I’m squeaking in under the wire to get the post up on Wednesday this week. I blame the equinox and Mercury retrograde. Or binge watching The West Wing. Reader’s choice.  Moving on…

Chicken leg quarters are at close to the lowest I’ve ever seen, which was 19c/lb about a decade ago.  Yes, it’s a huge bag and you’ve got to get them into freezable portions, but 28c/lb is seriously cheap chicken! When I freeze these, I split the leg from the thigh, but at this price I don’t mind spending a bit of time. This post details my thinking on how to cope with 20lbs of chicken legs.  My joke with DH is that it’s weird when chicken legs are often cheaper than the same mass of firewood, and has me thinking about things like how interesting it might be to throw chicken and rosemary in the fireplace and call it a day.

Central Market Garlic Fest continues. As far as I can tell, this means they’ve got a wider variety of garlic for sale than usual, and the faint tang of burnt garlic hangs over everything (at least on Saturday at the south location, maybe they were training a new garlic guy).

Sprouts has got apples and peaches for 48c/lb, which is a price that will have me making applesauce and freezing peaches. 

There are also some pantry staples worth stocking up on this week:

Del Monte canned tomato sauce is 79c/24oz. Yes, it’s a can of sauce, but since I’m going to add stuff to it anyway I’ve found it useful to have some around. They’re at Fiesta, along with the 99c bags of rice and cheap peanut butter.  Tuna and canned vegetables are super cheap at Randalls, but only from Fri-Sun. 

Finally, with Fall come the  Apple Wars. I’ll be listing the cheapest conventional and organic options, as well as good deals on some of the varieties that are popular.  Also with fall? Pomegranates! They’ll be 99c soon, but for now WF and Fiesta have them for $1.49. Yay Fall!

Randalls

split chicken breasts                                                    88c/lb

Honeycrisp apples                                                     $1.77/lb (DD)

Blue Bell half gallons, selected varieties                $4.88/ea

Gatorade, 32oz, selected varieties                            79c/ea

3 day sale: Fri-Sun ONLY

Del Monte canned vegetables, selected varieties     49c/ea

StarKist chunk light tuna, 5oz                                          50c/ea

HEB

black seedless grapes                                                            87c/lb (DD)

EZ Peel xl raw frozen white shrimp, 2lb bag                        $5.97/lb (farm raised)

Sprouts

yellow peaches                                                               48c/lb (DD)

Gala apples                                                                     48c/lb (DD)

organic red, green or black seedless grapes             $1.98/lb (DD)

organic kale bunch                                                         98c/ea (DD)

organic carrots, 5lb bag                                              $2.98/ea

Luna bars, select varieties                                              88c/ea

L&A juice, select varieties                                                $2/ea

Fiesta

green bell peppers                                                       33c/ea (DD)

large avocados                                                              69c/ea (C15)

large pomegranates                                                      $1.49/ea 

pork blade steak                                                           99c/lb (Fiesta limit)

chicken leg quarters, large bag                                    28c/lb (Fiesta limit)

El Molino white corn tortillas, 4lbs                                 $1.49/ea

Del Monte pasta sauce, 24oz can                                  79c/ea

Fiesta peanut butter, 16.3oz                                           $1/ea

Goya Canilla rice, long grain or parboiled, 3lb bag         99c/ea (limit 2)

Whole Foods

red or green seedless grapes                                           98c/lb (DD)

organic Gala apples                                                       $1.99/lb (DD)

organic pomegranates                                                    $1.49/ea 

Wheatsville

organic Fuji apples                                                             $2.29 (DD)

Weekly Flyer Links

• HEB: grackle     less grackle
• Fiesta
• Sprouts
• Randalls
• Wheatsville: meat & produce    everything else
• Central Market
• Trader Joes