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| - Whenever I go out on my monthly Sam's Club foray, it is with some trepidation. For, I am always tempted to buy new, interesting items that attract my attention, and it is difficult to resist the bakery's great birthday cakes with butter-cream frosting. In fact, that cake is so good that twice now I have bought one with no birthday to celebrate in sight! Each time It took at least 5 days for my small two-person household to polish off the whole creation--accompanied with vanilla ice cream of course.
This time I had the willpower to pass the cake section without taking one home, even though a chocolate and vanilla variety looked fetching. But a few new items that I had never seen before were intriguing and wound up in the cart; namely 57th Street Grille's Cheddar & Bacon Potato Skins and bags of Lay's Dill Pickle and Carolina BBQ potato chips. A two-bag purchase is required to walk out with chips, so I had my excuse to buy them both. These joined a giant Hebrew National salami that lasts 6 weeks, a case of 12 cans of Del Monte Green Lake cut green beans, and a 20-bar pack of gold Dial soap bars.
What also looked good that I made a note to perhaps try later if still being sold (because offerings of specialty frozen items change a lot at Sam's Club) were Chicken Parm and Chicken Piccata in Lemon-Garlic-Butter Sauce by Michael Angelo, Sea-Pak's Jumbo Butterflied Shrimp, and Ore-Ida Sweet Potato Fries. Fresh produce also beckoned: 1-1/2 pounds of giant snow-white mushrooms sold for $3.98; colorful assortments of 13 small red, yellow, and orange Sweet Baby Bell Peppers with nary a green pepper in sight, sold in 1-1/2 pound lots by the bag for $5.98; and 2-pound packages of fresh and tender green beans also available for $5.98. As always, lightly bronzed and seasoned cooked Rotisserie Chicken sweating inside a see-through plastic dome caught my eye on the way to the register, but I resisted that temptation on this outing, as well.
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