At H Mart, the Korean supermarket in Englewood. |
Editor's note: Today, I go in search of food-shopping deals, discuss a meal in a bottle and continue to adapt to Costco Wholesale's new Kirkland Signature Egg Whites.
I cut out a few coupons from my H Mart summer savings booklet and tried my luck in Little Ferry, one of the Korean supermarket chain's bigger stores.
In contrast to the large, seedless watermelons I found at the Englewood H Mart, Little Ferry had small watermelons for $3.99 with a coupon, limit of 2.
Liter bottles of 100% Pomegranate Juice were 2 for $4 with a coupon, compared to the regular price of $3.99 each.
Liter bottles of Looza Apricot Juice and Looza Mango Nectar, made with sugar and imported from Belgium, were 2 for $5 (no coupon needed).
ShopRite
At the Englewood ShopRite, my wife found a loose fillet of boneless salted cod for $6.99 a pound, compared to the usual price of $8.99.
But a half-gallon of ShopRite Lactose Free Milk is now $3.49, a dime more than before. It also has a new cap, which uses less plastic.
I saw organic produce for the first time on Thursday at the International Food, Liquor and Wine Warehouse in Lodi. I go for the food, because I haven't seen any wine, beer or liquor bargains. |
On Thursday, at the International Food Warehouse in Lodi, I found organic produce for the first time.
A big stalk of Earthbound Farm Organic Celery was only 99 cents, compared to organic celery hearts I bought at Trader Joe's for $2.29.
A 12-ounce package of Earthbound Farm organic romaine lettuce (3 pieces) also was 99 cents.
Liter cartons of Dimes Peach Nectar and Mango Drink from Turkey, both from concentrate and made with sugar, were 2 for $3.
That works out to about 4.5 cents an ounce.
I saw 2-liter bottles of juice from Pakistan at a low price, but didn't buy any.
I also looked over the store's beer offerings, but had a hard time finding price signs.
When I got home, I made canned-fish salad, dicing some of the organic celery and leaves, and combined them with 2 cans of pink salmon, 2 cans of Moroccan sardines and 1 can of yellowfin tuna, including all of their oil or water.
I dressed them with Dijon mustard, ground cumin and fresh lime juice to taste.
The fillet comes with the pin bones removed. |
Meal in a bottle
After an exhausting day in traffic, the last thing I wanted to do on Friday night was cook dinner.
But my wife had picked up a fillet of wild-caught sockeye salmon at Costco Wholesale for $10.99 a pound.
We also had a bottle of Mexican Green Salsa in
the cupboard, leftover organic brown rice in the refrigerator and for salad, plenty of red-leaf and green-leaf lettuce from the garden.
Dinner was on the table in under 10 minutes.
This is the second time my wife bought wild salmon at the Hackensack Costco on a Friday, and the second time she could find only fish packed the day before.
The fish packed the previous day has a faint, fishy smell, though that isn't evident in the taste.
The fillet she bought on Friday was labeled "Product of the USA," and was $3 a pound cheaper than the wild salmon from Alaska's famed Copper River we have been buying.
Next week, she'll buy wild salmon at Costco on Thursday.
An omelet made with the new Kirkland Signature Egg Whites, which seems to have replaced Costco Wholesale's old Real Egg Product with thickening agents, spices and color. |
The new product is called Egg Whites, the old was Real Egg Product. I've just corrected this post to reflect that.
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