This Week's Hot Grocery Deals

We have a new sale starting today at our Sprouts stores in Boulder County, while the current sale continues at Whole Foods (scroll down through posts forlast week's report on that one).  I believe there's also a new one recently started at Vitamin Cottage, which I'll have to check out.  Here's what looking particularly good to me now.

Sprouts will kick off this weekend with another 72 hour sale, running from Friday the 8th through Sunday.  There are a number of items in the sale, but the ones particularly catching my eye are the grass-fed organic ground beef for an impressive $3.99 a pound, and jumbo avocados (and they really are big) for $1 each, although my fridge is already stocked with the smaller ones for controlled ripening.

In the regular Sprouts sale that runs through February 13th, I'm especially enthused about fresh asparagus for $1.49 a pound.  It's conventional, but asparagus so often is, and in the winter doldrums, I need a spring-like break from hard winter squash, much as I like butternut.  Boneless skinless chicken breasts are $1.99 in the value pack, and while I'm not familiar with "sirloin tip roasts or steaks," at $2.99 a pound, the steak might be useful cut up in something like a stir-fry or stew.  Whole, split, or cut up chickens are $1.29 a pound, and chicken Italian, parmesan (it's good), or bratwurst sausage are all $2.99 a pound.  In fish, fresh Atlantic (farmed) salmon fillets are $7.99 a pound, okay but certainly not as good as the $4.99 a pound they were two weeks ago.

In organic produce at the Sprouts sale, dry pints of grape tomatoes are $2.50 each, one pound bags of baby carrots are $1.25 each, five pound bags of russet potatoes have bumped up a bit to a still very good $2.50 a bag, bulk spring salad mix and spinach both remain great at $3.99 a pound ($6.99 elsewhere), and there are lots of deals on apples and pears.  Elsewhere in the store, select Cascadian Farms cereals look awfully good at $2.50, eight ounce Mozzarella Fresca fresh mozz cups are $3.99 each, and if you're looking for a dozen roses for your valentine, they're $16.99 for the dozen.