Here we are again. Me, checking out the ads and lining them up neatly for you. The cool weather is rolled in, which means my brain has a whole section devoted to reminding me to cook all the things. The stores are ramping up the sales on all things Thanksgiving, and we will not speak of the atrocious December holiday displays already invading. I’ve got a couple of Turkey Alerts, which kind of make up for deals being thin on the ground this week. Hopefully things pick up a bit next week in the headlong rush to the holidays.
Happy shopping, Cheepsters!
Fiesta
- Fiesta evaporated milk, 12oz 69c/ea
- Fiesta frozen vegetables, 16oz 99c/ea (select varieties)
Turkey Alert: Jennie-O frozen turkeys are 47c/lb, for the 10-20lbs sizes.
Sprouts
- blueberries, 6oz. $1.25/ea
- cucumbers 33c/ea
- yellow or zucchini squash 50c/lb
- Hass avocados 50c/ea (it doesn’t say size, but it’s small ones)
- red seedless grapes 97c/lb
- bulk oats 79c/lb
Central Market
- organic red or green pears $1.47/lb
HEB
- Ambrosia apples 97c/lb
- red seedless grapes 97c/lb
Turkey Alert: You can get a frozen RiverSide turkey (up to 12lbs) when you buy an HEB Spiral ham, with a coupon. The smaller hams go quick, so you might need to try a few times to get a non-gigantic ham! They’ll also apply a credit to those turkeys larger than 12lbs. One per customer.
Randalls
- Hass avocados, medium 50c/ea
- SS fryer chickens, drums, thighs 69c/lb limit 4
- SS canned beans, tomatoes, vegetables 49c/ea must buy 4 or more
- pork butt or pork picnic roast 99c/lb Sat-Mon. whole in bag
- Lucerne shredded cheese, 7-8oz $1/ea limit 5, Friday only
Turkey Alert: Signature Farms or Honeysuckle White turkeys, frozen, for 79c/lb for turkeys 10lbs and up.
SS=Signature Select, the Randalls store brand.
Fried Munster cheese. Why is this not done more often? 
2018’s drink was the Moscow Mule. Applications being accepted for 2019. 
Beets. I didn’t see it coming, but this year was the one where I became a beet-lover. 
Still laugh whenever I think of this. 
This one banana, ticked at the world. 
These were just the prettiest, sweetest figs. 
Gluten-free Brazilian cheese bread, so much cheaper when home-made! 
Throwback packaging with futuristic pricing. $1 more per can! 
Who decided this? They were wrong. 
I can’t even remember what flavor this was because it is so unrelentingly gray. 
Three pounds of boil-in-a-bag goulash. Who buys this? I mean, I think it’s boil-in-a-bag. The label can’t be the only boilable part, right?
I know who buys this. 
$10 for baking spray is too much. Even if it is duck fat. Also: I feel like this would clog. 
Cheese Glut 2: Electric Boogaloo. 
This was just next to the register when I went to quickiemart for coffee. There were different flavors. It was tough to cope. 
My favorite, a Christmas gift of cheese! 
I finally got my coffee routine, bean, and gear all sorted out this year. Whew. 
Fiesta, I love you.
I came up with three ways to cook this giant daikon radish. I’m very, very sure I do not like daikon radishes. 
I have read a lot of grocery circulars. Probably more than anyone not actively involved in their production. This wins them all.
Their hook is that they’re selling the produce that for one reason or another isn’t acceptable to grocery store buyers. This sounds like a bad plan, but most of us don’t work within the specific parameters that stores do. I’m happy with a apple that is small, or a pear that has an odd line on the skin. A sweet potato that’s weirdly knobby, or a beet that is oddly huge, is fine eating in my kitchen. The hope is that getting this produce sold will help farmers, save resources and reduce waste. My account has an ongoing tally of the ways these purchases help. 
Here’s the list, and I think we’re in the between-seasons lull where all the stores are re-setting from summer to fall. Yes, I know that the Halloween stuff is all out already, and some Christmas stuff, but the actual food is still peaches and watermelons slam up against pumpkin patches. What I’m getting at is that deals are thinner on the ground than usual, but I’m here to walk you through it.
Also: Central Market has a very pretty looking Bundt cake for $7.99. Their bakery makes some lovely tasty things, most beyond my own wallet, but this is a pretty that’s within reach if you’re wanting a treat this weekend.
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