Hmm, some weeks are better than others for the types of food I like to see on sale, and this isn't striking me as one of the better ones. But there are a few bright spots on the landscape, noted below. And there will be further sales to consider, since Alfalfa's should be starting a new one today, but I have to get there to pick up the flyer, and Vitamin Cottage is expected to have a new sale on the 5th.
In good news, fresh wild salmon is starting to come down from stratospheric prices. King Soopers is advertising Copper River sockeye for $16.99 a pound with card (the Copper River season started a week or two ago, and I saw it at a store that shall go unnamed selling for $34.99 a pound back then). Sunflower is advertising "first of the season" king salmon for $15.99 a pound. Whole Foods is advertising Norwegian salmon steaks for $10.99 a pound, which I'd presume is farmed salmon, but Norwegian is reportedly the good stuff of the farmed.
Sprouts' specials this week (through June 8th) head mostly in directions I don't usually take, like chicken legs, bison, lamb, and ground wild game meats. I do like their stew meat for $3.99 a pound and possibly a mysterious "ground chicken breast" special at $3.99 a pound for "scaloppine or stir fry," which doesn't sound ground. In organic produce, I'm liking broccoli at $1.49 a pound, Braeburn or Cameo apples at 99 cents a pound, and blueberries $2.99 for six ounces. Santa Cruz organic lemonade or limeade is pretty good at $1.50 each, but it was $1.25 for the past three weeks at Whole Foods.
Sunflower through June 8th is doing an "all natural chicken extravaganza" of 50% off, and we have another intriguing mystery special, $5.99 a pound for "16/25 ct. broken" USA jumbo domestic raw gulf shrimp. That size is really big, and domestic is very good, so I wonder how broken is "broken." Harris Ranch ribeyes are $7.99 a pound for bone-in and $8.99 a pound boneless, while their king salmon special is mentioned above. They have good organic produce specials as usual, with romaine lettuce just 99 cents a head, yams or gala apples 99 cents a pound, hothouse tomatoes $1.99 a pound (but check Whole Foods below for cheaper tomatoes), cucumbers 99 cents each, and good specials on raspberries (six ounces) and strawberries (I think it says one pound) for $2.99 each. I also like Voskos Greek yogurts at $1 each, select 64 ounce Horizon Organic milk for $2.50, Ben & Jerry's ice cream $2.99 a pint (that's dangerous), and Mozzarella Fresca $3.99 each.
Whole Foods' new specials, good through the 14th, are kicking up my enthusiasm a bit more than usual, with organic roma tomatoes for $1.49 a pound and organic green seedless grapes $1.99 a pound. They have organic strawberries for $3.99 a one pound package, but if I'm reading the teeny print right, a pound is $2.99 at Sunflower. Organic cucumbers are $1.49 a pound, hard to compare with Sunflower's 99 cents each. I'm intrigued by their Market Made teriyaki tilapia burger, which sounds like a good deal at $6.99 a pound, given Whole Foods' pedigree for fine fish. Robusto cheese is good at $11.99 a pound ($6 off), but the two specials that have me especially enthused are Stonyfield organic yogurts at 50 cents each and my very favorite WFM two-bite brownies at $3 for a big tub of them.
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