This Week's Hot Grocery Deals (IMHO)

In this Memorial Day week, we have a new (and a continuing) sale at our Boulder Sprouts stores, while the current ones continue at Whole Foods through the 27th and at Vitamin Cottage through the 31st. Here's what's looking good to me now.

At Sprouts, I'm liking the second and final week of their Big Brand sale through the 28th, with tons of good products at 20 to 50% off regular price (I detailed a whole bunch of them in last week's report below). Stocking up on favorite Knudsen's Very Veggie juice at an excellent price a few days ago, the cashier asked if I had a dog that had gotten skunked.

In Sprouts' regular new sale through the 28th, value packs of boneless skinless chicken breasts are $2.99 a pound, whole, split or cut up chickens are $1.59 a pound, stuffed chicken breasts are $3.99 a pound ($1 more than the sale price used to be), and there's a Rib Fest, with pork spare or country style ribs or beef back ribs all $2.99 a pound, pork baby back ribs $3.99 a pound, and boneless beef short ribs $4.99 a pound. Also, for Friday through Sunday only, all chicken or pork sausages are just $2.50 a pound. In fish, previously frozen Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets are $9.99 a pound, but now that the Copper River season has started, I'm keeping my eye out for fresh wild salmon instead.

In organic produce at Sprouts the emphasis is on fruit this week, with six-ish ounce containers of blueberries or blackberries both $2.98 each, Bartlett pears $1.50 a pound, red or green grapes $2.98 a pound, and four pound bags of Valencia oranges just $1.98 each. Some Earthbound organic salad blends are $2.50 a container, and organic yellow onions are 98 cents a pound. As for elsewhere in the store, it's the aforementioned Big Brand sale all over the place.

Good luck to us all with our threat of "severe weather" for this afternoon.