Written by Maureen Murphy & Sarah Palmer Holiday BakingFamily fun Holiday baking is a wonderful way to share the joy of the season with those we treasure. Start a new tradition with your family this year and bake some special holiday memories! Keep reading for helpful baking tips & time-saving ideas to help get you started! Baking Tips Making time to bake is often fun and rewarding, and can be done with proper organization and a few helpful hints. For recipes & ideas, visit our baking Pinterest board!   Written by Tyler Blance, Marketing Program Coordinator Capital District Holiday Homegrown Flavors: 12/3 10am-2pm We’re rounding up the local crowd in New York’s Capital District! Our Homegrown Flavors events feature tastes from local communities, meet ‘n greets with local growers and producers and an overall celebration of all things local here in the Northeast. On 12/3 we’ll be featuring a unique group of local producers in 5 stores for Homegrown Flavors: Wilton Market 32, Hudson Valley Market 32 in Troy, Hamilton Square Market 32 in Guilderland, Clifton Park Shoppers World Market 32 and Altamont Ave Price Chopper in Rotterdam. hg-peanut-butter We’ve lined up an exciting group of local producers for each store on 12/3, including Perreca’s Bakery at our Altamont Ave Price Chopper and Mapleland Farms at our Wilton Market 32. Each store will have a local brewery in-house to chat with guests and offer tastes of their New York brews! Tune in to WGNA on event day: they’ll be broadcasting the event live on site at Hamilton Square Market 32 from 10-noon. Check out the event roster below to see who’ll be in the house at your store:   Altamont Avenue Price Chopper      Flavor of Schenectady                   Schenectady NY Horseshoe Hot Sauce                     Rhinebeck NY Perreca’s Bakery                              Schenectady NY Davidson Bros Brewing                  Glens Falls NY Ole McDonald’s Honey Farm       Fultonville NY Barkeater Chocolates                     North Creek NY Blue Hill Farm                                     Morrisville NY Harney & Sons Tea                          Hudson NY   Wilton Market 32 Saratoga Peanut Butter                 Saratoga Springs NY Nettle Meadow Farm                    Warrensburg NY Saratoga Brewing                             Saratoga Springs NY Dellavale Farm                                  Pattersonville NY Mapleland Farms                             Salem NY                 Shoppers World Market 32 Old World Provisions                      Albany NY Death Wish Coffee                          Round Lake NY Schmaltz Brewing Co                      Clifton Park NY Vermont Hydroponic                     Florence VT Pixie’s Preserves                              Waterford NY Russo’s Grill                                        Amsterdam NY                 Hudson Valley Plaza Market 32 Snacks101                                           Bethpage NY Brown’s Brewing                              Troy NY Larry’s Sauces                                    Slingerlands NY Dominick’s Gourmet Sauce          Guilderland NY R & G Cheese                                    Troy NY                 Hamilton Square Market 32 Brooklyn Brewery                            Brooklyn NY Valente’s Restaurant                      Watervliet NY The Peanut Principle                      Albany NY Vital Eats                                              Saratoga Springs NY Our Daily Eats                                    Albany NY WGNA (radio onsite!)                   Albany NY   Happy Thanksgiving! From Our Family to Yours! Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of year to get together with your family, friends and loved ones. As you gather to celebrate what makes you truly thankful, Price Chopper & Market 32 want to make it easier for you to prepare and enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner! Let us help you with tips, recipes and party planning options so you can focus on what makes you thankful (and not stressed!). holiday_meal THANKSGIVING DINNER PLANNING The Weekend Before: The Days leading up to Thanksgiving: The BIG Day: THANKSGIVING Early in The Day 4-6 hours before Serving 2 hours before Serving 1 hour before Serving 15 minutes before Serving ENJOY YOUR MEAL! Written by Ellie Wilson, MS, RDN Senior Nutritionist   Great home cooks and chefs alike know that exceptional meals begin with exceptional ingredients, and we have a wonderful assortment of authentic Italian products featured this month. Powering up your pantry with these simple and savory items can help you make a quick meal into a delicious event. Quick is key with Bella Terra Rapido No Boil Pasta – combine that with Botticelli or Rao’s Pasta Sauces for a fast, fun and flavorful meal. You can also get everything you need to make your own pasta sauce (slow cooker power!) – Mutti, Cento and Botticelli tomato products can be mixed and matched in your family recipes. Deepen the flavor of those sauces with Urbani Truffle Sauces, Amore garlic paste, and Racconto Sundried Tomatoes or Pesto. Price Chopper Sicilian and Toscano olive oils bring the Mediterranean to your table with their regional flavor notes – great to use for cooking or salads. Bella Italia Regional Pasta and Sauces transport you virtually to the towns, villages and families that have perfected their flavors and focus into unique items. Fabulous Italian cheeses, so special they earn an internationally recognized seal of authenticity, can start or finish your meal. Grana Padano, Parmigiana and Gorgonzola can elevate your cheese display or recipes beautifully. Think Parmigiano is just for pasta? Check out the potato recipe below, which will complement almost any meal. Finish with a Perla pastry, or a Divino Gelato Novelty, both special endings for special meals. Delizioso!   Parmigiano Reggiano Potato Wedges potato-wedges Preheat oven to 392 degrees F. Slice potatoes into wedges and toss in oil. Mix together rosemary, Parmigiano Reggiano, a good pinch of black pepper and add to the potatoes, mixing to give a good coating. Roast in the oven for 40-50 minutes or until cooked through and golden brown. Serve sprinkled with more Parmigiano Reggiano and rosemary.   Written by Sarah Palmer The bold, rich flavors of authentic Italian food are back! Join us as we celebrate this exciting event with in-store product sampling, weekly special savings, delicious recipes, plus a customer sweepstakes!   italian.png Our weekly flyer highlights over 50 products imported directly from Italy. Assemble an Italian cheeseboard after you visit our specialty cheese department. We’re proud to offer fresh-cut Parmigiano Reggiano, Locatelli Romano and new Robiola! Fresh Perla pastries are available in our bakery department, light sweet & delizioso! Our grocery department is beaming with the finest Italy has to offer. From authentic olive oils and balsamic vinegars, to unique cuts of pasta and canned sauce, you’ll find it all at a great value now thru October 22nd. Simply look for the special Authentic Italian shelf tags in-store!   Plus, be sure to enter our customer sweepstakes! Have you always wanted to visit Italy? Click here to enter and vote for the historic Italian landmark you would most like to visit. It’s that simple!   We look forward to seeing you in-store for this exciting event! Written by our friends at Cabot Creamery   Cabot Creamery Co-operative, owned by 1,100 dairy farm families throughout New England and upstate New York, invite you to visit a farm on Sunday, October 9th!   As a co-operative, our farm families own the business and all profits are returned to the farmers, which means that when you purchase Cabot products you are directly supporting farmers in your local communities.   That spirit of supporting your community is what cabot-oct-event-2we love about Price Chopper’s Homegrown Flavors program. Cabot is proud to be a part of this program that connects people to local food producers, and for that reason our farm family owners are opening their gates to show appreciation for their neighbor’s support. Every participating farm features different activities, such as farm tours, hayrides, scavenger hunts and games for families. It is a chance to meet neighbors, farm critters and the farmers responsible for the “World’s Best Cheddar”.   Open Farm Sunday events on Sunday, October 9th will run from 11am – 2pm. Visit our Open Farm Sunday event page for more details and find a participating farm near you! cabot-oct-event   Written By: Sara Lilkas  We’ve got Mega Meat savings this week and in addition to all the great weekly specials we are featuring our Mega Meat Packs. There are five mega meat deals available to choose from ranging from 20lbs-37lbs (we did say mega!) These mega meat boxes feature a wide variety of your favorite cuts of meat from Certified Angus Beef boneless bottom round sirloin steak to Price Chopper all natural chicken wings! The Mega Meat Packs are perfect for prepping for a barbecue or just getting the best value possible. When you purchase a Mega Meat Pack you’ll have enough cuts of meat to make 12-20 meals and that’s not counting any delicious left-overs you may have from the night before! The Mega Meat packs are available every day at the meat counter at your local Pricemegameat-box_tv-copy Chopper or Market 32 store. Whether you opt for the 20lb pack perfect for a fall barbecue or the 37lb mega pack for three weeks’ worth of meals, when you buy big, you’ll save big! The question that comes to mind for most Mega Meat pack purchasers, is what am to do with all this meat? Well we have hundreds of recipes on our website and Pinterest boards so you’ll never have the same meal twice! So what are you waiting for? Each box is made to order in minutes and is loaded with value! So which pack will you choose? Ellie Wilson, MS, RDN Family time is precious and rare in our busy lives these days, but there is a big opportunity ensure your family is stronger and your children have the skills they need to navigate in our distracted, over-scheduled world – it is the simple, old-fashioned family meal that can nurture and protect them in very significant ways. We have been highlighting some easy power bowl meals all month to help you with thefmm3 time/budget/#everyonelikesit part – now we have some fun tips on the table talk part. The simple act of chatting around a meal gives your children better social skills, and builds communication connections. Given how busy we all are, it is sometimes hard not to use that time to discuss chores, or grades, or sports. Those conversations are important, but maybe we can inspire you to finish with them rather than start. Help build your children’s confidence and emotional intelligence with some simple questions and conversation starters. Tip – have everyone put whatever phone/device they use on silent, and leave them in a basket in a different room until your mealtime clean-up is done. Play games when they are little, and get different topics going as they get older. Check out these ideas from our  Pinterest board! Ellie Wilson, MS, RDN Tailgating is a time-honored tradition – in fact, there is real history behind the practice, according to the American Tailgaters Association, starting with spectators “attending” the 1861 Battle of Bull Run in Virginia with food and wine, cheering on their Civil War “teams”. Chuck wagons, those traveling kitchens of the prairie, are also part of lore. The first football game, between Princeton and Rutgers, (145 years ago!), though it pre-dated cars and parking lots, saw the first fans wear team colors and bring picnics, and the modern-day tailgate party tradition began. Now, it may be a professional sport event, or your son’s football games. It can be a iStock_7322188_LARGE.jpgmusic event, or your daughter’s soccer league – tailgating is a great way to enjoy meals and snacks with friends and family. For a delicious gathering that scores big taste, check out these tips and recipes! Make your own playbook with these ideas and more recipes on our Pinterest board. Go Team! #FamilyMealtimesMatter         fmm September is National Family Meals™ month, and we are celebrating with our annual Family Mealtimes Matter campaign! With our community partners, the Times Union and Cornell Cooperative Extension, we will be sharing recipes, blogs, videos, articles, Facebook posts, tweets and other resources about family meals. We are all so busy, for many, meals together have been moved out of family schedules. They should be a time to enjoy and connect! Commit to one more meal together as a family each week – the National Family Meals month goal to bring families together with food. You will enjoy family-building benefits that make this investment a lifetime win for parents and children. Meals don’t have to be perfectly nutritious, or only happen at dinnertime, or even be served on a plate  – just being together and sharing food offers everyone big benefits. Children and teens that have frequent family meals: Join us, and the National Family Meal month movement to Raise Your Mitt and Commit to one more meal per week with your family!raise your mitt Check out our favorite mealtime resources below!