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Kroger bought Murray's Cheese

I thought "oh, that's smart. They can put Murray's branded cheese shops in all their stores." But they've been doing that for years, and I'm behind the times.

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Hmmm. What to cook for the Super Bowl

It's the only time of year I can ever remember seeing wings on sale. Food Bazaar has a 5 lb bag of frozen ones for $10. Which is still a rip off compared to the usual $0.50/lb I like to pay for quartered legs. But it's a special occasion. I think someone else might bring wings to my party and save me the trouble of spending $10. If I make the wings, I'd make a variation of Melissa Clark's green goddess roast chicken.

Key Food's sales are lackluster, except a pound of Galbani mozzarella for $3.

C-Town has Frank's Red Hot on sale, which I will need for my infamous Buffalo Chicken Jello Salad.  And Wishbone salad dressing for $0.79. Bleu cheese dressing is another ingredient in my masterpiece. C-Town has sour cream on sale for $1. I'll need that since I am going to make nachos. I can't inflict only savory gelatin on my guests.

Cock-a-leekie

Yesterday was Burns Night, so I looked at Scottish cuisine on wikipedia. I can't make haggis, but cock-a-leekie seemed easy enough. It's chicken (cock) and leek (ie) soup.

Graham Market/Finefare sells leeks for $0.89 each. That seems like a good price, but now I have to look everywhere else. I watched a Jacques Pepin video about how to prep leeks and he said they are expensive.

Here's the video. It's about 2 minutes.

Eggplant Emoji

Eggplant is on sale at Bravo for $0.79/lb this week, and my exroommate made me a good pasta dish with sausage last night, so I bought eggplant at Bravo and sausage at Associated and some other stuff and fed people.

Now I'm eating leftovers and I think all I fed people was fat and salt. Which people like

I need to go to Trade Fair

Since my last post, I talked about Heinz BBQ sauces in an interview to get into grad school, then I got in. Good ol' groceries. And then I packed a sandwich of peanut butter, pickles, and barbecue sauce every day.

And I made a friend who moved to Astoria who told me about Trade Fair and now I need to go there. They have 10 pounds of onions on sale for $2. They sell a 32 pound BOX of oil.

I hope I don't end up biking over the Pulaski Bridge with 42 pounds of food I don't need. Heaven and my roommates know that I do not need more oil.

New Heinz Barbecue Sauces

I was in Western Beef yesterday (which I don't like anymore because it's not cheap anymore) and I saw Heinz BBQ sauces. Those are new. Heinz used to (still does?) make Jack Daniels sauce. Heinz merged with Kraft, which has cheap sauces. This article explains how they'll be different. (In short, Heinz ones are fancier.) I don't eat a lot of barbecue sauce and I have too many condiments in my refrigerator already, but I'd like to try the vinegary Carolina style one.

Cheapest avocados in American history?

Key Food has avocados on sale for $0.65 each, which is the cheapest I've ever seen. I wonder if that's the cheapest they've ever been. A long time ago, when you could get a can of tuna for a dime, I doubt avocados were cheap. They were probably more of a luxury good. Now we have NAFTA.

Cheap pork butts

Associated has pork butts for $0.79/lb. Time to make vaguely Vietnamese pork tacos. They're so good.

The flyers were liars!

Key Food said it would have 16 oz Polly-O mozzarella on sale for $1.99, but there was no sign. I ended up only getting peanut butter, 2 for $4 (must by 2 :( ). Then Associated didn't have a sign on the Spike salsa, which was supposed to be $1.69.

I hope Bravo actually has tuna on sale tomorrow. $0.69/can.

I got lots of good deals at Bravo.

Frozen broccoli for $1/lb. Pinto beans for $1.19. Cabbage for $0.33/lb. Muenster for, well, I forget but it was cheap. I went when I was hungry and bought everything. Then Eric went later and bought 40 pizza rolls for $3 and we ate them with ranch dressing and got fat. I'm going to go back for a dozen jumbo eggs for $2. I don't buy fancy eggs anymore because I'm out of money.

 

Bravo Mint

I've been shopping at Bravo a bit more lately, mostly to buy potatoes. This mint price is absurd. Cilantro was only $0.79. I guess they want you to eat that.