We have new sales starting today at our Boulder Sprouts, Sunflower, and Whole Foods, while current sales continue at Alfalfa's and Vitamin Cottage (click those links to see the prior reports). Here's what strikes me in the new sales, IMHO, as always.
At Sprouts' sale through December 7th, the stunner for me is fresh, farm-raised Atlantic salmon for just $4.99 a pound. I go crazy eating salmon during the fresh, wild season, then pretty much ignore it across the winter, but at that price, I'll check out the farm-raised. All chicken sausage is $2.99 a pound (pork, too, same at Sunflower for that), previously frozen wild Alaskan cod filets are $7.99 a pound, and 26/30 count peeled and deveined raw shrimp are also $7.99 a pound (if you want to peel your own, Sunflower has a better deal on even bigger ones). Their ad this week doesn't have much info about organic produce, but organic Italian squash (think zucchini) looks great at 99 cents a pound, as do organic honeycrisp apples for $1.69 a pound. Also, Muir Glen organic pasta sauce looks very good at $2.50 a jar.
Sunflower's sale through December 7th includes both conventional and organic Hass avocados for just 50 cents each, a rarity for the organics. Raw jumbo Gulf shrimp ("broken," so presumably not perfectly intact) are $5.97 a pound for the very large 16/25 count size. Organic produce looks good as usual, in addition to the avocados already mentioned, with several types of winter squash (the usual suspects) or red potatoes all at 99 cents a pound, hothouse tomatoes for $1.99 a pound, sweet onions at $1.99 for a two pound bag, one pound bags of baby carrots or bunched carrots at $1.50, and several types of apples and pears all $1.77 a pound. If you have the patience to deal with an organic pomegranate, they're $1.50 each. Half gallons of Horizon organic milk are quite low at $2.50 each, and yummy Tribe hummus is very good at $2.99 for eight ounces.
At Whole Foods through December 13th, their fine wild Alaskan sockeye salmon is $12.99 a pound (I'm assuming that's previously frozen), and organic D'Anjou pears are low at $1.49 a pound. Frontier spices are 20% off, and to further your holiday baking, pecan halves are $9.99 a pound, a whopping $6 off. Yummy Ford Farm Seaside cheddar is good at $8.99 a pound, and they have great deals on two of my favorites: their own Seeduction bread at $2.50 a loaf, and their own large cinque formaggio pizza for $7.99 each. I don't eat conventional blackberries, but if you're in the market for them, I'd skip the Whole Foods sale price of $2.50 for a 5.6 ounce package (since organic isn't specified, I'm assuming they're conventional), and go to either Sprouts or Sunflower, where they're 77 cents each.
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Thanks for being so timely with these Wednesday reports.
ReplyDeleteA note for the avocado fans among us....King Soopers has avocados for $1.00 each this week, and their avocados are usually large and high quality. So kind of a tough call, between those and the 50 cent ones at Sunflower, which can be teeny and poor quality sometimes. Well, at least we have some choices.
Also...please keep us posted about what you find at Sprouts in terms of the salmon this week. Now you've got me thinking about it, even if it is farm-raised.....
Ms. A., thanks very much for the tip about the avocados at King Soopers. I totally agree about the quality/size dilemma. I bought a couple of them at Sunflower yesterday, and they are indeed small, but not yet tasted. And thanks for the interest in the salmon - I'll let you know what I find.
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