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Superstore (Loblaws) has Beef Tenderloin this week @ $10.88 lb.
I actually missed it in the flyer but luckily saw it when I was about to buy chickens @ $1.77 lb.

Of course they rarely have it smaller than logs so I bought one for $72 :ohmy: and it's now cut and Ziplocked into three pieces for roasts or steaks and a fourth part for a likely stroganoff.

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No beef tenderloin on sale at my local stores.

No Frills has pork chops boneless for $4.97/lb for the family size club pack.

Ground Beef $3.47/lb

Next flyer starting tomorrow

Loin Combo chops $3.97/lb
Skinless chicken breast $4.97/lb
Bone in striploin steak $9.97/lb
Beef Braising ribs $7.97/lb

Don't know what a whole chicken goes for these days, typically the cooked in store whole chicken is cheaper than a raw whole chicken so I just buy the cooked one every so often.

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Here that depends where from.
Certainly the permanent cooked price in Walmart is a good deal if you buy them in pairs (2 for $15) or one plus portions or something. Then they are $7.50 each, and $9 or $10 depending on which other store.
And they are usually a bit bigger than the uncooked ones typically $10-$13.

But the offers come around often enough when they're between $5 and $7, beating all but Walmart but they're only good if you're there and that's rare for me.

I also got over $15 worth of points on my beef :thumbup:

I cashed in $60 worth and left with an extra $35 thanks to three things that were also on great sale.

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Average price for a whole raw chicken seems to be in the $12-$15 range for the most part.

Cooked in store is usually around $9.99-$10.99 range if I recall.

I can't cook a chicken at some so it tastes cook like they can in the store, so I rarely buy a whole raw chicken.

Not sure what cooked chickens cost at Wal-Mart, they might be cheaper vs Safeway & Save On but the Wal-Mart isn't in a convenient location and a pain so we never go there.

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IMO Costco is the best for value and freshness of rotisserie chickens.

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Most likely. We used to get them time to time when we had a membership but we haven't been members for several years now.

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Tried Beyond Meat burger patties on Saturday, really not bad. Taste was decent, I was surprised to be honest. Did upset my stomach though, so probably wont try it again.

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Except for 1 serving of chips sitting in water in the fridge, I'm out of potatoes. Yesterday I was in Giant Tiger and noticed that the bin with 15lb bags of red potatoes was full, and there were several shopping carts overflowing with bags of potatoes sitting beside it. I get my bread at GT, and I could use another big loaf, so I'll check in tomorrow and see if potatoes went on sale. It's usually about a $3 or $4 saving. They often have sour cream priced to clear and I want some of that as well, for French onion dip. I tried making some with yogurt yesterday and I prefer the sour cream version. My chives still look ok, but they're a week old, so I could check my absent friend's house for him and rip a few handfulls out of the back yard. While I have access to these chives I might as well stop buying green onions; they're going bad on me. Something new to me is using the greens from a bunch of radishes in salad, or even on pizza; I was missing out on a good thing by not eating them.

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Trying out a 'new to me' food store for the first time tomorrow. I always knew it was a bit 'different' and then they had a fire.
They've reopened at a new and better and bigger site. I only just realised it's not as inconvenient to get to as I originally thought.

We have a bus that services the two hospitals and I never really appreciated that takes in the site of the new store.

I'm particularly interested in their Bread and this rustic beauty.

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...2737e8df18.jpg
The website shows a few things that aren't in the regular stores. Sturgeon Pate. Rhubarb Chutney. Clotted Cream (Hoobloodyray)...

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Pomegranate dressing. Pear Jam. Rhubarb Chutney. Red Pepper Jelly. Toulouse Sausages. Chicken Tandoori Sausages. Quebec Cretons (MIL super happy). Rustic Loaf.

Sadly no Clotted Cream, only the Double one which Sobeys has anyway, but I was compensated by Mackays Whisky Marmalade. No need to buy it from Amazon and pay extra for mailing costs anymore. :thumbup:

Oh, yes, eclairs with proper chocolate on top instead of the icing that Sobeys does on theirs.

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I was looking at lettuces and deciding between a pack of three Romain or the organic version with a 50% sticker. Then I noticed a load of organic iceberg lettuces also 50% and decided on that.

At home and unpacking, my stepson says "you bought a cabbage." He doesn't like cabbage.
It's a lettuce says I. He passes it to me and instantly I feel the weight. It's obviously cabbage. Odd thing, there's no 50% sticker. I know they had stickers on, not just one or two but all of them. So perhaps this was a rogue cabbage among the lettuces. Or a senior moment. :o

I looked over my receipt just to check I had all the points added and I saw the price of the cabbage. $11.93. :eek:

Who pays almost $12 for a flippin cabbage? (apart from me)

My favourite way to eat cabbage is with baked beans but I can't do that now. There must be some fancy gourmet way of using a cabbage that cost that much. Any ideas?

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If you just bought it, phone the store, explain that you made a mistake and ask if you can bring it back.
That's about 3x what I'd like to pay.

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It would cost me $5.50 by bus to do that.

I saved on plenty of other deals so I'll swallow it. :lol:

The most annoying thing is at the beginning of the week I was having a salad and I had a sudden craving for olives. So today, I splashed out on some nice plump ones from the olive cart but now that the lettuce is a cabbage I can't have a salad with olives yet.

Just as well MIL is going to Walmart tomorrow. She can get one then.

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If it's a good white cabbage, make some coleslaw. I know it's not terribly authentic, but I like to make a slaw with white cabbage, red onion, carrot, and a handful of sultanas or raisins. The dressing is mayonnaise, white wine vinegar and dijon mustard in the ratio of about 5:2:1, with a bit of S&P added . Finely slice the cabbage and onion (as thin as your knife skills will permit), grate the carrots on a medium-coarse grater, throw the main ingredients in a bowl in the proportions you like, mix the dressing in a different bowl, combine everything and mix it all up thoroughly. The important thing for me is that the cabbage etc is in reasonably long slices, not in the tiny little chopped up pieces you get in commercial coleslaw. And it's not sickly sweet, either.

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The olive cart has gotten so pricey, these days I just buy a tub of the Ziggy's Kalamata olives, likewise their Feta cheese. I am out of olives, and noticed this recipe last night while cruising cordon bleu on the interweb:
Provolone & Olive Stuffed Chicken Breasts Recipe - EatingWell

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I paid (aussie) $20 for a bunch a grapes once in a jetlagged moment.

Prices look scary in the maritimes.....

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I'll do a small one and see how it goes.

I will sauté some and roast some wedges of it. One of the recipes I looked at said once they tasted a roasted version they never boiled again.

I have actually fried onions with pav bhaji masala powder and added shredded cabbage - because I didn't have the mixed veg I would normally use - and that was very good.

That's worth a go. No olives for MIL though, she doesn't like them.

Not particularly - Atlantic Xpat's Rock experience aside. I think it was because it was organic and a particularly heavy one. 1.81kg according to the receipt (all the more surprising I didn't notice).
I came back with cherries at $2.99 lb; seedless grapes $1.99; chicken legs $1.29 lb; T-Bone steak @ $6.99 lb among other things.

And for $20 a bucket of 36 wings and wedges. Four of us just had a nice lunch of that leaving most of the wings to be frozen to feast on another day. :thumbup:

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Wholesale club has replaced the Ziggy's olives with Sardo, more money but a larger tub and I suspect a lower unit price. I bought the Kalamata.
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Here are the 2 types of hard parmesan they have, $18 for Gran Padano and $23 for Reggiano.
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Made a slight variation. Used spring onions instead of red onion - we didn't have any when it was made. We had red wine vinegar so used cider vinegar instead.
It was a little too vinegary on the first experimental mix so it was bulked up with more mayo and mustard. After the other ingredients were added I still thought it might need a bit more mayo but it was left in the fridge and then plans changed and it was delayed another day.

Tonight, 2 days after it was made it was perfect. I guess the sultanas defeated the vinegar. It went very nicely with Ham steak and baked spud.
:thumbup:

At least I got my money's worth from the cabbage...roasted, sautéed and coleslaw for three meals for four and a part of a couple of lunches.

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After last week's Bison steak which was almost as good as rib eye, Sobeys had Elk steak this week. $10.99 for a pack of two. I don't suppose it will be much different and that will be a good thing. Not an eye watering price.

No cabbage this time, I bought a real lettuce.

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I’m sorry but I couldn’t eat that if you paid me. The only meat I eat is chicken/turkey/beef/pork/lamb. I cannot eat minced up meat...that could come from any part of the animal, or offal. That is the meat I grew up eating, so I don’t think of its source...but anything else all I can think if is the poor animal. I know it doesn’t make sense. :o

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I don't mind bison, but I never liked elk, tried it a few times but I dislike the taste of it. Wasn't horrible, but wasn't great.

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Someone could drop a quarter of an elk on my doorstep and it wouldn't hurt my feelings at all. I think it's excellent. Before we moved to the city, a very popular supper dish at our place was open-faced hot beef sandwich with gravy, but it was probably only beef 1 time out of 4.

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This was on sale for $5 (reg $8 or so) and at half off cost $2.50. Now I'm going to go get some wine.
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You can't beat a bit of camembert, especially when the supermarket has been so good to keep it for you until it's nice and ripe... and then gives a discount just when it's approaching it's best!!! :)

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That one's actually brie, (didn't find out until peeling the sticker back), but they still have both the brie and camembert on for $5, so I might go back and get one. It's pretty good.

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Interesting, I didn't think that Brie was sold in whole boxed wheels like Camembert, nor that Brie was produced in Normandy. Still delicious though, especially when properly ripe :)

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Hmm, might not still be on sale, (forgot it's Friday so a new flyer) but no matter. I like the President's Choice brie but this one is definitely better.

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It also really benefits from being allowed to come up to pantry temperature rather than straight out of the fridge. Oh, I'm drooling, I think I'll have to pick up a Brie/Camembert tonight... :)

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We're heading over to your part of the world early next week for a few weeks holiday. The Uk grocery shopping experience and consumption of cheesy comestibles is very much on our vacation to do list! :-)

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Enjoy!! If you fancy a trip for something a bit different in Norfolk I can recommend the St. George's Distillery tour - the first whisky distillery in England. Really good tour, nice shop and and a lovely cafe.

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Interesting. Might do that. Trouble is the Mrs broke her arm a few weeks ago so I am designated driver for the whole trip. But a bottle to take away works :-)
Doubtless will be near your backyard at some point as the kids love Bressingham so thats on the to do list.

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If you're in the western provinces [edit: or Ontario!] and bought some oysters recently, you might want to check where they came from. Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning has affected a small number of suppliers from a known harvest area.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/certai...r&_gsc=YYGAE9E

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Or Ontario!

Distribution: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario

https://www.inspection.gc.ca/about-t.../1563582781500

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You should NEVER put a Camembert in a fridge. Bloody sacrilege.

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Oh fah fah fah, that's the story that's been passed down among Novocastrians and the French because they didn't have fridges; they probably advocate putting it in the root cellar, which is the best they could do. In the store they keep it in the cool room or on the chilled shelves for a reason.

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Two or three weeks ago, Superstore was selling Pacific Pink Salmon fillets (pack of two) for $18 for two packs. Very good deal to be able to feed three for $9.
The offer was repeated the week after.

Last week they had them $7.99 a pack without having to buy two packs.

This week $6.99 :ohmy:

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Der schnitzelbaum:
I didn't save any roasts; 4 straight chops, a lot of butterflied, and a pile for stew tonight.
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I can't believe how expensive asparagus is. It's one of the few vegetables I like but it's so expensive, oddly Safeway was a bit cheaper then Super Store at $4.98/lb vs $5.98/lb but either price is a little too steep so I skipped buy it.

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I buy when it's $2.99 or less.
It was $6.99 in Sobeys the other day. That's where it stayed.

Of course, if you want to impress your date by cooking a meal then the cost of it doesn't matter. :nod: