This Week's Hot New Deals (IMHO)

We have new sales starting today at our Boulder Sprouts and Sunflower, while current sales continue at Vitamin Cottage and Whole Foods (click those for prior reports). With Valentine's Day in this sale week, what warring prices we're seeing on steaks, lobster tails, and especially asparagus!

At Sprouts through February 15th, the hot news for me is the asparagus war, 99 cents a pound at Sprouts and 97 cents a pound at Sunflower. It's conventional, but asparagus so often is. Also looking good are boneless ribeye steaks or five ounce lobster tails, both at $5.99 (per pound for the steaks, each for the tails). Center-cut pork loin chops are good at $2.99 a pound, whole or cut-up chickens are $1.49 a pound, and boneless country style ribs are $2.49 a pound ($2.99 at Sunflower). In organic produce, spinach bunches and red or green leaf lettuce are $1.29 each, broccoli has gone down to $1.29 a pound, red yams or cauliflower are both just 99 cents a pound, six ounces of blueberries are $2.50, onions or russets by the bag are cheap, and red delicious or cameo apples are both 99 cents a pound. Some of their own brand of organic spices are $3 a bottle, and they have a very good "everyday value" price on Spectrum chia seeds at $6.99 a bag (I've been putting them on all my salads recently).

Through the 15th, Sunflower beats Sprouts by 2 cents with asparagus for 97 cents a pound. In the surf 'n turf category, they're offering beef tenderloin steak (filet mignon) for $9.99 a pound, and smaller 3.4 to four ounce lobster tails for $4.99 each. Family packs of boneless skinless chicken breasts look good at $1.99 a pound, and I'm also liking ground turkey at $1.99 a pound as well. In organic produce, roma tomatoes are fantastic at 99 cents a pound, russet potatoes are also 99 cents a pound (but cheaper by the bag at Sprouts), two kinds of pears and three kinds of Washington apples are $1.50 a pound, and cherry tomatoes are $2.50 a pint. Organic cauliflower is $1.50 a pound, but it's just 99 cents at Sprouts. They have a whole bunch of chocolates on sale for $2.50, but for the Chocolove, check today's one-day sale at Whole Foods instead (see the post below).