And what an important week it is, with Christmas in the middle of it. We have new sales starting today at our Boulder Sprouts and Whole Foods. Vitamin Cottage probably also just started a new sale that I need to check out, since their prior one ended last weekend. Here's what's looking good to me now.
Sprouts' new sale runs through December 24th, which I'm taking as a good sign that they will be giving their employees Christmas Day off, unlike Thanksgiving when they were open (Whole Foods did the same in opening on Thanksgiving). In the new sale I'm liking value packs of boneless skinless chicken breasts for $1.99 a pound (although I have lots of those from Lucky's with their "never ever" standards in my freezer) and previously frozen wild Alaskan cod fillets for just $4.99 a pound. They also have impressive prices on the big Christmas dinner items like turkey or spiral-sliced ham (both $1.99 a pound), and their "presidential cut" rib roast ($7.99 a pound), which are all "all natural," undoubtedly a big jump from a really commercial, national supermarket chain, but I'm increasingly looking for a reassurance that they are also antibiotic-free, which I seldom see here. Hypocritical, since I do buy the chicken breasts all the time, unless pulling from my Lucky's stock in the freezer. Also, boneless pork shoulder roast or country style ribs are $2.49 a pound, stuffed chicken breast and all chicken sausage (pork too) are $2.99 a pound, and previously frozen wild Alaskan coho salmon fillets are $9.99 a pound.
In organic produce at Sprouts, $1.29 (a pound or each, as appropriate) seems to be the theme, with broccoli, green curly kale, garnet or jewel yams, celery, Pink Lady and Braeburn apples all at that price. Also, organic on-the-vine tomatoes are great for this time of year at $1.68 a pound and eggplant is stunning at 99 cents each. Elsewhere in the store, I'm liking Near East rice or couscous sides at $1.50 a box, and some Simply Organic spices half off regular price.
The new sale at Whole Foods runs through December 31st, and for this holiday season, it contains some big ticket items still at big ticket prices despite the sale, like king salmon fillets at $19.99 a pound, golden king crab legs $18.99 a pound, and 10/15 count jumbo shrimp $17.99 a pound, but the $6 lobster tail sale has returned, good news. In meat, their very fine American Homestead or Wellshire spiral sliced hams look good at $4.99 a pound. Produce is on a more realistic plane, with satsumas $1.99 a pound, three pound bags of organic yellow onions $3 each, and organic Granny Smith or Braeburn apples three pounds for $5 (which works out to $1.66 a pound, so the organic Braeburns for $1.29 at Sprouts are a better deal). I'm liking take and bake pepperoni pizzas at $7.99 each, although they recently downsized their pizzas dramatically, and yummy Cotswold cheese is basically half off at $9.99 a pound.
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