663939 Sun Nov 01 15:03:56 -0800 2009 31 1 San Francisco Bay Area 0 5147517 So I guess I get to start the thread this month! 50 cents -- Individual (5 or 6 oz) Brown Cow 0% Greek yogurt, plain or strawberry $1.49 -- Haagen Dazs caramelized pear toasted pecan (yummy!) and Sweet Cream Honey $2.99 -- 28 oz. bottle Grandma's molasses $5.99 lb (precut and priced, pieces were mostly about half a pound) -- 12-month aged Orgouda (organic gouda from Holland); there was also another organic cheese (Mozzerella?) from the same producer and another non-organic 12-month aged Dutch gouda for $4.99/lb. Obviously not as special as a super-aged gouda, but it's quite tasty and does have the crunchy crystals! $2.49 -- large (28 oz, I think) jar of Muir Glen organic Bolognese pasta sauce If you give food gifts for Christmas they have their Christmas stuff in, including tins of various sizes, paper cartons (like Chinese food cartons) in Christmas designs, and Gladware-type containers with winter-theme designs (snowflakes, penguins, IIRC). Sun Nov 01 15:03:56 -0800 2009 10159 Ruth Lafler 1 5147802 Oakland, Ruth? Thanks. Sun Nov 01 17:11:03 -0800 2009 5147517 17872 sydthekyd 2 5148058 Yes, sorry. Yeah, the caramelized pear is really good -- I bought a couple last time and I was glad to see it again and stock the freezer. Sun Nov 01 19:27:13 -0800 2009 5147802 10159 Ruth Lafler 3 5177421 You asked this in another post, but the 79 cent Ocean Spray cranberry sauce is the regular version at GO and not lite cranberry sauce. This week's special is Ocean Spray cran-raspberry sauce for 50 cents. I tried this a few years ago when it first came out and didn't like it. Think about it ... turkey and raspberries aren't a usual pairing ... for good reason. I tried the Barefoot Bubbly Brut Cuvee Chardonnay Champagne for $3.99 (with 20% discout $3.19). Note that I'm not a fan of Barefoot in general. It is such a ... supermarket wine. Like most GO sparklers, it loses the bubbles faster than I would like, but it is not exactly flat. Still, at $3.19 during the sale period ending 11/15, it isn't a bad thing to keep on hand for the holidays. Certainly a better choice than Andre which these days sells for more than that ... I mean $4.99 average for Andre ... are they kidding? After trying it I googled reviews. One winemakers opinion was http://www.snooth.com/wine/barefoot-bubbly-brut-cuvee-chardonnay-champagne-nv/ " aromas of tangy green apples and sweet jasmine kick things off, followed by the delicious flavors of kiwi and peach. " After reading that ... apple, peach and kiwi (are they serious?) ... not really. However, the flowery jasmine hit me and seriously that is all I can taste at this point. At Berkeley ... Botticelli 3.5 oz milk chocolate bar 50 cents. Only ok and really on the edge of being stale. Skip. Thu Nov 12 18:25:15 -0800 2009 5148058 10264 rworange 1 5147879 I like the pear ice cream a lot, purchased at Redwood acity store. Firm not too gritty yet ripe tasting pieces of full flavored pear. Sun Nov 01 17:57:55 -0800 2009 5147517 10039 Melanie Wong 1 5148866 Oh that roasted pear ice cream is sooo awesome. Too awesome. I also am loving the Dagoba chai bar. However, it is very sweet. I personally love very sweet things, but most people would pass on this one. Mon Nov 02 08:22:41 -0800 2009 5147517 10246 choctastic 1 5149537 The Brown Cow yogurt is also available in 4x4.3oz for $1.49 at Monterey Hwy SJ. Same price for similar size Stonyfield Farm. I also got a couple 33oz jars of Gertie's artichoke tapenade for $3.99 each. I think it's much more expensive at Costco. They also have at least 4 different varieties of Mac's Chicharrones - BBQ, salt & vinegar, salsa y limon, jalapeno & cheddar - at 0.99 for 4oz. And Aidell's jalapeno and green pepper sausages at 2.99 for 12oz. Watch out if you get Bolthouse Farms juice 32oz. Some of them have their CRV seriously off (0.60 instead of 0.05). Both varieties of the Haagen Dazs were too sweet for my taste. Luckily, I had some (bland) scones that I was able to eat them with, a la ice cream sandwiches. Mon Nov 02 11:36:38 -0800 2009 5147517 106052 dump123456789 1 5150242 Some other good things Seen at Berkeley store today . I usually go to Oakland.. but 1996 Clos du Val Napa cab.. $14.99 Should be drinking perfectly .. a more restrained european style of Napa Cab. will report after drinking a western Aussie Pinot Noir for 4.99 could be good. didn't buy.. De Cecco Artisinal style (the rough die style) spaghetti 500 gram size 99 cents .. I bought 6 not sure how much they have. 20 oz wild smoked salmon in " fancy" cheese case 7.99.. did not buy but looks good.. Aged english cheddar .. inexpensive and that organic gouda mentioned by Ruth. Aloutte Spreadable 99 cents Vital Vittles Bread $ 2.19 a full liter of good olive oill in a bottle with a ceramic stopper 7.99.. not as good as that California one they had for months, but good. Mon Nov 02 14:38:52 -0800 2009 5147517 11197 jason carey 2 5150948 My friend who bought a case of the 1996 Clos du Val poured a bottle the other night and it was in excellent shape. The 1996 Burgess was also quite good. The 1995 Chapellet, not so much. Mon Nov 02 19:26:25 -0800 2009 5150242 11369 Robert Lauriston 3 5153091 I tasted it last night and it was a beautiful ceadery classic aged wine. not bombastic.. I am going to get more if they have it.. Tue Nov 03 14:14:23 -0800 2009 5150948 11197 jason carey 1 5150747 Saturday, I picked up bottles of the 2007 Chianti "le Corbinie" and 2007 Toscana Rosso "le Corbinie" for $4.99. They come from a reputable producer (Vecchia Cantina) in Montepulciano. At that price, they are worth a try. Mon Nov 02 17:50:42 -0800 2009 5147517 23776 DavidT 2 5174624 I am down here in So Cal with probably fewer of the Outlet wine scores than you No Cal folk, but I just bought and tried the Le Corbinie and it was quite nice. Exceeded my expectations by a large margin. I sort of expected that it was Italian plonk, but not so. Want to know what varietal(s) though as I am buying more. I liked the 5 Mile syrah too, but it is gone. Recently scored some of the Chalk Hill 2001 Merlot at $5.99. It''s great. Better than the cab which is too oaked. Wed Nov 11 20:17:44 -0800 2009 5150747 1123829 Emerger 1 5150894 Santa Rosa today: Numi tea, at least 4 different flavors $4.99 for box of 5 bags (each brews a pot?). Is it worth the price? Didn't see the organic gouda and the deCecco selection seems smaller than described at other stores. Mon Nov 02 18:56:55 -0800 2009 5147517 150398 Columba 1 5153077 San Pablo 25 cents - Yoplait yogurt 4 oz 50 cents - Del Monte organic tomato paste 6 oz 99 cents - Wheat Thins artisan white cheddar crackers 99 cents Jello pudding singles 6 packs with shaker cup 1.49 - President brie 8 oz round 1.50 Mama Melee peanut tray 1.79 - Hormel Natural Choice Rotisserie Style deli chicken breast 8 oz 1.99 Dagoba organic Chai bar with crystalized ginger 2.49 - Bonne Maman raspberry preserves 13 oz 2.99 - Batth Farms fancy mixed raisins 16 oz The Bonne Maman is quite the deal. The Hormel Naturals usually sells for almost $5. There's no junk in them and though I haven't tried the chicken yet, everything else I tried has been good. I love those raisins and was happy to see them back. It is a mix of Red Flame, Golden and Thomson raisins. Good snacking. The peanuts are those big trays at the end of the ice cream counter. There are four types. I didn't look at the sell by date but if interested I'd check that as they seem to have been there for quite the while. I might evetually give the pudding a try. It comes with a shaker cup. There was real sugar in it and not too much junk and pudding always makes me feel better if I get sick with a cold. This seemed easy. Dump package in the shaker cup, add milk, shake, eat. Easy to deal with sick bed food Tue Nov 03 14:09:37 -0800 2009 5147517 10264 rworange 1 5159070 RWC: Katie's Almond Roca Cookies 9 oz. tub $2.49 (similar to Costco almond lace cookies) Alexia Frozen Mashed red potatoes 12 oz $1.99 Bolthouse Farms 33.8 oz. Vanilla Latte $2.49 Oscar Meyer Reduced Fat Hot Dogs 1 pound $1.29 Thu Nov 05 14:01:07 -0800 2009 5147517 48864 Wheetie 2 5168032 How are those cookies? I know the Costco ones are wicked good. Mon Nov 09 13:55:19 -0800 2009 5159070 17872 sydthekyd 1 5167927 I was thinking the Ocean Spray cranberry sauce prices weren't that great at GO ... 79 cents. Not as notable as the 50 OS year. However, they are the old 16 oz can and not the `14 oz can being sold this year. Ocean Spray - how trifling can you get? http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/665894 GO seems to have a Spam thing going on this year. Berkeley has Spam with bacon and Oakland has garlic Spam ... would the garlic make it healthier. Oakland was selling 64 oz jars of Helmann's mayo for $2.50. The other stores are charging $4.99 San Pablo has Breyers yogurt 3 for $1. Though it has a few additives, there is real sugar in it and it has the consistancy of yoplait ... and no HFCS. San Pablo is running up on some sell by dates 50 cents - Wheat Thins artisan white cheddar crackers. Marked down from 99 cents. Good, certainly worth 50 cents and have at least a few more months of shelf life to them. 50 cents - 2 types of baked bagged pretels ... about 16 oz 99 cents - 1 lb sliced deli ham Mon Nov 09 13:28:31 -0800 2009 5147517 10264 rworange 1 5168763 Rohnert Park Grocery Outlet had Laloo's frozen goat milk yogurt: Forestberry and Lemon Chiffon flavors for $2.99 per pint. I tried both and preferred the forestberry. The goatiness overwhelmed the delicate lemon flavor for me. I stopped by Santa Rosa yesterday and was able to get more of the forestberry flavor. Also bought Muirglen organic fire roasted no salt tomatoes, 99¢. Cleaned out the last boxes of DeCecco kamut spaghetti, very good product. Saag's sausages are back again. Bockwurst is my favorite. Mon Nov 09 18:06:34 -0800 2009 5147517 10039 Melanie Wong 2 5168813 Oakland had the frostberry. San Pablo has LaLoo's ice cream sandwiches, but it is a huge box and over $6. Love that Kamut spaghetti. Still have it at San Pablo. Saw it at Berkeley Bowl for $3.99 Usually GO is a good price for Saag's but for two more days Andronico's has a special of buy one package of Saag's Sausage get one free. It breaks down to $3 each. I didn't get a package, but I bought one bockwurst and one Swiss bockwurst from the meat counter. The only difference being the Swiss version is longer and doesn't have parsley. They tasted identical though. Mon Nov 09 18:26:54 -0800 2009 5168763 10264 rworange 3 5168838 Yes, I saw the box of ice cream sandwiches in Rohnert Park too, not in Santa Rosa. I determined that I didn't have enough room in the freezer to bring one home. Mon Nov 09 18:37:40 -0800 2009 5168813 10039 Melanie Wong 1 5169999 Forgot to mention 2007 Black Box Monterey county Chardonnay for $9.99. Normally about $24, no idea how it's tasting now. Tue Nov 10 08:55:34 -0800 2009 5147517 10039 Melanie Wong 2 5171565 And just as a PSA...They are running a 20% off all wine promo Nov 11-15 (Wednesday to Sunday) Tue Nov 10 18:53:16 -0800 2009 5169999 1099025 dinthebay 3 5174730 I stopped by the (West) Hayward shop on the way home and I picked up a bottle of 2001 Truchard Cab. Franc for $8 (before discount) that was recommended on a wine board. There were none of the early-to-mid 90s CA wines that were blown out last month. Wed Nov 11 21:24:35 -0800 2009 5171565 11745 Cary 1 5181803 At Oakland this morning: A couple of big bargains in the new dairy case in the back: Liberte Mediterranean yogurt, plum walnut flavor, 3/$1 A flat of 20 extra-large organic "cage free" eggs (Sunvalley) $2.99 (looks like this might be a regular item for them -- I hope so with holiday baking coming up!) Ice cream case is well-stocked: they still have the honey and the caramelized pear Haagen Dazs; Hershey Almond Klondike bars ($1.99/six); Dryers Dibs individual packs in a box of 24 for $6.99 or they sell them individually (works out to about 30 cents a package). In addition to the Beeman's and Saag's sausages they usually have, they had Fresco "natural" in a couple of flavors. Also bulk sausage. They still have the Orgouda, both the aged (Orgouda Gold) and the Orgouda mild. Several different brands of stuffing mix or croutons, including Pepperidge Farm cornbread (99 cents), and Arrowhead Mills organic ($1.49) 99 cents Tasty brand sweet gherkins (no HFCS, so while they are sweet they aren't cloying) $2.49 Laura Scudders organic peanutbutter (smooth, ingredients are peanuts and salt) Sat Nov 14 14:45:58 -0800 2009 5147517 10159 Ruth Lafler 2 5182019 With colds and flu going around: Kleenex 3-ply tissues with lotion, $1.99 for 180 ct. box. They also have the small pop-up boxes for $1.29. Sat Nov 14 16:31:34 -0800 2009 5181803 10159 Ruth Lafler 3 5182161 Their paper goods are rarely a bargain. Wal-mart, FoodsCo, FoodMax, even Target are often the same price with a better selection and since I'm a coupon person often cheaper. I scored 108 count Puffs tissues for 25 cents at FoodsCo with a coupon. CVS/Longs is really good for paper goods sales. Last week they had those Scott Towels where 4 rolls = 12 rolls which were selling for $4.98. I had a $1 coupon and CVS was giving $2 off coupons, so I bought another pacakge with another MFG $1 coupon, CVS $2. So two 4 roll (=24 regular roll) packages averager out to $2.98 each Sat Nov 14 17:41:34 -0800 2009 5182019 10264 rworange 2 5183873 That Liberte Mediterranean yogurt is really swell. I snagged the last peach passionfruit. There was lots of coconut. Other items at San Pablo The store seems to be ramping up with lots of holiday items. 99 cents - There were lots of boxes and bags of crackers and cookies. The cookies were more along the no name type but for crackers there were - Triscuit quattro fromage thin crisp crackers - Reduced fat Wheat Thins - Milton's everything multigrain - Sesame Rye Crisps - Busy Baker chicken or vegetable crackers And don't forget about those 50 cent boxes of Wellington cracked pepper water crackers The one thing to avoid tho is that horrid Di Gigli pannetone (red package $4.99) A few years back they had two or three types of pannetone. The only one that has returned year after year is this swill. The others were decent 25 cents - cucumbers in good condition 33 cents - TommyClam tomato and clam juice 32 oz 50 cents - Whole eggplant in excellent condition 99 cents - Oscar Meyer mini hot dogs (20) ... holiday hors d'œuvre for some? 99 cents - Imagine boxed sweet potato soup 99 cents - Betty's pasta sauce (with Betty Boop on the label. Marked down from $1.49) 99 cents - Saga Danish style blue or gorgonzola cheese 6 oz 1.89 - Crystal eggnog (quart ... has HFCS) 1.99 - Hebrew national lean beef salami chub 12 oz 2.99 - Tarantino's pork sausage - two 16 oz chubs 4.99 - 6 lb can of S&W black cherries I didn't look closely at those cherries, but anyone doing any significant baking using canned cherries during the holidays might check these out as it seemed quite the deal. TommyClam seems to be a Clamato type thing. Check the label as IIRC there was HFCS. Still ... 33 cents for that large bottle ... if you are into clamato it's not a lot of money to give it a try. The sausage seemed to have a decent ingredient list. Anyone using sausage for stuffing might take a look. Lots of cans of smoked clams, oysters, anchovies, etc at about 99 cents. I've never had a disappointing can no matter what the brand. Has anyone tried the refrigerated canned crab which is pricy? GO has this specially made for them. A vendor suggested trying it out a few years ago and GO seems to keep stocking it so I suspect it might be good. I'm not really all that into crab, so given the price ($6 or $7) I'd be unlikely to buy it. Also lots of pickes, peppers, olives and other such things for 99 cents. There were some organic pickles with jalepeno and dill but while that sounds good in theory, they just didn't look appealing. ... but who know? Sun Nov 15 15:45:56 -0800 2009 5181803 10264 rworange 1 5192944 San Pablo $2.99 - Lascoo herring in sour cream !!! 50 cents - Bulliard's habanero sauce 69 cents - Shop-Rite Strawberry shortcake ice cream bars (6 bars) $1.49 - Chocolate Chex mix $1.49 - Nestle refrigerated cookie dough $1.79 - Pepperidge Farm five cheese Texas Toast (6 slices) Those big tubs of herring are quite the deal Sell by date is 11/27/2009 Lucky has the cookie dough for $3 ... on sale ... so this is half that price. Varieties include - sugar, chocolate chip, chocolate filled chocolate chip, brownie bites, caramel filled Haven't bought or tried the ice cream or Texas toast but they caught my junk-food loving eye.I'm thinking I may break down and get that Texas toast. SP is down to the last two bags of 50 cent pretzels and both were very good. They have a new supply of the same brands selling for $1.49 now. If you see any 50 cent bags, my rec is to snag them if you like pretzels. Wed Nov 18 18:25:03 -0800 2009 5147517 10264 rworange 2 5193359 Do you happen to know if the herring has a heksher (a kosher symbol)? Wed Nov 18 23:07:11 -0800 2009 5192944 92823 milklady 3 5193749 There's a U in a circle, and a D next to that symbol. Thu Nov 19 06:30:53 -0800 2009 5193359 106052 dump123456789 1 5194745 Santa Rosa: Tons of Thai - instant meals, soup, noodles, etc. Indian too - Veetee packaged rice & new entree/rice combos. The latter are $1.99 Glutino cookies - chocolate & vanilla Alter Eco Dark Chocolate Velvet bars 3.5 oz for .99 Not much in way of cheese & crackers for the holidays. Thu Nov 19 13:49:14 -0800 2009 5147517 150398 Columba 2 5196225 Those Glutino cookies are absolutely horrible. Thank God I paid 50 cents at Grocery Outlet and not $4 for them at Mother's. Fri Nov 20 07:57:29 -0800 2009 5194745 10246 choctastic