I may have more to scribe later; but for now, I relate I was out-&-about at the Diversey | Knox strip mall. I had to pick up my wristband for my Aldercritter (Felix Cardona, Jr.) 's Holiday Gala for senior citizens. His public office is in it.
I shopped the Walmart and bought nothing. The only items bought were @ Aldi across Diversey: more Benner tea for $1.69 (x3), and what I needed, two 20-oz. loaves of white bread. ($1.39 | other 20-oz. grained breads were 1.85, 1.95, 2.09, & 2.49)
Some intriguing beers were on the shelves at Aldi. A peanut butter porter, and a holiday ale with cinnamon (12-oz. six-packs $8.99, 7.99). I did not buy them because I did not want to have to lug them back here to the abode, and I have a lot of other beers to go through also. The Chicago distributor for the Aldi beers is Breakthru Beverage IL.
Haven't delved into the Jewel-Osco pamphlet yet. There is the Latinx glossy flyer in here this week.
I shall shop Tony's Fresh Market this week. I am reduced to two boxes of Smart Ones frozen entrees. I shall purchase more for $1.99 this week. (Walmart wants $2.08.) Also, just how many cans of Chunky Soup can I buy for $1.49? The ad text seems to imply one.
There are coupons this week for KFC and Culver's.

One last item which I kept forgetting to mention. A few weeks back, I had a Jazz Institute of Chicago event at an edifice south of Grand Ave. and west of Ashland {the name obviously escapes me}. So I was riding the #65 Grand bus eastbound. When we got to the intersection of Grand | North | Kostner, the Checkers @ 4320 W. North Ave was completely dim at 5:25 pm on a Saturday. But I won't declare it officially closed.

Yup, that Tony's Chunky Soup coupon is limit 1. Pretty cheezy for Tony's which usually has higher limits, sometimes "must buy x"s. Speaking of cheezy, the 99¢ little blocks of cheese are a really good deal, must buy 5. So are the 99¢ cereals and granola bars, must buy 3. Also $2.99 jumbo eggs. And a Thursday only 5 avocado bag for 99¢. Plus an odd duck: buy a case of Riunite Lambrusco or Campo Viejo Cava for 11.88 with rebate. Don't do it in Chicago, though, the wine tax'll kill ya!

Butera: If you don't get avocados on Thurs at Tony's, 2/$1 here.Some quasi-Italian deals: Food Club pasta 79¢ (the rotini, at least, is fine), Chef Boyardee 99¢, Lefas oil $19.99/3L, Provo-Nello $4.99. Also Pearl Valley Swiss $4.99, boneless skinless thighs $1.99. And the return of the 96oz "gallon" of milk

Breakthru Beverage is just the new name for the Wirtz Beverage Company. One thing that has me curious is why Aldi doesn't have a low cost beer option. About 15 to 20 years ago, they used to carry a brand called North Star that was a generic American lager. It was made by the now defunct Huber brewing company. It cost $5 for a twelve pack. Since it was discontinued, all they have are the quasi craft beers that they now sell.

Jim-Bob wrote:It was made by the now defunct Huber brewing company.

Huber isn't exactly defunct. It was taken over and rebranded as Minhas Brewery — the second oldest brewery in the US. They're still known as a very
low-cost producer, selling much of their product in Western Canada.

Sure looks like if Aldi wanted to sell a cheap beer, Minhas could make it for them. Wonder how many of Aldi's faux-craft beers are already made there?

http://minhasbrewery.com/private-white- ... -liqueurs/

Last I checked, several of Trader Joe's beer were made at Minhas. I haven't been to Aldi in a long time. But if the label says it was made in Monroe, WI, it's from Minhas. And likely not very good.

nr706 wrote: Last I checked, several of Trader Joe's beer were made at Minhas. I haven't been to Aldi in a long time. But if the label says it was made in Monroe, WI, it's from Minhas. And likely not very good.

The beers brewed at Minhas might not be very good. But they're still brewing. They could, one of these days, produce a really good beer. (I have seen [and bought] Rhinelander beer at Binny's.)
Compare its beer to the current brews available from 5 Rabbit, Argus, Lo-Rez, Temperance, and Ørkenoy.
What's that? They were better; but they're out of business? Well then, they were not good enough.

But anyhow, before getting sidetracked: The flyers arrived this week. The deals @ Jewel-Osco are the 'Buy 2, get 3 free' items such as the 12-packs of 12-oz. soda [reg. price being $9.99], and the Campbell's Chunky Soup [IIRC, they were $1.99 each , which would be ten for $8.00]. I do not need any more soda, I do not need any more snack crackers.

Off the chart this week: Go to Jimenez. Even if the Maruchan 3.49-oz. bowls [supposedly six varieties, but I wonder how many it'll stock] were not ten cents cheaper than Jewel @ 89¢; the Jimenez calendar is the most astounding FREE calendar I have glimpsed. It has Julian dates. Which is quite handy when confronting the packaging code for Keurig Dr. Pepper cans. It has the names of each day's saint. The free calendar I could get from Community Savings Bank is nowhere as valuable as this. I do not see anything else there - maybe you want to try its taqueria - but get its calendar.

You may already have seen what I scribed about Jewel in that thread {$3.99 for an item usually selling for 2.49?! }. I went to Carnicerias Jimenez on W. Belmont on Tuesday. It did not have the Maruchan 3.49-oz. bowls at all. The shelf area for instant ramen had other brands' ramen bowls, but not a slot for the Maruchan. (It had a vast variety of Maruchan's Instant Ramen cups though.) I prevailed upon the store clerk to give me the calendar.
89¢ for a bowl of that size is still a good sale price, so I am going out today to another Jimenez to try and buy it there. It will be the store @ 4204 W. North Ave. because I can eat at Jimmy's Red Hots, shop the Family Dollar across Grand Ave. for discounted Xmas chocolates, and walk from there to Jimenez. Yes, I will request another calendar from the check-out clerk. I hope I succeed.

I am pleased to announce everything went down in order today.
The Family Dollar on W. Grand Ave. across from LTHF GNR Jimmy's Red Hots had several items at 50% off. I stuck with two Hershey's chocolates: the milk chocolate Kisses, and the 2.8-oz. bag of Miniatures. I bought four of each @ $2.00. https://dso8.raed.net:455/files/family-dollar002.jpg
There was a sufficient amount of these, as well as other bakers' Xmas releases on the 'reduced' shelves that I won't worry about directing you to a store which sold out in two hours.
Walking on to Carniceria Jimenez [#3 - that is my assigned number for it], I found the row with the Maruchan ramen bowls. There were three varieties. https://dso8.raed.net:455/files/jimenez3-01.jpg
The Spicy Beef was in a different position and different height than the Chicken and Shrimp, but each was 89¢. I bought a total of six bowls.
I did get another 2025 calendar.
The Checkers @ 4520 W. North Ave. is still closed. I wonder why the Checkers stands on Chicago's north side do not survive. [Recall there was one at Ashland, Division, & Milwaukee which ran for mere weeks.] Perhaps the reason for this one dying is the McDonald's it borders on.

Pudgy,

I stopped by Carnicerias Jimenez in Wheeling this evening to pick up two calendars. I did not have to ask the cashier, they were stacked by the manager's office.

I am passing them on to relatives who do follow the daily saints, thank you for highlighting this feature.

Regards,
Cathy2