Wednesday, October 15, 2014

This Week's Hot Grocery Deals (IMHO)

Happy Wednesday, food day. Although my stupid computer needing to install 14 updates this morning delayed me by more than an hour getting to this, I'm still in a really good mood, but the delay means must be quicker than ever. We have new sales starting today at our Boulder Sprouts and Whole Foods stores, while the current one continues at Vitamin Cottage through November 1st (check the index of posts at the lower left to find that one). Here's what's looking good to me now.

At Sprouts through October 22nd, fresh wild Pacific salmon fillets are still amazingly being offered at a very low price, $5.99 a pound. I wonder how they taste this late in the season. Fresh tilapia fillets are $6.99 a pound, previously frozen Jonah crab claws are $5.99 a pound, and 31/35 count peeled and deveined raw shrimp are $9.99 a pound, for those who like to pay a little more for that peeling convenience. In meat, we're back to our $3.99 a pound sale prices for chicken Italian sausage, stuffed chicken breasts (they're quite good), and boneless skinless chicken breasts or tenders (not such a great sale price but improved by the fact that it's any size package, not just the really big ones).

Organic produce is looking good as usual at Sprouts, with Gala or red delicious apples and butternut squash both 99 cents a pound (although you can find a good organic hard squash deal by throwing a stone towards any Boulder store right now), green curly kale is just 99 cents a bunch, two pound bags of heirloom rainbow carrots are just $1.50 each, D'Anjou pears are $1.50 a pound, and red, green or black seedless grapes are trending upwards but still decent at $2.99 a pound. Elsewhere in the store, they are doing a big sale on Sprouts' own brand, found in all sorts of departments. All sorts of products with pumpkin are also being featured, along with a pumpkin picture contest involving Instagram.

In Whole Foods' new sale through October 28th, I'm liking organic red Bartlett pears and organic Granny Smith apples both $1.48 a pound, organic red, green or rainbow chard all $1.50 a bunch, and organic Yukon gold or red potatoes just 98 cents a pound. Whole Foods has also been doing a rather remarkable job of lowering their regular prices on organic produce recently (organic broccoli now a reasonable price, I think $1.97 a pound, every single day for example). Back to the sale, Amy's frozen pizzas are considerably off at $5.99 each, and I'd be tempted to pay $2 more per pound to get Whole Foods' Market Made chicken cordon bleu (respnsibly raised, etc., etc.) at $5.99 a pound rather than the stuffed breasts $3.99 at Sprouts. Ditto boneless skinless chicken breasts also $5.99 a pound. Whole Soy dairy-free yogurt cups are $1 each, and the big size of San Marzano tomatoes (28 ounces) are $3 each, but I did much better stocking up on San Marzanos that were organic too for just $2 each in the sale at Whole Foods a couple of weeks ago.

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