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Happy New Year! I'm so grateful for your support and for joining me on this mission to help Portlanders shop smarter. I've been writing this newsletter since April, and now I want to hear from you. What do you love about Stumptown Savings? What problems are you currently dealing with? What types of content, services or products do you wish I’d offer? Your honest feedback is the best way for me to plan what content and projects to focus on this year, and help you shop even smarter! I've put together a quick survey, and I'd love your input.
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Table of Contents
Produce
🫛 Stahlbush frozen vegetables, 10-oz. bags, select varieties — 2 for $5
Protein
🌱 Field Roast Chao cheese, 7-8-oz. packages, select varieties — $4.99 each
Pantry
🥣 Local organic Bob’s Red Mill oats, 28-32-oz. packages, select varieties — $6.99 each
☕ Local organic Equal Exchange tea, 20-count packages, select varieties — 2 for $7
🧀 Annie’s mac and cheese, 5.25-6-oz. boxes, select varieties — 2 for $3
☕ Local organic Equal Exchange coffee, 10-12-oz. bags, select varieties — $11.99 each
Produce
🍎 Fuji or Ambrosia apples — $0.49/lb.
🍊 Cara Cara or navel oranges — $0.49/lb.
🧅 Signature Select yellow onions, 3-lb. bags — $1.99 each
🥕 Signature Select carrots, 2-lb. bags — $1.99 each
🥔 Russet potatoes — $0.49/lb.
🍌 Bananas — $0.49/lb. (with digital coupon, limit 4 lbs.)
Protein
🥩 USDA Choice boneless beef chuck shoulder or pot roasts — $5.99/lb. (limit 2 packs)
🐔 Fresh boneless, skinless chicken breasts or thighs — $1.49/lb. (limit 5 lbs.)
🥩 USDA Choice boneless petite sirloin steak value packs — $3.99/lb. (with digital coupon, limit 4 packs)
🧀 Local Tillamook chunk, sliced, shredded, snack, cracker cut, or cream cheese, select varieties — $1.99 each (with digital coupon, limit 4 packages)
🧈 Lucerne butter, 2-lb. packs, select varieties — $6.49 each
🦪 Fresh farm-raised live black Pacific mussels or Manila clams — $5.99/lb.
Pantry
☕ Peet’s Coffee, 10-10.5-oz. bags or 10-count K-cups, select varieties — $6.99 each (limit 4 packages)
🍞 Local Franz pan breads, English muffins, bagels, or organic Naked Bread, select varieties — BOGO
🍜 Progresso soup, 18-19-oz. cans, select varieties — 3 for $5 (limit 6 cans)
🥔 Frito-Lay baked chips, 6.25-7.62-oz. bags, select varieties — $2.99 each (with digital coupon)
💵 $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
🍏 Local organic Opal apples — $1.99/lb.
🥦 Organic baby broccoli — $2.99 each
🥒 Organic Persian cucumbers — $2.49/lb.
Protein
🐟 Starkist tuna, 5-oz. cans, select varieties — $0.99 each
🌱 Forager plant-based yogurt and assorted products — 25% off
Pantry
☕ Bigelow Tea, 18-20-count boxes, select varieties — $2.99 each
🍿 Organic Lesser Evil popcorn, 4.6-oz. bags, select varieties — $2.99 each
🫒 Local Napoleon jarred peppers, capers, and artichokes — 25% off
Produce
🍅 Tomatoes on-the-vine — $1.49/lb.
🥑 Haas avocados — $0.89/lb.
🥗 Taylor Farms chopped salad kits, 10.65-13.5-oz. bags, select varieties — 3 for $10
🍎 Organic Fuji apples — $1.99/lb.
🍊 Organic large navel oranges — $2.29/lb.
🥔 Russet potatoes — $0.49/lb.
🧅 Yellow onions — $0.39/lb.
🍎 Pink lady apples — $0.99/lb.
Protein
🥩 Local Country Natural Beef USDA Choice bone-in beef ribeye steak value packs — $19.99/lb. (with free garlic-herb compound butter)
🐟 Farm-raised steelhead fillets — $12.99/lb. (with free lemon-herb compound butter)
🐮 Local Tillamook sour cream, 16-oz. containers, select varieties — $1.99 each
🐟 Orca Bay ahi tuna steak, 16-oz. puzzle packs — $7.99 each
🐔 Local Draper Valley Farms bone-in chicken thigh value packs — $1.99/lb.
🐔 Local Draper Valley Farms boneless, skinless chicken breast value packs — $4.99/lb.
Pantry
🍿 Organic Lesser Evil popcorn, 4.5-6.4-oz. bags, select varieties — $2.99 each
🍞 Local organic Franz Naked overnight oats bread, 18-oz. loaves, select varieties — $3.49 each
🫙 Rao’s Homemade pasta sauce, 15-24-oz. jars, select varieties — $5.98 each
🍝 Organic Montebello pasta, 16-oz. packages, select varieties — $3.99 each
🥣 Local organic Cascadian Farm cereal, 8.6-14.6-oz. boxes, select varieties — $4.99 each
Produce
🥗 Saturday-Monday only: Taylor Farms salad kits, 7-13.5-oz. bags, select varieties — $2.99 each
🫐 Blueberries, 18-oz. containers — $2.99 each (with digital coupon)
🍊 Kroger navel oranges or grapefruits, 8-lb. bags — $4.99 each (with digital coupon)
🍎 Local organic Simple Truth Gala, Granny Smith, or Pink Lady apples, 2-lb. bags — $3.99 each
🫛 Organic Simple Truth frozen vegetables, 10-12-oz. bags, select varieties — $2.99 each
Protein
🐔 Fresh Foster Farms or Simply Raised chicken, select varieties — BOGO
🥩 USDA Choice boneless chuck roasts or steaks, value packs — $5.99/lb.
🐮 93%-lean ground beef, 3-lb. rolls — $4.99/lb.
🥚 Kroger large cage-free eggs, 1-dozen — $1.99 each (with digital coupon)
🐔 Just Bare frozen chicken, 19.2-24-oz. bags, select varieties — $9.99 each (with digital coupon)
🌱 Gardein Ultimate plant-based entrées, 14-15-oz. packages, select varieties — $7.99 each (with digital coupon)
🐷 Whole pork tenderloins — BOGO
Pantry
🍕 Screamin’ Sicilian frozen pizzas, 17.5-25-oz. packages, select varieties — BOGO
🥯 Local Franz bagels, 6-count, select varieties — BOGO
🥯 Local organic Dave’s Killer Bread bagels, 5-count, or English muffins, 6-count, select varieties — $4.49 each (with digital coupon)
🥣 General Mills giant-size cereals, 20-29-oz. boxes, select varieties — BOGO
🧇 Kodiak frozen protein waffles, 6-10-count packages, select varieties — $4.99 each (with digital coupon)
🥔 Local Kettle Brand potato chips, 6-7.5-oz. bags, select varieties — 2 for $6
🍜 Progresso soup, 18.5-19-oz. cans, select varieties — 8 for $10
🥣 Local organic Cascadian Farm cereal or granola, 9-15-oz. boxes, select varieties — $2.99 each (with digital coupon)
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Produce
🍊 Organic mandarin tangerines, 2-lb. bags — $3.49 each
🥗 Organic Earthbound Farm salads, 5-oz. packages, select varieties — 2 for $5
🫐 Organic Something Simple or Northwest Select frozen blueberries, 3-lb. bags — $7.99 each
Protein
🦃 Butterball All Natural 85%-lean ground turkey, 3-lb. rolls — $9.99 each
🐮 Organic Northwest Finest 85/15 ground beef — $6.99/lb.
🌱 Daiya dairy-free cheese shreds or slices, 7.1-7.8-oz. packages, select varieties — $3.99 each
🌱 Beyond Beef Crumbles, 10-oz. packages — $2.99 each
🌱 Impossible spicy plant-based ground sausage, 14-oz. rolls — $2.99 each
🐔 Tyson high-protein frozen chicken nuggets, 40-oz. packages — $7.99 each
🧈 Local Darigold unsalted butter, 16-oz. — $4.99 each
🌱 Local organic Pacific Foods unsweetened original almond milk, 32-oz. cartons — $1.99 each
Pantry
🧆 Hippeas chickpea puffs, 3.75-4-oz. bags, select varieties — $1.99 each
🥫 Contadina diced fire roasted tomatoes, 28-oz. cans — $0.99 each
💵 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
🍊 Oranges, all varieties — 25% off
🍊 Organic Rio Star grapefruits — $2.49/lb.
🍊 Organic minneola tangelos — $2.49/lb.
🥬 Organic kale bunches — 2 for $5
🥦 Organic broccoli — $2.99/lb.
🫐 Seal the Seasons frozen fruit, select varieties — 20% off
Protein
🐔 Organic Mary’s boneless, skinless chicken breasts — $8.99/lb.
🐟 Wild-caught Pacific cod fillets — $14.99/lb.
🦪 Local Manila clams — $8.99/lb.
🌱 Beyond Meat plant-based seared tips, 10-oz. packages, select varieties — $7.99 each
Pantry
🌱 Sunday Supper plant-based Italian frozen foods, 9-12-oz. packages, select varieties — $8.99 each
🥟 Sobo Foods plant-based dumplings, 8-oz. packages, select varieties — $7.99 each
🥔 Strong Roots fries and hash browns, select varieties — 20% off
🥫 Organic Muir Glen canned tomatoes, 28-oz. cans, select varieties — 2 for $6
🥯 Queen St. Bakery superfood bagels and English muffins, select varieties — 20% off
Produce
🍎 Local organic Pazazz apples — $1.49/lb.
🍐 Local organic red Bartlett pears — $1.69/lb.
🥬 Local organic Lacinato kale bunches — 2 for $5
🥝 Organic red kiwis — $5.99/lb.
🍊 Organic Rio Star and Ruby grapefruits — $2.79/lb.
Protein
🧀 Organic Valley part-skim mozzarella cheese, 8-oz. packages — $5.99 each
🐑 Bellwether Farms sheep milk yogurt, 6-oz. containers — $2.29 each
🌱 Violife vegan feta, 8.1-oz. packages — $5.49 each
🌱 Field Roast smoky BBQ shreds, 10.5-oz. packages — $5.49 each
🌱 Lightlife buffalo tempeh, 8-oz. packages — $4.49 each
🌱 Abbot’s plant-based ground “beef”, 10-oz. packages — $6.49 each
🌱 Forage Project dairy free yogurt, 24-oz. containers — $5.79 each
🌱 Violife vegan salted butter, 8.8-oz. — $4.29 each
🌱 Big Mountain original veggie patties, 14-oz. packages — $6.39 each
Pantry
🥔 Boulder Canyon potato chips, 5.25-oz. bags, select varieties — $3.29 each
🫒 Ithaca x Graza hummus, 10-oz. packages — $4.79 each
🧀 Annie’s shells and white cheddar, 6-oz. boxes — 2 for $3
☕ Local organic Equal Exchange whole bean coffee, 12-oz. bags, select varieties — $11.99 each
☕ Local organic Equal Exchange hot cocoa mix, 12-oz. container — $7.99 each
🌾 Jovial brown rice pasta, 12-oz. packages, select varieties — $3.99 each
🥫 Organic Muir Glen diced tomatoes, 14.5-oz. cans — 2 for $4
🥣 Organic bulk oats — $2.99/lb.
Produce
🥗 Saturday-Monday only: Taylor Farms salad kits, 7-13.5-oz. bags, select varieties — $2.99 each
🍊 Sumo mandarins — $2.49/lb. (with digital coupon)
🍎 Organic Simple Truth Gala, Granny Smith, or Pink Lady apples, 2-lb. bags — $3.99 each
🫛 Organic Simple Truth frozen vegetables, 10-12-oz. bags, select varieties — $2.29 each
🍎 Local Cosmic Crisp apples — $1.99/lb.
Protein
🥩 Certified Angus Beef boneless tri-tip roasts or steaks, or boneless chuck roasts or steaks — BOGO
🐔 Local fresh Draper Valley Farms bone-in chicken drumsticks, thighs, or wings value packs — BOGO
🥚 Happy Egg Co. large heritage free-range eggs, 1-dozen — $5.99 each (with digital coupon)
🥚 QFC large cage-free eggs, 1-dozen — $1.99 each (with digital coupon)
🥩 USDA Choice flat iron steaks or bone-in beef flanken-style ribs — 20% off (limit 4-lbs.)
🐷 Whole pork tenderloins — $3.99/lb.
Pantry
🍕 Screamin’ Sicilian frozen pizzas, 16.35-25-oz. pizzas, select varieties — BOGO
🧇 Kodiak frozen protein waffles, 6-10-count, select varieties — $4.99 each (with digital coupon)
🍞 Local organic Franz Naked Bread, 22.5-oz. loaves, select varieties — $2.49 each (with digital coupon)
🫘 Organic Simple Truth canned beans, 15-oz. cans, select varieties — 10 for $10
🥔 Local Kettle Brand potato chips, 6-7.5-oz. bags, select varieties — 2 for $6
🥣 General Mills giant-size cereals, 20-29-oz. boxes, select varieties — BOGO
🥣 Local organic Cascadian Farm cereal or granola, 9-15-oz. boxes, select varieties — $2.99 each (with digital coupon)
🥯 Local organic Dave’s Killer Bread bagels, 5-count, or English muffins, 6-count, select varieties — $4.49 each (with digital coupon)
🌽 Local Juantonio’s tortilla chips, 15-oz. bags, select varieties — 2 for $5
Produce
🍅 On-the-vine tomatoes — $1.49/lb.
🥗 Taylor Farms chopped salad kits, 9.25-13.5-oz. bags, select varieties — 3 for $10
🧅 Yellow onions — $0.39/lb.
🍎 Pink Lady apples — $0.99/lb.
🥔 Local russet potatoes — $0.49/lb.
🥬 Local green or red leaf lettuce bunches — $1.99 each
🍎 Organic Fuji apples — $1.99/lb.
🍎 Local Cosmic Crisp apples — $1.48/lb.
Protein
🥩 Local USDA Choice Country Natural Beef bone-in beef ribeye steak value packs — $19.99/lb. (with free garlic-herb compound butter)
🐟 Farm-raised steelhead fillets — $12.99/lb. (with free lemon-herb compound butter)
🥛 Local Tillamook sour cream, 16-oz. containers, select varieties — $1.99 each
🧀 Local Umpqua cottage cheese, 16-oz. containers, select varieties — 2 for $5
🐔 Local Draper Valley Farms air-chilled boneless, skinless chicken breast value packs — $4.99/lb.
🐔 Local Draper Valley Farms bone-in chicken thigh value packs — $1.99/lb.
🐟 Orca Bay ahi tuna steak, 16-oz. puzzle packs — $7.99 each
Pantry
🍜 Progresso soup, 18.5-19-oz. cans, select varieties — 2 for $4
🫙 Rao’s Homemade pasta sauce, 15-24-oz. jars, select varieties — $5.98 each
Produce
🍊 Satsuma mandarins — $2.59/lb.
🎃 Delicata squash — $0.99/lb.
🥬 Green cabbage — $0.79/lb.
Produce
🍠 Japanese sweet potatoes — $1.79/lb.
🍊 Heirloom navel oranges — $1.49/lb.
🍄 Organic Hokto bunashimeji bagged mushrooms — $2.79 each
Protein
🌱 Organic House Foods tofu, 12-14-oz. packages, select varieties — 2 for $5
🐷 Boneless pork shoulder roasts — $2.99/lb.
🐟 Whole saba — $4.99/lb.
Pantry
🥟 Ajinomoto Shumai frozen dumpling family paks, 15.87-17.46-oz. bags, select varieties — $8.49 each
🍜 House Foods tofu hot pot kits, 13.4-13.6-oz. packages, select varieties — $3.69 each
Produce
🥬 Kale, Swiss chard, or collard greens — 20% off
🥦 Organic broccoli — $2.99/lb.
🍠 Organic sweet potatoes — $1.99/lb.
🍊 Cara Cara red navel oranges — $2.49/lb.
Protein
🦃 Organic ground turkey value packs — Buy 2, Get 1 Free
🐟 Wild-caught Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets — 20% off
🐟 Wild-caught Sablefish fillets — 20% off
🥩 Beef top sirloin steaks — 15% off
🍗 Air-chilled bone-in chicken drumsticks, thighs, or whole legs — 25% off
Pantry
🍜 Kettle & Fire broths and bone broths, select varieties — 30% off
🫙 Primal Kitchen oils, sauces, condiments, and dips, select varieties — 30% off
🫒 California Olive Ranch extra virgin olive oils, select varieties — 30% off
🥣 Magic Spoon cereals, select varieties — 28% off
We’re in peak avocado season for the next several months. Right now, WinCo has some of the best prices on avocados I’ve seen in at least a year. (Bryan M. Vance/Stumptown Savings)
Produce
🧅 Yellow onions — $0.48/lb.
🥑 Medium avocados — $0.56 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
🫙 La Terra Fina dips, 10-oz. containers, select varieties — $2.98 each
🍞 Hawaiian rolls express trays — $10.98 each
🧀 Cheetos, 8-8.5-oz. bags, select varieties — $2.98 each
☀️ Sunchips, 7-oz. bags, select varieties — $2.98 each
🥐 Pillsbury refrigerated or frozen baked goods, select varieties — $1 off when you buy 2 (with digital coupon, through Jan. 14)
🍝 Knorr sides, select varieties — $1 off when you buy 4 (with digital coupon, through Jan. 21)
Special Mentions
@stumptownsavings Tomorrow, Sat. Jan 3, 2026, is $1 Day at all @Franz Bakery Brands outlets. Every item on their clearance wall is marked down to just $1 ea... See more
🍚 99 Ranch jasmine rice, 50-lb. bags — $38.99 each
🍜 BX instant noodle soup, 5-pack, select varieties — 2 for $7
⚪ Steamed chicken buns, 4-pack — $6.59
🥞 I-Mei frozen green onion pancakes, 18.52-oz. packages — 2 for $3.98
🐔 Mary’s whole chickens — $9.99 each
🐔 Organic Mary’s whole chickens — $11.99 each
🍞 Against the Grain gluten-free dinner rolls, 12.5-oz. packages — $7.85 each
🛒 Costco has deals on the following through Jan. 11 (unless noted otherwise):
🥑 Primal Kitchen avocado oil mayonnaise, 32-oz. jars — $6.99 each (through Jan. 4)
🥣 Organic Nature’s Path pumpkin flax granola, 35.3-oz. bags — $5.89
🥣 Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes cereal, 2-pack of 30.95-oz boxes — $6.99
🥜 Jif creamy peanut butter, 2-pack of 48-oz. jars — $8.69 (through Jan. 19)
☕ Organic Mt. Comfort Peru whole bean coffee, 2.5-lb. bags — $15.99 each (through Jan. 19)
🌱 Beyond Meat plant-based burger patties, 10-pack — $11.49 each (through Jan. 19)
🥫 SPAM 25%-less sodium, 8-pack of 12-oz. cans — $19.39 (through Jan. 19)
🥜 Jif crunchy peanut butter, 2-pack of 48-oz. jars — $8.69 (through Jan. 19)
🍿 Organic Lesser Evil Himalayan gold popcorn, 14-oz. bags — $4.19 each (through Jan. 19)
🐔 Tyson frozen panko breaded chicken tenders, 5-lb. bags — $12.99 each (through Jan. 19)
🍜 Nongshim Shin spicy ramen noodle soup, 18-pack — $11.99 (through Jan. 25)
🐮 Old Trapper beef jerky, 10-oz. packages, or meat sticks, 17-oz. packages — $12.99 each
☕ SF Bay Coffee whole bean coffee, 2-lb. bags, select varieties — $19.99 each
☕ MJB Premium Coffee, 26-oz. regular or 24-oz. decaffeinated — $12.99 each
☕ Seattle’s Best ground coffee, 12-oz. bags or 10-count K-cups, select varieties — $5.99 each
🍵 Bigelow tea, 18-20 count boxes, select varieties — 2 for $5
🫙 Sweet Baby Ray’s barbecue sauce, 28-oz. bottles, select varieties — 2 for $6
🍜 Local Pacific Foods soup, 32-oz. cartons, or broth, 48-oz. cartons, select varieties — 2 for $6
🥔 Local Kettle Brand potato chips, 11.25-13-oz. party size bags, select varieties — 2 for $9
What We’re Cooking
If you’re feeling the post-holiday energy crash, you aren't alone. Fortunately, the grocery deals this week are embracing "low-effort comfort" meals. I’m seeing a massive influx of bright winter citrus to wake up our palates, cheap chicken thighs for easy sheet-pan dinners, and reasonably priced chuck roasts for those lazy Sunday braises. Here are three recipes that caught my eye to help you bridge the gap between holiday excess and the new year.
This recipe is practically designed for this week's ad cycle. It leverages bone-in chicken thigh deals and pairs them with the flood of citrus hitting the produce aisles. It’s a complete meal on a single tray, which means fewer dishes to wash.
Winter in Portland demands at least one pot of thick, hearty beef stew. This guide from “Food Lab” author J. Kenji Lopez-Alt teaches you how to keep the meat juicy rather than tough. It’s the kind of meal that tastes even better on day two.
If you’re looking for something lighter on the wallet and the stomach, this vegan soup is a winner. It uses a clever trick — blending some of the beans — to make the soup creamy without adding any dairy. It’s perfect for using up the fresh kale bunches on sale this week.
Events
Start the new year and month off right! If you're hoping to save money, learn new skills, or develop a new hobby in 2026, we've gathered a variety of events to help you achieve your goals.
Don't miss out on the monthly $1 Day at local Franz Bakery Outlets this Saturday, Jan. 3, where every item on the sale wall is marked down to just $1. Plus, winter markets are officially underway, with the Hollywood, Troutdale, PSU, and Montavilla markets all open this weekend.
Join the Club
Want to show your appreciation for Stumptown Savings? Become a member of the Savers Club today for as little as $8 a month and unlock special perks like access to the Costco Membership Calculator, seasonal produce guides, invitations to members-only events (like an upcoming tour of the Franz Bakery), and more.
Or, consider making a one-time donation for a job well-done.
Happy saving!
Bryan,
Stumptown Savings
