This Week's Hot Grocery Deals (IMHO)

We have new sales starting today at our Boulder Sprouts and Whole Foods, while the current one continues at Vitamin Cottage through November 2nd (this week, look to the post just below for that).  Lucky's Market also has a new sale, and my conflict continues regarding whether to take the time to write about what's going on at the Longmont store, since I can get there, unlike the north Boulder store.  Here's what's looking good to me now.

At Sprouts through October 23rd, the big news is asparagus for $1.68 a pound.  It's conventional, but asparagus most often is.  Since I'm still resisting heading into autumn foods like butternut squash, maybe I'll do a 180 degree turn back into spring dishes this week.  In meat and seafood, previously frozen really huge raw Gulf shrimp look tempting at $8.99 a pound, whole or cut-up chickens are $1.59 a pound (but see below also for a special at Lucky's), ground chicken is good at $2.99 a pound, boneless country style ribs are $2.49 a pound, fresh Atlantic salmon fillets (that means farmed, looks like we've finally moved out of wild season) are $7.99 a pound, and I'm curious about flash-frozen swordfish steaks at $6.99 a pound, as I once caught domestic ones on sale at Sprouts, although they more usually come from southeast Asia.  Also, in an Oktoberfest Sausage Bonanza, all fresh sausage is $2.99 a pound.

In organic produce at Sprouts, one pound bags of baby carrots are $1.50 each, jewel or garnet yams are $1.29 a pound, Italian squash (think zucchini) is $1.49 a pound, butternut squash is 89 cents a pound, five pound bags of russet, red or Yukon potatoes are $3.99 each, three pound bags of yellow onions are $2.99 each, Bartlett pears are $1.49 a pound, and gala apples are $1.25 a pound.  Elsewhere in the store, the big emphasis is a sale on Sprouts' own brand, with many options featured.

Whole Foods has a new sale lasting through October 29th, but as of this writing, they haven't put up the full sale flyer online (it's still the one for the sale that ended yesterday).  But they do have a few featured sales posted, from which I'm liking their own autumn couscous at $6.99 a pound, $3 off, and Goodbelly probiotic juice at $3 each.  The sale on organic gala apples for $1.99 a pound doesn't do much for me when organic galas are $1.25 a pound at Sprouts this week.

For at least one more week, I'll mention something about the sale starting today at the new Lucky's Market in Longmont, but very quickly, as I've run out of time to write.  The total stunner is organic honeycrisp apples at just 99 cents a pound.  Honeycrisps have something of a cult status in Boulder, and are usually closer to $3 a pound.  New York strip steaks (doesn't specify bone) are $6.99 a pound, whole frying chickens (with Lucky's "never ever" standards promising no antibiotics) are fabulous at $1.69 a pound, house-made Korean pork or beef short ribs are $3.69 a pound, and 16 to 20 count wild Gulf shrimp (fresh/frozen not specified) are $8.99 a pound.  Organic cluster tomatoes are just as stunning as those honeycrisp apples at just 99 cents a pound, and there's a slew of other organic produce also at 99 cents (either per pound or each, as appropriate): local acorn, butternut or spaghetti squash, one pound bags of baby carrots (fantastic), green, red or lacinato kale bunches, romaine lettuce bunches, yellow onions, red pears, and curly or Italian parsley or cilantro, wow.