This Week's Hot Grocery Deals (IMHO)

We have a new sale starting today at our local Sprouts stores, while the current one continues through January 14th at Whole Foods.  I also suspect there's a new one at Vitamin Cottage, but when I stopped by there on Sunday, they had no new sale flyers, and doing this from a website would be just too time consuming.  Here's what's looking good to me now.

In Sprouts' new sale through January 15th, the big news is the return of the Vitamin and Body Care Extravaganza, with everything in the department 25% off.  That's an excellent opportunity to stock up on those favorite products that you know otherwise never go on sale.  In meat, value packs of boneless skinless chicken breasts are a very good price at $1.99 a pound, but I've gotten even better ones with "never ever" standards from the Lucky's Market in Longmont at an even better price, an astonishing $1.58 a pound through today ($5.99 a pound at the Boulder Lucky's, to show you how good the Longmont price is).  Boneless pork shoulder roast or country style ribs are very good at $1.99 a pound, Sprouts' own stuffed chicken breasts are $2.99 a pound (one of them easily serves two people), and there's a Buffalo Stampede, with various types of bison featured.  In fish, if you're in the mood for halibut, six ounce previously frozen portions are $7.99 each, which works out to $21.30 a pound, so you'd do better to go to Whole Foods this week, where halibut fillets are $19.99 a pound through Tuesday.  For fresh fish, Sprouts has farmed Atlantic salmon for $8.99 a pound.

In organic produce at Sprouts, green or lacinato kale are $1.50 a bunch, celery remains good at $1.49 a bunch, bulk spring mix or spinach also remain very good at $3.99 a pound, pink lady apples are $1.49 a pound, four pound bags of Valencia oranges are just $2.50 each, and six ounce containers of organic blueberries look pretty good also at $2.50 each.  Elsewhere in the store, in addition to the big vitamin and body care sale, I'm enthused to see some Fage Greek yogurts at $1 each, and am curious as to which varieties of DeLallo whole wheat pasta are $2 a package.  That's an excellent price for DeLallo, my new favorite everyday whole wheat pasta, but the last time Sprouts did this, the standard cuts like linguine and fettuccine were not included in the sale.  Also, the large 25 ounce size of Westbrae organic beans is quite good at $2 each.