Great suggestion from Yoni Freedhoff: “I call it my 24-hour exercise cancellation policy and it’s pretty straightforward. At some point each and every day I grab a glance at my next day’s schedule. If there’s a logical slot for exercise, and if there are no real reasons getting in my way (deadlines, kid obligations, injuries, illnesses, etc.), in exercise goes and unless I cancel it before the sun rises the next morning, or unless something honestly emergent arises, when that timeslot arrives, I’m exercising – happy or sad, sick or well, miserable or enthusiastic … ” We might do well to emulate this!
Lots of good stuff at Fooducate this week! A salad of grilled fennel with oranges, tips for healthy cooking on a budget, and an analysis of the “Paleo” diet including its upside, downside, and highly questionable side. Darya at Summer Tomato is a great source this week too: the top ten most overrated (fruit juice, margarine, protein bars) and underrated (organ meats, mushrooms, egg yolks, OYSTERS) health foods.
Recipes! Chow.com has Kosher-for-Passover breakfast recipes (I'll take the smoked salmon hash), how to make your own gefilte fish, steamed artichokes with a green garlic aioli, a shaved-asparagus salad, how to honey-mustard-glaze a ham (to each her own; I glaze mine with brown sugar and orange juice), and how to make your own Easter-egg dyes. And strawberry recipes, lots of strawberry recipes at a season when we have lots of strawberries. Simply Recipes has a kale-mushroom-cheddar bake, Sprouted Kitchen has beetburgers (which reminds me inescapably of Boris's meatloaf/Morris's beetloaf in the book version of Freaky Friday), and Snack Girl has how to cut calories in a banana split!
April is National BLT Month, National Garden Month, and National Soft Pretzel Month. Also National Food Month as if we would forget about food without an annual reminder.
March 27th: National Paella Day
March 28th: National Black Forest Cake Day, National Something On A Stick Day
March 29th: National Lemon Chiffon Cake Day
March 30th: Turkey Neck Soup Day
March 31st: Oranges and Lemons Day, National Tater Day (not National Potato Day), National Clams on the Half Shell Day
April 1st: National Sourdough Bread Day
April 2nd: National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day
April 3rd: National Chocolate Mousse Day (One source gives it, apparently intentionally, as National Chocolate Moose Day.)
Albertson's:
Beef standing rib roast, bone in, 5 ribs or more, $4.97/lb (smaller than 5 ribs, $1/lb higher)
Beef NY strip roast, bone in, $4.47/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, bone in, family pack, $6.97/lb
Beef NY steak, bone in, family pack, $5.97/lb
Cook's ham, bone in, shank portion, $1.29/lb (butt portion, 20¢/lb higher)
Hormel Cure 81 boneless ham halves, $3.99/lb
Leg of lamb, whole, bone in, $6.99/lb
Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Jennie-O fresh turkeys, 12-16 lb, $1.69/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.97/lb
Tilapia or Swai fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Rockfish or Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Challenge butter, $1.99
Deli: Jennie-O “Deli Style” turkey breast, $4.99/lb
Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Margherita hard/Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $4.99/lb
Deli Fresh Provolone/Muenster/pepperjack/mild Cheddar, $4.99/lb
Libby's veg, 14-15 oz cans, 2/$1
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 2/$3
Francesco Rinaldi pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, 2/$3
Better than Bouillon soup bases, 8 oz jars, $3.99
Pace salsa or picante sauce, 16 oz jars, 2/$4
Colavita olive oil, half litre bottles, $9.99
PictSweet frozen veg, 14-16 oz bags, 88¢
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Seedless grapes, green or red, $2.99/lb
Cantaloupes, 2/$5
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Cut up watermelon/cantaloupe/pineapple/strawberry bowls, 20-32 oz, $3.99
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Asparagus, $2.99/lb
Hass avocados, 99¢ ea
Bashas':
Condolences to the Basha family on Eddie's death.
Beef t-bone or top sirloin steaks, value pack, $4.69/lb
Beef tenderloin steaks, $9.99/lb
Beef bottom round/crossrib/sirloin tip roast, $4.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $2.99/lb
Pork shoulder country style ribs, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb (boneless, 50¢/lb higher)
Cook's ham, shank portion, 95¢/lb
Cook's spiral sliced ham, $1.79/lb
Halibut fillets, $12.99/lbc
Basa fillets, $2.99/lb
Fresh clams, $2.99/lb
Bashas' eggs, AA extra large, 18 ct, $1.88
Food Club cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/cubelets, $1.88
Libby's veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 5/$3
Herdez salsa, 16 oz jars, 2/$3
Flav-R-Pac frozen veg, 12-16 oz bags, 5/$5
Cuties clementines, 3 lb bag, $2.77
Seedless grapes, green or red, $1.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Fuji or Granny Smith apples, 99¢/lb
Organic Fuji apples, 2 lbs/$1
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Organic vine tomatoes, AZ grown, 99¢/lb
Organic grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, 2/$4
Eat Smart veggie tray, 2.5 lbs, $9.99
Fry's:
Beef NY strip steaks, bone in, family pack, 50% off
Beef NY Strip Roast, bone in, $4.99/lb
Beef bottom round round roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
Cook's half or spiral sliced ham, bone in, $1.47/lb
Hormel Cure 81 spiral sliced ham, bone in, $2.99/lb
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $2.99/lb
Private Selection spiral sliced ham, bone in, $2.69/lb
Kroger frozen turkeys, 99¢/lb
Kroger veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Nature Valley granola bars, "Trail Mix" or "Sweet & Salty", $2.99
Kroger frozen veg, 9-16 oz bags, 10/$10
Birds Eye frozen veg, 10-16 oz pkg, 10/$10
Whole pineapples, 99¢ ea
Cuties clementines, 3 lb bag, $4.99/lb
Mini seedless watermelons, $2.99 ea
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $2.49/lb
Mangos, 88¢ ea
Asparagus, $2.99/lb
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
"Mini peeled" carrots, AZ grown, 1 lb bag, 99¢
Safeway:
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef ribeye steak or roast, bone in, value pack, $5.99/lb
Beef chuck steak, thin cut boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork top loin chops, boneless, value pack, $3.49/lb
Pork shoulder blade roast, bone in, $2.29/lb
Safeway smoked ham, shank half, bone in, 99¢/lb (rump half, 20¢/lb higher)
Safeway spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $1.99/lb
Safeway Select spiral sliced half ham, bone in, $2.99/lb
Hormel Cure 81 half ham, boneless, $4.99/lb
Safeway Select fresh turkeys, 8-24 lb, $1.59/lb
Jennie-O Turkey Store extra lean ground turkey breast, 20 oz pkg, $5.99
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Atlantic salmon whole fillets, farm raised, value pack, $8.99/lb (cut fillets 50¢/lb higher)
Lucerne OR Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunks, $6.99
Safeway Kitchens veggies, 14-15 oz cans, 79¢
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 5/$5
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $1.48/lb
Whole pineapples, $1.48 ea
Green seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Mangos, 10/$10
Gala apples, $1.49/lb
Fresh Express OR Safeway Farms bag salads, 2/$5
Vine tomatoes, $2.49/lb
Asparagus, $2.99/lb
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, AZ grown, $1.49/lb
Sprouts:
Beef standing rib roast, “Presidential Cut”, $5.99/lb
Pork shoulder roast OR country-style ribs, boneless, $1.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, value pack, $1.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$3
Whole pineapples, 2/$3
Navel oranges, 3 lbs/$1
Braeburn or Cameo apples, 99¢/lb
Organic Bartlett pears, 2 lbs/$3
Organic Valencia oranges, 4 lb bags, 2/$5
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.99/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99
Asparagus, $1.99/lb
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$3
Leaf lettuce, green or red, OR iceberg, 99¢ ea
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Wren's bargain guide, week beginning March 20th:
Happy Spring, and sorry I couldn't make tonight's meeting! At Weighty Matters, along with Yoni Freedhoff's usual helping of ranting about The Biggest Loser, there's an interesting piece on how to actually form a new habit and another on juice, which nutritionally is sugar-water with some added micronutrients. Or as Dr. Freedhoff puts it with his own inimitable tact and subtlety, “Juice is NOT a F@*#$*&g Fruit!”
Mark's Daily Apple has a lot of good things this week: a recipe for “Chicken With Buttery Caper Sauce” that looks absolutely delicious if you're into capers. It would be easy to cut down the four tablespoons of oil – even if you only reduced it to three, it's a four-serving recipe so that would be your two Healthy Oils for the day in one serving. Also how to make turkey jerky, a recipe which I wish could have been posted before the cold weather broke as it involves leaving the oven at 200ºF for “six to ten hours”, and what are claimed to be “10 Full Body Workouts You Can Do in 10 Minutes Flat”. Well … maybe. For certain values of “you”.
Summer Tomato has a good piece on how to overcome “texture issues” in food, and one on “10 Tasty Carbs That Won't Make You Fat” including fruit, beans, quinoa, and wine. And at Grist, just for fun, they link to a series of vintage McDonald's menus! Back in 1953 you got a side order of adjective with every item you ordered: choices on that year's “McDonald's Amazing Menu” include the “Tempting Cheeseburger”, “Thirst-Quenching Coke”, and “Delightful Root Beer”. Before that, at “McDonald's Bar-B-Q” back in 1940, hamburgers weren't really even a thing: their primary menu item was “Our Famous Barbecued Beef, Ham, or Pork”, with “Aristocratic Hamburgers” (!!) an also-ran.
Recipes! Chow.com has tips for hosting your first Passover which might come in handy even if it's not your first, a nice set of Passover recipes, and a decidedly non-kosher recipe for asparagus wrapped in prosciutto and broiled. Also an Easter picnic prepared and served entirely in jars. Simply Recipes has pasta e fagioli, what I grew up calling “pasta fazool”, a thick pasta-beans-and-veg soup bordering on stew. Also how to clean leeks, and how to make leeks vinaigrette with them when you have. If you have any left, Sprouted Kitchen has a mushroom-millet-and-leek frittata. And Snack Girl has spaghetti squash, aninebriated abbreviated list of “Junk Food Holidays”, a healthy thing to do with bacon (spoiler: it's akin to Chow.com's asparagus-prosciutto recipe), and snark about “veggie chips”.
With National Frozen Food Month winding down, many stores are featuring strong promotions on frozen products. The 24th is National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day RAISINS ARE FRUIT AND FRUIT IS HEALTHY THAT'S MY STORY AND I'M STICKING TO IT.
March 20th: Bock Beer Day, National Ravioli Day
March 21st: National French Bread Day, California Strawberry Day
March 22nd: National Bavarian Crepes Day, National Coq au Vin Day
March 23rd: National Chips and Dip Day, National Melba Toast Day
March 24th: National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day FRUIT. FRUIT IS GOOD FOR YOU.
March 25th: National Lobster Newburg Day, National Pecan Day
March 26th: National Nougat Day, National Make Up Your Own Holiday Day (I hereby designate this date as Do Not Waste Points Day)
March 27th: National Paella Day
Albertson's:
Beef London broil, boneless, $2.77/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef crossrib or bottom round roasts, boneless, $3.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.59/lb (3 lbs or more)
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb (3 lbs or more)
Assorted pork chops, bone in, $1.59/lb
Pork loin chops, bone in, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.77/lb
Sanderson Farms cut-up chickens or bone-in chicken breast, jumbo pack, $1.49/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Tilapia/swai/catfish fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Rockfish OR Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Ahi tuna/swordfish/mahi mahi/sockeye salmon/cod loins, wild caught, 5 oz portions, $3.99
Atlantic salmon/steelhead/trout, farm raised, 5 oz portions, $3.99
Albertson's sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1.49
Land O Lakes butter, 2/$5
Tillamook cheeses, 8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, 2/$6
Deli: Charlie's Pride corned beef/Italian beef/beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
Stella Swiss/Provolone/Muenster cheeses, $5.99/lb
Jennie-O “Honey Smoked” or “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
Signature “Double Honey” ham, $5.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $5.99/lb
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 2/$5
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, $1.99 ea
Cuties clementines, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, $1/lb
Braeburn or Fuji apples, $1/lb
Whole cantaloupes, $1 ea
Blackberries, 6 oz box, $1
Roma tomatoes, $1l/b
Spinach, $1/bunch
Eggplant, $1 ea
Red bell peppers, $1 ea
Mini carrots, 1 lb bag, $1
Fresh Express bag salads, “Premium Romaine” or “Green & Crisp”, or spinach, $1
Cauliflower, $1/lb
Leeks, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef New York strip, boneless, whole in bag, $3.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round/sirloin tip steak or roast, boneless, buy 1 get 1 free
Ground beef round, fat content not listed, value pack, $3.49/lb
Assorted pork chops, value pack, $1.99/lb
Center cut pork chops, bone in, value pack, $2.99/lb
Sanderson Farms whole frying chickens, 99¢/lb
Bashas' chicken leg quarters, bone in, value pack, 99¢/lb
Steelhead fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb “weather permitting”
Land O Lakes butter, $2.49
Sargento cheeses, 5-6 oz shreds or shingle, $2.88
Nature's Own “WhiteWheat” bread, 20 oz long loaves, 2/$5
Ranch Style beans, 15 oz cans, 88¢
Del Monte pasta sauces, 26 oz cans, 88¢
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz cans, 2/$4
Barilla lasagne or manicotti, 2/$4
Ro*tel tomatoes, 4/$5
Fuji apples, 77¢/lb
Green seedless grapes, 97¢/lb
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Yellow nectarines, red or black plums, $1.99/lb
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
90/10 ground beef sirloin, $3.99/lb
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, family pack, $1.99/lb
Foster Farms whole frying chickens, 99¢/lb
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.97/lb
Kroger frozen turkeys, 99¢/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Fry's milk, gallons, $1.79
Fry's eggs, AA large, 18 ct, $1.88
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $1.99
Kroger butter, $2.29
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Philadelphia cream cheese, 8 oz brick, 2/$3
Nature Valley granola bars, 6 ct, $2.99
Kroger OR Birds Eye frozen veg, 9-12 oz pkg, 10.$10
Green seedless grapes, 99¢/lb
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Bananas, 49¢/lb
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Mini sweet peppers, 2 lb bag, $3.99
Organic zucchini, $1.49/lb
Safeway:
Beef London broil, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef top round roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $3.29/lb (regular pack, 50¢/lb higher)
Pork shoulder blade steak, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, value pack, $3.49/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $2.99/lb
Open Nature whole chickens, $1.99/lb
Swai fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Atlantic salmon whole fillets, farm raised, value pack, $7.99/lb (cut fillets, $1/lb higher)
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Lucerne cheeses, 8 oz shingle, $2.49
Lucerne cream cheese, 8 oz brick, $1.49
Lucerne eggs, AA large, 60 ct, $7.99 – for your Easter-egg roll
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, 4/$5
Francesco Rinaldi pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, 4/$5
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 5/$5
Safeway solid white albacore tuna, 4/$5
Del Monte stewed or diced tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
Pam cooking spray, 5-6 oz spray cans, $2.79
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 5/$10
Smart Ones frozen breakfasts, 4/$10
Gorton's “Grilled Fillets”, $3.99
Fuji or Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Green seedless grapes, $1.99/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Ataulfo mangos, 99¢ ea
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $2.99/lb
Zucchini OR yellow squash, $1.49/lb
Organic cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Sprouts:
Everything frozen you can fit into the sale bag, 20% off
Beef rib roast or steak, bone in, $5.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Sprouts spiral sliced ham, $1.99/lb
Pork loin chops or roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Whole/split/cut up chickens, $1.59/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Corvina sea bass fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $10.99/lb
Apples: Ambrosia, Cameo, Braeburn, 99¢/lb
Organic apples: Braeburn, Cameo, Fuji, 3 lb bag, 2/$5
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 88¢/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.49/lb
“Cuties” clementines, 5 lb box, $2.99
Ataulfo mangos, 49¢ ea
Mini watermelons, 2/$5
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$5
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$4
Organic vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Eggplant, 99¢ ea
Leaf lettuce, green or red, 99¢ ea
Cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Mark's Daily Apple has a lot of good things this week: a recipe for “Chicken With Buttery Caper Sauce” that looks absolutely delicious if you're into capers. It would be easy to cut down the four tablespoons of oil – even if you only reduced it to three, it's a four-serving recipe so that would be your two Healthy Oils for the day in one serving. Also how to make turkey jerky, a recipe which I wish could have been posted before the cold weather broke as it involves leaving the oven at 200ºF for “six to ten hours”, and what are claimed to be “10 Full Body Workouts You Can Do in 10 Minutes Flat”. Well … maybe. For certain values of “you”.
Summer Tomato has a good piece on how to overcome “texture issues” in food, and one on “10 Tasty Carbs That Won't Make You Fat” including fruit, beans, quinoa, and wine. And at Grist, just for fun, they link to a series of vintage McDonald's menus! Back in 1953 you got a side order of adjective with every item you ordered: choices on that year's “McDonald's Amazing Menu” include the “Tempting Cheeseburger”, “Thirst-Quenching Coke”, and “Delightful Root Beer”. Before that, at “McDonald's Bar-B-Q” back in 1940, hamburgers weren't really even a thing: their primary menu item was “Our Famous Barbecued Beef, Ham, or Pork”, with “Aristocratic Hamburgers” (!!) an also-ran.
Recipes! Chow.com has tips for hosting your first Passover which might come in handy even if it's not your first, a nice set of Passover recipes, and a decidedly non-kosher recipe for asparagus wrapped in prosciutto and broiled. Also an Easter picnic prepared and served entirely in jars. Simply Recipes has pasta e fagioli, what I grew up calling “pasta fazool”, a thick pasta-beans-and-veg soup bordering on stew. Also how to clean leeks, and how to make leeks vinaigrette with them when you have. If you have any left, Sprouted Kitchen has a mushroom-millet-and-leek frittata. And Snack Girl has spaghetti squash, an
With National Frozen Food Month winding down, many stores are featuring strong promotions on frozen products. The 24th is National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day RAISINS ARE FRUIT AND FRUIT IS HEALTHY THAT'S MY STORY AND I'M STICKING TO IT.
March 20th: Bock Beer Day, National Ravioli Day
March 21st: National French Bread Day, California Strawberry Day
March 22nd: National Bavarian Crepes Day, National Coq au Vin Day
March 23rd: National Chips and Dip Day, National Melba Toast Day
March 24th: National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day FRUIT. FRUIT IS GOOD FOR YOU.
March 25th: National Lobster Newburg Day, National Pecan Day
March 26th: National Nougat Day, National Make Up Your Own Holiday Day (I hereby designate this date as Do Not Waste Points Day)
March 27th: National Paella Day
Albertson's:
Beef London broil, boneless, $2.77/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef crossrib or bottom round roasts, boneless, $3.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.59/lb (3 lbs or more)
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb (3 lbs or more)
Assorted pork chops, bone in, $1.59/lb
Pork loin chops, bone in, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.77/lb
Sanderson Farms cut-up chickens or bone-in chicken breast, jumbo pack, $1.49/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Tilapia/swai/catfish fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Rockfish OR Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Ahi tuna/swordfish/mahi mahi/sockeye salmon/cod loins, wild caught, 5 oz portions, $3.99
Atlantic salmon/steelhead/trout, farm raised, 5 oz portions, $3.99
Albertson's sour cream incl. Light, 16 oz tubs, $1.49
Land O Lakes butter, 2/$5
Tillamook cheeses, 8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, 2/$6
Deli: Charlie's Pride corned beef/Italian beef/beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
Stella Swiss/Provolone/Muenster cheeses, $5.99/lb
Jennie-O “Honey Smoked” or “Oven Brown” turkey breast, $5.99/lb
Signature “Double Honey” ham, $5.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $5.99/lb
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 2/$5
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, $1.99 ea
Cuties clementines, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, $1/lb
Braeburn or Fuji apples, $1/lb
Whole cantaloupes, $1 ea
Blackberries, 6 oz box, $1
Roma tomatoes, $1l/b
Spinach, $1/bunch
Eggplant, $1 ea
Red bell peppers, $1 ea
Mini carrots, 1 lb bag, $1
Fresh Express bag salads, “Premium Romaine” or “Green & Crisp”, or spinach, $1
Cauliflower, $1/lb
Leeks, $1/lb
Bashas':
Beef New York strip, boneless, whole in bag, $3.99/lb
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round/sirloin tip steak or roast, boneless, buy 1 get 1 free
Ground beef round, fat content not listed, value pack, $3.49/lb
Assorted pork chops, value pack, $1.99/lb
Center cut pork chops, bone in, value pack, $2.99/lb
Sanderson Farms whole frying chickens, 99¢/lb
Bashas' chicken leg quarters, bone in, value pack, 99¢/lb
Steelhead fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb “weather permitting”
Land O Lakes butter, $2.49
Sargento cheeses, 5-6 oz shreds or shingle, $2.88
Nature's Own “WhiteWheat” bread, 20 oz long loaves, 2/$5
Ranch Style beans, 15 oz cans, 88¢
Del Monte pasta sauces, 26 oz cans, 88¢
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz cans, 2/$4
Barilla lasagne or manicotti, 2/$4
Ro*tel tomatoes, 4/$5
Fuji apples, 77¢/lb
Green seedless grapes, 97¢/lb
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Yellow nectarines, red or black plums, $1.99/lb
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
90/10 ground beef sirloin, $3.99/lb
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, family pack, $1.99/lb
Foster Farms whole frying chickens, 99¢/lb
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.97/lb
Kroger frozen turkeys, 99¢/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Fry's milk, gallons, $1.79
Fry's eggs, AA large, 18 ct, $1.88
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $1.99
Kroger butter, $2.29
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Philadelphia cream cheese, 8 oz brick, 2/$3
Nature Valley granola bars, 6 ct, $2.99
Kroger OR Birds Eye frozen veg, 9-12 oz pkg, 10.$10
Green seedless grapes, 99¢/lb
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Bananas, 49¢/lb
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Mini sweet peppers, 2 lb bag, $3.99
Organic zucchini, $1.49/lb
Safeway:
Beef London broil, boneless, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef top round roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $3.29/lb (regular pack, 50¢/lb higher)
Pork shoulder blade steak, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, value pack, $3.49/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $2.99/lb
Open Nature whole chickens, $1.99/lb
Swai fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Atlantic salmon whole fillets, farm raised, value pack, $7.99/lb (cut fillets, $1/lb higher)
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Lucerne cheeses, 8 oz shingle, $2.49
Lucerne cream cheese, 8 oz brick, $1.49
Lucerne eggs, AA large, 60 ct, $7.99 – for your Easter-egg roll
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, 4/$5
Francesco Rinaldi pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, 4/$5
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 5/$5
Safeway solid white albacore tuna, 4/$5
Del Monte stewed or diced tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 10/$10
Pam cooking spray, 5-6 oz spray cans, $2.79
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 5/$10
Smart Ones frozen breakfasts, 4/$10
Gorton's “Grilled Fillets”, $3.99
Fuji or Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Green seedless grapes, $1.99/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Ataulfo mangos, 99¢ ea
Vine tomatoes, AZ grown, $2.99/lb
Zucchini OR yellow squash, $1.49/lb
Organic cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Sprouts:
Everything frozen you can fit into the sale bag, 20% off
Beef rib roast or steak, bone in, $5.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Sprouts spiral sliced ham, $1.99/lb
Pork loin chops or roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Whole/split/cut up chickens, $1.59/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Corvina sea bass fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $10.99/lb
Apples: Ambrosia, Cameo, Braeburn, 99¢/lb
Organic apples: Braeburn, Cameo, Fuji, 3 lb bag, 2/$5
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 88¢/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, $1.49/lb
“Cuties” clementines, 5 lb box, $2.99
Ataulfo mangos, 49¢ ea
Mini watermelons, 2/$5
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$5
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$4
Organic vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Eggplant, 99¢ ea
Leaf lettuce, green or red, 99¢ ea
Cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Wren's bargain guide, week beginning March 13th:
At Fooducate, I see where supermarket chains are hiring registered dietitians to help shoppers make healthier food choices. I can see the logic: they'd far rather you switch from brand A to brand B in the same store than go to another store. Yoni Freedhoff, at Weighty Matters, has a link to a really disturbing documentary about Dana, an eight-year-old child with anorexia nervosa: the director of the residential center where Dana is treated reports that they're getting a distressing number of clients under 10 years old. And Marion Nestle at Food Politics has some interesting takes on the (recently tossed) NYC ban on soft drinks over 16 ounces. (She points out that in the 1950s, a 16-ounce drink was a lot – Coca-Cola's then-new “big 16 oz size” was advertised as serving three people.)
A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that the oft-repeated “turn off the TV during dinner” rule might have a very tangible reason for helping with weight loss: if you're not distracted from your meal, you remember it better and this can seriously influence your later eating.
A company in Germany has introduced a new product called Food Finish, an edible metallic-toned spray paint available in red, blue, silver, and gold. It's available for online purchase at €25 per can, or about US$32. The article is illustrated with lovely photographs of silver apples and blue strawberries, raising the inevitable question “In God's name, why?”
At Lifehacker, we learn (as if we haven't already been told) that walking through the day is as important as formalized “exercise” to our health. In one study, people watching television increased their steps-per-day by about 3000 simply by marching in place during the commercials!
Recipes! Chow's gone all Irish, or sort of, with boxty, beef braised in Guinness, cabbage recipes, something called Velvetbomb Punch, and how to pour a Black & Tan. Simply Recipes has another beef-and-Guinness-stew recipe, along with pork chops with cabbage, oatmeal soda bread, and may God help us green mashed potatoes. And from Sprouted Kitchen, some nice multigrain waffles.
Tomorrow is 3/14, National Pi Day, so bake a pi.
March 13th: National Coconut Torte Day
March 14th: National Pi Day, National Potato Chip Day
March 15th: National Poires belle Hélène Day; 1980, McDonald's test-market a new product called "Chicken McNuggets". They are wildly popular, possibly because diners do not realize that McNuggets at the time are fried in a mixture of 7% vegetable oil and 93% rendered beef fat. They are now cooked in vegetable oil laced with beef flavoring, but still carry a good deal of fat
March 16th: National Artichoke Hearts Day
March 17th: National Corned Beef and Cabbage Day, National Green Beer Day
March 18th: National Lacy Oatmeal Cookie Day
March 19th: National Chocolate Caramel Day
March 20th: Bock Beer Day, National Ravioli Day
And if you're interested in this, you'd better put your mail order in early: Mercer's Dairy, in Wilmington, North Carolina, has introduced a wine ice-cream. This is not a wine flavored ice-cream: it comes in six flavors, including chocolate cabernet and raspberry chardonnay, and is five percent alcohol. This could conceivably revolutionize breakups.
Albertson's:
Beef chuck, crossrib, bottom/eye round, sirloin tip roasts, boneless, 50% off
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
John Morrell corned beef, flat cut, $2.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.99/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork loin chops, center cut, bone in, $2.99/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken breast/drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, jumbo pack, 99¢/lb
Unbranded (store) boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.99/lb
Great American tilapia fillets, 1 lb IQF, buy 1 get 3 free
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.79
Essential Everyday cheese, 8 oz shreds, 2/$5
Essential Everyday cheese, 8 oz shingle pack, $2.99
Deli: Jennie-O “Oven Roasted” turkey breast, $4.99/lb
Signature Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Charlie's Pride corned beef or beef pastrami, $5.99/lb
Stella Swiss cheese, $5.99/lb
PictSweet “Steamables” frozen veg, 10 oz pkg, $1
Seedless grapes, green or red, $1.47/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $2.99
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, $2.99
Fuji or Braeburn apples, $1/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Green cabbage, 49¢/lb
Endive OR escarole, 99¢/bunch
Chayote squash, 79¢ ea
Plaintains, 59¢/lb
Fresh Express bag salads, 2/$5
Bashas':
Skylark corned beef brisket, point cut, $1.79/lb (flat cut, $3.29/lb)
Beef London broil, value pack, $2.99/lb
Beef top round roast, $2.99/lb
Beef tenderloin, whole in bag, $7.99/lb
Ground beef round, fat content not listed, value pack, $1.97/lb
Pork shoulder steak, value pack, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms boneless skinless chicken breast, buy 1 get 2 free
Catfish fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
True cod fillets, $5.99/lb “weather permitting”
All Shamrock Farms dairy, 50% off
Food Club butter, 2/$5
Tillamook cheeses, 1 lb chunk or 12 oz slices, $4.88
Bumble bee solid white albacore tuna, $1.99
S&W variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 69¢
Nature Valley granola bars, 12 ct, 2/$5
Nature's Own bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.99
MorningStar Farms frozen entrées, $3.99
Apples: Fuji, Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Asparagus, $1.37/lb
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, 2/$4
Green bell peppers, 2/$1 (red or gold, 10/$10)
Cilantro OR green onions, 2 bunches/$1
Fry's:
Beef roasts: sirloin tip, top/bottom/eye round, chuck, shoulder, all 50% off
Beef t-bone steaks, $7.99/lb
Beef flat iron steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $3.29/lb (3 lb chub)
All fresh pork, buy 1 get 1 free (like item)
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.79/lb
True cod OR Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Atlantic salmon, 5 oz portions, $3.49 ea
Kroger cheeses, 12-16 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $2.99
Land O Lakes butter, 2/$5
Del Monte tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 10/$10
Kroger fruit, 15 oz cans, 10/$10
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 5/$10
Cantaloupe, 88¢ ea
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Green seedless grapes, $1.99/lb
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢ ea
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Organic “mini peeled” carrots, 2/$3
Simple Truth organic bag salads, $2.99
Safeway:
Beef NY strip steak, bone in, value pack, $5.99/lb (boneless $2/lb higher)
Corned beef brisket, flat cut, $2.99/lb
Beef chuck pot roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
Beef round tip roast, $3.99/lb
Beef bottom round steak, thin cut boneless, $3.99/lb
90/10 ground beef, value pack, $3.29/lb
Pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $2.49/lb
Pork sirloin chops OR country style ribs, boneless, value pack, $1.69/lb
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, $2.49/lb
Atlantic salmon whole fillets, farm raised, value pack, $8.99/lb (cut up, 50¢/lb higher)
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $6.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Nabisco snack crackers (Wheat Thins, Triscuits), 2/$5
Safeway Kitchens breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $1.99
Bumble Bee chunk white or chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Safeway Kitchens tomatoes or tomato sauce, 14-15 oz cans, 79¢
Ragu pasta sauces, 16-24 oz jars, $1.79
Gorton's frozen “Grilled Fillets”, $3.49 (PointsPlus 1 per serving, 2 for the whole box)
Lean Cuisine frozen entrées, 5/$10
Kashi frozen waffles, 10 oz boxes, 2/$6
MorningStar Farms veggie-sausage products, 5-14 oz boxes, $2.99
Smart Ones frozen breakfasts, 4/$10
Kashi frozen entrées, 2/$7
Green Giant frozen veg, 7-10 oz boxes, $1.99
Birds Eye “SteamFresh” or C&W frozen veg, 10-16 oz bags, buy 2 get 2 free
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $1.48
Green or red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Fuji or Red Delicious apples, $1.49/lb
Organic grapefruit, AZ grown, 99¢ ea
Campari tomatoes, AZ grown, 1 lb pkg, buy 1 get 1 free
“Texas 1015” sweet yellow onions, $1.49/lb
Red/yellow/orange bell peppers, 10/$10
Fresh Express OR Safeway Farms bag salads, 2/$5
Sprouts:
Beef rump roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Shenson's corned beef brisket or round, $2.99
“Grass-fed organic” ground beef, fat content not listed, $6.99/lb (oooooooookay)
All pork or chicken sausage, $2.99/lb
Corvina (it's a fish, beyond that I know not) fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Atlantic salmon steaks, bone in, $6.99/lb
Calamari steaks, $6.99/lb (I do not eat anything smart enough to figure out how to open a jar)
Green seedless grapes, 99¢/lb
Bartlett pears, 99¢/lb
Organic Bartlett pears, 2 lbs/$3
Apples: Braeburn, Fuji, Jonagold, 99¢/lb
Organic apples: Cameo, Braeburn, Fuji, 4 lbs/$5
Organic Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Roma or slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$4
Asparagus, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green or red, OR spinach, 99¢/bunch
Organic green or Lacinato kale, 2 bunches/$3
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Wren's bargain guide, week beginning March 6th:
The Fooducators (Fooducaties?) are decidedly of two minds about the recent study linking the Mediterranean diet to a decreased risk of heart disease. There are confounding variables that are rarely mentioned in the news coverage: the population, geography, the use of a low-fat variant on the Medi diet. But eating more fruits and veg and less red meat has to be healthy. They've also got a two-parter on the differences between junk foods sold in the US and the same junk foods formulated for the international market, and “10 Reasons to Quit Soft Drinks”. (I freely admit they haven't yet come up with a reason that overrides my helpless addiction to caffeine.)
Speaking of soft drinks, a recent study concluded that American women are getting fat because we don't do enough work around the house. Guess what? That study was funded by the Coca-Cola company. Or as Grist phrased it, “Suddenly the frantic flailing for any bull**** , sexist, non-soda-related explanation for U.S. average weight gain makes a lot more sense.” Food Politics has a comprehensive and comprehensible exploration of the European horsemeat-in-the-hamburger scandal. Summer Tomato has 9 ways to eat more mindfully, 6 things to consider before buying a juicer (including the warning that even vegetable juicing is “an incredibly efficient way to take in calories”), and “The Tastiest, Easiest, Healthiest Bean Salad on the Planet” (“This is not one of those nasty 3-bean salads your well-meaning aunt brings to barbecues”).
SuperTaster at Chow.com offers his video review of Girl Scout cookies. The “perennial classic, the Thin Mint” left him, he says, “underwhelmed: not a lot of chocolate flavor, only a little bit of mint flavor. Kind of a boring little cookie, but I did finish it. Then I finished a couple more. Then some time went by and, um, I kind of finished the sleeve.” (None of us would ever do such a thing.)
Recipes! Chow.com has an easy rice pilaf – done with white rice, but a little experimentation would make it brown-rice-compatible – and How To Make Your Own Corned Beef And Cabbage. Also homemade lemon curd, good for this time of year. Simply Recipes has chicken cacciatore, sole piccata (“with a sauce of white wine, lemon juice, capers, parsley and butter” – mmmm), and a Provençal salad of endive and anchovies. Snack Girl offers a vegetarian enchilada casserole at 6 PointsPlus per serving, affordable superfoods, how to make your morning oatmeal the night before (in the slow cooker), and a snarky review of the new Special K “Breakfast Sandwiches”.
In the US it's National School Breakfast Week, in the UK Spam Appreciation Week. (“Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam!”)
March 6th: National Frozen Food Day, National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day
March 7th: National Crown Roast of Pork Day
March 8th: National Peanut Cluster Day
March 9th: National Crabmeat Day, National Meatball Day
March 10th: National Blueberry Popover Day, National Pack Your Lunch Day
March 11th: Oatmeal-Nut Waffles Day
March 12th: National Baked Scallops Day
March 13th: Coconut Torte Day
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef crossrib/bottom round/sirloin tip roasts, boneless, $3.99/lb
John Morrell corned beef, flat cut, $3.49/lb
Tri tip roast OR top sirloin steaks, boneless, $4.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork half loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.88/lb
Pork sirloin chips, boneless, $1.88/lb
Pork shoulder picnic roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.29/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken parts, tray pack, buy 1 get 1 free (same item)
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Rockfish/mahi mahi/Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Deli: Signature “double honey” or baked ham, $5.99/lb
Margherita hard/Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $5.99/lb
Deli Fresh Provolone/pepperjack/Muenster/mild Cheddar, $5.99/lb
Stella Swiss cheese, $6.99/lb
Charlie's Pride regular or Italian roast beef, $6.99/lb
Bertolli pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, $1.99
10% off all the frozen food you can fit into the bag (up to 3 bags per trip)
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, $2.49 even out of the bag
“Cuties” clementines, 3 lb bag, $1.97
Jonagold apples, 99¢/lb
Cantaloupe, 2/$5
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, $1.99
Iceberg, $1.29 ea
Bashas':
Beef chuck roast, bone in, value pack, $1.88/lb
Beef t-bone or boneless New York steaks, $9.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast or steaks, $2.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, value pack, $3.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $3.49/lb
Center cut pork chops, boneless, $3.99/lb
Bashas' chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, 10 lbs/$10
Steelhead, 5 oz portions, buy 1 get 2 free
Rockfish fillets, $5.99/lb “weather permitting”
Corvina sea bass fillets, $7.99/lb
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Bashas' “Homestyle” bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.49
Nature's Own “100% whole wheat” bread, 20 oz long loaves, $2.29
Food Club fruit, 15 oz cans, 99¢
Bush's variety (non-baked) beans, 99¢/lb
Ragu pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, 2/$4
Bananas, 39¢/lb
Fuji or Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Organic Fuji apples, 2 lbs/$3
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Roma or slicing tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, 2/$4
Organic grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, 2/$4
Fresh green beans, 77¢/lb
Fry's:
Kroger corned-beef brisket, flat cut boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
Beef chuck OR crossrib roast, $4.69/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (2 lb chub)
Pork shoulder, whole in bag, $1.29/lb
Pork loin chops, center cut boneless, $3.99/lb
Entire line of Foster Farms chicken buy 1 get 1 free (like item)
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, 2.5 lb IQF bag, $9.99
Fry's milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Land O Lakes butter, 2/$5
Kraft or Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz chunk or shreds, 2/$5
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 5/$10
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Mini seedless watermelons, 99¢ ea
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Green or red seedless grapes, $2.49
Asparagus, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢ ea
“Mini peeled” carrots, AZ grown, 1 lb bag, 99¢
Safeway:
Beef chuck pot roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Safeway corned-beef brisket, point cut, $1.79/lb (flat, $2.99/lb)
“Assorted” pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb
Whole pork tenderloin, boneless, whole in bag, $4.99/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, value pack, 99¢/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, whole side of a fish, value pack, $6.99/lb (cut up, $1/lb higher)
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Swai fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Swordfish steaks, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Safeway Kitchens “Crushed Wheat” or “100% Whole Wheat” bread, $1.99
Healthy Choice “Bakes”, 5/$10
Pacific Rose apples, $1.99/lb
Cantaloupes 2/$5
“Texas Ruby Red” grapefruit, 88¢ ea
Vine tomatoes, $1.49/lb
Green or red bell peppers, 99¢ ea
Kale, $1.49/bunch
Broccoli crowns, AZ grown, $1.49/lb
“Baby-cut” carrots, AZ grown, 1 lb bag, 2/$3
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, AZ grown, $1.49 ea
Sprouts:
Beef for stew OR carne asada, “extra lean”, $3.99/lb
Beef London broil, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef sirloin, $4.99
Pork baby back ribs, $3.99/lb
Pork sirloin roast or chops, boneless, OR ground pork, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $2.99/lb
Swordfish OR Ahi tuna steaks, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $2.99
Fuji or Jonagold apples, 88¢/lb
Organic Fuji/Braeburn/Cameo/Red Delicious apples, 4 lbs/$5
Organic D'Anjou pears, 2 lbs/$3
Organic Valencia oranges, 2/$5
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
“Texas Rio Red” grapefruit, 88¢ ea
Green or red seedless grapes, $1.88/lb
Roma or slicing tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Green or red bell peppers, 3/$1
Yellow or orange bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$3
Broccoli crowns, 2 lbs/$3
Speaking of soft drinks, a recent study concluded that American women are getting fat because we don't do enough work around the house. Guess what? That study was funded by the Coca-Cola company. Or as Grist phrased it, “Suddenly the frantic flailing for any bull**** , sexist, non-soda-related explanation for U.S. average weight gain makes a lot more sense.” Food Politics has a comprehensive and comprehensible exploration of the European horsemeat-in-the-hamburger scandal. Summer Tomato has 9 ways to eat more mindfully, 6 things to consider before buying a juicer (including the warning that even vegetable juicing is “an incredibly efficient way to take in calories”), and “The Tastiest, Easiest, Healthiest Bean Salad on the Planet” (“This is not one of those nasty 3-bean salads your well-meaning aunt brings to barbecues”).
SuperTaster at Chow.com offers his video review of Girl Scout cookies. The “perennial classic, the Thin Mint” left him, he says, “underwhelmed: not a lot of chocolate flavor, only a little bit of mint flavor. Kind of a boring little cookie, but I did finish it. Then I finished a couple more. Then some time went by and, um, I kind of finished the sleeve.” (None of us would ever do such a thing.)
Recipes! Chow.com has an easy rice pilaf – done with white rice, but a little experimentation would make it brown-rice-compatible – and How To Make Your Own Corned Beef And Cabbage. Also homemade lemon curd, good for this time of year. Simply Recipes has chicken cacciatore, sole piccata (“with a sauce of white wine, lemon juice, capers, parsley and butter” – mmmm), and a Provençal salad of endive and anchovies. Snack Girl offers a vegetarian enchilada casserole at 6 PointsPlus per serving, affordable superfoods, how to make your morning oatmeal the night before (in the slow cooker), and a snarky review of the new Special K “Breakfast Sandwiches”.
In the US it's National School Breakfast Week, in the UK Spam Appreciation Week. (“Lovely Spam! Wonderful Spam!”)
March 6th: National Frozen Food Day, National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day
March 7th: National Crown Roast of Pork Day
March 8th: National Peanut Cluster Day
March 9th: National Crabmeat Day, National Meatball Day
March 10th: National Blueberry Popover Day, National Pack Your Lunch Day
March 11th: Oatmeal-Nut Waffles Day
March 12th: National Baked Scallops Day
March 13th: Coconut Torte Day
Albertson's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Beef crossrib/bottom round/sirloin tip roasts, boneless, $3.99/lb
John Morrell corned beef, flat cut, $3.49/lb
Tri tip roast OR top sirloin steaks, boneless, $4.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork half loin roast, boneless, whole in bag, $1.88/lb
Pork sirloin chips, boneless, $1.88/lb
Pork shoulder picnic roast, bone in, whole in bag, $1.29/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken parts, tray pack, buy 1 get 1 free (same item)
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Rockfish/mahi mahi/Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Deli: Signature “double honey” or baked ham, $5.99/lb
Margherita hard/Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $5.99/lb
Deli Fresh Provolone/pepperjack/Muenster/mild Cheddar, $5.99/lb
Stella Swiss cheese, $6.99/lb
Charlie's Pride regular or Italian roast beef, $6.99/lb
Bertolli pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, $1.99
10% off all the frozen food you can fit into the bag (up to 3 bags per trip)
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, $2.49 even out of the bag
“Cuties” clementines, 3 lb bag, $1.97
Jonagold apples, 99¢/lb
Cantaloupe, 2/$5
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, $1.99
Iceberg, $1.29 ea
Bashas':
Beef chuck roast, bone in, value pack, $1.88/lb
Beef t-bone or boneless New York steaks, $9.99/lb
Beef crossrib roast or steaks, $2.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, value pack, $3.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $3.49/lb
Center cut pork chops, boneless, $3.99/lb
Bashas' chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, 10 lbs/$10
Steelhead, 5 oz portions, buy 1 get 2 free
Rockfish fillets, $5.99/lb “weather permitting”
Corvina sea bass fillets, $7.99/lb
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Bashas' “Homestyle” bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $2.49
Nature's Own “100% whole wheat” bread, 20 oz long loaves, $2.29
Food Club fruit, 15 oz cans, 99¢
Bush's variety (non-baked) beans, 99¢/lb
Ragu pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, 2/$4
Bananas, 39¢/lb
Fuji or Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Organic Fuji apples, 2 lbs/$3
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Roma or slicing tomatoes, 77¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, 2/$4
Organic grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, 2/$4
Fresh green beans, 77¢/lb
Fry's:
Kroger corned-beef brisket, flat cut boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
Beef chuck OR crossrib roast, $4.69/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (2 lb chub)
Pork shoulder, whole in bag, $1.29/lb
Pork loin chops, center cut boneless, $3.99/lb
Entire line of Foster Farms chicken buy 1 get 1 free (like item)
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, 2.5 lb IQF bag, $9.99
Fry's milk, half gallons only, 88¢
Land O Lakes butter, 2/$5
Kraft or Sargento cheeses, 5-8 oz chunk or shreds, 2/$5
Healthy Choice frozen entrées, 5/$10
Apples: Fuji, Gala, Red/Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Mini seedless watermelons, 99¢ ea
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Green or red seedless grapes, $2.49
Asparagus, $1.99/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, OR iceberg, 99¢ ea
“Mini peeled” carrots, AZ grown, 1 lb bag, 99¢
Safeway:
Beef chuck pot roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Safeway corned-beef brisket, point cut, $1.79/lb (flat, $2.99/lb)
“Assorted” pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb
Whole pork tenderloin, boneless, whole in bag, $4.99/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, value pack, 99¢/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, whole side of a fish, value pack, $6.99/lb (cut up, $1/lb higher)
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Swai fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Swordfish steaks, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 10/$10
Safeway Kitchens “Crushed Wheat” or “100% Whole Wheat” bread, $1.99
Healthy Choice “Bakes”, 5/$10
Pacific Rose apples, $1.99/lb
Cantaloupes 2/$5
“Texas Ruby Red” grapefruit, 88¢ ea
Vine tomatoes, $1.49/lb
Green or red bell peppers, 99¢ ea
Kale, $1.49/bunch
Broccoli crowns, AZ grown, $1.49/lb
“Baby-cut” carrots, AZ grown, 1 lb bag, 2/$3
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, AZ grown, $1.49 ea
Sprouts:
Beef for stew OR carne asada, “extra lean”, $3.99/lb
Beef London broil, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef sirloin, $4.99
Pork baby back ribs, $3.99/lb
Pork sirloin roast or chops, boneless, OR ground pork, $2.99/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $2.99/lb
Swordfish OR Ahi tuna steaks, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $2.99
Fuji or Jonagold apples, 88¢/lb
Organic Fuji/Braeburn/Cameo/Red Delicious apples, 4 lbs/$5
Organic D'Anjou pears, 2 lbs/$3
Organic Valencia oranges, 2/$5
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
“Texas Rio Red” grapefruit, 88¢ ea
Green or red seedless grapes, $1.88/lb
Roma or slicing tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Leaf lettuce, green/red/Romaine, 88¢ ea
Green or red bell peppers, 3/$1
Yellow or orange bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 2/$3
Broccoli crowns, 2 lbs/$3
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Wren's bargain guide, week beginning February 27th:
Interesting stuff this week! From Grist: an interview with the author of Pandora's Lunchbox, which I mentioned in last week's blog entry and which I'm reading right now. Next in my queue is Michael Moss's Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. There's an excellent excerpt from it at the New York Times Magazine: “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food”.
Interesting pieces at Fooducate. According to the Centers for Disease Control, fast food accounts for eleven percent of the typical American's food intake. (On the good side, this is down from 13% in 2006.) Also a set of 11 “Must-Try Motivators” for exercise.
Recipes! Tons of stuff at Chow.com: how to use the drippings from a roast chicken (with an embedded video on how to roast it). A set of easy roasted- and baked-chicken recipes, another of chunky fruit and vegetable salads. Supertaster provides video reviews of the new seasonal codfish sandwiches from Hardee's and Wendy's, and another of the McDonald's Shamrock Shake: “supposedly St. Patrick's Day-themed, although there's very little evidence that the historical St. Patrick ever drank one of these.” Pasta carbonara with peas, easy and tasty, and how to make your own pastrami. Warning, the pastrami recipe includes smoking it inside the house and does not mention how to prevent the smoke-detector going off. Also I am leery of any recipe that includes a link to the online source for an essential ingredient not available at the supermarket. Nor does the note “Prep time: 1 hr 30 min, plus 10 days curing time and 9 hours smoking time” inspire any particular optimism. Your mileage, as always, may vary. Good luck.
More recipes! Sprouted Kitchen has Japanese soba noodles with kale and Brussels sprouts; Simply Recipes has a carrot-ginger soup and Brussels sprouts with a hoisin glaze and a sauté of spaghetti squash and chard; and just in time for the tail-end of blood orange season, Smitten Kitchen has blood orange margaritas. Save me one. Or two.
It's nearly March, which is among other things National Nutrition Month, Caffeine Awareness Month, National Meat-Out Month (coinciding with Lent), Maple Sugar Month (obvious), and National Frozen Food Month (the food companies want to unload last year's pack before the new crops come in, so they're encouraging frozen-food sales: good time to pick stuff up at decent prices). March 1st is National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day (no thanks) and National Fruit Compote Day (yes please, and far more PointsPlus-friendly).
February 27th: National Strawberry Day, National Kahlua Day
February 28th: National Chocolate Soufflé Day, National Chili Day
March 1st: National Peanut Butter Lovers' Day, National Fruit Compote Day; St David's Day
March 2nd: National Banana Cream Pie Day; 1962, first airing of the Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man"
March 3rd: National Cold Cuts Day, National Mulled Wine Day
March 4th: National Pound Cake Day; 1634, Boston, Samuel Cole opens the first tavern in what is to become the United States. (What took so long?)
March 5th: National Cheese Doodle Day, National Absinthe Day; 1910, Momofuku Ando born, inventor of ramen noodles
March 6th: National Frozen Food Day, National White Chocolate Cheesecake Day; 1912, Oreo cookies debut; 1930, retail frozen foods go on sale for the first time (Springfield, Massachusetts) but do not catch on until after the Second World War
Albertson's:
Beef ribeye or New York steaks, bone in, family pack, $6.99/lb
Beef London broil, boneless, $2.77/lb
Beef top sirloin steaks OR tri tip roast, boneless, $4.99/lb
Beef crossrib/chuck/bottom round/sirloin tip roasts, boneless, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $4.99/lb, buy 1 get 2 free
RedBird whole chickens, $1.99/lb
RedBird chicken thighs or drumsticks, bone in, $2.49/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Tilapia OR swai fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Atlantic salmon/rainbow trout/steelhead 5 oz portions, farm raised, $3.99 ea
Ahi tuna/sockeye salmon/mahi mahi/swordfish/Pacific cod 5 oz portions, wild caught, $3.99 ea
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.79
Yoplait yogurts, 20/$10
Tillamook cheeses, 2 lb block in wax, $8.99
Tillamook butter, $2.99
Hickman's eggs, AA medium, dozens, $1.39
Deli: Dietz & Watson turkey and cheeses, $7.99/lb
Jennie-O oven roasted turkey breast, $4.99/lb
USA Gold Virginia ham, $4.99/lb
Joseph Farms pepperjack/Colby/co-jack/mild Cheddar cheeses, $5.99/lb
Nabisco snack crackers, 5-10 oz boxes, $2.99
Musselman's applesauce, 6pk of singles, $2.99
Essential Everyday tomatoes or veg, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Strawberries, 3 lb flat, $3.99
Blackberries/raspberries/blueberries, 6 oz boxes, $2.99
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$5
Cut up strawberries, 20 oz bowl, $3.99
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Pacific Rose apples, $1.99/lb
Vine tomatoes, $1.99/lb
Cucumbers OR green bell peppers, 69¢ ea
Broccoli crowns OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Beets, 99¢/bunch
Bashas':
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $4.97/lb
Beef porterhouse steaks, value pack, $5.97/lb
Sirloin tip steak or roast, $4.49/lb
Ground beef sirloin, fat content not listed, $2.77/lb
Assorted pork chops, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb
Center cut pork chops, bone in, value pack, $3.49/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.67/lb
True cod fillets, $4.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Bashas' milk, gallons, $1.79
Food Club cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds, $1.88
Smart Balance spread, 15 oz, $2.99
Barilla pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, 4/$5
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 99¢
Full Circle olive oil, 17 oz bottles, $2.99
Green Giant frozen veggies, 10 oz boxes, 2/$3
Fuji or Braeburn apples, 99¢/lb
Red seedless grapes, $1.49/lb
Cantaloupe, 33¢/lb
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Bananas, 49¢/lb
“Texas Red” grapefruit, 69¢ ea
Vine tomatoes, 2 lbs/$3
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz punnet, 2/$4
Broccoli OR cauliflower, 99¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef roasts: bottom/top/eye round, sirloin tip, chuck, shoulder, 50% off
Beef NY strip steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb
Pork loin chops, center cut, family pack, $2.99/lb
Pork back ribs, $3.99/lb
Kroger boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.88/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Kroger swai or whiting fillets, $2.67/lb (3 lb frozen bag)
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle, $1.99
Chobani Greek yogurt, 6 oz cups, 88¢
Hunt's tomatoes, 14 oz cans, 88¢
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, 4/$5
Kroger frozen veggies, 9-12 oz pkg, 88¢
Green or red seedless grapes, $2.99/lb
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
Organic Gala or Fuji apples, $1.49/lb
Bananas, 57¢/lb
“Mini peeled” carrots, AZ grown, 1 lb bag, 88¢
Safeway:
Beef ribeye steak, bone in, value pack, $5.99/lb (boneless $1/lb higher)
Beef bottom round roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steak, boneless, value pack, $5.49/lb
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $3.89/lb
90/10 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Whole pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.99/lb
Pork shoulder country style ribs, bone in, $2.49/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken thighs/drumsticks, bone in, $1.69/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Atlantic salmon whole fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb (cut fillets, 50¢/lb higher)
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79
Classico pasta sauces, 15-24 oz jars, 2/$4
Safeway Kitchens canned veg, 14-15 oz, 79¢
Safeway Kitchen canned fruit, 14-15 oz, 89¢
Bush's Best variety (non-baked) beans, 15-16 oz, 5/$5
Safeway Kitchens variety breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $1.99
Healthy Choice frozen entrees, 5/$10
Smart Ones frozen breakfasts, 4/$10
Morningstar Farms veggie-sausage products, $2.99
Kashi frozen entrees, 2/$7
Birds Eye “SteamFresh” frozen veg, buy 2 get 2 free
Weight Watchers ice-cream novelties, 6-12 ct, $3.99
Navel oranges, 79¢/lb
Red seedless grapes, $1.99/lb
Fuji or Red Delicious apples, $1.49/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, $2.99
Organic bananas, 69¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, $2.49/lb
Fresh Express OR Safeway Farms bag salads, 2/$5
“Baby-cut” carrots, 2 lb bag, 2/$5
Red/yellow/orange bell peppers, 10/$10
Sweet mini peppers, 2 lb bag, $3.99
Sprouts:
“100% Organic Grass-Fed Ground Beef,” fat content not listed, $4.99/lb
Beef ribeye or NY steaks, boneless, $9.99/lb
Pork loin roast, center cut, boneless, $1.99/lb
Pork shoulder roast or country-style ribs, boneless, $1.99/lb
Whole/split/cut-up chickens, $1.59/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, $4.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Albacore tuna steaks, wild caught, $9.99/lb
Pirate's Booty, buy 1 get 1 free
Braeburn or Fuji apples, 88¢/lb
D'Anjou pears, 88¢/lb
Navel oranges, 10¢/lb
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $4.99
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, 2 lbs/$5
Whole pineapples, 2/$5
Blackberries, 5 oz boxes, 99¢
Organic Cameo apples, 3 lb bag, $2.99
Organic Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Eggplant, 88¢ ea
Leaf lettuce, green or red, 88¢ ea
Green or red bell peppers, 3/$1
Yellow or orange bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Sorry, all --
I can't make tonight's meeting, but here are the bargains.
PepsiCo is introducing a new Mountain Dew breakfast drink, “Kickstart” – “orange citrus” and “fruit punch” flavors, carbonation, 5% juice (just enough that they can legally label it a “juice drink”), ester of wood rosin, and more caffeine than Mountain Dew itself although less than most energy drinks. Just in case you needed soda pop for breakfast. I will stick with my morning cup of tea thank you.
Two interesting articles at Fooducate touch on what they call “Misadventures in Labeling”: one is specifically about a brand of gluten-free granola with some very inventive material on the “Nutrition Facts” label (salted cashews as an ingredient, but “no sodium”?), the other a cautionary tale about calorie counting. Did you know that calorie information on food labels must be accurate ... with a 20% margin of error? Good thing WW doesn't work from calories any more, because a “500-calorie serving” that actually contained 600 calories could throw Points Classic counts way off.
Speaking of mislabeling, Marion Nestle at Food Politics has an article – with a link to another at the Guardian – on the “horsemeat scandal” in Europe, how horsemeat got into the hamburgers, and how this connects to food laws (and cultural identity) in the US. Over at Weighty Matters there's a fascinating review of Melanie Warner's new book, Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal. Any book by an author who collects processed food (“9 month old only slightly brown around the edges guacamole … cereals older than 2 of my children that still look and taste like new … chicken 'nuggets' that rather than being immortal, liquefied within ten days”) cannot fail to entertain.
Recipes! Snack Girl has a cherry tomato gratinée, and a healthy makeover of jalapeño poppers. Smitten Kitchen provides Italian stuffed cabbage leaves; Simply Recipes has refried black beans, pasta puttanesca, and something regrettably titled “celery root mash” which must be better than it sounds. And Chow.com is piling things on, as always: healthy fish tacos, whole-grain salads, elegant – not to say pretentious – refreshments for your Oscar party (really, now: smoked-salmon-crème-fraîche-and-caviar potato skins?), stews for chilly nights, making your own Girl Scout cookies, and 7 things to do with I swear I could not make this up this is a real thing in the world bacon jam.
The 23rd of this month is both National Banana Bread Day and Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day. Perhaps I'm insufficiently appreciative, but as a dog owner I've tried several different dog biscuits and never found one that was a patch on a decent banana bread.
February 20th: National Cherry Pie Day; 1829, D.G. Yuengling (formerly Jüngling) opens a brewery in Pennsylvania. It's still open, oldest continuously operating brewery in the US
February 21st: National Sticky Bun Day
February 22nd: National Margarita Day
February 23rd: National Banana Bread Day, Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day; World Sword Swallowers' Day, so head out to the Renaissance Faire and say hello to Thom Sellectomy!
February 24th: National Tortilla Chip Day
February 25th: National Clam Chowder Day, National Chocolate Covered Peanuts Day
February 26th: National Pistachio Day; 1852, John Harvey Kellogg born (opened the Battle Creek Sanitarium; his brother Will Keith invented cornflakes)
February 27th: National Strawberry Day, National Kahlua Day
Albertson's:
Beef New York or top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $4.97/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef chuck or bottom round roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, $1.99/lb (3 lbs or more)
85/15 ground beef, $2.49/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.99/lb
Assorted pork chops, $1.57/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.67/lb
Ahi tuna/mahi mahi/swordfish/sockeye salmon/cod loins, wild caught, 5 oz portions, $3.99
Atlantic salmon/trouth/steelhead, farm raised, 5 oz portions, $3.99 ea
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.79
Kraft cheeses, 7-8 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
Essential Everday cheeses, 8 oz chunk, $1.99
Deli: 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
USA Gold honey or baked ham, $5.99/lb
Stella Swiss/Provolone/Muenster, $5.99/lb
Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, $1
Essential Everyday pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, $1
Hunt's diced tomatoes, 14 oz cans, $1
Ro*tel tomatoes, $1
PictSweet “Steam'ables” frozen veg, 10 oz pkg, $1
Bonne Maman fruit preserves, 13 oz jars, 2/$7
StarKist chunk light tuna, $1
Weight Watchers ice-cream singles, 5-6 oz, $1
Fuji apples, $1/lb
Navel oranges, $1/lb
Seedless grapes, green or red, $2.99/lb
Blood oranges, $1.49/lb
Kiwifruit, 2/$1
“Cuties” clementines, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, $1
Large hothouse tomatoes, $1.59/lb
Asparagus, 87¢/lb
English cucumbers, $1 ea
Red/yellow/orange bell peppers, $1 ea
Earthbound Farms organic bag salads, 5 oz, 2/$5
Baby bok choy, 99¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round/sirloin tip steak or roast, boneless, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $6.99/lb
Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.88/lb, cut & wrapped free
Center cut pork roast or chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Chicken breast or leg quarters, bone in, 97¢/lb
Flounder fillets, $1.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, $2.99/lb
True cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb “weather permitting”
Steelhead fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Bashas' eggs, AA large, dozens, 99¢
Bashas' “Homestyle” bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $1.99
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 69¢/lb
Kellogg's Nutri-Grain OR Fiber Plus bars, 2/$5
Pompeian olive oil, 16 oz bottles, $3.99
Flav-R-Pac frozen veg, 12-16 oz pkg, 5/$5
Trident salmon/cod/tilapia, 11 oz frozen boxes, $3.99
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$3
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Yellow peaches or nectarines, red plums, black plums, $1.99/lb
Apples: Fuji, Ambrosia, Braeburn, Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Broccoli, 99¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (2 lb chub)
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.97/lb
Pork loin chops, boneless, family pack, $2.99
Cook's ham steaks, bone in, $3.99
Kroger chicken thighs/drumsticks, bone in, 98¢/lb
Kroger 85/15 ground turkey, $2.99/lb (3 lb pkg)
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.97/lb
Fry's milk, gallons, $1.79
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle pack, $1.99
Kraft cheeses, 7-8 oz chunk or shreds, 2/$5
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 79¢
Smart Ones frozen entrees, $1.88
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $1.28
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
Bananas, 57¢/lb
Mangoes, 88¢ ea
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Cauliflower, 88¢/lb
Mini sweet peppers, 2 lb bag, $3.99
Safeway:
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $2.49
Beef ribeye or NY strip steaks, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steak, boneless, value pack, $5.49/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $3.29/lb
Pork sirloin country style ribs, boneless, value pack, $1.49/lb
Pork top loin chops, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Jennie-O Turkey Store 85/15 ground turkey, 3 lb pkg, $7.99
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Atlantic salmon filllets, farm raised, value pack, $5.99/lb
Safeway Kitchens yellowfin sole fillets, 24 oz pkg, $8.49
Land O Lakes butter, $3.49
Safeway Kitchens breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $1.99
Star olive oil, 25 oz bottles, buy 1 get 1 free
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, 2/$4
Safeway chunk light tuna, 99¢
Lucerne or Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99
Fuji or Red Delicious apples, OR D'Anjou pears, 88¢/lb
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$3
Blood or Cara Cara oranges, OR Minneola tangelos, $1.49/lb
Campari tomatoes, AZ grown, 1 lb box, $2.99
Broccoli OR cauliflower, $1.49/lb
Sprouts:
Beef rump roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef filet mignon steaks, “grass-fed”, $9.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Boneless chicken breast tenders, $1.99/lb
Turkey tenders OR ground turkey breast, $3.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Blueberries, dry pint, $1.88
Braeburn or Fuji apples, 88¢/lb
Organic apples, Braeburn/Fuji/Cameo, 4 lbs/$5
Organic D'Anjou pears, 2 lbs/$3
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $3.99
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
“Texas Rio Red” grapefruit, 88¢ ea
Organic Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, 2 lbs/$5
Large slicing tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Asparagus, 2 lbs/$5
Green or red bell peppers, 3/$1
Leaf lettuce, green or red, 88¢ ea
PepsiCo is introducing a new Mountain Dew breakfast drink, “Kickstart” – “orange citrus” and “fruit punch” flavors, carbonation, 5% juice (just enough that they can legally label it a “juice drink”), ester of wood rosin, and more caffeine than Mountain Dew itself although less than most energy drinks. Just in case you needed soda pop for breakfast. I will stick with my morning cup of tea thank you.
Two interesting articles at Fooducate touch on what they call “Misadventures in Labeling”: one is specifically about a brand of gluten-free granola with some very inventive material on the “Nutrition Facts” label (salted cashews as an ingredient, but “no sodium”?), the other a cautionary tale about calorie counting. Did you know that calorie information on food labels must be accurate ... with a 20% margin of error? Good thing WW doesn't work from calories any more, because a “500-calorie serving” that actually contained 600 calories could throw Points Classic counts way off.
Speaking of mislabeling, Marion Nestle at Food Politics has an article – with a link to another at the Guardian – on the “horsemeat scandal” in Europe, how horsemeat got into the hamburgers, and how this connects to food laws (and cultural identity) in the US. Over at Weighty Matters there's a fascinating review of Melanie Warner's new book, Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the American Meal. Any book by an author who collects processed food (“9 month old only slightly brown around the edges guacamole … cereals older than 2 of my children that still look and taste like new … chicken 'nuggets' that rather than being immortal, liquefied within ten days”) cannot fail to entertain.
Recipes! Snack Girl has a cherry tomato gratinée, and a healthy makeover of jalapeño poppers. Smitten Kitchen provides Italian stuffed cabbage leaves; Simply Recipes has refried black beans, pasta puttanesca, and something regrettably titled “celery root mash” which must be better than it sounds. And Chow.com is piling things on, as always: healthy fish tacos, whole-grain salads, elegant – not to say pretentious – refreshments for your Oscar party (really, now: smoked-salmon-crème-fraîche-and-caviar potato skins?), stews for chilly nights, making your own Girl Scout cookies, and 7 things to do with I swear I could not make this up this is a real thing in the world bacon jam.
The 23rd of this month is both National Banana Bread Day and Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day. Perhaps I'm insufficiently appreciative, but as a dog owner I've tried several different dog biscuits and never found one that was a patch on a decent banana bread.
February 20th: National Cherry Pie Day; 1829, D.G. Yuengling (formerly Jüngling) opens a brewery in Pennsylvania. It's still open, oldest continuously operating brewery in the US
February 21st: National Sticky Bun Day
February 22nd: National Margarita Day
February 23rd: National Banana Bread Day, Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day; World Sword Swallowers' Day, so head out to the Renaissance Faire and say hello to Thom Sellectomy!
February 24th: National Tortilla Chip Day
February 25th: National Clam Chowder Day, National Chocolate Covered Peanuts Day
February 26th: National Pistachio Day; 1852, John Harvey Kellogg born (opened the Battle Creek Sanitarium; his brother Will Keith invented cornflakes)
February 27th: National Strawberry Day, National Kahlua Day
Albertson's:
Beef New York or top sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $4.97/lb
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef chuck or bottom round roast, boneless, $3.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, $1.99/lb (3 lbs or more)
85/15 ground beef, $2.49/lb (3 lbs or more)
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, $1.99/lb
Assorted pork chops, $1.57/lb
Boneless skinless chicken breast, $1.67/lb
Ahi tuna/mahi mahi/swordfish/sockeye salmon/cod loins, wild caught, 5 oz portions, $3.99
Atlantic salmon/trouth/steelhead, farm raised, 5 oz portions, $3.99 ea
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.79
Kraft cheeses, 7-8 oz chunk or shreds, $2.99
Essential Everday cheeses, 8 oz chunk, $1.99
Deli: 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
USA Gold honey or baked ham, $5.99/lb
Stella Swiss/Provolone/Muenster, $5.99/lb
Hunt's pasta sauces, 24 oz cans, $1
Essential Everyday pasta, 12-16 oz boxes, $1
Hunt's diced tomatoes, 14 oz cans, $1
Ro*tel tomatoes, $1
PictSweet “Steam'ables” frozen veg, 10 oz pkg, $1
Bonne Maman fruit preserves, 13 oz jars, 2/$7
StarKist chunk light tuna, $1
Weight Watchers ice-cream singles, 5-6 oz, $1
Fuji apples, $1/lb
Navel oranges, $1/lb
Seedless grapes, green or red, $2.99/lb
Blood oranges, $1.49/lb
Kiwifruit, 2/$1
“Cuties” clementines, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Grape tomatoes, 12 oz box, $1
Large hothouse tomatoes, $1.59/lb
Asparagus, 87¢/lb
English cucumbers, $1 ea
Red/yellow/orange bell peppers, $1 ea
Earthbound Farms organic bag salads, 5 oz, 2/$5
Baby bok choy, 99¢/lb
Bashas':
Beef chuck/crossrib/bottom round/sirloin tip steak or roast, boneless, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $6.99/lb
Pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.88/lb, cut & wrapped free
Center cut pork roast or chops, boneless, $2.99/lb
Chicken breast or leg quarters, bone in, 97¢/lb
Flounder fillets, $1.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, $2.99/lb
True cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Dover sole fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb “weather permitting”
Steelhead fillets, farm raised, $6.99/lb
Bashas' eggs, AA large, dozens, 99¢
Bashas' “Homestyle” bread, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $1.99
Bumble Bee chunk light tuna, 69¢/lb
Kellogg's Nutri-Grain OR Fiber Plus bars, 2/$5
Pompeian olive oil, 16 oz bottles, $3.99
Flav-R-Pac frozen veg, 12-16 oz pkg, 5/$5
Trident salmon/cod/tilapia, 11 oz frozen boxes, $3.99
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$3
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Yellow peaches or nectarines, red plums, black plums, $1.99/lb
Apples: Fuji, Ambrosia, Braeburn, Golden Delicious, 99¢/lb
Vine tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Broccoli, 99¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef petite sirloin steaks, boneless, family pack, $3.99/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.99/lb (2 lb chub)
Half pork loin, boneless, whole in bag, $1.97/lb
Pork loin chops, boneless, family pack, $2.99
Cook's ham steaks, bone in, $3.99
Kroger chicken thighs/drumsticks, bone in, 98¢/lb
Kroger 85/15 ground turkey, $2.99/lb (3 lb pkg)
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.97/lb
Fry's milk, gallons, $1.79
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk/shreds/shingle pack, $1.99
Kraft cheeses, 7-8 oz chunk or shreds, 2/$5
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 79¢
Smart Ones frozen entrees, $1.88
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $1.28
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, 2/$5
Bananas, 57¢/lb
Mangoes, 88¢ ea
Roma tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Cauliflower, 88¢/lb
Mini sweet peppers, 2 lb bag, $3.99
Safeway:
Beef chuck crossrib roast, boneless, $2.49
Beef ribeye or NY strip steaks, bone in, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef top sirloin steak, boneless, value pack, $5.49/lb
93/7 ground beef, value pack, $3.29/lb
Pork sirloin country style ribs, boneless, value pack, $1.49/lb
Pork top loin chops, boneless, value pack, $3.99/lb
Jennie-O Turkey Store 85/15 ground turkey, 3 lb pkg, $7.99
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Atlantic salmon filllets, farm raised, value pack, $5.99/lb
Safeway Kitchens yellowfin sole fillets, 24 oz pkg, $8.49
Land O Lakes butter, $3.49
Safeway Kitchens breads, 24 oz wide-pan loaves, $1.99
Star olive oil, 25 oz bottles, buy 1 get 1 free
Prego pasta sauces, 23-24 oz jars, 2/$4
Safeway chunk light tuna, 99¢
Lucerne or Open Nature cheeses, 24-32 oz chunk or shreds, $6.99
Fuji or Red Delicious apples, OR D'Anjou pears, 88¢/lb
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$3
Blood or Cara Cara oranges, OR Minneola tangelos, $1.49/lb
Campari tomatoes, AZ grown, 1 lb box, $2.99
Broccoli OR cauliflower, $1.49/lb
Sprouts:
Beef rump roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Beef filet mignon steaks, “grass-fed”, $9.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, value pack, $3.99/lb
Pork sirloin chops or roast, boneless, $2.99/lb
Boneless chicken breast tenders, $1.99/lb
Turkey tenders OR ground turkey breast, $3.99/lb
Alaskan cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $7.99/lb
Blueberries, dry pint, $1.88
Braeburn or Fuji apples, 88¢/lb
Organic apples, Braeburn/Fuji/Cameo, 4 lbs/$5
Organic D'Anjou pears, 2 lbs/$3
Cuties clementines, 5 lb box, $3.99
Navel oranges, 88¢/lb
“Texas Rio Red” grapefruit, 88¢ ea
Organic Red Delicious apples, 99¢/lb
Seedless grapes, green/red/black, 2 lbs/$5
Large slicing tomatoes, 88¢/lb
Asparagus, 2 lbs/$5
Green or red bell peppers, 3/$1
Leaf lettuce, green or red, 88¢ ea
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Wren's bargain guide, week beginning February 13th:
A couple of good ones at Fooducate this week, including “10 Easy Tips to Get You Drinking More Water” and a piece on why you should add chicken feet to your soup. (No hints on where to get chicken feet which I do not frequently see at Bashas' or even AJ's.)
Last week I forgot to mention Summer Tomato's entry on “10 Tips to Save Money While Eating Healthy”, so I'll mention it this week along with Darya's latest entries: one on “8 Simple Tips To Avoid Late Night Snacking”, another on “4 Cooking Mistakes You Learned From Your Parents (and how to fix them)”, and “5 Ideal Vegetables for Lazy Cooks”.
Recipes! For Valentine's Day Chow.com has a set of “classic Valentine's Day dishes”, heavy on truffles and chocolate, and a video tutorial on how to cut tomatoes into hearts. Because I just know you've always wanted to know how to do that. Less romantically but more practically they've also a set of healthy kale recipes, including a kale stroganoff I mean to try, and a video on making a teriyaki chicken “that isn't an overly sweet mess”. Simply Recipes has a chicken mango lettuce wrap, and Sprouted Kitchen has a dish involving delicata squash, kale, and fennel. And Snack Girl has a collection of lighter ways to enjoy chocolate, as well as something which she calls “Buffalo cauliflower”.
To absolutely no one's surprise, tomorrow, February 14th, is National Cream Filled Chocolates Day. The 18th is both the very specific National Crab-Stuffed Flounder Day and the remarkably inspecific Drink Wine Day, neither of which I will decline.
February 13th: National Tortellini Day
February 14th: National Cream Filled Chocolates Day
February 15th: International Gumdrop Day
February 16th: National Almond Day; 1933, Prohibition repealed!
February 17th: National Cafe au Lait Day, National Indian Pudding Day; Fornacalia, ancient Roman bread-oven festival (in honor of the hearth goddess Fornax)
February 18th: Drink Wine Day, National Crab-Stuffed Flounder Day
February 19th: National Chocolate Mint Day; 1855, bread riots in Liverpool
February 20th: National Cherry Pie Day
And I should mention that neither this blog nor the handout I print up for the meetings are official WW publications. No. God, no.
Albertson's:
Beef bottom round/crossrib roasts OR London broil, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef chuck roast or steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef t-bone or New York steaks, bone in, $7.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.59/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork sirloin chops or roast, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, jumbo pack, 99¢/lb
Unbranded boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.99/lb
Whole Atlantic salmon fillet, that is an entire damn side of the fish, farm raised, $4.77
Half Atlantic salmon fillet, farm raised, $5.77/lb
Tilapia or swai fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Extra large raw shrimp, 26/30 ct, $4.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.79
Deli: Signature “double honey” ham, $4.99/lb
Jennie-O oven roasted OR hickory smoked turkey breast, $4.99/lb
Charlie's Pride beef pastrami OR corned beef, $4.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $4.99/lb
Joseph Farms pepperjack/Colby/Co-jack/mild Cheddar cheeses, $4.99/lb
Bonne Maman organic fruit preserves or jellies, 13 oz jars, 2/$7
Libby's canned veg, 14-15 oz cans,69¢
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, 10/$10
Birds Eye “Steamfresh” veggies, 10-12 oz pkg, 2/$3
C&W frozen veggies, 12-16 oz pkg, 2/$3
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 4/$5
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Sunrise papayas, $2.99 ea
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, $2.99
Clementines, 3 lb box, $4.99
Carambola (star fruit), $2.99 ea
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Heirloom tomatoes, $3.99/lb
Bashas':
Beef top sirloin steaks, $6.99/lb
Beef crossrib steak or roast, $4.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $2.37/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, value pack, $2.37/lb (regular pack, 12¢/lb higher)
Pork country style spareribs, bone in, value pack, $1.49/lb
Pork shoulder steak, bone in, $2.49/lb
Bashas chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, 10 lbs/$10
Flounder fillets, $1.99/lb
True cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, $2.99/lb
Swordfish steaks, bone in, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Catfish fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Atlantic salmon portions, 5 oz, buy 1 get 2 free
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Bashas' cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $2.39
Bashas' sour cream incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $1.99
Tillamook cheeses, 7-8 oz chunk or shreds, 5/$10
StarKist chunk light tuna, 79¢
Bumble Bee chunk white tuna, 2/$3
S&W variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 79¢
Progresso Light soups (with the Weight Watchers logo), 4/$6
Food Club veggies or tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Barilla pasta sauces, 24 oz jars, 2/$3
Food Club pasta, 32 oz pkg, 2/$3
Weight Watchers ice-cream novelties, $4.44
Gorton's seafood, 8-24 oz frozen pkg, $4.99
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Whole pineapples, $2.99 ea
Blueberries, dry pint, $2.99
Roma OR slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef t-bone steaks, 50% off
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
Beef chuck or crossrib roast, boneless, $4.79/lb
85/15 ground beef, $3.29/lb (3 lb chub, $9.87)
Pork country style ribs, bone in, family pack, $2.59/lb
Foster Farms boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, buy 1 get 2 free
Kroger chicken leg quarters, 99¢/lb
Kroger ground turkey breast, 19 oz pkg, $5.99
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.97/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, family pack, $6.99/lb
True cod fillets, wild caught, $8.99/lb
Fry's eggs, AA large, dozens, 99¢
Country Crock spread, 30-45 oz tubs, $2.49
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds, $1.99
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 59¢
Kroger variety (non-baked) beans, 69¢
Kashi “Heart to Heart” cereals, 12-13 oz boxes, $2.99
Green Giant “Steamers”, 7-12 oz frozen pkg, $1.79
Kroger veggies, 12-16 oz frozen bags, 10/$10
Blueberries, 6 oz box, 99¢
Fuji apples, 88¢/lb
Anjou pears, 88¢/lb
Mandarins, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Bananas, 57¢/lb
Safeway:
Beef London broil, boneless, value pack, $2.49/lb (regular pack 50¢/lb higher)
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef chuck pot roast, bone in, $3.89/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.79/lb
90/10 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb (regular pack 50¢/lb higher)
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb (regular pack 50¢/lb higher)
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Jennie-O Turkey Store extra lean ground turkey breast, 20 oz pkg, $5.99
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Rockfish fillets, $7.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79
Lucerne butter, $2.99
Eating Right sandwich or bagel thins, $2.29
Open Nature “100% Whole Wheat” or “Whole Grain White” bread, 24 oz long loaves, $1.99
Eating Right pasta sauces, 25 oz jars, 3/$5
Kellogg's Nutri-Grain bars, 4/$10
Nabisco snack crackers, 12-16 oz boxes, 2/$7
Safeway Selects olive oil, 25 oz bottles, buy 1 get 1 free
O Organics olive oil, 1 liter bottles, buy 1 get 1 free
S&W variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 4/$5
Gorton's frozen seafood, buy 1 get 1 free
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, 4/$10
Green Giant frozen veg, 7-12 oz boxes, $1.99
O Organics frozen veg, 1 lb bags, $2.49
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $1.68
Mangos, 10/$10
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Braeburn or Gala apples, $1.49/lb
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$5
Organic Fuji apples, $1.69/lb
Safeway Farms grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, $2.49
Hass avocados, 10/$10
Sprouts:
Beef ribeye steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
Pork loin roast or chops, center cut boneless, $2.99/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, value pack, $1.49/lb
Zacky extra-lean ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $4.49
Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Haddock fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Halibut fillets, wild caught (Sea of Cortez), $10.99/lb
Navel oranges, 4 lbs/$1
Organic Fuji apples, 88¢/lb
Organic Braeburn or Cameo apples, 4 lbs/$5
D'Anjou or Bosc pears, 88¢/lb (organic, 4 lbs/$5)
Cantaloupes, 2/$4
“Cuties” clementines, 5 lb box, $4.99
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Slicing tomatoes, 49¢/lb
Eggplant, 88¢ ea
Cauliflower, 88¢/lb
Green bell peppers, 3/$1
Red/yellow/orange bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 4/$5
Jewel or Garnet yams, 88¢/lb
Hothouse cucumbers, 4/$5
Last week I forgot to mention Summer Tomato's entry on “10 Tips to Save Money While Eating Healthy”, so I'll mention it this week along with Darya's latest entries: one on “8 Simple Tips To Avoid Late Night Snacking”, another on “4 Cooking Mistakes You Learned From Your Parents (and how to fix them)”, and “5 Ideal Vegetables for Lazy Cooks”.
Recipes! For Valentine's Day Chow.com has a set of “classic Valentine's Day dishes”, heavy on truffles and chocolate, and a video tutorial on how to cut tomatoes into hearts. Because I just know you've always wanted to know how to do that. Less romantically but more practically they've also a set of healthy kale recipes, including a kale stroganoff I mean to try, and a video on making a teriyaki chicken “that isn't an overly sweet mess”. Simply Recipes has a chicken mango lettuce wrap, and Sprouted Kitchen has a dish involving delicata squash, kale, and fennel. And Snack Girl has a collection of lighter ways to enjoy chocolate, as well as something which she calls “Buffalo cauliflower”.
To absolutely no one's surprise, tomorrow, February 14th, is National Cream Filled Chocolates Day. The 18th is both the very specific National Crab-Stuffed Flounder Day and the remarkably inspecific Drink Wine Day, neither of which I will decline.
February 13th: National Tortellini Day
February 14th: National Cream Filled Chocolates Day
February 15th: International Gumdrop Day
February 16th: National Almond Day; 1933, Prohibition repealed!
February 17th: National Cafe au Lait Day, National Indian Pudding Day; Fornacalia, ancient Roman bread-oven festival (in honor of the hearth goddess Fornax)
February 18th: Drink Wine Day, National Crab-Stuffed Flounder Day
February 19th: National Chocolate Mint Day; 1855, bread riots in Liverpool
February 20th: National Cherry Pie Day
And I should mention that neither this blog nor the handout I print up for the meetings are official WW publications. No. God, no.
Albertson's:
Beef bottom round/crossrib roasts OR London broil, boneless, $5.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef chuck roast or steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Beef t-bone or New York steaks, bone in, $7.99/lb
85/15 ground beef, $2.59/lb
93/7 ground beef, $2.77/lb
Pork loin chops, boneless, $6.99/lb, buy 1 get 1 free
Pork sirloin chops or roast, $1.99/lb
Sanderson Farms chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, jumbo pack, 99¢/lb
Unbranded boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, $1.99/lb
Whole Atlantic salmon fillet, that is an entire damn side of the fish, farm raised, $4.77
Half Atlantic salmon fillet, farm raised, $5.77/lb
Tilapia or swai fillets, farm raised, $2.99/lb
Extra large raw shrimp, 26/30 ct, $4.99/lb
Albertson's milk, gallons, $1.79
Deli: Signature “double honey” ham, $4.99/lb
Jennie-O oven roasted OR hickory smoked turkey breast, $4.99/lb
Charlie's Pride beef pastrami OR corned beef, $4.99/lb
Margherita hard or Genoa salami OR pepperoni, $4.99/lb
Joseph Farms pepperjack/Colby/Co-jack/mild Cheddar cheeses, $4.99/lb
Bonne Maman organic fruit preserves or jellies, 13 oz jars, 2/$7
Libby's canned veg, 14-15 oz cans,69¢
Chicken of the Sea chunk white tuna, 10/$10
Birds Eye “Steamfresh” veggies, 10-12 oz pkg, 2/$3
C&W frozen veggies, 12-16 oz pkg, 2/$3
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 4/$5
Fuji apples, 99¢/lb
Sunrise papayas, $2.99 ea
Blackberries OR blueberries, 6 oz boxes, $2.99
Clementines, 3 lb box, $4.99
Carambola (star fruit), $2.99 ea
Roma tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Heirloom tomatoes, $3.99/lb
Bashas':
Beef top sirloin steaks, $6.99/lb
Beef crossrib steak or roast, $4.99/lb
Ground beef chuck, fat content not listed, value pack, $2.37/lb
Pork sirloin chops, boneless, value pack, $2.37/lb (regular pack, 12¢/lb higher)
Pork country style spareribs, bone in, value pack, $1.49/lb
Pork shoulder steak, bone in, $2.49/lb
Bashas chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, bone in, 10 lbs/$10
Flounder fillets, $1.99/lb
True cod fillets, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Tilapia fillets, $2.99/lb
Swordfish steaks, bone in, wild caught, $4.99/lb
Catfish fillets, farm raised, $3.99/lb
Mahi mahi fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Atlantic salmon portions, 5 oz, buy 1 get 2 free
Yoplait yogurts, 10/$5
Bashas' cottage cheese incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $2.39
Bashas' sour cream incl. Light, 24 oz tubs, $1.99
Tillamook cheeses, 7-8 oz chunk or shreds, 5/$10
StarKist chunk light tuna, 79¢
Bumble Bee chunk white tuna, 2/$3
S&W variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 79¢
Progresso Light soups (with the Weight Watchers logo), 4/$6
Food Club veggies or tomatoes, 14-15 oz cans, 69¢
Barilla pasta sauces, 24 oz jars, 2/$3
Food Club pasta, 32 oz pkg, 2/$3
Weight Watchers ice-cream novelties, $4.44
Gorton's seafood, 8-24 oz frozen pkg, $4.99
Navel oranges OR Minneola tangelos, 99¢/lb
Whole pineapples, $2.99 ea
Blueberries, dry pint, $2.99
Roma OR slicing tomatoes, 99¢/lb
Fry's:
Beef t-bone steaks, 50% off
Beef top sirloin steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
Beef chuck or crossrib roast, boneless, $4.79/lb
85/15 ground beef, $3.29/lb (3 lb chub, $9.87)
Pork country style ribs, bone in, family pack, $2.59/lb
Foster Farms boneless skinless chicken breast or thighs, buy 1 get 2 free
Kroger chicken leg quarters, 99¢/lb
Kroger ground turkey breast, 19 oz pkg, $5.99
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $4.97/lb
Tilapia fillets, farm raised, family pack, $6.99/lb
True cod fillets, wild caught, $8.99/lb
Fry's eggs, AA large, dozens, 99¢
Country Crock spread, 30-45 oz tubs, $2.49
Kroger cheeses, 6-8 oz chunk or shreds, $1.99
Chicken of the Sea chunk light tuna, 59¢
Kroger variety (non-baked) beans, 69¢
Kashi “Heart to Heart” cereals, 12-13 oz boxes, $2.99
Green Giant “Steamers”, 7-12 oz frozen pkg, $1.79
Kroger veggies, 12-16 oz frozen bags, 10/$10
Blueberries, 6 oz box, 99¢
Fuji apples, 88¢/lb
Anjou pears, 88¢/lb
Mandarins, 3 lb bag, $4.99
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Bananas, 57¢/lb
Safeway:
Beef London broil, boneless, value pack, $2.49/lb (regular pack 50¢/lb higher)
Beef t-bone steaks, value pack, $7.99/lb
Beef chuck pot roast, bone in, $3.89/lb
Beef ribeye steaks, boneless, $8.99/lb
80/20 ground beef, value pack, $2.79/lb
90/10 ground beef, value pack, $2.99/lb (regular pack 50¢/lb higher)
Assorted pork loin chops, bone in, value pack, $1.99/lb (regular pack 50¢/lb higher)
Eating Right boneless skinless chicken breast, value pack, $1.99/lb
Jennie-O Turkey Store extra lean ground turkey breast, 20 oz pkg, $5.99
Atlantic salmon fillets, farm raised, $5.99/lb
Rockfish fillets, $7.99/lb
Pantry Essentials milk, gallons, $1.79
Lucerne butter, $2.99
Eating Right sandwich or bagel thins, $2.29
Open Nature “100% Whole Wheat” or “Whole Grain White” bread, 24 oz long loaves, $1.99
Eating Right pasta sauces, 25 oz jars, 3/$5
Kellogg's Nutri-Grain bars, 4/$10
Nabisco snack crackers, 12-16 oz boxes, 2/$7
Safeway Selects olive oil, 25 oz bottles, buy 1 get 1 free
O Organics olive oil, 1 liter bottles, buy 1 get 1 free
S&W variety (non-baked) beans, 15 oz cans, 4/$5
Gorton's frozen seafood, buy 1 get 1 free
Lean Cuisine frozen entrees, 4/$10
Green Giant frozen veg, 7-12 oz boxes, $1.99
O Organics frozen veg, 1 lb bags, $2.49
Strawberries, 1 lb box, $1.68
Mangos, 10/$10
Navel oranges, 99¢/lb
Braeburn or Gala apples, $1.49/lb
Whole cantaloupes, 2/$5
Organic Fuji apples, $1.69/lb
Safeway Farms grape tomatoes, 10 oz box, $2.49
Hass avocados, 10/$10
Sprouts:
Beef ribeye steaks, boneless, $6.99/lb
Pork loin roast or chops, center cut boneless, $2.99/lb
Chicken drums/thighs/leg quarters, value pack, $1.49/lb
Zacky extra-lean ground turkey, 20 oz pkg, $4.49
Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets, wild caught, $7.99/lb
Haddock fillets, wild caught, $5.99/lb
Halibut fillets, wild caught (Sea of Cortez), $10.99/lb
Navel oranges, 4 lbs/$1
Organic Fuji apples, 88¢/lb
Organic Braeburn or Cameo apples, 4 lbs/$5
D'Anjou or Bosc pears, 88¢/lb (organic, 4 lbs/$5)
Cantaloupes, 2/$4
“Cuties” clementines, 5 lb box, $4.99
Strawberries, 1 lb box, 2/$5
Slicing tomatoes, 49¢/lb
Eggplant, 88¢ ea
Cauliflower, 88¢/lb
Green bell peppers, 3/$1
Red/yellow/orange bell peppers, 88¢ ea
Grape tomatoes, dry pint, 4/$5
Jewel or Garnet yams, 88¢/lb
Hothouse cucumbers, 4/$5
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