Get a hot deal on….organic produce
My source spotted a few organic produce specials at the Extra Foods on Broadway: a 3lb bag of organic BC Gala or Granny Smith apples for $2.99 and organic bananas are under a dollar. She said that organic avocados were also on sale. The flyer lists organic BC Ambrosia apples for $1.29/lb, but I’m not sure if they’re available at the Broadway location or not. The location on 51st Street has a good range of organic produce.
I also checked the Safeway flyer online and they have a lot of organic produce on sale. I like that you can search their flyer for the word ‘organic’ (or any word, obviously!): strawberries ($3.49), lots of Canadian/US apples for $1.49, celery $1.49, green peppers $2.99, Canadian white mushrooms $1.99, frozen blue/raspberries/mango $5.49, (these are all Club Safeway specials so you need to use one of their loyalty cards).
Extra Foods on Broadway has moved apples and other organic fruit further down the store to the middle aisle because the organic ‘ghetto’ section was getting too crowded. It’s great to see organic produce being normalised and put right among the ‘regular’ food. Safeway has been doing this a lot more in the past year. I was thrilled to see one of their main strawberry specials last year was all-organic and given high profile right at the front of the produce department at the 85h Street location–they didn’t even have a non-organic variety offered at all that week, which is great, considering that strawberries are one of the most chemically-treated fruits out there and a great organic choice.
