Filling in for Joe Carcione, with your Green Grocer’s Tip of the Day

Bless the fine folks at Raley’s and Bel Air. They send out a weekly e-mail with tips, recipes, and a coupon good for a quality item for free in their store.

This week you can get a free garden salad when you buy a sandwich. Other weeks have featured a free bag of romaine lettuce with a $10 purchase. I have no idea how I got on their e-mail list, but it’s the one piece of advertising I actually look forward to each week (now if they’d spam me with a coupon for free Spam, that would be funny.)

Now, I realize Raley’s and Bel Air are no Whole Foods, but who doesn’t like to patronize a home-grown business, and who doesn’t appreciate free stuff when it’s actually good for you?