Month: May 2015

Happy Ad Wednesday!

Mother’s Day has flowers on sale in volumes not normally seen at the stores.  Screen shot 2015-05-05 at 9.54.48 PMHEB’s roses and Randalls tulips are the deals here.  Mom wants you to think of her AND save!

New York steak is $5.99/lb at Sprouts, and t-bones are at Fiesta for the same price with a Fiesta limit. Not cheap, but for steak that’s pretty good. The photo in  the Sprouts ad looks like a NY Strip steak, and I’ve never heard anything else called a New York steak, so I’m figuring that’s what it is. Use your monkey brain, though–if it doesn’t look like a strip don’t buy it!  5 oz lobster tails are also $5.99 at Sprouts, so if your mom is hoping for surf-n-turf, that might be your store this week.

I’ll be stocking up on the split chicken breasts at HEB, which I debone and vacu-seal for the freezer. Watermelon and corn are also on my list, and I’ll get a few dozen mangoes to dice for the freezer for smoothies/freezy pops.

Sprouts

(don’t forget double ad Wednesday, last week’s specials still on!)

large Hass avocados                             $1.50/ea  (C15)

whole seedless watermelon                $3.98/ea

organic large Roma tomatoes              98c/ea 

bulk coffee                                                $6.99/lb

French vanilla almond granola             $1.99/lb

red seedless grapes                                $1.98/lb (DD)

organic Fuji or Red Delicious apples    $1.50/lb (DD)

pineapples                                               $1.98/ea (C15)

boneless skinless chicken thighs          $1.99/lb

Fiesta

bscb                                                    $1.79/lb (Fiesta lmit)

boneless pork loin chops              $1.99/lb

medium live crawfish                     $1.99/lb

Ataulfo mangoes                               25c/ea  (C15)

Sunkist mandarins, 2lb sack          $1.99/ea

Cameo or Braeburn apples             99c/lb  (DD)

HEB

largeHass avocados                      $1.50/ea (C15)

Fuji apples                                         98c/lb  (DD)

pineapples                                        $1.98/ea  (C15) 

HCF split chicken breasts               $1.27/lb (older)

dozen roses                                         $7.87/ea (newer)

Boston butt pork roast, bone-in       $1.47/lb

Randalls

corn                                                         6/$1  (C15)

mini personal watermelon            $1.47 ea (limit 2)

boneless pork sirloin chops         $1.99/ea

General Mills cereals                    $1.99 ea  (12.25-oz. Honey Nut Cheerios, 13-oz. Reese’s Puffs, 11.25-oz. Cookie Crisp or 12.2-oz. Cinnamon Toast Crunch.)

10 stem tulips                                $5

Wheatsville

organic Gala apples, 3lb sack                $3.99/ea  ($1.33/lb) (DD)

organic grape tomatoes                          $1.99  (size/wt unknown, but likely pint)(DD)

Enjoy the sales, stay out of the rain, and if you’re going to have a crawfish boil get on that because they won’t be here too much longer!

Cheep Cheep!

Flyers:

$10 Dinner, Coming Up

Summer is my favorite season for meals. It’s so easy to just…not cook. Most of the summer we grill meat and I chop some vegetables. Maybe.  Not that I don’t love me some soup, casserole, and the occasional complicated thing from Marcella Hazan, who doesn’t?

Summer meals can have a certain simplicity that I look forward to as the days warm up.

Cheep, Easy Summer Dinner!

Cheep, Easy Summer Dinner!

For example, this meal involved boiling corn, grilling chicken, and slicing a few things.  A twenty minute meal that costs $10 (seriously, it’s exactly $10. I triple checked) and feeds the five of us and has leftover chicken? 

Cheep Cheep!

  • chicken             $5.52
  • blackberries      $1.54
  • avocados          $0.84
  • corn                   $0.60
  • tomatoes           $1.50

All of this was from one store, HEB, except the basil which was from the front yard.  Everyone had things they liked, and I’ve got chicken bones and skin for future projects.

What, you don’t render chicken skins sometimes when you’re bored? Just me? Ok. I’ll just be over here bagging up chicken skin.

If you’ve got a cheap summer meal you love, please share! I love hearing what other folks are eating.  When DH and I are apart, if he’s eaten a meal the first thing I always end up doing is a food quiz. Where did you eat? What did you order? Was it good? Did anyone else have something good?

Poor guy. I should probably work on my people skills.  In the meantime–did you make a good dinner? What was it? 

Cheep Cheep!

Grocery News–New Trader Joes is Open, and BIG sale at Whole Foods

The Seaholm Trader Joe’s is opening today, right on schedule.  They’ve got specials and balloons, according to reports, so I don’t see how you can resist.

In unrelated news, Whole Foods is having a sale at their downtown location.  Today only you’ll get 20% off any of their 365 Everyday Value products.  

Screen shot 2015-05-01 at 10.56.59 AMThese products range from almond butter to granola bars, vitamins to frozen vegetables. Even organic milk! So this is a pretty broad sale.

Stock the pantry up and enjoy the price wars!

Trader Joe’s Silly Thing This Week

Finally, a new Fearless Flyer.  A whole new crop of products to mock, and as always, with helpful Victorian Graphics!

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Dancing? Or fighting? Is there a difference?

This is 5oz of no-bacon-but-still-baconish and cheese popcorn, for $1.99.  In the realm of snack food, this isn’t the most you’ll pay for puffy salty carbs, but given popcorn you’d make in your house is an order of magnitude cheaper this stuff better be really bacon cheesetastic.

Which seems unlikely, given that there isn’t any bacon, just ‘bacon-ish natural smoke flavor’. So that vegetarians can get their bacon fix, I suppose.

The best part of the description is the mash-up quote from a  Beggin’ Strips/I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter commercial, where TJ’s thinks this product might have you saying, “I can’t believe it’s not bacon!”  (And whoa! check out the hair on that pups mom! and that FONT. Lord.) Because what you want to reference, when talking about your yummy snack food, is dog treat commercials from days of yore. That’s basic good sense, right there.  

Next we’ll see Chex Mix commercials using the Meow Mix theme song, but with the word ‘Chex’ instead of ‘Meow’. Chex chex chex chex, Chex chex chex chex, Chex, chex chex chex CHEX chex chex chex.

I’m not gonna lie. I might buy this one, if only to poll the citizenry of Chez Cheepie to see if this snack does taste like the promised bacon.  And so we can all just randomly bust out, “IT’S BACON!!!” as the feeling moves us.