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Fruits and Vegetables

Whole Foods, Nugget Organic Coupons

February 27, 2010

Whole Foods and Nugget Market offers in-store/e-mail newsletter with coupon.
Whole Foods – Online Printable Coupons currently include:

$1/1 18-oz jar 365 Organic Peanut Butter
$1/1 Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Almond milk
$1/2 Lifeway Products
$1/1 CLIF Quench Sport Drink
$1.5/2 Nature’s Path Organic Granola Bars/ Hot Oatmeal
$1/1 Organic Valley Yogurt
$1/1 method item
$1/2 CLIF Builder’s Protein Bars
$.55/1 San-J Tamari, Cooking Sauce [...]

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Cuties Mandarin Oranges: $1 off Printable Coupon

February 26, 2010

We LOVE cuties mandarin oranges! Here are $1 off 5 lb box and $.55 off a 3 lb bag printable coupons! Print two (total 4 coupons) per computer.Thanks, moneysavingmom!
See why mandarin oranges are good for you – especially in cold and flu season

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Fruit Prices Roundup 1/30

January 30, 2010

Another great week for all kinds of citrus. Prices valid 1/27 through 2/2. Check out the navel oranges at Raley’s (.38/lb), organic oranges at Nugget (.97/lb) and organic pink lady apples at Davis Food Co-op ($.99/lb) this week.
Citrus – Conventional

Navel Oranges $.38/lb Raley’s/Bel Air, $3.99/10lb Yolo Fruit Stand (YFS), $.99-$1.19/lb Davis Food Co-op (Co-op), [...]

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Fruit Prices Roundup 12/30

December 30, 2009

This is a GREAT week to get Satsuma mandarin oranges everywhere! All grocery store prices starts from today 12/30 through 1/5.
Satsuma mandarins

$.99/lb (organic) Davis Food Co-op
$1.37/lb (organic) Nugget
$0.69/lb Yolo Fruits Stand

Lemons
4 for $1 Nugget
3 for $1 Yolo Fruits Stand
Apples
$.79/lb Safeway
$.89/lb Yolo Fruit Stand
$.99/lb Savemart
$.99/lb (organic Gala) Davis Food Co-op
Pears
$.99/lb (asian) Yolo [...]

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Satsuma Mandarin Oranges: Why You Should Eat

November 29, 2009

Why you should eat Satsuma mandarin oranges right now:

They’re in season, which means they’re inexpensive. See prices of the Satsuma mandarin oranges from Sacramento this week.
Satsumas are good food for the cold and flu season: According to a U.S. government study, the satsumas from Placer County in California (less than an hour from Sacramento) has [...]

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Savings from the Farmers Market- Bless the California Bounty

November 29, 2009

Over 20 lbs of persimmons, pomegranates and satsuma mandarin oranges: $25

Opportunity to chat with growers: Priceless

(Prices from the Sacramento Farmers Market)
Apples: Organic $2/lb, Conventional from Apple Hill Patrick’s Garden $1/lb
Pomegranates: $1 – $1.5 /lb, from Bradburn Farm in Madera, CA. I asked the grower why the price difference, and he said just the “size”.
Persimmons: $0.5/lb
Kiwis: [...]

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Fruit Prices Roundup 11/25

November 27, 2009

These are the prices I see for the past week (except noted) for Sacramento and Davis area, they’re for conventional fruits unless noted:
Apples

Nugget organic granny smith $0.97/lb
Raley’s fuji $1.27/lb, jazz apples $1.49/lb
Davis Food Co-op organic pacific rose $1.49/lb (starting 11/25), gala $1.69/lb, organic fuji apples $1.99/lb, organic gala apples $5.59/3lb

Pears

Sacramento Farmers Market Asian pear $1 [...]

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Fruit Highlight – Persimmon

November 15, 2009

From my trusted and well used copy of Field Guide to Produce :

Early European settlers learned to eat persimmon from Native American tribes, who left the fruit on the tree well into October to ripen it thoroughly and enhance its sweetness (translation – persimmon now is REALLY sweet!). Persimmon’s wild ancestor grew in China, and [...]

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$10 off Organic Produce – Farm Fresh to You

November 9, 2009

Farm Fresh to You is a local Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm located in Capay, CA. They also have a store in the Ferry Building in San Francisco. After you signed up, every week you get a 100% organic produce box delivered to your home, in the San Francisco Bay, Sacramento and Los Angles area. [...]

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Fruit Prices Roundup 11/4

November 9, 2009

For Sacramento and Davis area, all prices from 11/4-11/11.
Apples

Pedrick Produce fuji apples $0.89/lb, red delicious $0.69/lb
Nugget fuji apples $0.97/lb,
Safeway honeycrisp $1.99/lb

Pears

Pedrick Produce bartlett pears $0.39/lb (4 lb bag), Asian pear $0.99/lb
Raley’s bartlett pears $0.99/lb

Berries

Nugget blueberries 4.4 oz $2 each
Savemart 6 oz raspberries or 4.4 oz blackberries 6 oz $2.5 each
Raleys blueberries 4.4 oz $3 each
Safeway [...]

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Sacramento Farmers Market Fall Bounty

October 25, 2009

This week is P&P (pear and persimmon) week. As always, the fabulous Sacramento Sunday Farmers Market under the freeway is packed. There is a reason why major Sacramento chefs, such as Patrick Mulvaney, are regulars. I felt that I could keep writing about this place – so many vendors and such variety! See a previous [...]

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Pedrick Produce – Fresh and Cheap

October 17, 2009

I love that at where we are, we have access two of the best local “road-side” produce stand – Pedrick Produce and Yolo Fruits Stand. Pedrick Produce is located between Davis and Dixon, on 6850 Sievers Road, Dixon, CA 95620, next to a gas station. Look for the circular roof building.
Similar to Yolo Fruits [...]

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Fruit Prices Roundup 10/14

October 16, 2009

For Sacramento and Davis area, all prices from 10/14-10/21 except as noted. Bold = recommended. Check out previous weeks’ fruit prices around town here.
Apples

Savemart fuji apple $0.69/lb
Pedrick Produce fuji $0.89/lb (4-7 lb bags)
Safeway 3lb organic apples 3 lb bag $2.99
Davis Food Co-op, Organic: fuji $1.19/lb (till 10/17)
Raley’s honeycrisp or sonya apple $1.49/lb
Davis Food Co-op, Conventional: [...]

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Fruit Prices Roundup 10/7

October 9, 2009

For Sacramento and Davis area, all prices from 10/7-10/13 except as noted
Apples

Safeway fuji apples $0.88/lb
Nugget gala apples $0.87/lb, organic granny smith $1.47/lb
Raley’s gala apple $1.49/lb
Davis Food Co-op, Conventional: granny smith $0.99/lb, fuji $1.59/lb
Davis Food Co-op, Organic: golden delicious, gala apples $1.99/lb, granny smith $1.49/lb, fuji 3 lb bag $4.99/lb.
Savemart honeycrisp/ambrosia $1.99/lb

Grapes

Raley’s grapes $1.49/lb
Safeway grapes $1.99/lb
Savemart [...]

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