Yes, we’re rolling with calling this Thursday.

I started the post on Thursday, and it’s not like there’s a blog police. I mean, I belong to a blogger association, but they’re mostly about happy hours and asking me to not blog about stuff I got for free without mentioning I got it for free (Note: if you want to send me free crap, I will blog about whatever free crap I got. And make it clear it was free. For my blogger peeps.).

Finally, we hit the Easter sales, which are all about the pig. Fiesta has all the parts on sale, and everyone else has decent ham prices. I collected the best ones and suggest you sock one away because there’s nothing simpler than feeding a crowd with a large cut of pig.

Blue Bell is cheap this week, but I understand if you still haven’t forgiven them for the disastrous handling of the contamination problem. Strawberries are just $1.25, which is good, but normally they’ve hit 99c by now. I’m not buying for the freezer quite yet, but I’m wondering if they’re going to get lower this year at all. Watermelons are cheap as hell at Sprouts and you can freeze it for making agua frescas later.

Fiesta

russet potatoes, 5lb bag $1.29/ea

Hass avocados 50c/ea

Sugardale smoked ham portions $1.49/lb

Owens sausage rolls, 16oz buy one, get one free ($2.99 reg)

pork loin center cut chops $1.77/lb (family pack)

pork country style ribs $1.77/lb (family pack)

pork spare ribs $1.97/lb (family pack)

chicken leg quarters, jumbo bag 57c/lb

Blue bell half gallons $3.87/ea (limit 2 w/$20 purchase)

Randalls

raspberries, 6 oz $1.50/ea

Hormel Cure 81 spiral sliced ham $1.59/lb

Libby’s canned vegetables, selected 59c/ea (buy 4 or more)

Imperial sugar, 4lbs $1.88/ea

Gold Medal flour, 5lbs $1.88/ea

Blue Bell half gallons, selected $3.99/ea (buy 2 or more)

$5 Friday

Lucerne block or shredded cheese, 32oz $5

Cal-organic fresh rainbow baby carrots $5 (yes, ridiculous. but so cute!)

HEB

strawberries, 1lb. $1.25/ea

organic Gala apples, 2lb bag $2.98/ea

Smithfield Premium Ham $1.28/lb (shank portion)

Eckrich or HCF smoked sausage, 30-42oz $5/ea

HEB Prime 1 beef brisket $2.89/lb

(NOTE: The ad says, ‘HEB Prime 1’. Meat grading is a weird land of twisty passages, all alike. The two HEB’s I’ve been in this week have labels saying ‘Prime’, not ‘HEB Prime 1’. I’m not sure if this is a situation where their particular ‘store grade’ was supposed to be on sale, or if some stores threw prime meat out at this price. Look at your brisket and make a call to the best of your ability. Either way, I think it’s cheap beef.)

Sprouts

seedless watermelons $1.98/ea

sweet potatoes 50c/lb

organic D’Anjou or Bartlett pears $1.48/lb

celery 50c/ea

organic baby peeled carrots 98c/ea

organic kale 98c/ea

boneless skinless chicken breasts $1.88ea

Sprouts frozen vegetables, 16oz. 99c/ea

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