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Alberta Co-op through Sept. 9

Produce

  • 🍎 Local Kiku apples — $1.29/lb.

  • 🧅 Local red onions — $1.49/lb.

  • 🍈 Local Charentais melons — $1.49/lb.

  • 🍐 Local green Bartlett pears — $1.79/lb.

  • 🍄 Local Maitake mushrooms — $13.99/lb.

  • 🥔 Local purple potatoes — $1.49/lb.

Protein through Sept. 16

  • 🐟 Wild Plant skipjack canned tunna, 5-oz., select varieties — 3 for $8

  • 🥜 Organic Once Again peanut butter, 16-oz., select varieties — $6.99 each

Pantry through Sept. 16

  • 🍜 Mike’s Mighty Good Ramen, select varieties — 2 for $4

  • ☕ Organic Equal Exchange love buzz coffee — $11.99/lb.

  • 🥔 Local Kettle Brand potato chips, select varieties — BOGO

We still have a few weeks left in the local blueberry season. (Bryan M. Vance/Stumptown Savings)

Produce

  • 🍇 Black, green, or red seedless grapes — $1.49/lb.

  • 🥕 Friday only: Carrots or russet potatoes — $0.50/lb.

  • 🫐 Blueberries, 18-oz. — $2.99 each (with digital coupon, earn 2x points)

  • 🍓 Strawberries, 2-lb. —  $2.99 each (with digital coupon, earn 2x points)

  • 🍐 Local red or green Bartlett pears — $0.79 each

Protein

  • 🐔 Fresh boneless skinless chicken breasts or thighs — $2.99/lb.

  • 🧀 Local Tillamook cheese, 32-oz., select varieties — $7.99 each (with digital coupon, limit 4)

  • 🧀 Lucerne family size shredded, sliced, or string cheese, select varieties — $5.99 each (with digital coupon, limit 4)

  • 🥩 Boneless untrimmed tri-tip roasts — $5.99/lb. (with digital coupon, limit 2)

  • 🥩 Boneless beef New York strip steak value packs — $13.99/lb.

  • 🐟 Fresh wild-caught Coho salmon fillets — $12.99/lb.

Pantry

  • 🍜 Marie Callender’s bowls or Healthy Choice Café Steams, select varieties — $1.99 each (when you buy 4)

  • 🍜 Campbell’s Chunky soups, select varieties — $1.99 each (with digital coupon, earn 2x points, limit 10)

  • 🥣 Post or General Mills cereals, Betty Crocker fruit snacks, Nature Valley bars, or Jif peanut butter, select varieties — $1.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🍞 Local organic Franz Naked Bread — $4.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🌾 Kind bars, select varieties — $1 each

Basics Market Hillsdale through Sept. 9

Produce

  • 🫑 Organic mini peppers, 1-lb. bags — $4.99 each

  • 🥬 Local organic kale — 2 for $4

  • 🍐 Local organic Starkrimson pears — $1.99/lb.

Protein

  • 🐔 Made-in-house chicken sausages — $7.99/lb.

  • 🐟 Fresh wild-caught king salmon fillets — $26.99/lb.

  • 🍔 Dr. Praeger’s veggie burgers, 10-oz. — $4.99 each

  • 🍨 Bubbie’s mochi ice cream, 7.5-oz. — $4.99 each

Pantry

  • 🥔 Boulder Canyon potato chips, select varieties — $2.99 each

  • 🍝 Organic Bionature pasta — 20% off

  • 🥣 Local Bob’s Red Mill oatmeal, select varieties — 25% off

  • 🥣 Nature’s Path cereal, select varieties — $4.99 each

Chuck’s/Roth’s Fresh Markets through Sept. 9

Produce

  • 🍏 Ginger Gold apples — $0.69/lb.

  • 🍐 Local Bartlett pears — $0.99/lb.

  • 🥬 Organic green cabbage — $0.99/lb.

  • 🍅 Organic cherry tomato pints — $4.99 each

  • 🥔 Russet potatoes — $0.69/lb.

  • 🥬 Green, red, or romaine lettuce — 2 for $3

Protein

  • 🐷 Local Carlton Farms boneless pork shoulder roast value packs — $4.99/lb.

  • 🐔 Local boneless skinless chicken breasts — $4.99/lb.

  • 🍨 Local Tillamook ice cream, 1.5-qts., select varieties — $4.99 each (when you buy 2)

  • 🐮 Local 85% lean ground beef value pack — $6.99/lb.

  • 🐟 Local wild-caught dover sole fillets — $7.99/lb. 

Pantry

  • 🥫 Organic Muir Glen canned tomatoes, select varieties — $1.49 each (when you buy 4)

  • 🥣 Organic Cascadian Farm cereals or granola, select varieties — $3.99 each (when you buy 3)

  • 🍞 Local Franz English muffins, select varieties — $1.99 each (when you buy 3)

  • 🥔 Organic Cascadian Farm frozen potatoes, select varieties — $3.99 each (when you buy 2)

Produce

  • 🫐 Jumbo blueberries, 9.8-oz. — $3.99 each

  • 🥔 Saturday and Sunday only: Private Selection gourmet potatoes, select varieties, 1-lb. — 2 for $4

  • 🍇 Black, green, or red seedless grapes — $1.49/lb. (with digital coupon)

  • 🥒 Local zucchini or yellow squash — $1.49/lb.

Protein

The flanken-style ribs on sale at Fred Meyer this week are perfect for Korean-style BBQ ribs.(Bryan M. Vance/Stumptown Savings)

  • 🧈 Kroger butter, 1-lb. — 2 for $7

  • 🥩 Boneless chuck roasts or steaks — $5.99/lb.

  • 🧀 Kroger cheese, 32-oz., select varieties — $5.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🍖 Beef bone-in flanken-style ribs — $6.99/lb.

  • 🐟 Wild-caught cod fillets — $8.99/lb.

Pantry

  • 🧀 Cheetos, select varieties — BOGO

  • 🍜 Progresso canned soup, select varieties — $1.29 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🥣 Kellogg’s cereal, select varieties — $1.79 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🥣 General Mills cereal, select varieties — $1.79 each

  • 🧇 Eggo frozen waffles, select varieties — $1.99 each (with digital coupon)

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Produce

  • ⚫ Blackberries or raspberries, 6-oz. — 2 for $6

  • 🍎 Honeycrisp apples, 5-lb. bag — $4.99 each

  • 🍉 Local Hermiston seedless watermelons — $7.99 each

  • 🍅 NatureSweet cherub tomatoes, 10-oz. — 2 for $4

Protein

  • 🐷 The Butchers’ Cuts thin-sliced bone-in pork chop family packs — $3.49/lb.

  • 🍔 Impossible Foods burger patties, 8-oz. — $2 each (when you buy 2)

  • 🐔 Sanderson Farms fresh chicken tenderloins — $3.99/lb.

  • 🥩 The Butchers’ Cuts T-bone steaks — $8.99/lb.

  • 🦃 Butterball 85% lean ground turkey, 3-lb. — $6.99 each

  • 🌭 Bar S smoked or polish sausage, 2.5-lb. — $4.99 each

  • 🧀 SimplyGO cheese sticks, select varieties — $3.49 each

  • 🥚 Happy Egg Co. medium free-range eggs — $5.99/dozen

Pantry

  • 🍝 SimplyGO dry pasta, select varieties — $0.99 each

  • 🫙 SimplyGO premium pasta sauce, select varieties — $2.99 each

  • 🫙 Rao’s vodka sauce 2-packs — $10.99 each

  • 🥟 Mila frozen soup dumplings, select varieties — $2.66 each (when you buy 3)

  • 🥣 SimplyGO granola, select varieties — 2 for $5 (with digital coupon, limit 5)

  • 🥫 Organic Earth’s Choice diced tomatoes, 28-oz. — $0.99 each

Produce

  • 🍎 Local organic Cosmic Crisp apples — $2.99/lb.

  • 🍑 Local Maryhill peaches — $3.49/lb.

  • 🍉 Local organic seedless watermelons — $0.99/lb.

  • 🍅 Organic cherry tomato pints — $5.49 each

Protein

New Seasons is having a killer sale on fresh, whole Coho salmon, cut and packaged to your desire, this weekend only. (Caroline Attwood/Unsplash)

  • 🐟 Saturday and Sunday only: Whole Coho salmon — $7.99/lb.

  • 🐟 Coho salmon fillets — $15.99/lb.

  • 🥩 Top sirloin steaks — $9.99/lb.

  • 🐔 Organic Mary’s whole fryer chickens — $4.59/lb.

  • 🌱 Actual Veggies veggie burgers or super fries, select varieties — Buy 2, get 1 free

  • 🌱 Beyond Meat plant-based burger patties, select varieties — $5.49 each

Pantry

  • 🧇 Frozen breakfast items (waffles, breakfast burritos, etc.) — 50% off

  • 🥒 Grillo’s Pickles fresh dill pickles, 32-oz., select varieties — $5.49 each

  • 🥣 Local Bob’s Red Mill Bob’s Bars, select varieties — $5.99 each

  • 🍜 Koyo ramen, select varieties — 20% off

  • ☕ Local Nossa Familia Coffee bulk coffee, select varieties — $15.99/lb. 

  • 🧀 Local New Seasons boxed mac & cheese — 3 for $5

People’s Food Co-op through Sept. 9

Produce

  • 🍎 Local organic Kiku apples — $1.99/lb.

  • 🍐 Local organic Morettini pears — $2.99/lb.

  • 🧅 Organic red onions — $1.49/lb.

  • 🍈 Local organic dry farmed melons, select varieties — $1.99/lb.

  • 🥔 Local organic purple potatoes — $1.59/lb.

Protein through Sept. 16

  • 🌭 Field Roast vegan sausage, select varieties — $4.99 each

  • 🧀 Rumiano cheese block, 8-oz., select varieties — $4.99 each

  • 🐮 Organic Nancy’s yogurt, 32-oz., select varities — $4.99 each

  • 🧀 Violife vegan feta block, 8.1-oz. — $5.49 each

  • 🥜 Local organic bulk peanut butter — $7.49/lb.

Pantry Protein through Sept. 16

  • 🫙 Organic Follow Your Heart veganaise, 32-oz. — $8.99 each

  • 🥣 Organic regular bulk rolled oats — $1.49/lb.

  • 🥔 Cascadian Farm frozen Spud Puppies — 2 for $8

  • 🍜 Koyo ramen, select varieties — 5 for $5

Produce

  • 🍓 Organic strawberries, 16-oz. — $2.99 each

  • 🍎 Saturday and Sunday only: Local Cosmic Crisp apples — $0.99/lb.

  • 🍇 Black, green, or red seedless grapes — $1.49/lb. (with digital coupon)

  • 🥑 Organic large avocados — $1.99 each (with digital coupon)

Protein

  • 🥩 Boneless chuck roasts or steaks — BOGO

  • 🐷 Whole pork tenderloin or boneless pork chops — BOGO

  • 🦞 Saturday and Sunday only: Wild-caught lobster tails — $5 each

  • 🥚 Saturday and Sunday only: Simple Truth cage-free eggs — $4.49/18-count

  • 🐔 Organic fresh Simple Truth boneless skinless chicken breasts — $7.99/lb.

  • 🥩 Boneless beef tenderloin steaks or boneless flat iron steaks — 20% off

Pantry

  • 🧇 Eggo frozen waffles, select varieties — $1.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🥣 Kellogg’s cereal, select varieties — $1.79 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🍜 Progresso canned soup, select varieties — $1.29 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🥣 General Mills cereal, select varieties — $1.79 each

  • ☕ Peet’s Coffee, 1-lb., select varieties — $14.99 each

Sheridan Fruit Co. through Sept. 9

Produce

  • 🍎 Pink Lady apples — $0.99/lb.

  • 🟣 Italian plums — $1.99/lb.

  • 🥕 Carrots — $0.99/lb.

  • 🥬 Green kale — $0.99/lb.

Protein

  • 🐷 Boneless pork chops — $5.49/lb.

  • 🐔 Smoked chicken wings — $6.99/lb.

  • 🌭 Jalapeño queso beer brats — $8.99/lb.

Uwajimaya through Sept. 9

Produce

  • 🥬 Green or red leaf lettuce — $1.29 each

  • 🥗 Wakame chuka salad — $7.99/lb.

  • 🍎 Honeycrisp apples — $2.29/lb.

Protein

  • 🐷 Heritage Berkshire pork loin chops — $7.99/lb.

  • 🐔 Organic Smart Chicken boneless skinless chicken thighs — $7.99/lb.

  • 🐟 Fresh Atlantic salmon sashimi block — $33.99/lb.

Pantry

  • 🌾 LAB Ten No Tsubu rice, 11-lb. bag — $24.99 each

  • 🍜 Maruchan fresh yakisoba noodles, select varieties — $2.69 each

Whole Foods through Sept. 9 (with Amazon Prime)

Produce

  • 🍎 Organic Honeycrisp apples — $3.49/lb.

  • 🍎 Organic Cripps Pink apples — $2.49/lb.

  • 🍑 Organic yellow peaches — $2.99/lb.

  • 🍊 Navel oranges — $1.99/lb.

  • 🍅 Organic heirloom tomatoes — $3.99/lb.

Protein

  • 🥩 Beef top-sirloin steaks — $10.99/lb.

  • 🐷 Pork baby back ribs — 35% off

  • 🐔 Air-chilled whole chickens — 30% off

  • 🦐 Wild-caught jumbo white shrimp, 16/20 count — 35% off

  • 🍖 Bone-in lamb shoulder chops — 30% off

  • 🥚 Vital Farms organic large eggs — 20% off/dozen

Pantry

  • 🍞 Local organic Dave’s Killer Bread, select varietie — 23% off

  • 🍝 Veggipasta red lentil pastas — 30% off

  • 🍝 Veggicraft Farms zucchini penne pasta — $2.78 each

Produce

  • 🍇 Green or red seedless grapes — $0.98/lb.

Protein

  • 🐟 StarKist tuna, 5-oz. cans, select varieties — $0.28/each (limit 4)

  • 🧀 WinCo Foods string cheese — $1.98 each (limit 2)

  • 🐔 Boneless skinless chicken breasts family packs — $1.88/lb. (limit 2)

Pantry

  • 🍞 Local Franz 1906 bread — $0.98 each

  • 🥣 Kellogg’s cereal, select varieties — $0.98 each (limit 2)

  • 🫔 Van’s Kitchen egg rolls, select varieties — $2.98 each

  • 🍜 Pulmuone meal kits, select varieties — $5.98 each

  • 🥟 Pulmuone potstickers, select varieties — $2.98 each

  • 🥔 Local Tim’s Cascade or Hawaiian brand potato chips, select varieties — $1.98 each

  • 🧀 Cheez-It cheddar snack crackers, select varieties — $2.78 each (save $1 on two with digital coupon)

  • 🥣 General Mills cereals, select varieties — Save $1 on two (with digital coupon)

  • 🍜 Progresso soups, select varieties — Save $1 on four (with digital coupon)

Special Mentions

Meal Deal

With the forecast calling for what’s happing up to be a perfect summer weekend, we’re firing up the grill. This recipe is built around a fantastic weekend deal at QFC, making it an affordable way to celebrate the closing days of grilling season. It’s a classic pairing — juicy pork and sweet, caramelized apples — with a smoky twist that’s perfect for a warm evening. By shopping the sales at QFC, you can pull together this impressive end-of-summer dinner for a family of four for less than $4 per person.

This week, we’re cooking pork chops over an open flame! (Christopher Aloi/Creative Commons)

Grilled Pork Chops with Spiced Apples

Yields: 4 servings | Cost: About $13.40 total (About $3.35 per serving) | Time: About 30 minutes

Featuring deals from QFC through Sept. 9.

Ingredients

  • 4 boneless pork chops, about 1-inch thick (approx. 2 lbs. total)

  • 2 large Cosmic Crisp apples

  • 2 tbsp. olive oil

  • 1 tbsp. butter

  • 2 tbsp. brown sugar

  • 1 tsp. cinnamon

  • 1 tsp. garlic powder

  • 1 tsp. salt 

  • 1 tsp. pepper

Instructions

  1. Prepare the Grill and Pork: Preheat your grill to medium-high heat. Pat the pork chops dry with a paper towel. In a small bowl, mix together the olive oil, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Rub the mixture evenly over all sides of the pork chops.

  2. Prepare the Apples: Core the apples and slice them horizontally into ½-inch thick rings. In another small bowl, whisk together the melted butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Brush this mixture generously over both sides of the apple rings.

  3. Grill the Pork: Place the pork chops on the preheated grill. Cook for 5-7 minutes per side, or until the internal temperature reaches 145°F. The exact time will depend on the thickness of the chops. Once cooked, remove them from the grill and let them rest for 5 minutes before serving.

  4. Grill the Apples: While the pork is resting, place the apple rings on the grill. Cook for 2-3 minutes per side, until they are tender and have nice grill marks.

  5. Serve: Serve the grilled pork chops hot, topped with the warm, spiced apple rings. This dish pairs wonderfully with a simple green salad or roasted potatoes.

Tips

  • Don't Overcook the Pork: The key to a juicy pork chop is to not overcook it. Use a meat thermometer to pull the chops off the heat as soon as they reach an internal temperature of 145°F. They will continue to cook slightly as they rest.

  • No Grill? No Problem: You can easily make this dish indoors. Pan-sear the pork chops in a hot skillet with a little oil for the same amount of time. The apples can be cooked in the same skillet after the pork, or roasted in a 400°F oven for 10-12 minutes.

  • Spice It Up: Add a pinch of cayenne pepper or a dash of smoked paprika to the pork chop rub for a little extra heat and smoky flavor. For a more savory, herbaceous twist, add 1 tsp. of dried thyme or rosemary.

Cost Breakdown

  • 2 lbs. boneless pork chops (Buy one, get one free at QFC): $8.97

  • 2 lbs. local Cosmic Crisp apples ($0.99/lb. Saturday & Sunday only at QFC): $1.98

  • Pantry staples (oil, butter, sugar, spices): approx. $2.45

  • Total: $13.40

  • Per serving (for 4): $3.35

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