Bananas!!

Time to get some bananas and red peppers! There's a new recipe I am testing that needs bananas. How about you?

This Week's Sales and I've Got Lots of Bananas!

How's your summer going? Mine's great! It's been hot...which I love...a lot! I have been slacking on the weekly sales because I'm outside....always, every minute it's sunny if I can. I need sun lots of sun. My friend told me we are sun hoarders....yes...my name is Sue, I am a sun hoarded. So, right now I have the lap top in the shade while keeping my self in the sun. Just my hands are shady, it's perfect. I can write for long periods of time like this...sorry...Anyways, enough of that. Here's what happened this week. My sister in law and I took a trip to Quality Greens to get blueberries..10lbs for $9.99. While we were there we looked in the clearance, of course. We found this box of bananas. $7. I asked the cashier if she would entertain me and weigh it. Almost 27lbs... .26/lb! There were some nice yellow ones in their too! We split the box and each paid $3.50. What did I do with all those bananas you ask?

Even my food pics need to be done outside now.

Some of them I just peeled and put straight into Ziplocs to freeze. I will use them for smoothies and banana bread and muffins.

The ones that  are spotted are sweetest and best for drying. I sliced them quite thin and dried them. It took about 8 hours.

I kept some of the ripe ones and made a few loaves of America's Test Kitchen Banana Bread. It's the best recipe I have found so far! Note to self. I need to blog the recipe!

This week at Safeway there are a few interesting deals.
Buy 4 bags of chips for $10 and get a free 12 pack of pop! Don't forget to use the coupons from the Pepsico coupons. I found them in Superstore by the pop. There are $1 off on  Ruffles and Pepsi products. If you use 4 of the Ruffles coupons you could get this deal for $8. 4 Bags of chips and a case of pop for $8 is screaming!

  The new P&G Brandsaver is in our Event newspaper here today. They have three buy 3 Crest get $4.50 off. The Crest is 3/$5 at Safeway, so you'd get your toothpaste for .50 plus tax!
3 Day only Sale
Roses are 6 for $5 limit 5(it used to be 9)
Milk is 2L for $2 limit 2(it usually includes buttermilk and chocolate milk as well as all the regular milks)
12 Safeway Apple Juice 1L $6 limit 1

Save On Foods
Grade A Frozen Turkey .99/lb limit 1(same at Cooper's)
Minute Maid Juice .59
Buy 5 Kraft Products get $5 off. The dressings are 2/$5 for the 475 ml. So 5 would be $12.50-$5=$7.50 for 5 which makes them $1.50 each. Make sure and watch to see the $5 actually comes off as I have had troubles in the past.
Cooper's
Potato Thins are $2 if you get the Christie's Corner Checkout 51 this week it's $2 off and there are .50 coupons out there. You'd make .50 to buy these
Green grapes $1.49/lb
Romaine .69 each
 Superstore
Club pack lean ground beef $2.28/lb limit 4
Peaches .76/lb
9 lb case of mangoes $5.88
Large cantaloupe $1.96
Mushrooms $1.98 for 454 g
Dole Salads 255-397 g .86
Whole Chickens grade A 3 per bag $2.28/lb
Coconut Milk .88 limit 4

Walmart
Grapes $1.47/lb
Lay's chips 180 g $2(at Safeway it is the 270g size for $2.50)
Cabbage green or red .57/lb
Mushrooms 8oz $1.27(a bit cheaper than Superstore's)

Bananas .49/lb Today Only!

Hopefully this will post quickly, as this deal is good only today, Tues April 16. Quality Greens has bananas for .49/lb! Last week they had strawberries for .99/lb, so maybe they will be having a weekly special?

Freezing Bananas

This past week at 10% off at Safeway they had bananas on 2lbs for $1.00.(That works out to .45/lb!) I bought them, we ate some and then I froze the rest.

I took off the peel and put them on cookie sheets. You can just throw them in the freezer in their skins, but it is far from appetizing when you defrost them and then try and get them out of the skins.

Once they are frozen I just put them in a large Ziploc. Most of my recipes seem to need 3 large bananas. With them prefrozen on the cookie sheet they don't stick together in the bag and they are easy to take out one at a time. Besides, they look nicer! Guess it's time to do some I've Got Lots of Bananas recipes.....What kind of banana recipes are your favorite? Any one have ones that take more than 3 bananas???

Costco Deals

I popped in to Costco and thought I would share the deals!
Pork Sirloin Boneless Chops $1.99/lb or $4.39/Kg
This is a great deal! I brought it home and divided it into 4 Ziplocs.
My sister in law cuts each chop in half as they are the thick ones.
I just had some gourmet ones this week, that were stuffed.
I think I might try that.
The bananas are 3lb for $1.69 or .56/lb!