This Week's Hot Grocery Deals (IMHO)

We have a new sale starting today at our Boulder Sprouts stores, while the current ones continue at Whole Foods through December 3rd, and at Vitamin Cottage through December 14th.  Here's what's looking good to me now.

Sprouts' new sale runs through Thanksgiving day, the 28th, when they'll be open from 7am to 4pm.  Not so sure I like holiday grocery hours unless they're giving their staff some really good incentives, but then Black Friday now starts on Thanksgiving too.  In any case, there are good deals on chicken, with more poultry being the last thing on my mind for Thanksgiving week.  Value packs of boneless skinless chicken breasts are $1.77 a pound, whole, split or cut up chickens are $1.59 a pound, and previously frozen jumbo Cornish hens (that jumbo part is a little scary for a Cornish hen) are $1.99 a pound.  Bone-in beef standing rib roasts are $9.99 a pound, and for a smaller table option, boneless ribeye steaks are $10.99 a pound.  Another smaller table option is bone-in half or whole turkey breasts at $2.99 a pound.  In fish, stuffed scallops, crab or clams are fantastic at 99 cents each (you heat them in the shell).  I'm not so sure their ingredient list would pass muster at some other stores, but I swear the stuffed clams are divine, and such an easy appetizer for a crowd.  Also, fresh (farmed) Atlantic fillets are $7.99 a pound.

In organic produce at Sprouts, one pound bags of baby carrots, green curly kale, celery, and gala or Granny Smith apples are all $1.49, being a pound, a bunch, or per package, as appropriate.  Garnet or jewel yams are 99 cents a pound, baby broccoli is $2.50 for six ounces, and green beans are $2.50 a pound.  Elsewhere in the store, the big news is my favorite (but "select") Imagine organic broths at $2 a box, beating out even Vitamin Cottage's current sale at $2.29.  I love how the price competition heats up on such a cooking staple during the holidays.  I don't know what they mean by "bulk specialty coffee" at $5.99 a pound, but I'm betting that's not including my favorite decafs.  Some Spice Hunter spices and extracts are half price for your baking, Voskos Greek yogurts are $1 each, and the 15ish ounce size of Muir Glen organic canned tomatoes is $1.50, but even better for $1.25 at Vitamin Cottage.