This Week's Hot Grocery Deals (IMHO)

Good cold and a little snowy morning Boulder (although the snow should be brief and we'll be back close to 70 by Friday!). We have a new sale starting today at our Boulder Sprouts stores, while the current one continues at Whole Foods through February 10th. As for Vitamin Cottage, when I stopped by there last week, the long lasting Hotline sale still hadn't resumed, and customer service had no information about it, so can't help there. Here's what's looking good to me now.

While I usually focus on fish, meat, and organic produce, in Sprouts' new sale through February 11th, the news to me is the real arrival of the conventional asparagus from Mexico season, $1.48 a pound (last week's $1.99 was a pretty good harbinger of this). I see lots of pastas, risottos and stir frys with asparagus in my future this week. In meat and fish, all chicken sausage (pork also) are $3.99 a pound, whole or split chickens are $1.69 a pound (a little higher for cut up), Rosie Organic whole chickens are $2.99 a pound, and bone-in country style ribs and shoulder roast are also $2.99 a pound. (Maybe I should try to replicate Hosea Rosenberg's superb Hatch green chile posole with pork shoulder that I just had at his new restaurant Blackbelly this week.) Also, previously frozen Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets are $7.99 a pound.

In organic produce at Sprouts, green curly kale and red or rainbow chards are all $1.50 a bunch, butternut and spaghetti squash are both 99 cents a pound, Gala and Granny Smith apples are both $1.50 a pound, one pound bags of baby carrots or celery bunches are both $1.50 each, Valencia oranges or grapefruit are both $2.50 a four pound bag, and grape tomatoes are $2.50 a pint. Elsewhere in the store, Qrunch quinoa burgers are $3.99 a four-pack (and they're really quite good), Fage Fruyo Greek yogurts are $1 each, some Amy's burritos are $2 each, some R.W. Knudsen organic juices are 35% off, smoked Gouda is $5.99 a pound, and Muir Glen pasta sauces are $2.50 a jar.