Wednesday, November 13, 2013

This Week's Hot Grocery Deals (IMHO)

We have new sales starting today at our Boulder Sprouts and Whole Foods stores, while the current one continues all the way through December 14th at Vitamin Cottage.  Here's what's looking good to me now.

In the new sale at Sprouts through November 20th, the surprise is actually in conventional produce, where you'll find asparagus for $1.88 a pound.  Something of a welcome change in this season of butternut and acorn squash.  In meat, boneless center-cut pork loin chops are excellent at $1.99 a pound, three types of chicken sausage are $2.99 a pound, and ground chicken breast is $3.99 a pound.  But the primary action seems to be in fish, where a Clam Bake features live cherrystone clams, black mussels, and littleneck clams at $1.99, $2.99, and $3.99 a pound respectively.  Really?  Live clams in Boulder?  I recently had a chance to have a clam stew on the east coast that was made with fresh Ipswich clams, and it just doesn't get any better, so I'm a tad leery of this in landlocked Boulder.  To complete the clam bake, Sprouts' sale also features specials on lobster tails, snow crab clusters, and jumbo shrimp.  Then for the non-shellfish eaters, previously frozen Alaskan wild coho salmon fillets are $8.99 a pound.

In organic produce at Sprouts, one pound bags of baby carrots are $1.49 a pound, three pound bags of gala, Granny Smith, or red delicious apples are $2.99 each, bulk spring mix or baby spinach remain great at $3.99 a pound ($6.99 a pound elsewhere), cantaloupe or honeydew melons are 99 cents a pound, and three types of organic pears are $1.49 a pound.  Elsewhere in the store, I'm really liking select Fage Greek yogurts at $1 each, ten ounce packages of Cascadian Farm organic frozen veggies for $1.50 each (even better than Vitamin Cottage's current sale price of $1.69), Near East rice or couscous boxes $1.50 each (a great side dish or foundation for a main when mixed with sautéed chicken breast), and Alexia frozen rolls at $3 a bag.  Heads up about those Alexia rolls - if you'd like to pull fresh rolls piping hot out of the oven to impress your guests at Thanksgiving without getting up at 3 a.m. to start making them, Alexia's your ticket.

In Whole Foods' new sale through December 3rd, I'm enthused to see the return of four to five ounce wild caught lobster tails for $6 each.  The ad doesn't specify, but in the past, these have been lovely ones from Maine, so I see a creamy lobster pappardelle dish in my near future.  American Homestead or Wellshire spiral sliced hams are $4.99 a pound, and they are advertising fresh Diestel turkeys for $2.49 a pound, but I see that Lucky's in Boulder has fresh Diestels for $1.99 a pound.  Organic acorn squash is just $1 a pound and three pound bags of organic yellow onions are $2.50, effectively matching Sprouts on that, but Whole Foods' sale on organic d'Anjou pears is $1.99 a pound, 50 cents higher than Sprouts.  The size isn't specified on Whole Foods' Market Made pizza at $6.99 each, but that has always been the large one, which is a great price on a really easy dinner, whether left as is or dressed up with a few toppings of your choice.  Finally, lover of Imagine broth that I am, I'm intrigued by what looks to be a totally new level of it:  "Imagine Global Animal Partnership Rated Broth," $3 for 32 ounces.  Is this Boulder or what.

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