This Week's Hot Deals (IMHO)

If it's Wednesday, it's food day, with new deals out for our Boulder Sprouts and Sunflower, while the current sales continue at Alfalfa's, Whole Foods, and Vitamin Cottage. Here's what looking good to me in the new ones.

Country style rib wars: for your Memorial Day grilling pleasure, bone-in $2.49 a pound at Sprouts, bone-in or boneless or extra lean all 25% off at Sunflower, both through June 1st.

Organic blueberry wars: $2.99 for 6 ounces at both Sprouts and Sunflower through June 1st.

There are wild sockeye salmon wars going on, but with the fresh wild season just starting, I'd skip the previously frozen stuff (IMHO).

Also looking good to me at Sprouts through June 1st, chicken tenders are $1.99 a pound, they're having a "Steak Bonanza" with ten cuts all 25% off, and gigantic 16/20 count ez-peel raw shrimp are $8.99 a pound (they'd skewer nicely for the grill). In organic produce, their good deal on blueberries is mentioned above, while red delicious apples, cantaloupes or honeydew melons are all 88 cents a pound, cherry tomatoes are $1.99 a pint (Alfalfa's has organic grape tomatoes for same, while they're $2.50 at Whole Foods), and one pound bags of baby carrots are good at $1.50. If you want to skip your own grilling this weekend, they'll be grilling full racks of baby back ribs from 11 to 6 on Friday and Saturday for $9.99 each.

At Sunflower through June 1st, I don't use ground beef often, but for a big grilling weekend I'll mention the 85% extra lean ground beef at $1.99 a pound for the family pack. They're doing a "Rib Extravaganza" with several types of ribs all 25% off, boneless New York strip steaks look good at $7.99 a pound, boneless pork loin chops or tenderloin are $3.99 a pound, and all chicken sausage are $2.99 a pound. In organic produce, in addition to the blueberries above, celery is great at 99 cents each, avocados are also 99 cents, yellow onions are 99 cents a pound, as are cantaloupes (88 cents a pound for those at Sprouts), strawberries are $2.99 for one pound, and large California artichokes are $2 each, (good organic deals in there, as usual). Also, my fave Cascade Fresh yogurts are excellent at 50 cents each for select varieties while their 16 ounce sour cream is just 99 cents. Select Annie's organic mustards are $2.50 each, Santa Cruz organic lemonades are $1.25 for 32 ounces (same at Whole Foods), and select Back to Nature crackers are $2.50 or $2.99 for their cookies, but Alfalfa's has both on sale for $2.49.

For the ongoing sales, check these links for prior coverage: Alfalfa's (through the 31st), Vitamin Cottage (heads up, only through the 28th), and Whole Foods (through the 31st, look down alphabetically until you reach it).