This Week's Hot Grocery Deals (IMHO)

We have a new sale starting today at our local Sprouts stores, while current sales continue at Whole Foods through the 25th, and at Vitamin Cottage all the way through July 13th (click for my prior reports).  Here's what's looking good to me in the new stuff.

Oh, decisions, decisions about fresh Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets.  But isn't it great to have such choices?  In addition to Whole Foods' upcoming one-day sale Friday for $11.99 a pound, trumpeted in a post below, in Sprouts' new sale running through June 26th, they have it at just $9.99 a pound all week (same price also at Safeway all week with card).  I generally prefer Whole Foods' fish, where every piece in the display case looks like it's modelling for a Bon Appetit photo shoot and always tastes exquisite, so long as the price is within reason, which isn't always the case.  I did have some very good salmon from Sprouts last weekend, when the Copper River looked quite good and was $14.99 a pound there but $22.99 a pound at Whole Foods, a no-brainer of a choice.  But the week prior to that, the salmon at Sprouts had been cut into little serving pieces and looked like it had been around a while, so I went elsewhere that time.  Note that all these ads are for Alaskan - I suspect the Copper River season is about played out and other fine rivers are getting in the mix.

So, I'll be eating salmon all week - no need to look at anything else.  Well, if we need a little variety, at Sprouts through the 26th, boneless top sirloin is $5.99 a pound, value packs of boneless skinless chicken breasts are not the lowest we've seen at $2.99 a pound, pork spare ribs are just $1.99 a pound, their very good stuffed chicken breasts are $3.99 a pound, and previously frozen wild Alaskan cod fillets are $7.99 a pound.

In organic produce at Sprouts, on-the-vine tomatoes remain great at $1.99 a pound (compare to the $3.99 a pound sale price at Whole Foods), one pound bags of baby carrots are $1.49 each, red or green seedless grapes are $2.49 a pound (Whole Foods matching on the green, and also black), three pound bags of onions are $2.49 each, and cantaloupe is just 79 cents a pound.  Elsewhere in the store, the main news seems to be a big sale on Sprouts' own brand of products, with low prices on all sorts of things, including 25% off their entire Sprouts vitamin line.