An Abbreviated New Deals Report

With the Boston events still weighing heavily on my mind (thank heavens all our runner friends who were there are safe!) and much shoveling to do already, plus another four to eight inches expected today, and no full sales flyer yet posted by Whole Foods, this report on new Boulder grocery deals will of necessity be brief.

We have new sales starting today at our Boulder Sprouts and Whole Foods, and a new one already underway that I need to check out at Vitamin Cottage.  Here's a very quick look at what appeals to me.

At Sprouts' sale through April 24th, the super cheap meat emphasis is on meats that aren't faves in this household:  pork sirloin and chicken thighs.  But I am liking grass-fed organic ground beef at $4.99 a pound, all types of chicken sausage $2.99 a pound, whole or cut up chickens $1.59 a pound, fresh ground chicken, pork or chicken breast all $2.99 a pound, and beef stew meat $3.99 a pound.  In fish, fresh (farmed) Atlantic salmon is $8.99 a pound, previously frozen totally huge wild sea scallops are $12.99 a pound, and ez-peel 41/50 count raw shrimp are $4.99 a pound (but I've recently had the opportunity to eat tons of fresh wild Florida and Georgia shrimp, so I'm not going back to farmed stuff from southeast Asia anytime soon).  Fresh six ounce halibut portions are $6.99 a pound, which works out to $18.64 a pound, so I hope you had a chance to catch Whole Foods' recent one-day sale on it instead.

Quick report on Sprouts' organic veggies, since this is already getting too long.  On-the-vine tomatoes are fantastic at $1.50 a pound (there's also an "AZ-grown" option at $1.99 a pound), grape tomatoes are $1.50 a pint, red or green leaf lettuce or romaine are all $1.29 a head, Italian squash (think zucchini) is just 99 cents a pound, bulk spring mix or spinach remain great at $3.99 a pound, five pound bags of russet potatoes are $2.99 each, one pound clamshells of strawberries are $2.99 each, and red, green or black seedless grapes are $2.50 a pound, among other good fruit specials.  In conventional produce, whole pineapples are just 98 cents each.

Whole Foods hasn't yet put up their pdf of their full sales flyer (their link in yesterday's email led to the flyer that ended yesterday instead of a new one), but they do have a few highlights posted of a new sale starting today that runs through April 30th.  Among those few, I'm liking shrimp skewers at $1 each (half off, and Whole Foods is capable of weaning me off my recent fresh shrimp experience), large take and bake pepperoni pizzas for $9.99 each (although the sale price used to be lower), and their very fine American Homestead boneless pork loin chops (or roasts) for $5.49 a pound.  Beware the sale on organic cluster tomatoes for $3.99 a pound, as you can get organic on-the-vine tomatoes at Sprouts this week for just $1.50 a pound.

Time to grab the shovel and start some much-delayed work on the driveway.