, 99¢/lb
Catfish fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Corvina sea bass fillets, wild caught, $7/99/lb
Walleyed pike fillets, wild caught I assume, $10.99/lb
Bashas' eggs, AA large, dozens, 88¢
All Shamrock Farms dairy, 50% off
Food Club cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/cubelets, 5/$10
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 88¢
Flav-R-Pac frozen veg, 1 lb bags, 88¢
OrganicGirl box salads, buy 1 get 1 free
Fry's:
Beef flat iron steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
Beef NY strip steaks, bone in, $7.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (2 lb chub)
Pork loin back ribs OR St Louis-style spareribs, buy 1, get 2 free
Pork loin center chops, boneless, family pack, $3.79/lb
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.79/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds, $1.88
Kroger cream cheese, 8 oz block, 2/$3
Bush's Best baked beans, 21-28 oz cans, $1.88
Kroger sour cream OR cottage cheese, 16 oz tubs, 4/$5
Smart Ones frozen entrées, 5/$10
Mini seedless watermelons, 4/$5
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
Cantaloupes, $1.99 ea
English cucumbers, AZ grown, 99¢ ea
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, AZ grown, 99¢ ea
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢/lb (I think this should read “99¢ each”)
Artichokes, 10/$10
Asparagus, $2.99/lb
Simple Truth organic box salads, $2.99
Tiny rose in a pot with a trellis, $11.99, but they have not yet bred a mini rose with a scent, pity
Safeway:
Beef round tip roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef chuck steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
90/10 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb (regular pack, 80¢/lb higher)
Pork shoulder blade steak, bone in, value pack, $2.49/lb
Safeway smoked shank half ham, bone in, 99¢/lb (rump half, 20¢/lb higher)
Chicken breasts/drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, value pack, 99¢/lb
Rockfish fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb “weather permitting”
Swai fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Lucerne OR Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99/lb
Bush's Best baked beans, 28 oz cans, 2/$4
Bush's “Grillin'” beans, 21-22 oz cans, 2/$4 but I cannot figure out how one would grill a bean
Hunt's tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 99¢
Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, 99¢
Safeway Kitchens pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 99¢
Safeway Select pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, 3/$5
Safeway long-grain brown rice, 5 lb bag, $3.99
Safeway Kitchens fruit cups, 4 pk, 2/$4
Green Giant frozen veg, 7-10 oz boxes, 3/$6
Pantry Essentials frozen veg, 12 oz pkg, 99¢
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 4/$10
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 99¢
Apples, Gala or Red Delicious, 99¢/lb
Red or Ataulfo mangos, 10/$10
Red or black seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Sweet corn, white, 2/$1
Bell peppers, red/yellow/orange, 4/$5
Sprouts:
Beef NY steaks, bone in, $5.99/lb
Beef chuck roast or steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef sirloin, $4.99/lb
Pork loin chops or roast, center cut, boneless, $2.99/lb
Ground chicken or chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Corvina sea bass fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Blackberries, 5 oz boxes, 88¢
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 88¢/lb
Whole seedless watermelons, 3 lbs/$1
Cantaloupes OR mini watermelons, 2/$5
Organic cantaloupes OR honeydew melons, 99¢/lb
Sweet corn, white, 3/$1
Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/grey, 88¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢/lb
Red bell peppers, 3/$1
Yellow or orange bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 88¢/lb
From Grist, a McDonald's hamburger that's fourteen years old and still looks nearly as fresh as the day it was made. Marion Nestle at Food Politics touches on the artificial-sweeteners-in-chocolate-milk issue as well, along with the National Education Policy Center at University of Colorado, Boulder's new report, Promoting Consumption at School: Health Threats Associated with Schoolhouse Commercialism, which looks like interesting reading. Darya Pino, at Summer Tomato, has a great piece on “6 Ways Eating Out Causes Overeating (And How To Stop It)”. And here is her handy flowchart graphic for “How To Find Real Food At The Supermarket”.
Recipes! Chow.com has eight ways to make chicken-and-rice, a salad of snap peas, Supertaster's review of the new Kashi “Steam Meals”, and two perfectly timed videos: one on how to choose and store asparagus (yum), the other on a shrimp-pasta dinner in ten minutes – toss in some white wine and you've got an emergency version of scampi, just in time for National Shrimp Scampi Day next Monday. Simply Recipes has simple pasta with garlic and Parmesan cheese, and a shrimp-and-snow-peas stirfry. And Snack Girl has ways to lighten up deviled eggs, chocolate-dipped strawberries at 1 PointsPlus per strawberry, and DIY Doritos!
The aforementioned Shrimp Scampi Day is not the only food holiday this week: tomorrow is National Zucchini Bread Day, followed sequentially by National Pretzel Day and National Prime Rib Day. The 30th is National Raisin Day. And of course one week from today is May Day, International Workers' Day, ancient fire festival of Beltane, the very balance-point of Spring and Summer:
May I make my fond excuses for the lateness of the hour,
But I accept your invitation, and I bring you Beltane's flower.
For the May Day is the great day, sung along the Old Straight Track,
And those who ancient lines did lay will heed this Song that calls them back!
– Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)
April 24th: National Pigs In A Blanket Day
April 25th: National Zucchini Bread Day
April 26th: National Pretzel Day
April 27th: National Prime Rib Day
April 28th: National Blueberry Pie Day; 1796, Amelia Simmons publishes American Cookery, first cookbook written by an American
April 29th: National Shrimp Scampi Day
April 30th: National Raisin Day, National Oatmeal Cookie Day; Mr. Potato Head Day (1952, the Mr. Potato Head toy first marketed; first toy to be advertised on television; The original version included hands, feet, ears, four noses, two sets of eyes, two mouths, three hats, eyeglasses, and a pipe. You supplied your own potato)
May 1st: May Day; National Chocolate Parfait Day
Albertson's:
Beef London broil, boneless, $2.77/lb
Beef ribeye, NY, or t-bone steaks, bone in, $7.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round roasts or family pack steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb (3 lbs or more)
Assorted pork chops, bone in, $1.59/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.99/lb
Pork picnic shoulder roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.29/lb
Hormel Cure 81 spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.29/lb
Sanderson Farms whole frying chickens OR jumbo pack leg quarters, 88¢/lb
Unbranded (store) boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Jennie-O 93/7 ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $3.99
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Catfish/tilapia/swai fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.79
Albertson's eggs, AA large, dozens, $1.27
Essential Everyday cheeses, 8 oz chunk, $1.99
Deli: Jennie-O “deli style” turkey, $4.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $4.99/lb
Charlie's Pride pastrami OR corned beef, $4.99/lb
Deli Fresh Muenster/Provolone/pepperjack/mild Cheddar cheeses, $4.99/lb
Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, $1
American Beauty pasta, 12-16 oz pkg, $1
Hunt's diced tomatoes OR tomato sauce, 14-15 oz cans, $1
Filippo Berio olive oil, half litre bottles, $3.99
Essential Everyday frozen veggies, 1 lb bags, $1
PictSweet “Steamables” frozen veg, 8-12 oz pkg, 2/$5
Smart Ones “Bistro Selections” frozen entrées, 4/$10
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Fuji apples, $1/lb
Navel oranges, $1/lb
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Sweet corn, 4 pk, $2.99
Cambray (bulbed) green onions, 69¢/bunch
Whole seedless watermelons, $2.49 ea
Bell peppers, red/yellow/orange, $1 ea
Iceberg, $1 ea
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef London broil, value pack, $2.77/lb (regular pack $1/lb higher)
Beef top round steaks, $3.77/lb
Ground beef round, fat content not listed, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork country style ribs, bone in, value pack, 99¢/lb
Pork shoulder steak, value pack, $1.99/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, value pack, 99¢/lb
Catfish fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Corvina sea bass fillets, wild caught, $7/99/lb
Walleyed pike fillets, wild caught I assume, $10.99/lb
Bashas' eggs, AA large, dozens, 88¢
All Shamrock Farms dairy, 50% off
Food Club cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/cubelets, 5/$10
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 88¢
Flav-R-Pac frozen veg, 1 lb bags, 88¢
OrganicGirl box salads, buy 1 get 1 free
Fry's:
Beef flat iron steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
Beef NY strip steaks, bone in, $7.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (2 lb chub)
Pork loin back ribs OR St Louis-style spareribs, buy 1, get 2 free
Pork loin center chops, boneless, family pack, $3.79/lb
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.79/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds, $1.88
Kroger cream cheese, 8 oz block, 2/$3
Bush's Best baked beans, 21-28 oz cans, $1.88
Kroger sour cream OR cottage cheese, 16 oz tubs, 4/$5
Smart Ones frozen entrées, 5/$10
Mini seedless watermelons, 4/$5
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
Cantaloupes, $1.99 ea
English cucumbers, AZ grown, 99¢ ea
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, AZ grown, 99¢ ea
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢/lb (I think this should read “99¢ each”)
Artichokes, 10/$10
Asparagus, $2.99/lb
Simple Truth organic box salads, $2.99
Tiny rose in a pot with a trellis, $11.99, but they have not yet bred a mini rose with a scent, pity
Safeway:
Beef round tip roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef chuck steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
90/10 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb (regular pack, 80¢/lb higher)
Pork shoulder blade steak, bone in, value pack, $2.49/lb
Safeway smoked shank half ham, bone in, 99¢/lb (rump half, 20¢/lb higher)
Chicken breasts/drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, value pack, 99¢/lb
Rockfish fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb “weather permitting”
Swai fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Lucerne OR Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99/lb
Bush's Best baked beans, 28 oz cans, 2/$4
Bush's “Grillin'” beans, 21-22 oz cans, 2/$4 but I cannot figure out how one would grill a bean
Hunt's tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 99¢
Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, 99¢
Safeway Kitchens pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 99¢
Safeway Select pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, 3/$5
Safeway long-grain brown rice, 5 lb bag, $3.99
Safeway Kitchens fruit cups, 4 pk, 2/$4
Green Giant frozen veg, 7-10 oz boxes, 3/$6
Pantry Essentials frozen veg, 12 oz pkg, 99¢
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 4/$10
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 99¢
Apples, Gala or Red Delicious, 99¢/lb
Red or Ataulfo mangos, 10/$10
Red or black seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Sweet corn, white, 2/$1
Bell peppers, red/yellow/orange, 4/$5
Sprouts:
Beef NY steaks, bone in, $5.99/lb
Beef chuck roast or steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef sirloin, $4.99/lb
Pork loin chops or roast, center cut, boneless, $2.99/lb
Ground chicken or chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Corvina sea bass fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Blackberries, 5 oz boxes, 88¢
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 88¢/lb
Whole seedless watermelons, 3 lbs/$1
Cantaloupes OR mini watermelons, 2/$5
Organic cantaloupes OR honeydew melons, 99¢/lb
Sweet corn, white, 3/$1
Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/grey, 88¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢/lb
Red bell peppers, 3/$1
Yellow or orange bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 88¢/lb
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Wren's bargain guide, week beginning April 17th:
Occasional explanation and disclaimer: Every Wednesday I go through the newspaper grocery flyers. I should explain that I don't include every item listed in the flyers. My emphasis in both the handout and this blog is on, as Michael Pollan says, “the edges of the supermarket”: the least processed food items, with a secondary emphasis on the low-calorie and low-PointsPlus. I add items of at least marginal relevance from various food blogs and other sources, all of which are clickable links at the blog. Please note: This is not in any way, shape, form, or fashion to be regarded as an official Weight Watchers publication. Not remotely. So very not.
I see where Wendy's has surpassed itself, at least in Canada, by introducing a meal called the Ultimate Canadian Combo: a double Baconator (two beef patties, cheese, six strips of bacon) with a side of poutine (fries with cheese curds and gravy) and a medium soft drink. Including the beverage it weighs over 2 ¼ pounds, with 1860 calories and nearly three and a half grams of sodium.
The Chair of the American Medical Association Council on Science and Public Health … moonlights for Coca-Cola. Naaah, no conflict of interest there.
Fooducate has a set of tips on how to eat a bit healthier if you're going to a chain restaurant (fish, soup, side dishes, and be careful of the salads), a small rant about science research that's funded by industry (the next time you read a news report about how golfumbiriberry juice is good for your ingrown teeth and will cure Twonk's Disease and fallen armpits, look at who paid for the research: a buck'll get you five it was the golfumbiriberry growers), and the up-and-coming source for vegetable protein: peas. Far less likely to be genetically modified than soy protein, and less likely to trigger allergic reactions.
Recipes! From Chow.com a pile of salmon recipes (the egg-and-smoked-salmon-on-an-English-muffin looks good to me, although the smoked-salmon-crème-fraîche-and-caviar potato skins might be a bit much), a double handful of salad dressings, and twenty-seven portable and healthy DIY hiking snacks. More travel snacks from Sprouted Kitchen including kale salad in a jar, DIY trailmix, and spicy lentil summer rolls that hold up will and do not require a dipping sauce, and thus are air-travel-friendly: “I have had sauce taken by airport security (what is my life?)”. Simply Recipes has Southern-style collard greens and a chicken-coriander-cilantro-chard stew (yes, cilantro is the leaf, coriander is the seed). And Snack Girl has healthy chocolate smoothies, spaghetti-squash casserole, and a surpassingly delicious topping for pancakes/waffles/French toast that is just mashed warmed banana.
Saturday, the 20th, is National Food Day. It's also Lima Bean Respect Day, in honor of which I append to this handout the Baked Salmon And Lima Loaf recipe. A perfect example of why limas get as little respect as they do, but a bit of seasoning might help, and the PointsPlus count is 5 per serving. Jelly beans, celebrated the 22nd, are inherently respectable. And the 23rd is National Picnic Day – a great time to celebrate it, before the heat sets in.
April 17th: National Cheese Ball Day
April 18th: National Animal Cracker Day
April 19th: National Garlic Day, National Amaretto Day
April 20th: Food Day, Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day, Lima Bean Respect Day
April 21st: National Chocolate Covered Cashew Truffle Day
April 22nd: Earth Day, National Jelly Bean Day; 1878, first White House Easter Egg Roll (previously they had been held on the Capital grounds)
April 23rd: National Picnic Day, National Cherry Cheesecake Day; 1985, in one of the bigger errors of judgment in food and beverage history, Coca-Cola changes its formula
April 24th: National Pigs In A Blanket Day; 1949, chocolate rationing ends in Britain
Albertson's:
Beef ribeye or New York steaks, bone in (single pack) or boneless (family pack) $5.97/lb
Beef ribeye or New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.97/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef tri tip roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef London broil, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round roast or family pack steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef flat iron steak, $4.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.79/lb
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork country-style ribs, bone in, $1.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.88/lb
Tilapia fillets, 1 lb IQF bag, $9.99, buy 1 get 2 free
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Rockfish or Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.79
Kraft cheeses, 7-8 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
Smart Balance spread, 13-15 oz tubs, $2.99
Deli: Dietz & Watson maple or Virginia ham, $7.99/lb
Dietz & Watson “classic” or Santa Fe turkey breast, $7.99/lb
Charlie's Pride regular or Italian roast beef, corned beef, beef pastrami, $6.99/lb
Jennie-O hickory smoked turkey breast OR turkey pastrami, $3.99/lb
Eckrich “Super Lean” ham, $3.99/lb
Dietz & Watson lacy or baby-Swiss cheese, $7.99/lb
Kellogg's breakfast cereals, 15-18 oz boxes, 2/$5
Kellogg's Special K bars, 5-8 ct, 2/$5
Classico pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, $1.99
Essential Everyday frozen veggies, 16 oz bags, 99¢
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Ataulfo mangos, 69¢ ea
Star fruit, $1.99 ea
Whole jumbo cantaloupes, 2/$5
Cut up fruit bowls, watermelon OR cantaloupe OR pineapple OR strawberries, 20-32 oz, $3.99
Sweet corn, 6/$1
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
Bashas':
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, value pack, $3.87/lb
Beef crossrib steak or roast, $4.99/lb
Ground beef sirloin, fat content not listed, value pack, $2.87/lb
“Assorted” pork chops, value pack, $1.37/lb
Center cut pork chops or roast, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raosed, $4.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Shamrock Farms milk, gallons, 2/$5
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Food Club cheeses, 6-8 oz shingle pack, 2/$5
Fooc Club cheeses, 2 lb chunk or shreds, $7.77
Nature's Own “Butter Top” bread, 20 oz long loaves, $1.79
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 99¢
Del Monte pasta sauces, 26 oz cans, 99¢
Del Monte veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 99¢
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, 99¢
Kellogg's Special K/Fiber Plus/Nutri-Grain bars, 4-10 oz pkg, $1.99
Weight Watchers ice-cream novelties, 6-12 ct, $4.99
Kashi frozen entrées, 2/$6
Whole seedless watermelons, 25¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $1.25
Vine or slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Plants in 4 inch pots, non edible, AZ grown, $1.99
Plants in 6 inch pots, non edible, AZ grown, $4.99
Pothos and ivy in a six inch pot with a trellis, AZ grown, $7.99
Fry's:
Beef top sirloin, boneless, whole thing in a bag, $3.99/lb, sliced & wrapped free
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $4.99/lb
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Foster Farms chicken thighs or drumsticks, bone in, $1.69/lb
Jennie-O 93/7 ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $4.99
Fry's milk, gallons, $1.79
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds, $1.88
Bush's baked beans, 21-28 oz cans, $1.88
Smart Ones frozen entrées, 5/$10
Strawberries, 4 lb flat (good Lord, good Lord), $3.49 – make jam
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
“Mini seedless” watermelons, $2.99 ea
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢/lb
Zucchini OR yellow squash, 99¢/lb
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, 99¢
Bulb plants in six inch pots, some may be edible, $6.99
Safeway:
Beef London broil, boneless, value pack, $2.79/lb
Beef NY strip steak, bone in, value pack, $5.99/lb
Beef top round roast, boneless, $2.79/lb
Beef chuck steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, $2.79/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or country style ribs, boneless, value pack, $1.99/lb
Pork top loin chops, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $2.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Atlantic salmon whole side of the fish, value pack (decidedly), $8.99/lb (cut up, 50¢/lb higher)
Safeway Kitchens yellowfin sole fillets, 24 oz IQF bag, $8.99
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79
Lucerne OR Simple Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99
Sargento string cheeses, 9-12 oz, 2/$7
Oroweat “100% whole wheat” bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $3.29
Safeway Kitchens “crushed wheat” or “100% wheat” bread, 22 oz long loaves, $1.99
Safeway Kitchens pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 5/$5
Del Monte veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Lean Cuisine “Simple Favorites” frozen entrées, 5/$10
Safeway Kitches frozen veg, 24-32 oz bags, 2/$5
Navel oranges, 77¢/lb
Red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Organic Fuji or Red Delicious apples, $1.49/lb
Organic mini watermelons, $4.69
Asparagus, 99¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, $2.69/lb
Fresh Express OR Safeway Farms bag salads, buy 1 get 1 free
Plants in 5 inch pots, $10.99
Sprouts:
Grass fed organic ground beef, fat content not listed, $4.99/lb … um, yeah.
Beef top sirloin steak, boneless, $5.99/lb
Beef rump roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast, boneless, $1.69/lb
Ground pork or chicken, $2.99/lb
Whole or cut-up chickens, $1.59/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, value pack, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $8.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$3
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 88¢/lb
Whole cantaloupes, 88¢ ea
Whole pineapples, 88¢ ea
Whole seedless watermelons, 3 lbs/$1
Seedless grapes, green or red, 2 lbs/$5
Organic Fuji or Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 2 lbs/$3
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$3
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/grey, 88¢/lb
BAKED LIMA and SALMON LOAF
(From Good Housekeeping, March 1940. Actually printed in an ad for Seaside lima beans.)
3 cups cooked, dried limas
2 cups soft bread crumbs
1 cup flaked canned salmon
1/2 cup canned tomatoes
1/3 cup chopped green pepper
2 slightly beaten eggs
1 1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp chili powder
2 tsp lemon juice
1 tbsp chopped pimiento
1/4 cup buttered crumbs
Mash limas and combine with all ingredients except buttered crumbs. Place in greased 5 1/2" x 7" loaf pan and sprinkle with buttered crumbs. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) about 45 minutes. Serves 8. (My suggestion: some onion would not go amiss.)
I see where Wendy's has surpassed itself, at least in Canada, by introducing a meal called the Ultimate Canadian Combo: a double Baconator (two beef patties, cheese, six strips of bacon) with a side of poutine (fries with cheese curds and gravy) and a medium soft drink. Including the beverage it weighs over 2 ¼ pounds, with 1860 calories and nearly three and a half grams of sodium.
The Chair of the American Medical Association Council on Science and Public Health … moonlights for Coca-Cola. Naaah, no conflict of interest there.
Fooducate has a set of tips on how to eat a bit healthier if you're going to a chain restaurant (fish, soup, side dishes, and be careful of the salads), a small rant about science research that's funded by industry (the next time you read a news report about how golfumbiriberry juice is good for your ingrown teeth and will cure Twonk's Disease and fallen armpits, look at who paid for the research: a buck'll get you five it was the golfumbiriberry growers), and the up-and-coming source for vegetable protein: peas. Far less likely to be genetically modified than soy protein, and less likely to trigger allergic reactions.
Recipes! From Chow.com a pile of salmon recipes (the egg-and-smoked-salmon-on-an-English-muffin looks good to me, although the smoked-salmon-crème-fraîche-and-caviar potato skins might be a bit much), a double handful of salad dressings, and twenty-seven portable and healthy DIY hiking snacks. More travel snacks from Sprouted Kitchen including kale salad in a jar, DIY trailmix, and spicy lentil summer rolls that hold up will and do not require a dipping sauce, and thus are air-travel-friendly: “I have had sauce taken by airport security (what is my life?)”. Simply Recipes has Southern-style collard greens and a chicken-coriander-cilantro-chard stew (yes, cilantro is the leaf, coriander is the seed). And Snack Girl has healthy chocolate smoothies, spaghetti-squash casserole, and a surpassingly delicious topping for pancakes/waffles/French toast that is just mashed warmed banana.
Saturday, the 20th, is National Food Day. It's also Lima Bean Respect Day, in honor of which I append to this handout the Baked Salmon And Lima Loaf recipe. A perfect example of why limas get as little respect as they do, but a bit of seasoning might help, and the PointsPlus count is 5 per serving. Jelly beans, celebrated the 22nd, are inherently respectable. And the 23rd is National Picnic Day – a great time to celebrate it, before the heat sets in.
April 17th: National Cheese Ball Day
April 18th: National Animal Cracker Day
April 19th: National Garlic Day, National Amaretto Day
April 20th: Food Day, Pineapple Upside Down Cake Day, Lima Bean Respect Day
April 21st: National Chocolate Covered Cashew Truffle Day
April 22nd: Earth Day, National Jelly Bean Day; 1878, first White House Easter Egg Roll (previously they had been held on the Capital grounds)
April 23rd: National Picnic Day, National Cherry Cheesecake Day; 1985, in one of the bigger errors of judgment in food and beverage history, Coca-Cola changes its formula
April 24th: National Pigs In A Blanket Day; 1949, chocolate rationing ends in Britain
Albertson's:
Beef ribeye or New York steaks, bone in (single pack) or boneless (family pack) $5.97/lb
Beef ribeye or New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.97/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef tri tip roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef London broil, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round roast or family pack steaks, boneless, $3.99/lb
Beef flat iron steak, $4.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.79/lb
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork country-style ribs, bone in, $1.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.88/lb
Tilapia fillets, 1 lb IQF bag, $9.99, buy 1 get 2 free
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Rockfish or Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.79
Kraft cheeses, 7-8 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
Smart Balance spread, 13-15 oz tubs, $2.99
Deli: Dietz & Watson maple or Virginia ham, $7.99/lb
Dietz & Watson “classic” or Santa Fe turkey breast, $7.99/lb
Charlie's Pride regular or Italian roast beef, corned beef, beef pastrami, $6.99/lb
Jennie-O hickory smoked turkey breast OR turkey pastrami, $3.99/lb
Eckrich “Super Lean” ham, $3.99/lb
Dietz & Watson lacy or baby-Swiss cheese, $7.99/lb
Kellogg's breakfast cereals, 15-18 oz boxes, 2/$5
Kellogg's Special K bars, 5-8 ct, 2/$5
Classico pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, $1.99
Essential Everyday frozen veggies, 16 oz bags, 99¢
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Ataulfo mangos, 69¢ ea
Star fruit, $1.99 ea
Whole jumbo cantaloupes, 2/$5
Cut up fruit bowls, watermelon OR cantaloupe OR pineapple OR strawberries, 20-32 oz, $3.99
Sweet corn, 6/$1
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢ ea
Bashas':
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, value pack, $3.87/lb
Beef crossrib steak or roast, $4.99/lb
Ground beef sirloin, fat content not listed, value pack, $2.87/lb
“Assorted” pork chops, value pack, $1.37/lb
Center cut pork chops or roast, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raosed, $4.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Shamrock Farms milk, gallons, 2/$5
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Food Club cheeses, 6-8 oz shingle pack, 2/$5
Fooc Club cheeses, 2 lb chunk or shreds, $7.77
Nature's Own “Butter Top” bread, 20 oz long loaves, $1.79
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 99¢
Del Monte pasta sauces, 26 oz cans, 99¢
Del Monte veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 99¢
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, 99¢
Kellogg's Special K/Fiber Plus/Nutri-Grain bars, 4-10 oz pkg, $1.99
Weight Watchers ice-cream novelties, 6-12 ct, $4.99
Kashi frozen entrées, 2/$6
Whole seedless watermelons, 25¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $1.25
Vine or slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Plants in 4 inch pots, non edible, AZ grown, $1.99
Plants in 6 inch pots, non edible, AZ grown, $4.99
Pothos and ivy in a six inch pot with a trellis, AZ grown, $7.99
Fry's:
Beef top sirloin, boneless, whole thing in a bag, $3.99/lb, sliced & wrapped free
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $4.99/lb
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Foster Farms chicken thighs or drumsticks, bone in, $1.69/lb
Jennie-O 93/7 ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $4.99
Fry's milk, gallons, $1.79
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds, $1.88
Bush's baked beans, 21-28 oz cans, $1.88
Smart Ones frozen entrées, 5/$10
Strawberries, 4 lb flat (good Lord, good Lord), $3.49 – make jam
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
“Mini seedless” watermelons, $2.99 ea
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢/lb
Zucchini OR yellow squash, 99¢/lb
“Mini peeled” carrots, 1 lb bag, 99¢
Bulb plants in six inch pots, some may be edible, $6.99
Safeway:
Beef London broil, boneless, value pack, $2.79/lb
Beef NY strip steak, bone in, value pack, $5.99/lb
Beef top round roast, boneless, $2.79/lb
Beef chuck steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, $2.79/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or country style ribs, boneless, value pack, $1.99/lb
Pork top loin chops, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $2.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Atlantic salmon whole side of the fish, value pack (decidedly), $8.99/lb (cut up, 50¢/lb higher)
Safeway Kitchens yellowfin sole fillets, 24 oz IQF bag, $8.99
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79
Lucerne OR Simple Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99
Sargento string cheeses, 9-12 oz, 2/$7
Oroweat “100% whole wheat” bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $3.29
Safeway Kitchens “crushed wheat” or “100% wheat” bread, 22 oz long loaves, $1.99
Safeway Kitchens pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 5/$5
Del Monte veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Lean Cuisine “Simple Favorites” frozen entrées, 5/$10
Safeway Kitches frozen veg, 24-32 oz bags, 2/$5
Navel oranges, 77¢/lb
Red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Organic Fuji or Red Delicious apples, $1.49/lb
Organic mini watermelons, $4.69
Asparagus, 99¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, $2.69/lb
Fresh Express OR Safeway Farms bag salads, buy 1 get 1 free
Plants in 5 inch pots, $10.99
Sprouts:
Grass fed organic ground beef, fat content not listed, $4.99/lb … um, yeah.
Beef top sirloin steak, boneless, $5.99/lb
Beef rump roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast, boneless, $1.69/lb
Ground pork or chicken, $2.99/lb
Whole or cut-up chickens, $1.59/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, value pack, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $8.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$3
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 88¢/lb
Whole cantaloupes, 88¢ ea
Whole pineapples, 88¢ ea
Whole seedless watermelons, 3 lbs/$1
Seedless grapes, green or red, 2 lbs/$5
Organic Fuji or Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 2 lbs/$3
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $1.99/lb
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$3
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/grey, 88¢/lb
BAKED LIMA and SALMON LOAF
(From Good Housekeeping, March 1940. Actually printed in an ad for Seaside lima beans.)
3 cups cooked, dried limas
2 cups soft bread crumbs
1 cup flaked canned salmon
1/2 cup canned tomatoes
1/3 cup chopped green pepper
2 slightly beaten eggs
1 1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 tsp chili powder
2 tsp lemon juice
1 tbsp chopped pimiento
1/4 cup buttered crumbs
Mash limas and combine with all ingredients except buttered crumbs. Place in greased 5 1/2" x 7" loaf pan and sprinkle with buttered crumbs. Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees) about 45 minutes. Serves 8. (My suggestion: some onion would not go amiss.)
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Wren's bargain guide, week beginning April 10th:
Cool stuff at Fooducate this week: how to work more broccoli into your life (not a problem for me as I have the good fortune to love the stuff) and a “cheat sheet” guide to cuts of beef, where on the steer they come from, and how best to cook them.
Per Grist, you may be forced to change your choice of beverages: climate change is seriously affecting the worldwide wine industry, with a forecast 85% decline in grape production in Bordeaux, Rhone, and Tuscany. And someone (or more likely some several) stole eleven thousand pounds of Nutella in Germany: “The AP reports that the delicious, delicious haul was worth about $20,000, although realistically, you don’t steal 11,000 pounds of Nutella because you’re planning to sell it on the black market. You steal 11,000 pounds of Nutella because there’s 11,000 pounds of Nutella to steal.”
Marion Nestle touches on the use of the word “protein” as a marketing hook, with piles and piles of links as well as her own comment that Americans tend to consume protein “at levels greatly in excess of requirements”. She's also got a column on the “Mediterranean” diet, exactly what the recent study lauding it involved, and what the diet itself is and is not. “It does not mean supersize bowls of macaroni smothered in cheese,” she points out; but also, “I think the best reason for following a Mediterranean diet is that its foods are terrific to eat. Pasta, vegetables, a fish, some good bread, and a glass of wine? Sounds good to me, any time.” I'll nibble to that.
Recipes! Chow.com has a swift Lemon Shrimp Pasta, spring-veggie side dishes, and how to make carrot chips. Darya at Summer Tomato has “How To Make (And Eat) A Perfect Steamed Artichoke”. She likes them with olive oil, lemon, and parsley: now there's a way to work your Healthy Oils in! Sprouted Kitchen has “bean bowls with poached eggs”. Snack Girl has raw asparagus salad, meat substitutes, and “The Fool Proof {sic} Way To Cook Brown Rice”. And Smitten Kitchen explores quick solo lunches – “What do you make yourself for lunch, if nobody else is around? I bet you’re hoping I’m going to say something ambitious, like 'a gently poached chicken breast, cooled and sliced across a vegetable salad with a hand-whisked vinaigrette,' because that happens, ever” – and proceeds to detail for us, in the “stuff on bread” category, Spinach And Smashed Egg Toast. (This is, as she points out, a one-pan lunch because “a pot used only to boil an egg is, pffft, still totally clean, right?”)
The 15th is Glazed Spiral Ham Day. The day after is both Day of the Mushroom and National Eggs Benedict Day, a commendable combination. And the day after that being National Cheese Ball Day, I present once again Chow.com's inspiring, or horrifying, four-pound Turducken of Cheese Balls otherwise known as The Cheese Ball As Big As Your Head.
April 10th: National Cinnamon Crescent Day
April 11th: National Cheese Fondue Day
April 12th: National Licorice Day, National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day
April 13th: National Peach Cobbler Day
April 14th: National Pecan Day
April 15th: National Glazed Spiral Ham Day
April 16th: National Eggs Benedict Day, Day of the Mushroom
April 17th: National Cheese Ball Day
Albertson's:
Beef New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $4.97/lb (regular pack, $1/lb higher)
Beef London broil/crossrib/bottom round roasts or family pack steaks, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
85/15 ground beef, $2.97/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Sanderson Farms chicken breast/thighs/drums/leg quarters, bone in, jumbo pack, 99¢/lb
Unbranded (store) boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, $4.99/lb
Alaska halibut, wild caught, 5 oz skinless portions, $6.99 ea
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.79
Deli: Unbranded (store) rotisserie turkey breast, $5.99/lb
Unbranded (store) “double honey” ham, $5.99/lb
Jennie-O “Honey Smoked” or “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
Signature ham, $5.99/lb
Dietz & Watson medium roast beef OR London broil, $9.99/lb
Joseph Farms pepperjack/Colby/Co-jack/mild Cheddar, $5.99/lb
Nature's Own “Honey Wheat” bread, 20 oz long loaves, $1.99
Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, 88¢
Essential Everyday pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 88¢
V-8 vegetable juice or V-Fusion, 46 oz bottles, 2/$5
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 4/$10
Skinny Cow ice-cream novelties, 4-12 ct, 2/$7
Strawberries, 3 lb flat, $2.97 (make jam)
Cantaloupes, 2/$4
Fuji apples, $1/lb
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, $1/lb
Roma tomatoes, $1/lb
EuroFresh Farms vine tomatoes, 14 oz pkg, 2/$5
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, $1/lb
Carnival cauliflower (in colors! Green! Yellow! Purple! Very festive!), $1/lb
Green Giant “Sweet Baby Broccoli” (looks like broccolini to me), 1 lb bag, $3.99
Earthbound Farms organic box salads, $2.99
Zucchini squash, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef London broil, $3.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast, $4.49/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $2.39/lb
Pork chops, center cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, buy 1 get 2 free
Sanderson Farms whole frying chickens, $1.19/lb
True cod fillets, $6.99/lb
Bashas' milk, gallons, $1.79
Tillamook cheeses, 7-8 oz chunk or shreds, 5/$10
Food Club butter, $2.49
Bashas' cottage cheese incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, 2/$3
Bashas' “Homestyle” bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.79
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 2/$5
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 99¢
Cantaloupe, 39¢/lb
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, regular OR organic, $1.99/lb
Cherub (10 oz) or grape (12 oz) tomatoes, $1.99
Artichokes, extra large, 2/$4
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 99¢
Zucchini, regular OR organic, 88¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef NY strip steaks, bone in, 50% off
Beef flat iron steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
Beef chuck or crossrib roast, boneless, $4.49/lb
Pork loin chops, “assorted” bone-in, family pack, $2.39/lb
Foster Farms boneless skinless chicken breast or tenders, $3.49/lb
Jennie-O 99/1 ground turkey breast, 20 oz pkg, $6.49
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Kroger cheeses, 6 oz shingle pack, $1.88
Kroger cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $1.99
Bush's baked beans, 21-28 oz cans, $1.88
S&W OR Del Monte tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 4/$10
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, buy 1 get 1 free
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Safeway:
Mix and match sale: buy 1 get 1 free
Beef chuck pot roast, boneless
Beef crossrib roast, boneless
90/10 ground beef, regular packs
Pork loin chops, bone in
Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast
Beef ribeye steak, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef bottom round steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef ribeye steak, boneless, value pack, $8.99/lb
Beef chuck steak OR country style ribs, boneless, value pack, $3.49/lb
Open Nature whole chickens, $1.99/lb
Safeway chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, value pack, $1.29/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Atlantic salmon whole fillet, farm raised, $8.99/lb (cut up fillets, 50¢/lb higher)
Lucerne cheeses, 16 oz chunk or shreds, $3.99
Kraft cheeses, 6-12 oz shreds, shingle or “Singles”, $2.99
Hunt's tomatoes or sauce, 14-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Healthy Choice “Baked” frozen entrées, 5/$10
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 99¢
“Mini seedless” watermelons, $3.49 ea
Apples: Fuji, Red/Golden Delicious, $1.39/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $2.99/lb
Whole pineapples, $2.99 ea
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $2.49/lb
Sprouts:
Beef London broil, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef top round steak or roast, OR extra lean stew meat, $3.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork shoulder roast OR country-style ribs, boneless, $1.49/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Halibut fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/b
Seafood-stuffed salmon fillets, 6 oz portion, $3.99 ea
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $1.48
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
Braeburn or Golden Delicious apples, 88¢/lb
Red mangos, 88¢ ea
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, 2 lbs/$5
Cantaloupes, 2/$4
Mini watermelons, 2/$5
Organic Bartlett pears, 2 lbs/$3
Organic apples: Fuji, Cameo, Red Delicious, $1.49/lb
Vine tomatoes, 88¢/lb (organic, $1.99/lb)
Organic grape tomatoes, dry pint, $1.99
Asparagus, 88¢/lb
Summer squashes, Italian/yellow/grey, 88¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Wren's bargain guide, week beginning April 3rd:
According to Fooducate, 91% of fast-food meals marketed to children do not meet the restaurant industry's own standards for child nutrition.
Marion Nestle, at Food Politics, has an interesting collection of information about menu nutrition labels (“Remember them?”). Apparently they do work, especially when accompanied by traffic-light labeling (green light for foods under 400 calories, red for those over 800 calories, yellow for things in between). But the restaurant and food industries are frantically lobbying for any exemption they can get. And the New York Times has a very good editorial about that city's short-lived ban on soft drinks over 16 ounces: “After all, people can still get as much soda as they want. This isn’t Prohibition. It’s just that getting it would take slightly more effort. So, why is this such a big deal?” Good question.
Recipes! Chow.com has a collection of recipes using spring ingredients, long on early veggies and fruits; “29 Unexpected Ways to Eat More Whole Grains” including a spinach-feta-and-quinoa chowder that might be tasty; things to do with that huge slab of leftover Easter ham/lamb/you name it; and how to make something very like soft-serve ice-cream out of a banana. Simply Recipes has baked asparagus with Parmesan, which I shall try as soon as there is some decent non-sprue asparagus to be had, and salmon with a hoisin glaze. Smitten Kitchen has a salad of lentils and chickpeas that sounds uninspiring but which the blogger alleges to be “one of the most intense and complexly flavored salad experiences I’ve ever made at home”. And Snack Girl explores the making of real maple syrup – a truly natural sweetener which ranges from distressingly expensive to shudderingly expensive, but as she points out, this helps you to use it in moderation – a reasonably convincing but healthier take on a cheese danish, and a wonderfully mean-spirited review of Lunchables. (“The truth is that they have gotten worse than when I checked them out two years ago.... Oreos, weird chicken things, ketchup, and a fruit smoothie. Does that look like food to you?”)
Welcome to April, National BLT Month which you apparently should make with Florida tomatoes as it's also National Florida Tomato Month although you can get locally grown ones for a good price. It's also National Garden Month. This Saturday, April 6th, is the 59th birthday of the TV dinner – first released in 1954, turkey, dressing, and peas-and-sweet-potatoes. And the 7th, Sunday, is National Beer Day – the 70th anniversary of the first beer sales anticipating repeal of Prohibition.
April 3rd: National Chocolate Mousse Day (or National Chocolate Moose Day)
April 4th: Chocolate Milk Powder Day, National Cordon Bleu Day
April 5th: Dandelion Day (Dandelion greens are good, as is dandelion wine), National Caramel Day
April 6th: Fresh Tomato Day, TV Dinner Day
April 7th: National Coffee Cake Day, National Beer Day
April 8th: National Empanada Day
April 9th: National Chinese Almond Cookie Day
April 10th: Cinnamon Crescent Day
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef ribeye OR New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $7.99/lb
Beef crossrib/bottom round/eye round/London broil roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.79/lb (any size package)
93/7 ground beef, $2.97/lb (3 lbs or more)
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, $1.99/lb
Center cut pork loin chops, bone in, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Boneless skinless chicken breast OR thighs, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, jumbo pack, $1.29/lb
Tilapia OR swai fillets, farm raised, $2.88/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Rockfish OR Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, 15 oz tubs, $1.99
Albertson's sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1
Deli: Dietz & Watson chicken breast varieties, $5.99/lb
Charlie's Pride corned beef/Italian roast beef/beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $5.99/lb
Jennie-O “Honey Smoked” or “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
Signature baked or double-honey ham, $5.99/lb
Stella Swiss/Provolone/Muenster cheeses, $5.99/lb
Ro*tel tomatoes, $1
Essential Everyday tomatoes, 28 oz cans, $1
Essential Everyday fruit, 15 oz cans, $1
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Mangos, 99¢ ea
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Seedless grapes, green or red, $2.99/lb
Bananas, 39¢/lb
Cut up watermelon, 2 lb bowl, $3.99
Cut up “fruit medley”, 36 oz bowl, $5.99
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Live Gourmet butter lettuce, root on, 2/$4
Earthbound Farms organic box salads, 5 oz, $2.99
Bashas':
Beef London broil, $3.99/lb
Beef ribeye or New York steaks, boneless, $9.88/lb
Beef t-bone steaks, $8.88/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, value pack, $3.88/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, $3.49/lb
Pork country style ribs, bone in, value pack, 99¢/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken breast, bone in, buy 1 get 1 free
Bashas' boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Corvina sea bass fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
King salmon fillets, farm raised, $14.99/lb
Bashas' cottage cheese, 24 oz tubs, $2.29
Hunt's tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Nature's Own honey wheat bread, 20 oz long loaves, $2.29
PictSweet frozen veggies, 14-16 oz bags, 2/$3
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Mini seedless watermelons, 2/$5
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Seedless green grapes, 97¢/lb
Roma or slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Dole bag salads, 2/$5
Zucchini squash, 99¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef crossrib roast, 50% off
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $6.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $3.29/lb (3 lb chub)
80/20 ground beef patties, 10/$10
Pork loin back ribs, buy 1 get 2 free
Pork country style ribs, bone in, family pack, $2.29/lb
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.88/lb
Foster Farms chicken thighs or drumsticks, bone in, $1.69/lb
Kroger 85/15 ground turkey, $2.66/lb (3 lb pkg)
Corvina fillets, $5.99/lb
Fry's milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, 10/$10
Kroger frozen veg, 9-12 oz bags, 10/$10
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 4/$10
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
California mandarins, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Asparagus, 97¢/lb
Dole bag salads, 5-12 oz, 10/$10
Safeway:
Beef round tip roast, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb (steaks 30¢/lb higher)
Beef NY strip steak, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb (boneless $1/lb higher)
Beef London broil, value pack, $4.99/lb
Beef chuck crossrib steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef cube steaks, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $3.29/lb (regular packs, 50¢/lb higher)
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken thighs/drumsticks, bone in, $1.69/lb
Rockfish OR mahi mahi OR Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79
Yoplait yogurts incl. Light, 10/$5
Safeway Kitchens breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $1.99
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, buy 1 get 1 free
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, $1.79
Bumble Bee solid white tuna, 2/$3
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 5/$10
Fuji apples, $1.39.lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $2.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $4.99
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Asparagus, $2.99/lb
O Organics grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, $2.99
Zucchini OR yellow squash, $1.99/lb
Organic red/yellow/orange bell peppers, 2/$3
Sprouts:
Beef sirloin tip roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef New York steak, boneless, $6.99/lb
Pork loin roast, center cut boneless, $1.99/lb
Pork loin chops, center cut boneless, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken-breast tenders, $1.99/lb
Ground turkey breast, $3.99/lb
Steelhead fillets, $6.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb boxes, 4/$5
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 88¢/lb
Texas grapefruit, 88¢ ea
Organic apples: Braeburn, Fuji, Red Delicious, 4 lbs/$5
Mini seedless watermelons, $1.88 ea
Beefsteak tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Asparagus, 88¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 88¢/lb
Marion Nestle, at Food Politics, has an interesting collection of information about menu nutrition labels (“Remember them?”). Apparently they do work, especially when accompanied by traffic-light labeling (green light for foods under 400 calories, red for those over 800 calories, yellow for things in between). But the restaurant and food industries are frantically lobbying for any exemption they can get. And the New York Times has a very good editorial about that city's short-lived ban on soft drinks over 16 ounces: “After all, people can still get as much soda as they want. This isn’t Prohibition. It’s just that getting it would take slightly more effort. So, why is this such a big deal?” Good question.
Recipes! Chow.com has a collection of recipes using spring ingredients, long on early veggies and fruits; “29 Unexpected Ways to Eat More Whole Grains” including a spinach-feta-and-quinoa chowder that might be tasty; things to do with that huge slab of leftover Easter ham/lamb/you name it; and how to make something very like soft-serve ice-cream out of a banana. Simply Recipes has baked asparagus with Parmesan, which I shall try as soon as there is some decent non-sprue asparagus to be had, and salmon with a hoisin glaze. Smitten Kitchen has a salad of lentils and chickpeas that sounds uninspiring but which the blogger alleges to be “one of the most intense and complexly flavored salad experiences I’ve ever made at home”. And Snack Girl explores the making of real maple syrup – a truly natural sweetener which ranges from distressingly expensive to shudderingly expensive, but as she points out, this helps you to use it in moderation – a reasonably convincing but healthier take on a cheese danish, and a wonderfully mean-spirited review of Lunchables. (“The truth is that they have gotten worse than when I checked them out two years ago.... Oreos, weird chicken things, ketchup, and a fruit smoothie. Does that look like food to you?”)
Welcome to April, National BLT Month which you apparently should make with Florida tomatoes as it's also National Florida Tomato Month although you can get locally grown ones for a good price. It's also National Garden Month. This Saturday, April 6th, is the 59th birthday of the TV dinner – first released in 1954, turkey, dressing, and peas-and-sweet-potatoes. And the 7th, Sunday, is National Beer Day – the 70th anniversary of the first beer sales anticipating repeal of Prohibition.
April 3rd: National Chocolate Mousse Day (or National Chocolate Moose Day)
April 4th: Chocolate Milk Powder Day, National Cordon Bleu Day
April 5th: Dandelion Day (Dandelion greens are good, as is dandelion wine), National Caramel Day
April 6th: Fresh Tomato Day, TV Dinner Day
April 7th: National Coffee Cake Day, National Beer Day
April 8th: National Empanada Day
April 9th: National Chinese Almond Cookie Day
April 10th: Cinnamon Crescent Day
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef ribeye OR New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $7.99/lb
Beef crossrib/bottom round/eye round/London broil roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.79/lb (any size package)
93/7 ground beef, $2.97/lb (3 lbs or more)
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, $1.99/lb
Center cut pork loin chops, bone in, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Boneless skinless chicken breast OR thighs, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, jumbo pack, $1.29/lb
Tilapia OR swai fillets, farm raised, $2.88/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Rockfish OR Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, 15 oz tubs, $1.99
Albertson's sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1
Deli: Dietz & Watson chicken breast varieties, $5.99/lb
Charlie's Pride corned beef/Italian roast beef/beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $5.99/lb
Jennie-O “Honey Smoked” or “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
Signature baked or double-honey ham, $5.99/lb
Stella Swiss/Provolone/Muenster cheeses, $5.99/lb
Ro*tel tomatoes, $1
Essential Everyday tomatoes, 28 oz cans, $1
Essential Everyday fruit, 15 oz cans, $1
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Mangos, 99¢ ea
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Seedless grapes, green or red, $2.99/lb
Bananas, 39¢/lb
Cut up watermelon, 2 lb bowl, $3.99
Cut up “fruit medley”, 36 oz bowl, $5.99
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Live Gourmet butter lettuce, root on, 2/$4
Earthbound Farms organic box salads, 5 oz, $2.99
Bashas':
Beef London broil, $3.99/lb
Beef ribeye or New York steaks, boneless, $9.88/lb
Beef t-bone steaks, $8.88/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, value pack, $3.88/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, $3.49/lb
Pork country style ribs, bone in, value pack, 99¢/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken breast, bone in, buy 1 get 1 free
Bashas' boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.99/lb
Corvina sea bass fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
King salmon fillets, farm raised, $14.99/lb
Bashas' cottage cheese, 24 oz tubs, $2.29
Hunt's tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Nature's Own honey wheat bread, 20 oz long loaves, $2.29
PictSweet frozen veggies, 14-16 oz bags, 2/$3
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Mini seedless watermelons, 2/$5
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Seedless green grapes, 97¢/lb
Roma or slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Dole bag salads, 2/$5
Zucchini squash, 99¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef crossrib roast, 50% off
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $6.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $3.29/lb (3 lb chub)
80/20 ground beef patties, 10/$10
Pork loin back ribs, buy 1 get 2 free
Pork country style ribs, bone in, family pack, $2.29/lb
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.88/lb
Foster Farms chicken thighs or drumsticks, bone in, $1.69/lb
Kroger 85/15 ground turkey, $2.66/lb (3 lb pkg)
Corvina fillets, $5.99/lb
Fry's milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, 10/$10
Kroger frozen veg, 9-12 oz bags, 10/$10
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 4/$10
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
California mandarins, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Asparagus, 97¢/lb
Dole bag salads, 5-12 oz, 10/$10
Safeway:
Beef round tip roast, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb (steaks 30¢/lb higher)
Beef NY strip steak, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb (boneless $1/lb higher)
Beef London broil, value pack, $4.99/lb
Beef chuck crossrib steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Beef cube steaks, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $3.29/lb (regular packs, 50¢/lb higher)
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken thighs/drumsticks, bone in, $1.69/lb
Rockfish OR mahi mahi OR Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79
Yoplait yogurts incl. Light, 10/$5
Safeway Kitchens breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $1.99
American Beauty pasta, 1 lb pkg, buy 1 get 1 free
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, $1.79
Bumble Bee solid white tuna, 2/$3
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 5/$10
Fuji apples, $1.39.lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $2.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $4.99
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Asparagus, $2.99/lb
O Organics grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, $2.99
Zucchini OR yellow squash, $1.99/lb
Organic red/yellow/orange bell peppers, 2/$3
Sprouts:
Beef sirloin tip roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef New York steak, boneless, $6.99/lb
Pork loin roast, center cut boneless, $1.99/lb
Pork loin chops, center cut boneless, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken-breast tenders, $1.99/lb
Ground turkey breast, $3.99/lb
Steelhead fillets, $6.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb boxes, 4/$5
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 88¢/lb
Texas grapefruit, 88¢ ea
Organic apples: Braeburn, Fuji, Red Delicious, 4 lbs/$5
Mini seedless watermelons, $1.88 ea
Beefsteak tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Asparagus, 88¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 88¢/lb
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