This Week's Hot New Deals (IMHO)

We have new sales starting today for our Boulder Sprouts, Sunflower, and Whole Foods, while current sales continue at Alfalfa's and Vitamin Cottage (click those links for prior reports). Here's what's most appealing to me of the new sales, IMHO, as always.

Sprouts through the 24th continues to offer us wild fresh Alaskan salmon, this time coho at $8.99 a pound. I'll also investigate the swordfish they have for $9.99 a pound (I'd think that couldn't possibly be fresh, but Sprouts did surprise me once on that front.) Smallish 41/50 count ez peel raw shrimp look good at $3.99 a pound, all varieties of pork are 40% off, all fresh sausage is $2.99 a pound, and beef stew meat is $3.99 a pound ($4.99 at Sunflower). In organic produce, red or green leaf lettuce looks great at 99 cents a head, yellow peaches are $1.99 a pound, red plums are just 99 cents a pound, baby carrots are $1.50 for a one pound bag, Italian squash (think zucchini) is $1.49 a pound, and broccoli is $1.29 a pound (but Sunflower beats that with $1 a pound). Shredded cheese is 30% off, and they have a great price on the big 100 ounce jug of Seventh Generation laundry detergent at $10.99 each (dish liquid also looking good at $2.49 each).

At Sunflower through the 24th, family packs of boneless skinless chicken breasts look good at $1.99 a pound, large 16/25 count broken shrimp are $5.99 a pound (I wonder how broken is broken), and fresh Rosie organic chicken fryers are $2.99 a pound. Organic produce looks particularly good, with broccoli $1 a pound, hothouse tomatoes $1.99 a pound, carrots $1.50 a bunch, strawberries $2.99 for a whole pound, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries all $2.99 for six ounces, and either russet potatoes or red onions at $1 a pound. Select MaraNatha no stir peanut butters are $2.99 a jar (but Vitamin Cottage has the non-organic for $2.89 and the organic for $3.19). Grated parmesan or romano are good at $4.99 a pound, their own sharp cheddar is $3.99 a pound, and I still need to try their new aged Parmesan from Wisconsin at $7.99 a pound.

Longtime readers (thank you!) know I'm nuts over chiles from New Mexico, most commonly called Hatch, so the new sale starting at Whole Foods today, running through the 30th, is driving me absolutely crazy with its Hatch chile options. First of all, the raw chiles themselves (unroasted) are $1 a pound. Moving into their own wonderful Market Made preparations, you'll find Hatch green chile wild salmon burgers for $7.99 a pound, beef or turkey Hatch green chile burgers for $3.99 a pound, and the ultimate temptation, Hatch chile mac & cheese for $4.99 a pound (be still, my heart). There's also a heart-pounder for me in organic produce: Black Mission figs for $2.99 a pound (try them on the grill, wrapped with pancetta and skewered). Other organic produce looks good too, with green seedless grapes $1.99 a pound, red or black plums also $1.99 a pound (but the organic reds are 99 cents a pound at Sprouts through the 24th), and raspberries $3 for six ounces (basically matching the Sunflower sale on that one). Stonyfield organic yogurts look great at 50 cents each, and select Back to Nature cookies are good at $2.50 a box. Their own large cinque formaggio pizza is very good at $7.99 each (try dressing it up with Yves veggie pepperoni) and two of their fine cheeses (Robusto and Australian cheddar) are very significantly discounted. This sale looks like Whole Foods is extending the celebratory mood for their Pearl Street re-opening all the way through the end of the month!