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Produce
🌽 Local bi-color corn — $0.99/lb.
🍈 Local sugar cube melons — $1.49/lb.
🍑 Local yellow nectarines — $2.99/lb.
🍐 Local Stakrimson pears — $2.79/lb.
Protein deals through Sept. 2
🌭 Beyond Meat vegan sausages, 14 oz. select varieties — Buy 1, get 1 free
🥜 Santa Cruz organic peanut butter, 16 oz. select varieties — $5.99 each
Pantry deals through Sept. 2
🍦 Goodpop frozen pops, 8 oz. select varieties — Buy 1, get 1 free
🥣 Purely Elizabeth granola, select varieties — Buy 1, get 1 free
Produce
🍇 Black, green, or red seedless grapes — $0.99/lb. on first 3 lbs. (with digital coupon, earn 2x points)
🍓 Friday only: Strawberries, 1-lb. package — $2.50 each
🟣 Plumcots or pluots — $2.99/lb.
🥒 Local zucchini or yellow squash — $1.49/lb.
Protein
🐷 Pork shoulder roasts — $1.99/lb. (limit 2 roasts)
🍔 Signature Select 80/20 ground beef — $3.99/lb. (limit 4 lbs.)
🧀 Lucerne cheese, 24-32 oz. select varieties — $5.99 each on first 2 (with digital coupon, earn 4x points)
🍨 Local Umpqua ice cream, 1.5 quart tubs — $2.99 each on first 4 (with digital coupon, earn 4x points)
🥩 Boneless beef trimmed tri-tip roasts — $8.99/lb.
🐟 Friday only: Wild-caught Alaskan cod fillets — $5/lb.
🐔 Friday only: Open Nature boneless skinless chicken value packs — $5/lb.
Pantry
🥣 General Mills cereal, Nature Valley bars, or Betty Crocker fruit snacks — $1.99 each on first 8 (with digital coupon, earn 4x points)
🥣 General Mills large-size cereal, select varieties — $3.99 each when you buy 2
🍞 Signature Select bread or buns, select varieties — $2.79 each (earn 4x points)
🍩 Local Franz buns, rolls, or doughnuts, select varieties — $2.99 each (with digital coupon)
🥔 Local Kettle Brand potato chips, select varieties — $1.99 each (with digital coupon)
💵 $20 off your next purchase of $100 or more with coupon
Produce
🟤 Organic fig pints — $5.99 each
🥭 Organic Ataúlfo mangos — $1.99 each
🥦 Local organic baby broccoli — 2 for $5
Protein
🐷 Beeler’s bone-in pork loin chops — $5.99/lb.
🥜 Once Again nut butters, select varieties — 25% off
🧀 Local Tillamook cheese, 16 oz. — $6.99 each
🧀 Daiya dairy-free cheese slices, 7.8 oz. — $3.99 each
🐟 Safe Catch canned tuna and salmon, select varieties — 25% off
Pantry
🍪 Back to Nature cookies, select varieties — $4.49 each
🧀 Annie’s Cheddar Bunnies and Bunny Grahams snacks, 7.5 oz. — $3.99 each
🥣 Mush overnight oats, 5 oz. — 2 for $4
🥣 Nature’s Path Environkids cereals, select varieties — $4.99 each
Produce
🍇 Green or red seedless grapes — $1.99/lb.
🍎 Organic Gala apples — $0.99/lb.
🧅 Local Hermiston sweet onions — $0.79/lb.
🍈 Local Hermiston cantaloupes — 2 for $5
Protein
🐔 Local boneless skinless chicken breasts — $4.99/lb.
🐷 Local Carlton Farms boneless pork loin chops or roasts — $4.99/lb.
🐟 Local wild-caught Pacific rockfish fillets — $6.99/lb.
🍖 Pork back ribs or country style spare ribs — $3.99/lb.
Pantry
🌭 Local Franz premium buns, select varieties — $3.99 each
🥖 Chuck’s signature French bread — 2 for $4
Produce
🥔 Saturday and Sunday only: Kroger red potatoes, 5-lb. bags — 2 for $5
🍎 Local Honeycrisp apples — $1.99/lb. (with digital coupon)
🌶️ Hatch chile peppers — $1.49/lb.
🍉 Personal watermelons — 2 for $4
Protein
🐔 Fresh Foster Farms whole chickens — $0.99/lb.
🍔 Kroger 80/20 ground beef or Jennie-O 93% lean ground turkey — $4.99/lb. (must buy 3-lb. value pack)
🥩 USDA Choice boneless petite sirloin steaks — $6.99/lb.
🧈 Kroger butter, 1-lb. select varieties — 2 for $7
🧀 Local Tillamook cheese, 32 oz. select varieties — $7.99 each (with digital coupon)
🍨 Dreyer’s ice cream, 1.5 quart tubs — $2.99 each (with digital coupon)
🥚 Nellie’s free-range eggs — $4.49/dozen
Pantry
🥔 Saturday and Sunday only: Miss Vickie's potato chips, select varieties — $1.99 each (limit 5)
🍞 Local organic Dave’s Killer Bread or bagels, select varieties — Buy 1, get 1 free
🥣 General Mills giant-size cereal, select varieties — $3.99 each (with digital coupon)
🥣 General Mills standard-size cereal, select varies — $1.79 each
🥣 Kellogg’s giant-size cereals, select varieties — $5.49 each
🍓 Pop-Tarts or Nature Valley bars, select varieties — $1.99 each
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Produce
No advertised produce deals this week.
Protein
🥚 SimplyGO cage-free extra large eggs — $4.49/dozen
🧈 SimplyGO salted butter, 16 oz. — $3.49 each
🌭 Beyond Meat hot Italian sausage, 14 oz. — $3.99 each
🍔 Impossible Foods Impossible patties, 8 oz. — $3.99 each
Pantry
🌽 SimplyGO chips or salsas, select varieties — $1 off (with digital coupon)
🥣 SimplyGO granola, 11 oz. select varieties — $2.99 each
🍷 Through Sunday: Wine — 20% off (25% off on Aug. 22 with digital coupon)
☕ La Republica Coffee mushroom coffee — Up to 55% off
Protein
🐷 Pork blade steaks — $5.99/lb.
🍔 93% lean ground beef — $6.99/lb.
🐔 Hatch chile and tequila marinated chicken breasts — $6.99/lb.
Produce and pantry deals weren’t available at press time.
Produce
🍓 Local strawberry pints — $4.99 each
🍉 Local organic seedless watermelon — $0.99/lb.
🍅 Local organic heirloom tomatoes — $5.99/lb.
🫛 Local organic green beans — $2.99/lb.
Protein
🐔 Mary’s boneless skinless chicken breasts — $5.99/lb.
🐟 Local wild-caught Pacific rockfish fillets — $7.99/lb.
🐟 Local albacore tuna loin — $18.99/lb.
🥥 Cocojune dairy-free yogurt, select varieties — Buy 1, get 1 free
🐮 Siggi’s Icelandic yogurt, select varieties — Buy 1, get 1 free
🍨 Crooked Spoon and So Delicious ice cream products, select varieties — 50% off
Pantry
🍫 Tony’s Chocolonely chocolate bars, 6.35 oz select varieties — Buy 1, get 1 free
☕ Kicking Horse Coffee, 10 oz. select varieties — Buy 1, get 1 free
☕ Local Stumptown Coffee Roasters bulk coffee, select varieties — $16.99/lb.
🧇 Kodiak frozen waffles and flapjacks, select varieties — Buy 1, get 1 free
🌾 Kodiak granola bars, select varieties — $4.99 each
🍞 Local Franz Naked Bread, select varieties — $2.99 each
🥯 Local Franz bagels, select varieties — $3.49 each
Deals weren’t available at press time.
Early apple season deals are kicking off. (Bryan M. Vance/Stumptown Savings)
Produce
🍓 Saturday and Sunday only: Strawberries — $1.88/lb.
🍉 Personal watermelons — 2 for $4
🍎 Local Honeycrisp apples — $1.99/lb. (with digital coupon)
🍑 Local yellow or white peaches or nectarines — $1.99/lb. (with digital coupon)
🌶️ Hatch chile peppers — $1.49/lb.
Protein
🐔 Fresh Simple Truth natural boneless skinless chicken breast value packs — $4.99/lb.
🐷 Saturday and Sunday only: Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage — $3.49/lb.
🧈 QFC butter, 1-lb. select varieties — 2 for $7
🧀 Local Tillamook cheese, 32 oz. select varieties — $7.99 each (with digital coupon)
🍨 Dreyer’s ice cream, 1.5 quart tubs — $2.99 each (with digital coupon)
🥚 Vital Farms pasture-raised large eggs — $8.99/18-count
🐷 Pork tenderloin or half loin — Buy 1, get 1 free
Pantry
🥔 Saturday and Sunday only: Miss Vickie's potato chips, select varieties — $1.99 each (limit 5)
🍞 Local organic Dave’s Killer Bread or bagels, select varieties — Buy 1, get 1 free
☕ Stumptown Coffee Roasters coffee, 12 oz select varieties — $13.49 each
🥣 General Mills giant-size cereal, select varieties — $3.99 each (with digital coupon)
🥣 Kroger giant-size cereal, select varieties — $3.49 each
🥯 Local Franz English muffins or bagels, select varieties — Buy 1, get 1 free
Produce
🍎 Envy apples — $1.29/lb.
🍉 Hermiston seedless watermelons — $6.29 each
🥒 Local zucchini — $1.39/lb.
🥔 Large yellow potatoes — $0.99/lb.
Protein
🐔 BBQ chicken skewers — $7.99/lb.
🥩 Brisket — $8.99/lb.
🌭 Hot Italian link sausage — $8.99/lb.
Produce
🌶️ Shishito peppers — $2.99/lb.
🥒 English cucumbers — $1.49/lb.
🍑 White peaches — $2.99/lb.
Protein
🥓 Heritage Berkshire Korean style pork belly — $8.99/lb.
🥓 Heritage Berkshire pork belly Yakiniku cut — $9.99/lb.
👅 Day-lee beef tongue Yakiniku cut — $20.99/lb.
🐟 Fresh wild-caught Coho salmon fillets — $14.99/lb.
Pantry
🫙 Ebara Yakiniku no tare shoyu Japanese BBQ sauce — $3.99 each
🍜 Shirakiku Japanese style frozen udon noodles — $3.99 each
🍚 Hitomebore premium short grain rice, 15 lb. bag — $26.99 each
Produce
🍑 Organic yellow peaches or nectarines — $2.99/lb.
🍇 Organic black, green, or red seedless grapes — $2.99/lb.
🍅 Organic heirloom tomatoes — $3.99/lb.
🟤 Organic figs — $5.99/lb.
Protein
🥩 New York strip steaks — 20% off
🌭 Chicken or pork sausages — 25% off
🍗 Organic air-chilled bone-in chicken drumsticks, thighs, or whole legs — 20% off
🦞 Wild-caught lobster tails — 30% off
🥚 Vital Farms pasture-raised eggs (1 dozen), butter (8 oz.), or hard-boiled eggs — 20% off
Pantry
☕ Chameleon, La Colombe, Califia Farms, STōK and Starbucks ready-to-drink mult-serve coffees — 33% off
🫙 Primal Kitchen condiments, dips, and avocado oils — 30% off
🫙 Bachan’s dipping and Japanese BBQ sauces — 30% off
🍝 Banza pasta, select varieties — 30% off
Pantry
💪 Powerade (28 oz.) or Bodyarmor (16 oz.) sports drinks — $0.78 each
🧁 Entenmann's Little Bites snacks, select varieties — $1.98 each
🌾 General Mills snack bars — Save $0.50 when you buy 2 (with digital coupon)
🥣 Cascadian Farm cereal, granola, or bars, select varieties — Save $1 when you buy 2 (with digital coupon)
Special Mentions
🐟 New Seasons is having a whole coho salmon pre-sale. Reserve your salmon online (choose how you want: whole, cut up, etc.) and get 10% off. This brings the price to about $7.99/lb. Pick it up Sept. 6-7.
🥣 Costco has a deal through Sept. 15 on Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes cereal: $6.99 for a 2-pack of mega-size boxes. They also have 4-lb. clamshells of organic yellow peaches for $7.99 each.
🥟 BooHan Market has monthly specials on frozen dumplings: japche or kimchi mandu for $9.99, and hot & spicy veggie or kimchi & puréed soybean stew dumplings for $4.99.
🥣 Kellogg’s has two manufacturer’s coupons, accepted anywhere that takes coupons: $1 off any 2 cereals and $1 off any Kellogg’s Core cereals
🍞 Through Aug. 25, Bi-Mart has local Franz gluten-free sourdough half loaves or Seattle International sourdough loaves for $4.99 each.
🍔 Through Sept. 6, get 23% off Beyond Burgers at Natural Grocers.
Meal Deal
I like to add a kick (pickled jalapeños) to my tri-tip sandwiches. (Bryan M. Vance/Stumptown Savings)
This week, indulge in a truly exceptional meal that's worth the splurge. While tri-tip is a pricier cut, when prepared correctly, it transforms into an incredibly tender beef experience. Imagine it nestled in a lightly grilled bun, piled high with caramelized onions, melted cheese, and your preferred BBQ sauce — a delightful nod to Rip City Grill's renowned sandwich. But at a price well below the $15/sandwich price point.
Splurge-Worthy Tri-Tip Sandwiches
Yields: 4 servings | Cost: $24.27 total (About $6 per serving) | Time: About 1 hour, 15 minutes
All deals are at Albertsons/Safeway and valid through Aug. 26 with For U Rewards
Ingredients
1 boneless beef trimmed tri-tip roast (approx. 1.5 pounds)
1 package Signature Select buns
1 large yellow onion
4 slices Lucerne provolone or cheddar cheese (optional)
1 bag Kettle Brand potato chips
Your favorite BBQ sauce, to taste
2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
1 tablespoon butter
Spices for rub: kosher salt, black pepper, garlic powder, paprika
Instructions
Prepare and Cook the Tri-Tip: Using the cooking method from the May 14 meal deal, preheat your oven or grill. Season the tri-tip generously with your spice rub, then sear it in an oven-safe skillet. Transfer the skillet to the oven (or grill) and roast until it reaches your desired temperature (130°F for medium-rare is recommended).
Caramelize the Onions: While the tri-tip roasts, thinly slice the yellow onion. Melt butter and a splash of olive oil in a separate skillet over medium-low heat. Add the onions and cook slowly, stirring occasionally, for 20-25 minutes until they are soft, sweet, and deeply golden brown.
Rest the Meat: This is the most important step. Once the tri-tip is done, transfer it to a cutting board and wrap it tightly in aluminum foil. Let it rest for at least 20 minutes. This allows the juices to redistribute, ensuring the meat is tender and flavorful.
Assemble: After resting, slice the tri-tip thinly against the grain. Toast the buns lightly. Pile the sliced tri-tip onto the bottom bun, top with a generous portion of caramelized onions, a drizzle of BBQ sauce, and a slice of cheese (if using). Add the top bun.
Serve: Serve the sandwiches immediately with the Kettle Brand potato chips on the side.
Cost Breakdown
1.5-pound tri-tip roast ($8.99/lb. at Safeway/Albertsons): $13.49
1 package Signature Select buns: $2.79
1 bag Kettle Brand potato chips: $1.99
1 large yellow onion (est. price): $1.50
Pantry staples (oil, butter, spices, BBQ sauce): approx. $3.50
4 slices of Lucerne cheese (from $5.99 pack at Safeway/Albertsons)): approx. $1
Total: $24.27
Per serving (for 4): $6.07
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