This Week's Hot Deals (IMHO)

We have new sales starting today at our Boulder Sprouts and Sunflower, while current sales continue at Alfalfa's, Whole Foods (both of those through August 30th), and Vitamin Cottage (way through September). Click on those links for my prior reports. Here's what I'm seeing as the best of the new sales.

At Sprouts through August 31st, a "chicken breast extravaganza" has seven types all 50% off, including cutlets, scaloppini, and ground. Their stuffed chicken breasts are $3.99 a pound, and boneless ribeye steaks are $9.99 a pound. Fresh wild coho salmon is $7.99 a pound and Alaskan cod is also $7.99 a pound (but catch that at Whole Foods instead, today only, for $6.99 a pound). They're doing a 72 hour sale this Friday through Sunday, with my favorite stuffed clams or their shrimp skewers at 99 cents each, Hass avocados for 88 cents, and roasted almonds just $2.99 a pound. Back to the week-long sale, in organic produce, bananas are 67 cents a pound, seedless red or green grapes are $1.99 a pound (same for green at Whole Foods), yellow peaches are $1.99 a pound, cantaloupe are 69 cents a pound, romaine heart three-packs are $1.99 each, and three pound bags of yellow onions are $1.99 each. Also, Chobani Greek yogurts look great at $1 each, as does a big 32 ounce tub of Stonyfield organic yogurt for $2.50.

While Sprouts is discounting chicken breasts, Sunflower is going for steaks through the 31st, with eight varieties of steak all 40% off. They're joining the Hatch chile celebration, with the chiles themselves 77 cents a pound, green chile pork sausage $2.99 a pound, and gourmet green chile burgers $3.99 a pound (same for the burgers at Whole Foods). The organic produce deals are abundant, too many to list, so here are my favorites: baby carrots just $1 a one pound bag, green onions 50 cents a bunch, celery 99 cents a bunch, garnet or jewel yams $1.88 a pound, grape or cherry tomatoes $2.50 for 10 ounces, red or yellow onions 99 cents a pound (a little cheaper for the yellow by the bag at Sprouts), and cantaloupe $2 a melon. If you're okay with conventional for hard squash (I am), here's a spooky portent of fall: the new crop from Colorado of acorn, spaghetti, and butternut squash, all at 88 cents a pound. There are also good deals in dairy, with the best price I've ever seen on Noosa yoghurt at $1.50 an eight ounce container (previous winner was Alfalfa's current sale, $1.89), and select Horizon organic milk is $2.79 a half gallon. Finally, their own hummus is $2.50 for eight ounces, and select Newman's Own organic cookies are 33% off.

Wow, that's a lot of good sales, plus I'm particularly enamoured of the current sale at Whole Foods that runs through next Tuesday (Hatch green chile mac & cheese, anyone?).