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Super Bowl Sunday, Holy Guacamole, Avocado Wars

by on Feb. 03, 2010, under A Tisket, A Tasket, Grocery Stores, Life
holy guacamole Super Bowl

holy guacamole Super Bowl

One of the biggest grocery spending day which is only second to Thanksgiving happens this Sunday, Feb 7. Yep, there’s something magical about the Super Bowl, food, and football.

Avocado Wars

Sunflower Market has Hass avocados for 39 cents/each. Limes are 4 for $1 and roma tomatoes costs 39 cents a pound. What a deal! Stock up.

Safeway serves up avocados at 3 for 99 cents. You can also get 8 pieces of fried chicken or all natural roasted chicken (trans fat free) for $3.99. The Football Meal Deal is $9.99 for 16-inch take & bake pizza, 25 bone-in or boneless chicken wings, and 2 liter of Coke. Club Cards required for the deals.

Food City has avocados 2 for $1 and Herdez salsa 2 for $3. Food City also has mini sandwich trays and mini chimi trays.

Fry’s avocados cost $1/each, roma tomatoes are $1/pound and cilantro 2 for $1. You can get $5 off any party tray of $25 or more; 24 hours notice recommended. Lots of cakes are decorated to look like footballs or football fields including a Carvel Snickers football ice cream cake for $6.99. Today is the first Wednesday of the month and 55+ year olds get 10% off their total purchases. VIP cards required.

Albertsons has avocados for 99 cents/each and roma tomatoes for 99 cents/pound and cilantro 3 for $1. They have the same chicken deal as Safeway but fried only and buy 1, get 2 free of pork baby back ribs (in store coupon required).

Holy Guacamole
I once heard a rumor that the sale of avocados was over the top on Super Bowl Day. It’s only a rumor according to snopes.com. Sales do rise by 5 percent not 67 percent. The biggest selling holiday for avocados is Cinco de Mayo (May 5).
However, guacamole is a popular dip to serve for Super Bowl parties. It’s a perfect match for tortilla chips, chips of all kind, and crudites or raw vegetables. Avocados are usually on sale the week before the Super Bowl. Don’t wait until the last minute to buy the avocados because they will most likely need to ripen.
Avocado is a nutritious “fruit” filled with monosaturated oils otherwise known as good fats or healthy fats.

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  • azmouse

    I can’t wait to try it! Doesn’t sound like too much lemon to me, but I love lemons!
    Thank you for going to the trouble of getting this recipe for me.

    • karynzoldan

      AZmouse
      After you try it, come back and let us know how it is. I might try it since you don’t need an ice cream maker.

      • azmouse

        Will do. I like all the citrus in it….

  • azmouse

    I’m excited to try this….thanks for all your trouble. It sounds interesting and tangy and I love lemons, so although I’ll take your advice, it doesn’t sound like to much lemon to me at all!

  • ryangoldschlager

    This site has a bunch of healthy super bowl recipes up: http://miocibo.com/recipes  

    The ‘healthy’ chicken wings (No Butter!) were actually pretty great!

  • karynzoldan

    Here’s the recipe for the pie. I think I used fresh squeezed lime juice not lemon juice but it was probably two decades ago that I made it.
    http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Avocado-Pie/Detail.aspx

    • azmouse

      Okay, I have to try this, although I don’t think of avocados as a pie thing or sweet.
      Thanks for sharing!

  • karynzoldan

    AZmouse
    I agree. I can eat them with a spoon too. Once I made an avocado pie with sweetened condensed milk. It was luscious.
    Yes you can freeze avocados! Read the following link.
    http://whatscookingamerica.net/avacado.htm
     

    • azmouse

      Thanks Karyn!
      Now I’m curious about this pie….lol!

  • azmouse

    I love avocados! I could eat them every day, right out of the skin with a squeeze of lemon or lime.
    Sunflower sounds like the place to go for them. Can you freeze avocados?

    • Carolyn Classen

      Not a big fan of avocados, but my mother used to make avocado ice cream which was unique and yummy.  And my son loves to make guacamole for pot luck parties.

      • azmouse

        All this avocado info! Ice cream?? Wow, I never would have thunk it. Do you have her recipe? I didn’t realize how versatile they were.

        Love Guacamole!

        • Carolyn Classen

          No, I don’t have her recipe as she’s sorta secretive with things like that.  Will try to get it next time I see her.  It is more like a sorbet, kind of icy.

        • karynzoldan

          If you cannot wait for Carolyn’s recipe and have an ice cream maker, here’s one. I have tasted avocado ice cream before but I forget where, not in Tucson. Maybe L.A. ?  It was cold, creamy, sweet & refreshing.
          If you do a search for “avocado ice cream” plenty pop up.

          http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/avocado-ice-cream-recipe/index.html

          • Carolyn Classen

            I got the “secret” avocado ice cream recipe from my mother:

            1 c. mashed ripe avocado
            1/2 c. orange juice
            1/4 c. lemon juice
            1 can of evaporated milk (14 1/2 oz.)
            1 c. white sugar

            Beat milk (chilled) with chilled beater until double in volume.  Add sugar and other ingredients. Mix well. Pour into trays or bowls.  Freeze until firm.  (Let me know how it turns out, but the lemon juice seems like a lot so I’d go easy on that.)

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