The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. The peaches hit the stores this week as nearly every major chain had some special on the fuzzy stone fruits. Both Fairway and Key Food played a good game, coming in second with $.99 a pound, but it was the Met that pulled away with win at $.79. We were so excited about finding such a great deal, we......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. We jumped a little too whole-heartily into grilling season. While were finding great deals on all kinds of meats, we momentarily forgot about our veggies. So after passing by another page filled with fine specials on meat, we turned to the produce section. While we wanted some veggies, we still needed some heft, and that led us to some......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. If you’re stuck in the rut of picking up those shrink-wrapped packages of chicken breasts, then these hindquarters might just be your way out. Both Pathmark and the Met have a great deal on them this week, but it’s Key Foods that went one dime further. Now, you’re either white meat person or a dark meat person, and nothing......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. Memorial Day usually conjures up some kind of natural reactions. Beyond the real reason-for-the-season aspect of the holiday, what usually comes next is food. Though hot dogs, chicken wings, and many other things could and should be used, what hits the paper plates more often than not are hamburgers. Which is all well and good, except that Memorial Day......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. Two weeks ago, searching for limes among the piles of produce in Fairway seemed like cruel game. Because they were out of the “regular” ones, we had to wade through the organic bins, tossing over strange foliage to find the citrus at over a dollar a piece. So imagine our shock when we walked in this week and faced......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. We hadn’t been to Pathmark in a while, so we were suprised to see two great deals pop up. Shrimp for $4.99 first caught our eye, but spinach was also a deal at under a dollar a pound. So when the shrimp were a no show at the store, we had to move on to the leafy green. And......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. We weren’t thinking with much of an open mind this week. We had a mission, and we were going to complete it. Though the temperatures have yet to hit 80, the nice run of sun is enough to warrant the complete shift towards warm weather mode, and that means one thing: the grill. So we didn’t really care what......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. With the weather finally creeping into comfortable spring, it’s finally time to start spending a lot of our time thinking of ways to cool off. Some might think of beverages with lots of ice, but for some reason we were thinking about cucumbers. It’s hard to think of another vegetable so cool and so crisp. It might be the......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. Because of the Nor'easter and unseasonably cool weather, fresh veggies weren’t sounding very good this week. We needed comfort food, and that’s when we found Nutella, 2 for $5 at Fairway. That’s $2.50 a piece, nearly a dollar cheaper than normal. For those not versed in the ways of the European staple, it’s a hazelnut spread, very much the......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. Bananas aren’t exactly the first fruit we look for in the ads. Not that we don’t have any love for quite possibly the world’s perfect food, but because of price. They normally go for around 50 cents a pound. They’d have to be very cheap before we cared. Ends up, 29 cents a pound is the perfect sum at......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. Apparently a huge shipment of strawberries has just hit New York, as three of our favorite groceries are featuring them at discounted prices. So why not indulge? The Met has them for $2.50 a pound, a fine deal, but one that’s equaled by Fairway’s 2 packs for $5. No, the winner of the strawberry showdown is Pathmark, which is......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. Sometimes the deals fall neatly in our lap, and a trip to the corner store is all that is needed, but this week we had to look a little harder. And that brought us to Fort Greene, and to a little grocery store called Bravo. When we walked in we were confronted by a wall of dozens upon dozens......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. We’ve been surviving on some winter staples for past few weeks, especially ones that will keep for many months on the shelf. They’ve kept us fed for less, but we’re getting awfully tired of them. Every spoonful of rice is balanced with a daydream of the spring months to come, and for the fresh crop of great veggies, because......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. We thought we had it made this week. On the first page of Pathmark’s ads was fish for $3.99 a pound. Done. Sure it was Tilapia, a farm raised fish that is not terribly exciting. But it was a fish nonetheless, and good for the omega-3’s either way. We were off with a shopping list before it dawned on......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. We try not to write about prepackaged items for the Coupon Clipper for various reasons, but mostly because we try not to eat that much of it. But there are a few pantry stuffers that are fundamental to any good kitchen, and guaranteed to be good at any grocery store no matter what your underlying impressions of the institution......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. Potatoes are usually a reliably cheap item, but there must be a glut in the spud market, because this week finds mounds of them all over the city at great prices. Morton Williams’ $1.49 price for a 5-pound bag might sound absurd at first, but a quick glimpse revealed that it’s not even the best price this week. No......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. For the first week after the holidays, most grocery stores probably realized they had bludgeoned their customers enough with holiday sales and decided to play it cool. Food Emporium had a sale on gourmet chicken salad. Gristedes discounted bread. But Fairway apparently has no sense of shame. They lead off their post-holiday specials with $3.99 Sirloin, a price so......