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Alberta Co-op through Dec. 30

Produce

  • 🥑 Haas avocados — $0.99/lb.

  • 🟠 Fuyu persimmons — $1.99 each

  • 🥦 Sweet baby broccoli — $2.99/lb.

Pantry

  • 🍞 Organic King Arthur Baking Company all-purpose flour, 5-lb. bags — $6.49 each

  • 🥣 Organic Nature’s Path cereal, 9.5-14-oz. boxes, select varieties — $3.99 each

Produce

  • 🥦 Broccoli crowns or cauliflower — $0.99/lb.

  • 🍎 Local Honeycrisp or Granny Smith apples — $0.99/lb.

  • 🍊 Signature Select mandarins, 3-lb. bags, or Halos mandarins, 2-lb. bags — $1.49 each (with digital coupon, limit 1 bag)

  • 🥔 Friday, Dec. 19 only: Signature Select Russet potatoes, 5-lb. bags, yellow onions, 3-lb. bags, or peeled baby-cut carrots, 2-lb. bags  — 3 for $5 (mix and match)

  • 🥔 Signature Select potatoes, 5-lb. bags, select varieties — $1.99 each

Wild-caught Dungeness crab is on special this week at Albertsons and Safeway. (Ravi Sekhar/Unsplash)

Protein

  • 🥩 Beef bone-in rib roasts or boneless New York roasts — $6.97/lb. (with digital coupon, limit 1 roast)

  • 🦀 Wild-caught whole cooked Dungeness crabs or fresh farm-raised Atlantic salmon fillets — $7.99/lb. (limit 2)

  • 🐷 Signature Select bone-in spiral-sliced half hams — $0.99/lb. (with digital coupon, limit 1 ham)

  • 🧀 Local Tillamook cheese, 32-oz. blocks, select varieties — $6.99 each (with digital coupon, limit 2 blocks)

  • 🧀 Local Tillamook sliced, shredded, or chunk cheese, 5-8-oz. packages, select varieties — $2.49 each (limit 4)

  • 🍨 Local Tillamook ice cream, 48-oz. cartons, select varieties — $3.49 each (with digital coupon, limit 4)

Pantry

  • ☕ Peet’s coffee, 10-10.5-oz. bags or 10-count K-cups, or Starbucks Coffee, 11-12-oz. bags or 10-count K-cups, select varieties — $6.99 each (with digital coupon, limit 4)

  • 🍞 Local Franz Big Bread, Pan Bread, bagels, or soft-baked cookies, select varieties — $2.99 each

  • 🥧 Pillsbury pie crusts, 14-oz. — $3.49 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🥔 Local Ore-Ida frozen potatoes, 26-32-oz. bags, select varieties — $3.49 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🥔 Local Kettle brand potato chips, 6-7.5-oz. bags, select varieties — $1.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🥣 General Mills cereal, 8.9-14-oz. boxes, Nature Valley bars, 5-6-count, or Betty Crocker fruit snacks, 8-10-count, select varieties — $1.99 each (with digital coupon)

Basics Market Hillsdale through Dec. 30

  • 💵 $20 off your next purchase of $100 or more (with in-ad coupon)

  • 💵 Every Wednesday, seniors get an additional 10% off in-store purchases

  • 💵 Every Tuesday, veterans and active duty military get an additional 10% off in-store purchases

Produce

  • 🥭 Organic Tommy Atkins mangos — 2 for $7

  • 🥗 OrganicGirl salads, 5-oz., select varieties — $3.99 each

  • 🍐 Local organic Comice pears — $2.29/lb.

Protein

  • 🐮 Local Tillamook sour cream, 16-oz. containers — $1.99 each

  • 🥩 Local Painted Hills beef stew meat — $10.99/lb.

Pantry

  • 🥔 Simply Potatoes mashed potatoes, 24-oz. containers, select varieties — $2.99 each

  • 🥞 Local Bob’s Red Mill pancake mixes, 14-20-oz. packages, select varieties — 25% off

  • 🥞 Simple Mills gluten-free baking mixes, 9-12.9-oz. packages, select varieties — $7.99 each

  • 🥒 Bubbies pickles and sauerkraut, 8-25-oz. containers, select varieties — 25% off

Chuck’s Fresh Markets through Dec. 24

Produce

  • 🥔 Baking potatoes — 3-lbs. for $1

  • 🥔 Organic Russet potatoes, 5-lb. bags — $3.49 each

  • 🍊 Organic navel oranges — $2.29/lb.

  • 🍄 White or Crimini mushrooms, 8-oz. packages, select varieties — 2 for $5

  • 🥑 Haas avocados — 5 for $5

  • 🫛 Green beans — $2.29/lb.

Protein

  • 🥩 Local Double R Ranch bone-in beef prime rib roasts — $11.99/lb.

  • 🐔 Local Ranger free-range boneless skinless chicken breast value packs — $4.99/lb.

  • 🐮 Local Double R Ranch 85%-lean ground beef value packs — $5.99/lb.

  • 🍨 Local Umpqua ice cream, 48-oz. containers, select varieties — $3.99 each

Pantry

  • 🍞 Local Franz stuffing mixes or dinner rolls, select varieties — $3.49 each

  • 🍞 Local Kalama Sourdough Bakery dinner rolls, 6-count — 2 for $5

  • 🎃 Organic Farmer’s Market pumpkin purée, 15-oz. cans — 2 for $5

  • 🍞 Local organic Franz Naked bread, select varieties — $3.49 each

Creamy, cheesy and full of potatoes — what's not to love about potatoes au gratin? Get a recipe down in the What We're Cooking section of this week's newsletter. (Chris Cowan/Creative Commons)

Produce

  • 🥔 Kroger Russet potatoes, 5-lb. bags — BOGO

  • 🍊 California Cuties seedless mandarins, 3-lb. bags, or Organic Cuties seedless mandarins, 2-lb. bags — BOGO

  • 🍍 Large pineapples — $1.77 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🫛 Birds Eye frozen vegetables, 9.5-14.4-oz. bags, select varieties — $1.49 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🍠 Red garnet yams or white sweet potatoes — $1.79/lb.

Protein

  • 🐷 Sugardale bone-in shank or butt ham portions — $0.87/lb.

  • 🥩 Beef bone-in ribeye roasts — $7.77/lb. (with digital coupon and additional $50 purchase, limit 1 roast)

  • 🐔 Fresh Heritage Farm boneless chicken breasts — $2.49/lb.

  • 🥚 Simple Truth large cage-free eggs, 18-count — $3.99 each

  • 🧀 Local Tillamook cheese, 32-oz. blocks, select varieties — $6.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🧈 Kroger butter, 16-oz., select varieties — $2.49 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🧈 Local Darigold butter, 16-oz., select varieties — $2.99 each

  • 🧈 Local Tillamook extra creamy butter, 16-oz., select varieties — $3.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🐮 Through Friday, Dec. 19: Schweid and Sons ground beef, 16-oz. packages, select varieties — $5.99 each

  • 🐷 Kroger bone-in, honey-glazed, hickory smoked spiral hams — $1.47/lb. 

  • 🦃 Fresh Jennie-O turkeys — $1.69/lb.

  • 🦃 Fresh Jennie-O bone-in turkey breasts — $2.99/lb.

  • 🧀 Local Tillamook cream cheese, 7-8-oz. containers, select varieties — 2 for $5

  • 🥜 Kroger peanut butter, 40-oz. jars, select varieties — $3.99 each

  • 🥩 Private Selection bone-in beef ribeye roasts or USDA Choice boneless New York strip roasts — 30% off

Pantry

  • ☕ Starbucks Coffee, 10-12-oz. bags, or Peet’s coffee, 10-10.5-oz. bags, select varieties — $7.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🥔 Local Ore-Ida frozen potatoes, 22.5-32-oz. bags, select varieties — $2.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • ☕ Folgers or Café Bustelo coffee, 22-25.9-oz. cans, select varieties — $9.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🥯 Local Franz bagels, 6-count, select varieties — BOGO

  • ☕ Seattle’s Best coffee, 10-12-oz. bags or 10-count K-cups, select varieties — $5.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🥣 General Mills cereal, 8.9-14-oz. boxes, select varieties — $1.99 each (with digital coupon)

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Grocery Outlet through Dec. 23 (deals vary by store)

Produce

  • 🍏 Granny Smith apples, 5-lb. bags — $3.99 each

  • 🥔 Red or yellow potatoes, 5-lb. bags — 2 for $4

  • 🍠 Sweet potatoes — $0.99/lb.

  • 🫐 Blueberries, 18-oz. containers — $3.99 each

Protein

  • 🐷 Bone-in spiral-sliced half hams — $0.99/lb. (when you spend $75 or more through Dec. 31)

  • 🌭 Villa Roma fresh pork sausage or links, 1-lb. packages, select varieties — 2 for $6

  • 🧈 SimplyGO butter, 16-oz., select varieties — $2.99 each

  • 🥚 Happy Egg Co. large free-range eggs, 18-count — $4.99 each

Pantry

  • 🍟 Local Ore-Ida extra crispy seasoned crinkles, 6-lb. bag — $4.99 each

  • 🥔 Lynden Farms hash brown patties, 10-count — $1.99 each

  • 🥣 Kellogg’s cereal, 12.3-17-oz. boxes, select varieties — 2 for $3

  • 🧁 SimplyGO granulated white sugar, 4-lb. bags — $2.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🍞 SimplyGO all-purpose flour, 5-lb. bags — $1.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🍷 Wine — 20% off when you buy 6 bottles (with digital coupon)

  • 💵 Every Tuesday, veterans and active duty military get an additional 10% off in-store purchases

  • 💵 Every Wednesday, seniors (65+) get an additional 10% off in-store purchases

Produce

  • 🫐 Organic blueberry pints — $4.99 each

  • 🫛 Organic green beans — $3.99/lb.

  • 🍊 Satsuma mandarins — $2.49 each

  • 🥗 OrganicGirl salad blends, 1-lb. packages, select varieties — $6.99 each

  • 🥕 Organic Wild Harvest vegetables, 12-oz. bags, select varieties — $2.99 each

Protein

  • 🥩 USDA Choice dry-aged prime rib roasts — $19.99/lb.

  • 🍖 Local Anderson Ranches rack of lamb — $29.99/lb.

  • 🐔 Applegate breakfast sausage patties, 16-oz. packages, select varieties — $11.99 each

  • 🐟 Ekone tinned seafood, select varieties — 20% off

  • 🌱 Tofutti dairy free products, select varieties — 30% off 

Pantry

  • ☕ Local Stumptown Coffee Roasters coffee, 10.5-12-oz. bags, select varieties — $13.99 each

  • 🫔 Salsas Locas tamales, select varieties — 20% off

  • 🫚 Morton & Basket spices and extracts, select varieties — 50% off

  • 🥧 Local Willamette Valley Pie Company frozen pies, select varieties — 15% off

  • 🍕 Oggi Foods frozen pizzas, 18-18.7-oz. packages, select varieties — BOGO

  • 🍝 Woodstock frozen pasta, 20-oz. bags, select varieties — $9.99 each

  • 🥜 Local Hummingbird Wholesale bulk snacks, nuts, or dried fruits, select varieties — 15% off

  • 🍞 King Arthur Baking Company flour, select varieties — 20% off

People’s Food Co-op through Dec. 30

Produce

  • 🥬 Local organic radicchio, select varieties — $4.99/lb.

  • 🍊 Organic navel oranges — $1.99/lb.

  • 🫛 Organic fair-trade green beans — $2.99/lb.

  • 🍄 Local organic shiitake mushrooms — $10.99/lb.

  • 🟢 Local organic fennel — $2.49 each

Protein

  • 🌱 Organic Earth Balance whipped buttery spread, 13-oz. containers — $5.99 each

  • 🌱 Foodies Vegan pumfu, 8-oz. packages, select varieties — $5.29 each

  • 🧀 Organic Vallly raw mild cheddar, 8-oz. packages — $5.49 each

  • 🌱 Organic Hodo Soy Beanery braised tofu, 8-oz. packages — $4.29 each

  • 🍦 Local organic Alden’s ice cream, 48-oz. containers, select varieties — $8.99 each

Pantry

  • ☕ Local organic Cellar Door Coffee fair-trade bulk coffee — $14.99/lb.

  • 🍁 Organic bulk dark maple syrup — $10.99/lb.

  • 🍟 Local Cascadian Farm frozen straight-cut French fries, 16-oz. packages — 2 for $8

QFC through Dec. 24 (with QFC Rewards)

Produce

  • 🍊 California Cuties seedless mandarins, 3-lb. bags, or Organic Cuties, 2-lb. bags — BOGO

  • 🫛 Green beans — $1.99/lb.

  • 🍍 Sunburst pineapples — $1.77 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🫛 Birds Eye frozen vegetables, 9.5-14.4-oz. bags, select varieties — $1.49 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🥫 Del Monte canned vegetables, 14.5-15.25-oz. cans, select varieties — 10 for $10

  • 🟢 Acorn, butternut, or spaghetti squashes — $1.49/lb. 

  • 🥔 Kroger Russet potatoes, 5-lb. bags — $2.99 each

  • 🥫 Organic Simple Truth canned vegetables, 14.5-15.25-oz. cans, select varieties — 2 for $3

Protein

  • 🐷 Hormel bone-in Cure 81 spiral hams — $1.37/lb. (with digital coupon)

  • 🥩 Certified Angus beef ribeye or New York strip roasts — 40% off

  • 🐔 Local Draper Valley Farm fresh boneless chicken breasts, tenders, thighs, or thin cuts — BOGO

  • 🥚 Simple Truth large cage-free eggs, 18-count — $3.99 each

  • 🧀 Local Tillamook cheese, 32-oz. blocks, select varieties — $6.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🐮 Through Friday, Dec. 19: Schweid and Sons ground beef, 16-oz. packages, select varieties — $5.99 each

  • 🧈 QFC butter, 16-oz., select varieties — $2.49 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🧀 Local Tillamook cream cheese, 7-8-oz. packages, select varieties — 2 for $5

  • 🧈 Local Darigold butter, 16-oz., select varieties — $2.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🦀 Fresh wild-caught Dungeness crabs — $9.99/lb.

  • 🥩 Boneless whole beef tenderloins — $19.99/lb.

Pantry

  • ☕ Starbucks Coffee, 10-12-oz. bags, or Peet’s coffee, 10-10.5-oz. bags, select varieties — $7.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🥔 Local Ore-Ida frozen potatoes, 22.5-32-oz. bags, select varieties — $2.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🥧 Edwards pies, 25.5-32-oz. pies, select varieties — $4.99 each (with digital coupon)

  • 🍞 Local Franz dinner rolls or wide pan bread, select varieties — $3.99 each

  • ☕ Local Caffe Vita coffee, 12-oz. bags, select varieties — $14.99 each

  • 🥣 Kroger instant oatmeal, 8-12 count boxes, select varieties — 3 for $5

  • 🥯 Local Franz English muffins or bagels, 6-count, select varieties — BOGO

  • 🍝 Barilla pasta, 12-16-oz. packages, select varieties — $1.29 each (with digital coupon)

  • ☕ Local Seattle’s Best coffee, 10-12-oz. bags or 10-count K-cup

Roth’s Fresh Markets through Dec. 23

Produce

  • 🧅 Local yellow onions — $0.39/lb.

  • 🥔 Local Russet potatoes — $0.49/lb.

  • 🫛 Green beans — $2.29/lb.

  • 🍄 White or Crimini mushrooms, 8-oz. packages, select varieties — 2 for $5

  • 🍊 Organic navel oranges — $2.29/lb.

Protein

  • 🥩 Local Double R Ranch bone-in beef prime rib roasts — $11.99/lb.

  • 🍨 Local Umpqua ice cream, 48-oz. containers, select varieties — $3.99 each

  • 🐷 Local Carlton Farms bone-in spiral-sliced hams — $5.99/lb.

  • 🐮 Local Umpqua sour cream, 16-oz. containers, select varieties — 2 for $5

  • 🥛 Local Umpqua 2% chocolate milk half-gallons — $2.99 each

  • 🥫 Libby’s canned corn, beans, or peas, 14.5-15.25-oz. cans — $0.68 each

Pantry

  • 🥧 Pillsbury pie crusts, 14.1-oz. — 2 for $7

  • ☕ Local Silver Falls Coffee, 12-oz. bags or 12-count K-cups, select varieties — $9.99 each

  • 🍞 Local organic Franz Naked bread, select varieties — $3.49 each

  • 🎃 Organic Farmer’s Market pumpkin puree, 15-oz. cans — 2 for $5

Sheridan Fruit Co. through Dec. 30

Produce

  • 🍎 Jazz apples — $0.99/lb.

  • 🍊 Cara Cara oranges — $1.69/lb.

  • 🥕 Carrots — $0.89/lb.

  • 🥔 Large Yukon Gold potatoes — $0.99/lb.

  • 🍠 Beauregard yams — $1.29/lb.

Protein

  • 🐔 Smoked party wings — $6.99/lb.

Uwajimaya through Dec. 23

Produce

  • 🍊 Blue Jay satsuma mandarins — $1.99/lb.

  • 🥬 Organic komatsuna green bunches — $2.49 each

  • ⚪ Daikon radishes — $0.79/lb.

Protein

  • 🦐 Wild-caught fresh white prawns, 16-20 count — $9.99/lb.

  • 🥩 Mishima Reserve American wagyu thin-sliced chuck roll beef — $15.99/lb.

  • 🌭 Redeondo’s Portuguese sausage, 12-oz., select varieties — $8.49 each

Pantry

  • 🌾 Koda Farms sweet rice, 5-lb. bags — $12.99 each

  • 🍜 Honda Shoten Izumo Nama soba noodles, 200-g. — $5.49 each

  • 🍜 Shirakiku Sanukiya frozen udon noodles, 5-count — $3.99 each

  • 🌾 Morita cooking sake, 1-liter bottles, select varieties — $4.99 each

Whole Foods through Dec. 24 (with Amazon Prime)

Produce

  • 🥦 Organic baby broccoli — 2 for $6

  • 🍠 Organic sweet potatoes — $1.99/lb.

  • 🥑 Hass avocados, 4-count bags — $3.49 each

  • 🫐 Organic blueberry pints — $4.99 each

  • 🍊 Organic navel oranges — $1.99/lb.

  • 🍊 Organic red grapefruits — $1.99/lb.

Protein

  • 🥩 Bone-in beef rib roast — 20% off

  • 🐔 Whole Foods Market better whole chicken — 20% off

  • 🐷 Bone-in spiral-cut hams — 30% off

  • 🍖 Bone-in leg of lamb — 20% off

  • 🐷 Bone-in pork loin chops — 25% off

  • 🦞 Wild-caught lobster tails — 20% off

  • 🦀 King crab — 20% off

  • 🧀 Holiday cheeses, select varieties — 30% off

Pantry

  • 🥐 Whole Foods Market bake-at-home pastries — 25% off

  • 🍞 Local Bob’s Red Mill flours, select varieties — 30% off

  • 🍰 Whole Foods Market cinnamon rolls, 4-pack — 20% off

  • 🫙 Carbone pasta and pizza sauces, 14-24-oz. jars, select varieties — 30% off

  • 🍕 Daiya frozen pizzas, select varieties — 25% off

Produce

  • 🧅 Yellow onions — $0.48/lb.

  • 🥑 Medium avocados — $0.58 each

  • 🍠 Jewel yams — $0.97/lb.

  • 🫛 Green beans — $1.78/lb.

Protein

  • 🐔 Fresh Sanderson Farms jumbo boneless skinless chicken breast fillet jumbo packs — $2.48/lb.

  • 🐷 Frick’s boneless ½ hams — $3.48/lb.

  • 🐷 Frick’s ham portions, select varieties — $2.48/lb.

  • 🐷 Bone-in spiral-cut ½ hams — $1.46/lb.

  • 🐷 Bone-in ham portions, select varieties — $0.86/lb.

  • 🐔 Spicy chicken wings, 36-oz. packages — $12.98 each

Pantry

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What We’re Cooking

If your shopping list feels heavier than usual this week, you aren’t alone — it’s officially "Roast Week" in Portland. Combined with a mountain of potato deals and the peak-season arrival of sweet, cheap citrus, this week is begging for a classic holiday menu that feels expensive but shops smart.

The key to restaurant-quality tender prime rib at home is the reverse sear. Roast the meat low and slow, reserving the searing step for the end. The result is a perfectly rare interior with a crusty, seared exterior. (Jonathan Borba/Unsplash)

Here are three recipes — including one for a perfect prime rib — to help you turn those doorbuster deals into a feast:

Perfect Prime Rib

If you’re taking advantage of the deeply discounted rib roasts at Albertsons/Safeway or Fred Meyer, you need a foolproof method to ensure you don’t overcook your investment. This reverse-sear technique is the gold standard. By cooking the roast low and slow before blasting it with heat at the end, you get edge-to-edge pink meat without the gray, overcooked band. It’s easier than it sounds and results in a restaurant-quality centerpiece.

Creamy Au Gratin Potatoes

With Russet potatoes practically being given away this week (BOGO at Fred Meyer and dirt cheap at Roth's and Albertsons/Safeway), it’s time to make the ultimate comfort side. This recipe doesn't hold back — it leverages the deals on butter, onions, and milk for a rich, bubbly casserole.

Glazed Cranberry Orange Scones

Need a breakfast plan for the holidays? This recipe makes excellent use of the cheap citrus flooding the produce aisles right now. Use the zest and juice from the on-sale navel oranges (or even mandarins) to brighten up these buttery scones. Since butter, flour, and sugar are all discounted at Fred Meyer and Grocery Outlet this week, this is a budget-friendly bake that tastes like a luxury bakery treat. You can even freeze the dough now and bake them fresh Christmas morning.

As always, if you cook any of these recipes (or whip up a different dish) let us know by replying to this email, in the comments on this article, or by tagging us on Instagram or TikTok at @StumptownSavings. Happy cooking!

Events

The Portland holiday season is officially underway! With Peacock Lane open and the Christmas Ships sailing the Columbia and Willamette Rivers nightly, the city is full of festive cheer. Our events calendar has something for everyone, whether you're looking for breathtaking light displays, unique local gifts, a chance to improve your knife skills (from chopping to sharpening), or an opportunity to support local farmers and stock up on seasonal produce.

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