Perhaps in an attempt to shed its "whole paycheck" image, the Whole Foods store in Superior will host a Value Tour this coming Tuesday evening. (One's also coming up next weekend at the Pearl Street store. More about that later.) Here's what Superior says:
Tuesday, January 17th
Value Tour
6:00pm Free
Start your New Year off saving money! Join Cheryl for a Value Tour and learn how you can shop Whole Foods Market on a budget! Learn about our coupons, Sure Deals, Whole Deals, Bundle Deals, Daily Deals and 10 more money saving shopping tips! Please register at Customer Service to reserve your spot today.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Weekday Dinner Ideas
Sunday morning rolls around so quickly, time to get planning the rest of the week's dinners. For tomorrow, it will be shrimp pad Thai from Cooking Light, using the shrimp on sale at Sprouts and more of my big bunch of cilantro from tonight's posole. It will certainly be made with rice noodles, not the spaghetti in the recipe (the rice noodles are not only more fun and more authentic, they're faster, too).
Tuesdays are generally our reheat of something big made over the weekend, which this week is the chicken posole from Food and Wine magazine. For the side salad, it isn't part of their advertised specials, but I've seen organic romas on sale for the very good price of $1.99 a pound at both the Pearl Street and Superior Whole Foods. Since their current sale runs through Tuesday, I bet that will mark the end of the roma price as well.
With stew beef on sale through Wednesday at Sprouts, a stock of organic romas from the Whole Foods sale, extra tortillas in the fridge from the posole sides, and hopefully some leftover cilantro, Wednesday will be sirloin steak with tomato and cilantro sauce from Bon Appetit. Sure, it calls for sirloin right in the title, but works well with stew beef, which is already cut up for you.
We'll catch more of that shrimp at Sprouts by Wednesday for Thursday's dinner, butternut squash risotto with shrimp. It's nicely seasonal, and rounds out the week with a rice dish, which has yet to make an appearance.
Which will get us through to Friday's planning.
Tuesdays are generally our reheat of something big made over the weekend, which this week is the chicken posole from Food and Wine magazine. For the side salad, it isn't part of their advertised specials, but I've seen organic romas on sale for the very good price of $1.99 a pound at both the Pearl Street and Superior Whole Foods. Since their current sale runs through Tuesday, I bet that will mark the end of the roma price as well.
With stew beef on sale through Wednesday at Sprouts, a stock of organic romas from the Whole Foods sale, extra tortillas in the fridge from the posole sides, and hopefully some leftover cilantro, Wednesday will be sirloin steak with tomato and cilantro sauce from Bon Appetit. Sure, it calls for sirloin right in the title, but works well with stew beef, which is already cut up for you.
We'll catch more of that shrimp at Sprouts by Wednesday for Thursday's dinner, butternut squash risotto with shrimp. It's nicely seasonal, and rounds out the week with a rice dish, which has yet to make an appearance.
Which will get us through to Friday's planning.
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Orange and Blue Food?
With tonight's big playoff game of the Broncos vs the Patriots, one might want to have some orange and blue food on hand, but it's not easy finding the two together in one dish. A fruit salad of oranges and blueberries would of course work. For something a little more sophisticated, you could try an orange and blue grilled romaine salad from the Food Network (although the blue isn't very blue, and probably should be spelled bleu). Little known fact: people think of this game as being in Boston, but the stadium in Foxborough (usually shortened to Foxboro) is so far south in Massachusetts, it's practically in Rhode Island.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Weekend Dinner Ideas
It's Friday again, so time to get going with dinner ideas for the weekend. I have the boneless, skinless chicken breasts that are $1.97 a pound at Sprouts on the brain, and with organic grape tomatoes also an excellent price there at $1.99 a pint (also good at $2.50 at Sunflower), that spells spicy roast chicken with tomatoes and marjoram from Bon Appetit. The recipe calls for bone-in chicken breasts, which are very tasty if you like some grease in your dishes, but I prefer it with the boneless, skinless ones to lighten it up. Dried marjoram also works well instead of the fresh, obviously using a smaller amount of the dried.
It looks like I'll be doing most of my weekend shopping at Sprouts this week, since for tomorrow, their Alaskan cod sale will turn into cod with sesame and ginger from the New York Times. I fortunately already have black sesame seeds in my kitchen. They're available in bulk at Whole Foods, so you can buy them in small quantities (they have teeny sized bags in the herb section), and my recollection is that Sprouts just has the tan-colored sesame seeds in its bulk aisle. But I bet this recipe would be good with those, too.
For Sunday, my thinking is returning to that chicken at Sprouts, in the form of chicken posole from Food and Wine magazine. I'm adapting again on the chicken, since the recipe calls for all dark meat with the skin on. It will be lighter with the boneless, skinless breasts, but still have plenty of zing with all those lovely garnishes like lime, radish slices, and cilantro.
And that will get us through a weekend of cooking.
It looks like I'll be doing most of my weekend shopping at Sprouts this week, since for tomorrow, their Alaskan cod sale will turn into cod with sesame and ginger from the New York Times. I fortunately already have black sesame seeds in my kitchen. They're available in bulk at Whole Foods, so you can buy them in small quantities (they have teeny sized bags in the herb section), and my recollection is that Sprouts just has the tan-colored sesame seeds in its bulk aisle. But I bet this recipe would be good with those, too.
For Sunday, my thinking is returning to that chicken at Sprouts, in the form of chicken posole from Food and Wine magazine. I'm adapting again on the chicken, since the recipe calls for all dark meat with the skin on. It will be lighter with the boneless, skinless breasts, but still have plenty of zing with all those lovely garnishes like lime, radish slices, and cilantro.
And that will get us through a weekend of cooking.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Superfoods for 2012
This morning's Today Show had a fascinating little segment on what's hot for 2012 in our supposed "superfoods." Among the contenders are kefir, jicama, chia seeds, and broccoli sprouts. I'm particularly interested in trying nutritional yeast, used like a seasoning. You can catch their video clip here.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
This Week's Hot New Deals (IMHO)
We have new sales starting on a snowy Boulder morning today at Sprouts and Sunflower, while Whole Foods' current sale continues through the 17th. As previously reported, Alfalfa's and Vitamin Cottage are in something of a limbo. Vitamin Cottage has some nice organic produce prices posted, but not their usual "hotline flyer," while Alfalfa's continues to post the flyer that expired December 20th. Here's what looks good to me in the new Sprouts and Sunflower sales (plus a little note about Lucky's Market below).
At Sprouts through January 18th, I'm particularly impressed by boneless skinless chicken breasts at $1.97 a pound for value packs. (Sunflower is doing 50% off chicken, making it hard to compare that price.) I'm also liking 41/50 count raw shrimp for $4.99 a pound, previously frozen wild caught Alaskan cod for $7.99 a pound, chicken sausage for $2.99 a pound, beef stew meat for $3.99 a pound, and turkey tenders or ground turkey breast both also $3.99 a pound. Previously frozen Alaskan sockeye salmon is $9.99 a pound, but Sunflower beats that with sockeye at $7.99 a pound. In a "buffalo stampede," a whole lot of bison is on sale. In organic produce, I definitely like grape tomatoes at $1.99 a pint, gala, Braeburn, red delicious, or Fuji apples, or D'Anjou pears all just 99 cents a pound, one pound bags of baby carrots for $1.50, and broccoli for $1.49 a pound (but see below regarding broccoli at Lucky's). Chobani Greek yogurts are $1 each, and Sprouts' wonderful bulk coffee, including Fair Trade organic decaf, is fantastic at $7.99 a pound.
At Sunflower through the 18th, family packs of several types of chicken parts are all 50% off. Wild caught (presumably previously frozen) sockeye salmon is $7.99 a pound, and whole or cut up chicken fryers are $1.49 a pound. In organic produce, red or green leaf lettuce are $1.50 a bunch, grape tomatoes are $2.50 a pint (but $1.99 at Sprouts), select Organic Girl salad blend clamshells are $2.50, jumbo russet potatoes are 99 cents a pound, and one pound of Cello carrots or bunched cilantro are 99 cents each. Noosa yoghurts are low at $1.50 for eight ounces (Sprouts effectively matching with twice the size for $2.99), and the 15ish ounce size cans of Muir Glen organic tomatoes are good at $1.50 each, although we've seen lower.
I don't usually cover Lucky's Market simply because I rarely get to their north Boulder neighborhood, but this week I might just have to make a pilgrimage, as they have organic broccoli for just 88 cents a pound. Lots of other specials like dry packed previously frozen wild scallops for $6.99 a pound might just seal the deal.
At Sprouts through January 18th, I'm particularly impressed by boneless skinless chicken breasts at $1.97 a pound for value packs. (Sunflower is doing 50% off chicken, making it hard to compare that price.) I'm also liking 41/50 count raw shrimp for $4.99 a pound, previously frozen wild caught Alaskan cod for $7.99 a pound, chicken sausage for $2.99 a pound, beef stew meat for $3.99 a pound, and turkey tenders or ground turkey breast both also $3.99 a pound. Previously frozen Alaskan sockeye salmon is $9.99 a pound, but Sunflower beats that with sockeye at $7.99 a pound. In a "buffalo stampede," a whole lot of bison is on sale. In organic produce, I definitely like grape tomatoes at $1.99 a pint, gala, Braeburn, red delicious, or Fuji apples, or D'Anjou pears all just 99 cents a pound, one pound bags of baby carrots for $1.50, and broccoli for $1.49 a pound (but see below regarding broccoli at Lucky's). Chobani Greek yogurts are $1 each, and Sprouts' wonderful bulk coffee, including Fair Trade organic decaf, is fantastic at $7.99 a pound.
At Sunflower through the 18th, family packs of several types of chicken parts are all 50% off. Wild caught (presumably previously frozen) sockeye salmon is $7.99 a pound, and whole or cut up chicken fryers are $1.49 a pound. In organic produce, red or green leaf lettuce are $1.50 a bunch, grape tomatoes are $2.50 a pint (but $1.99 at Sprouts), select Organic Girl salad blend clamshells are $2.50, jumbo russet potatoes are 99 cents a pound, and one pound of Cello carrots or bunched cilantro are 99 cents each. Noosa yoghurts are low at $1.50 for eight ounces (Sprouts effectively matching with twice the size for $2.99), and the 15ish ounce size cans of Muir Glen organic tomatoes are good at $1.50 each, although we've seen lower.
I don't usually cover Lucky's Market simply because I rarely get to their north Boulder neighborhood, but this week I might just have to make a pilgrimage, as they have organic broccoli for just 88 cents a pound. Lots of other specials like dry packed previously frozen wild scallops for $6.99 a pound might just seal the deal.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Cooking School Bake Sale Tomorrow
The Escoffier School of Culinary Arts (which everyone remembers as Culinary School of the Rockies) will hold its semi-annual bake sale tomorrow, featuring goodies from pastry chefs-in-the-making. I've never been before, and it sounds intriguing. Here's the word from the folks at Mile High on the Cheap:
Escoffier School of Culinary Arts' Bake Sale
Pastry arts students at Boulder’s Escoffier School of Culinary Arts (formerly the Culinary School of the Rockies) put on a much-anticipated bake sale a couple of times a year. From the appearance and the taste of the baked goods, you’d never know they aren’t yet pros. The next bake sale is on Wednesday, January 11, 4 to 7 p.m. Best to show up early before the sale is down to crumbs. All proceeds benefit the school’s scholarship fund. 637 S. Broadway (west side of Table Mesa Shopping Center), Boulder, 303-494-7988.
Escoffier School of Culinary Arts' Bake Sale
Pastry arts students at Boulder’s Escoffier School of Culinary Arts (formerly the Culinary School of the Rockies) put on a much-anticipated bake sale a couple of times a year. From the appearance and the taste of the baked goods, you’d never know they aren’t yet pros. The next bake sale is on Wednesday, January 11, 4 to 7 p.m. Best to show up early before the sale is down to crumbs. All proceeds benefit the school’s scholarship fund. 637 S. Broadway (west side of Table Mesa Shopping Center), Boulder, 303-494-7988.
One-Day Sale at Whole Foods Tomorrow
Our local Whole Foods stores will offer us a trio of special deals for tomorrow only, the 11th. Here's what they say:
On sale Wednesday Jan 11:
Wild Turbot Fillet
$11.99 lb
(save $5/lb)
GT's Kombucha
Kombucha
All Varieties
2 for $4
(save $0.99/ea)
BioChem Sports
Whey Protein Powder
$9.99/ea
(save $14/ea)
On sale Wednesday Jan 11:
Wild Turbot Fillet
$11.99 lb
(save $5/lb)
GT's Kombucha
Kombucha
All Varieties
2 for $4
(save $0.99/ea)
BioChem Sports
Whey Protein Powder
$9.99/ea
(save $14/ea)
Bison Sale Coming Up
Fans of bison might be interested in knowing that our local Sprouts is planning a "Buffalo Stampede" starting tomorrow and running through January 18th. It will feature Bear Mountain Bison, and Sprouts' flyer says "all natural buffalo - all cuts available!" Not much further price information at this point, except that ground buffalo will be $7.99 a pound.
Not Much Sale News Yet
I still can't offer much news about sales at Alfalfa's or Vitamin Cottage. Alfalfa's has the sale flyer that expired December 20th posted on their website, and the Natural Grocers site says there are currently no "hotline" sales for the Boulder Vitamin Cottage. The hotline sale is the big flyer, but they do have a little one for produce, which is always organic, yeay. I can at least tell you that bunched spinach, leaf lettuces (three types), kale (three types), and chard (three types) all should be $1.50 each, and there are a few other produce specials as well.
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