Finally, we have news of the customary one-day sale happening at our local Whole Foods tomorrow (I was beginning to wonder), and it's a good one. Be still, my heart. My favorite two bite brownies will be on sale for tomorrow only at half price for just $2.50 a tub. They are sooooo good (with sincere apologies to my gluten-free friends). Dr. Bronners on sale also. Here are the details from Whole Foods:
One Day Sale
On Sale Wednesday, August 1st only:
Whole Foods Market
2 Bite Brownies
2 for $5
(save $2.49/ea)
Dr. Bronners - 32 oz.
Liquid Castile Soap - Peppermint,
Baby Mild, Lavendar and Tea Tree
$8.99/ea
(save $6.50/ea)
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
Gluten Free Athlete Tomorrow
The Pearl Street Whole Foods will present The Gluten Free Athlete tomorrow, the 31st, which will be both a presentation and a tasting. Note that they are wanting an RSVP, if interested. Here's what they say:
Tuesday, July 31st
The Gluten Free Athlete- Presentation and Tasting
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
FREE
Whole Foods Pearl Street East Patio
Join HES Lara Ulfers, MS, RD for this informative presentation on how to fuel up for optimal athletic performance while following a gluten-free diet. Join Lara on our East patio for this fascinating lecture. Participants will receive samples, recipes and great information. Please RSVP to boulderevents@wholefoods.com.
Tuesday, July 31st
The Gluten Free Athlete- Presentation and Tasting
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
FREE
Whole Foods Pearl Street East Patio
Join HES Lara Ulfers, MS, RD for this informative presentation on how to fuel up for optimal athletic performance while following a gluten-free diet. Join Lara on our East patio for this fascinating lecture. Participants will receive samples, recipes and great information. Please RSVP to boulderevents@wholefoods.com.
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Weekday Dinner Ideas
How quickly Sunday morning rolls around. Time for a short rundown of the rest of the week's dinner plans. Since grilling is dominating this weekend, I'll resort to tomorrow to make something big that will also serve as an easy reheat later in the week. My motivation for this on is a kind of reverse seasonality; here we are, almost in August, and I still have a bunch of roasted chiles in my freezer from last fall's roasting season. So with boneless center cut pork loin chops or roasts $2.99 a pound at both Sprouts and Sunflower, tomorrow's dinner will be New Mexican chile verde from Cooking Light. Organic leaf lettuce is $1.50 a head at both Sunflower (through Wednesday) and Whole Foods (through Tuesday) for the side salad.
We'll return to the bounty of the current moment for Tuesday's dinner, which will be pasta with corn, zucchini, and tomatoes from the New York Times. Although I don't like my organic veggies prepackaged, the six packs of organic romas for $2.50 at Sunflower are a pretty good deal.
Our usual easy reheat of something big will move to Wednesday this week, when the New Mexican chile verde will have its return engagement. Yet another salad will appear on the side, so it's a good week for salads.
I hope to grab some of the BelGioioso fresh mozzarella that's on sale at Sprouts through Wednesday ($3 for eight ounces) for Thursday's dinner, which will be an improvised risotto. My herb pots are going gangbusters, and I love a rice dish that starts with some sauteed onion (maybe a little garlic), into which the rice gets cooking. When that's done, it gets finished off with a couple of handfuls of coarsely chopped mixed fresh herbs, a bit of grated parmesan, and the fresh mozzarella. Mmmmm.
Which gets us through to Friday's planning. Happy Sunday.
We'll return to the bounty of the current moment for Tuesday's dinner, which will be pasta with corn, zucchini, and tomatoes from the New York Times. Although I don't like my organic veggies prepackaged, the six packs of organic romas for $2.50 at Sunflower are a pretty good deal.
Our usual easy reheat of something big will move to Wednesday this week, when the New Mexican chile verde will have its return engagement. Yet another salad will appear on the side, so it's a good week for salads.
I hope to grab some of the BelGioioso fresh mozzarella that's on sale at Sprouts through Wednesday ($3 for eight ounces) for Thursday's dinner, which will be an improvised risotto. My herb pots are going gangbusters, and I love a rice dish that starts with some sauteed onion (maybe a little garlic), into which the rice gets cooking. When that's done, it gets finished off with a couple of handfuls of coarsely chopped mixed fresh herbs, a bit of grated parmesan, and the fresh mozzarella. Mmmmm.
Which gets us through to Friday's planning. Happy Sunday.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Boulder Farmers' Market Today
It's a fine day to enjoy our Boulder Farmers' Market, running from 8 this morning to 2 this afternoon. Summer produce is in full swing; planning types can check out what to expect in advance by viewing the crop list. In addition to the usual suspects, there's produce I'd need to look up to find out about. Komatsuna? Trombocino squash? Calibacitp squash (that's not a typo, unless it's a typo on their website)? Never a dull moment in Boulder.
Friday, July 27, 2012
Coho Also Heading To The Freezer
Seeing the Coho salmon at today's one-day sale at Whole Foods (look a couple of posts below for details), I got so enthused, I bought some to freeze as well. After a season when I went way overboard freezing Copper River sockeye, I stopped with the freezing routine, but this Coho looks worth it. Besides, the Whole Foods fishmongers were encouraging taking some for the freezer, too, so I was operating on advice.
Weekend Dinner Ideas
Fortunately we're no longer seeing triple digit temperatures, but it's still pretty darned hot, so for tonight, I'm thinking of trying a recipe from the June issue of Cooking Light, Chinese noodle salad with sesame dressing. The reviews so far are only coming in at three stars, but light dishes like this seem to be received pretty well in my house.
Tomorrow and Sunday's dinners will be out on the grill, driven by the excellent one-day sales that Whole Foods has given us this week. Tomorrow will be the coho salmon I plan to pick up at today's one-day sale (see the post below this for details). With something so simple going on the grill, I can place more emphasis on the sides. For a lovely coho, I'm thinking of doing shaved zucchini salad with parmesan pine nuts from Bon Appetit. I always buy organic zucchini anyway, but for something like this, I'd say it's mandatory. Sunflower has three-packs of organic for $2.50 this week, but as I've mentioned before, this new development of prepacking it is bumming me out. What if I just want two zucchini? Or four?
The beautiful New York strip steaks from the other one-day sale this week at Whole Foods will hit the grill Sunday. Steaks scream fresh, local Munson's corn on the side. It could be simply as ears, but I'm thinking about something I haven't made for a couple of summers, succotash of fresh corn, lima beans, tomatoes, and onion from Bon Appetit. Edamame are an option in place of the lima beans, and both Sprouts and Sunflower have six-packs of organic roma tomatoes on sale for $2.50. (There are those darned packages again.)
Which quickly gets us through the weekend plans.
Tomorrow and Sunday's dinners will be out on the grill, driven by the excellent one-day sales that Whole Foods has given us this week. Tomorrow will be the coho salmon I plan to pick up at today's one-day sale (see the post below this for details). With something so simple going on the grill, I can place more emphasis on the sides. For a lovely coho, I'm thinking of doing shaved zucchini salad with parmesan pine nuts from Bon Appetit. I always buy organic zucchini anyway, but for something like this, I'd say it's mandatory. Sunflower has three-packs of organic for $2.50 this week, but as I've mentioned before, this new development of prepacking it is bumming me out. What if I just want two zucchini? Or four?
The beautiful New York strip steaks from the other one-day sale this week at Whole Foods will hit the grill Sunday. Steaks scream fresh, local Munson's corn on the side. It could be simply as ears, but I'm thinking about something I haven't made for a couple of summers, succotash of fresh corn, lima beans, tomatoes, and onion from Bon Appetit. Edamame are an option in place of the lima beans, and both Sprouts and Sunflower have six-packs of organic roma tomatoes on sale for $2.50. (There are those darned packages again.)
Which quickly gets us through the weekend plans.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
News From Sunflower
I've been opining about the arrival of prepackaged organic veggies at Sunflower, but the good news is that, at least today, they still had those same veggies available for you to choose individually, too. The pricing cuts both ways. I picked up a six-pack of organic romas, which was on sale for $2.50, because my menu plans happen to be able to accommodate six tomatoes quite quickly, while they'll still be good. This was fortunate timing, as my $2.50 six-pack weighed in at 1.5 pounds, while the price for the loose romas was $2.99 a pound, so those of you with a bit of a mind for math will quickly recognize how good the prepackaged deal was for me. Not necessarily so for the three-packs of organic zucchini at $2.50 each; the one I picked up weighed just a little over a pound (that's another issue - one would assume these packages must vary a bit in weight), while the bulk price was $1.99 a pound. A close call, with bulk probably the cheaper price.
The other news is that I chatted with one of the Sunflower employees, who's under the impression that our Boulder Sunflower will become a Sprouts next week. We've certainly been watching the underpinnings of this happening, as sales have increasingly merged and Sunflower has switched to Sprouts' fish provider. But it seems like there's still lots more to happen than just hanging a Sprouts sign out in front. Sunflower still seems to have quite a few of their own brand name products in the store, and I'm especially wondering what's going to become of the whole wheat organic pasta I've been buying for years for cheap at Sunflower, for which I've never seen anything comparable at Sprouts. Keeping in mind the comment of one Sunflower employee I overheard this afternoon, "Change is good."
The other news is that I chatted with one of the Sunflower employees, who's under the impression that our Boulder Sunflower will become a Sprouts next week. We've certainly been watching the underpinnings of this happening, as sales have increasingly merged and Sunflower has switched to Sprouts' fish provider. But it seems like there's still lots more to happen than just hanging a Sprouts sign out in front. Sunflower still seems to have quite a few of their own brand name products in the store, and I'm especially wondering what's going to become of the whole wheat organic pasta I've been buying for years for cheap at Sunflower, for which I've never seen anything comparable at Sprouts. Keeping in mind the comment of one Sunflower employee I overheard this afternoon, "Change is good."
One-Day Sale At Whole Foods Tomorrow
Our local Whole Foods stores will offer us an intriguing sale for tomorrow only, the 27th, with (presumably fresh) coho salmon at an excellent price for their fine fish. I have a vague impression that I prefer sockeye over coho (any salmon aficionados out there like to weigh in?), but the sockeye I've been buying elsewhere recently, while tasty, has also seemed exceptionally full of bones. I'm looking forward to scooping up some of this coho tomorrow. Here's what Whole Foods says:
One-Day Wild Salmon Sale!
This Friday only, our Alaska troll-caught Coho salmon will be on sale for just $8.99 a pound.
From fisheries certified sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council.
One-Day Wild Salmon Sale!
This Friday only, our Alaska troll-caught Coho salmon will be on sale for just $8.99 a pound.
From fisheries certified sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
This Week's Hot Grocery Deals (IMHO)
We have new sales starting today at our Boulder Sprouts and Sunflower (increasingly Sprouts/Sunflower as they continue their merger), while the current sale at Whole Foods continues through the 31st (click for that prior report). Here's what's particularly appealing to me in the new sales.
Sprouts and Sunflower seem to continue their sharing of meat and seafood specials, while organic produce specials diverge, although with some confluence as well (and a disturbing new development, see below). In the major protein category, the big news for both stores is fresh, wild caught Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets for $7.77 a pound, although as we approach August (!), I have to wonder if the season isn't winding down. Boneless center-cut pork loin chops (also roast) are $2.99 a pound. Lovers of baby back ribs might be interested in them at $2.77 a pound, and boneless ribeyes are $10.99 a pound, but otherwise, I'm finding the meat/seafood sales this week a bit "meh," a most apt term introduced to me by my friend, Ms. A.
For Sprouts through August 1st, the other big news is the return of their vitamin and body extravaganza, with everything in that department 25% off. In organic produce, celery is 99 cents a bunch and one pound containers of strawberries are a very good $2.99 each, both prices also the same at Sunflower. Organic red or green seedless grapes are $2.49 a pound, and Sunflower again offers the same on both, plus organic black grapes there at the same price. Sprouts does differ in one pound bags of organic baby carrots for $1.25 ($1.50 at Sunflower), kale $1.29 a bunch, five pound bags of red potatoes $3.99 each, and red plums $1.49 a pound (plus others - I only focus on what I'm interested in buying myself). I'm also enthused about Chobani Greek yogurts for $1 each (same at Sunflower) and three types of BelGioiosa fresh mozzarella at $3 for eight ounces, although in the past, the mozz has been out of stock when I've sought it.
At Sunflower through August 1st, in addition to the shared organic produce specials mentioned above (celery, strawberries, seedless grapes, at a minimum), I'm particularly enthused about organic broccoli at 99 cents a pound. Organic yams are 99 cents a pound, and organic red or green leaf lettuce or romaine are $1.50 a head. But this week I'm seeing a very disturbing newcomer on Sunflower's organic produce front; I've always vastly preferred buying my organic produce at Sunflower rather than Sprouts because Sunflower has generally offered it in bulk bins from which you can choose your selection, while Sprouts has favored organic produce that is pre-packaged in some instances. This week, Sunflower is advertising organic produce as packages that previously would have been by the pound: six-packs of romas for $2.50 and three-packs of zucchini or yellow squash, also $2.50. I'm not rushing to judgment, but I like to buy the amount of produce I want. What if my dish calls for one zucchini and one yellow squash? This could possibly drive me to buying more organic produce at Whole Foods, although there's often a punishment in the prices there. We'll see how this develops, but it makes sense that if their distribution systems are coming under one roof as Sunflower becomes Sprouts, this pre-packaged approach in organic produce is what we'll see. Not good news, to my mind.
Sprouts and Sunflower seem to continue their sharing of meat and seafood specials, while organic produce specials diverge, although with some confluence as well (and a disturbing new development, see below). In the major protein category, the big news for both stores is fresh, wild caught Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets for $7.77 a pound, although as we approach August (!), I have to wonder if the season isn't winding down. Boneless center-cut pork loin chops (also roast) are $2.99 a pound. Lovers of baby back ribs might be interested in them at $2.77 a pound, and boneless ribeyes are $10.99 a pound, but otherwise, I'm finding the meat/seafood sales this week a bit "meh," a most apt term introduced to me by my friend, Ms. A.
For Sprouts through August 1st, the other big news is the return of their vitamin and body extravaganza, with everything in that department 25% off. In organic produce, celery is 99 cents a bunch and one pound containers of strawberries are a very good $2.99 each, both prices also the same at Sunflower. Organic red or green seedless grapes are $2.49 a pound, and Sunflower again offers the same on both, plus organic black grapes there at the same price. Sprouts does differ in one pound bags of organic baby carrots for $1.25 ($1.50 at Sunflower), kale $1.29 a bunch, five pound bags of red potatoes $3.99 each, and red plums $1.49 a pound (plus others - I only focus on what I'm interested in buying myself). I'm also enthused about Chobani Greek yogurts for $1 each (same at Sunflower) and three types of BelGioiosa fresh mozzarella at $3 for eight ounces, although in the past, the mozz has been out of stock when I've sought it.
At Sunflower through August 1st, in addition to the shared organic produce specials mentioned above (celery, strawberries, seedless grapes, at a minimum), I'm particularly enthused about organic broccoli at 99 cents a pound. Organic yams are 99 cents a pound, and organic red or green leaf lettuce or romaine are $1.50 a head. But this week I'm seeing a very disturbing newcomer on Sunflower's organic produce front; I've always vastly preferred buying my organic produce at Sunflower rather than Sprouts because Sunflower has generally offered it in bulk bins from which you can choose your selection, while Sprouts has favored organic produce that is pre-packaged in some instances. This week, Sunflower is advertising organic produce as packages that previously would have been by the pound: six-packs of romas for $2.50 and three-packs of zucchini or yellow squash, also $2.50. I'm not rushing to judgment, but I like to buy the amount of produce I want. What if my dish calls for one zucchini and one yellow squash? This could possibly drive me to buying more organic produce at Whole Foods, although there's often a punishment in the prices there. We'll see how this develops, but it makes sense that if their distribution systems are coming under one roof as Sunflower becomes Sprouts, this pre-packaged approach in organic produce is what we'll see. Not good news, to my mind.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
One-Day Sale At Whole Foods Tomorrow
For tomorrow only, the 25th, our local Whole Foods stores will offer us a special sale that lovers of their fine beef will enjoy. Some might just have to go on my grill. Here's what they say:
One Day Sale
On Sale Wednesday, July 25th only:
Country Natural Beef
New York Strip Steak
$11.99/lb
(save $7/lb)
One Day Sale
On Sale Wednesday, July 25th only:
Country Natural Beef
New York Strip Steak
$11.99/lb
(save $7/lb)
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