Fred’s Grocery List

I have to say — I am very biased, but I love Jamba Juice’s new Berry Cherry Pecan Oatmeal. It looks like this:

Berry Cherry Pecan Oatmeal

and it tastes great. Dried cranberries, cherries, and blueberries combined with a crunchy glazed pecan (some have described it as tasting like an oatmeal cookie, others say that they would snack on it all day).

You can get it for $1 between December 7th and 11th by printing out a coupon from http://oatmealforabuck.com .

Jamba Juice Oatmeal for a Buck

enjoy!

$3.79 / 12 oz bag of organic almonds ($5.05 / lb)
$3.99 / 3 lb bag of organic honeycrisp apples ($1.33 /lb)
$2.79 / lb of whole organic chicken
$1.99 / lb of organic chicken drumsticks
chocolate covered crisps. mmmmm

Oooh… Definitely check out Mollie Stone’s for their one day produce sale on Wednesday if you can make your way out there:
great prices on organic figs (2.48/basket), broccolini ($1.88/bunch), and grapes ($1.48/lb). They also have some new crop organic apples coming in from Washington and CA for $0.99/lb. This is when I wish there were at least one Mollie Stone’s market in the East Bay…

I can’t believe I haven’t been buying more figs. I also can’t believe that I haven’t bought any of those organic heirloom tomatoes at safeway for $1.99/lb. Definitely a killer deal. Better go stock up on those and have my last summer greens/tomatoes before the colder weather sets in.

Safeway:
*****Organic Heirloom Tomatoes @ $1.99/lb
*Post Honey bunches of Oats @ $1.50 (must buy 4 and use coupon in-ad)

Raleys:
*** Cheerios, Fruit by the Foot, Betty Crocker Baking stuff..etc @ $1.50/ea (must buy 10 General Mills items)
**Crest @ $1.50/ea

Short post this week, but if you’re bored, go check out the crazy nytimes article about making beer by using salivary enzymes to convert starches to sugars in corn…  mmm. now I’m hungry.

Yup. It’s that time of year again.

Fig season officially starts (for me) when Trader Joe’s starts running those crazy $3.29/lb containers of California grown Organic Figs. I picked up two lbs of the greenish-yellow ones and two lbs of mission figs today. The photo is from last year (lazyness).

If you haven’t tried a fresh fig, then you really owe it to yourself to go out and try a box. If you don’t eat organic food (why not?) then you could always get the conventional ones for $2.99 at trader joes… But at that price, why bother with conventional?

In case you wanted to know what other specials were going on (why would you? just eat figs…), there are some nice organic produce sales going on at Safeway.

Safeway:
*******Organic Red Seedless Grapes @ $0.89/lb
******Organic Heirloom Tomatoes @ $2.79/lb
***Organic Broccoli @ $0.99/ea
**Cornish Game Hens @ $0.99/lb (Fri+weekend only)

Raley’s / Nob Hill:
******Organic White Nectarines @ $1.49/lb
****Kellogg’s Nutrigrain or Fiber Plus bars @ $1.49/ea (must buy 4)

And in case you read this far, I have to tell you about my Safeway shopping trip last weekend. I walked in trying to spend my $3 off of $10 worth of produce Catalina coupon. So I ended up getting a bag of Organic Green Grapes (eck. sour) and Organic Red Grapes (mmm. better) @ $1.99/lb (this week it’s $0.89/lb!!). And then I was wandering around and ended up checking out with this nagging feeling that I was missing something. When I finished checking out, the cashier handed me a long string of Catalina coupons including one with… whaddya know, a coupon for $1 off a seedless watermelon. The funny thing is that I wanted to get one of those at the $2.77/ea price that they were on sale for. With a $1 off coupon in hand, how could I resist going back in and grabbing myself a watermelon (for $1.77?!?!?!)?

Have you gotten a watermelon for cheaper than $0.12/lb? 15 lbs of watermelon later… Well, now I have a watermelon but no idea what to do with it. Anyone want some watermelon smoothies? Come find me.

Many weeks have passed by and I’ve been a bit MIA. I guess there’s some correlation with not doing much grocery shopping. Anyway, I’m kind of back in the swing of things this week as stone-fruit season winds it’s way down. In case you were wondering, I’ve been doing a fair bit of my produce shopping at Berkeley Bowl West. This week, I got organic plums @ $1.69/lb, organic bing cherries @ $1.90/lb (in 3 lb box), organic figs @ $4.59/lb (yay. figs), and organic white peaches @ $1.99/lb. I was tempted by the heirloom tomatoes there, but they were a bit more pricey at >$4/lb, whereas almost every other conventional grocery in town is offering them at around $3/lb.

Today, I wandered through Trader Joe’s and picked up some random stuff. I found a strange pricing scheme for organic eggs — the same price ($3.99) for a dozen of extra large brown eggs as the jumbo sized ones. Anyway, at TJ’s I got some organic chicken legs that I plan on stewing in some soy sauce + garlic + sugar, some dried mango (just dried mango, nothing added) and an “organic multi grain beverage” or something similar ($1.99 for 32 oz). I thought I’d give the “beverage” a shot. The organic chicken legs are because I’m lazy this week and will not be roasting two chickens (like I did when I got the 2-pack at Costco for $2.29/lb, vs TJs @ $2.69/lb, or Raley’s Nob Hill @ $2.79/lb)… Oh! And I stopped by costco last week and got fresh wild sockeye salmon @ $7.99/lb — i ended up with a bit more than 2 lbs of it. I salted one fillet and cut+bag+froze the other one. I survived on that one fillet for about 4 days.

Raley’s Nob Hill:
*******bulk organic short grain brown rice @ $1.39/lb
****organic heirloom tomatoes @ $2.99/lb
***lean cuisine $2/ea (probably non-meat entrees)
**cheez-it crackers @ $1.47 if you buy 4 boxes

Mollie Stone’s:
****organic grapes @ $1.49/lb
***organic broccoli @ $1.29/ea
***organic heirloom tomatoes @ $2.99/lb

Safeway:
organic red and green grapes @ $1.99/lb
Watermelon @ $2.77 /ea