Summer Starts at Cub

Make the most of summer with sizzling savings, tasty recipes, and stress-free ideas from Cub. Stop by your local Cub store to pick up all the essentials for the season’s holidays, celebrations, cookouts, and everything in between.

The Happiest Hour

Watermelon takes center stage as the taste-maker and the punch-bowl in this creative drink to share

Perfect for anyone, any reason, any time. What we love most about this idea is that your drink options are basically limitless. Adults-only? Grab a 1.75 liter of pre-mix Captain Morgan Tropical Punch. Sharing with the kids? Take your pick of lemonades or juices.

Desserts That Define Summer

Crisps, crumbles, cobblers, and more — summertime is sweetest with produce packed treats! Get the download (and the definition!) of these classic desserts below.

Blackberry-Peach Crisp

Word: Crisp | [ krisp ]

A streusel-like mixture of flour, sugar, butter and (most importantly) oats or nuts. It’s the crisping of the oats that lends this dessert its name.

Peach and Raspberry Cobbler

Word: Cobbler | [ kob-ler ]

At its simplest, a cobbler is fruit baked beneath sweet biscuits. Sometimes they’re neat, sometimes they’re artful shapes of fruity-biscuity goodness. Regardless, they’re always delicious.

Strawberry Crumble with Basil

World: Crumble | [ kruhm-buhl ]

Nearly a crisp, but not — this treat forgoes the oats! Sweeter than its cousin, the crisp, crumble is just as versatile.

Blueberry Pandowdy

Double-Berry White Chocolate Crunch

Plumcot Cinnamon Roll Monkey Breadf

Terrific Trifles

Layer on the flavor

Made super simple with pre-baked items from the bakery, this trifle recipe is a quick way to wow. Make it your way by picking the base layer your palate prefers (brownies, cake, donuts, angel food cake, or pound cake) and dress it up with fillings and mix-ins that spark joy!

Banana Split Trifle

Triple Berry Trifle

Brownie S’mores and Whipped Marshmallow Cream Trifle

Summer Grilling with Cub

Make Cub your grilling headquarters! Cub has everything you need for summer cookouts and picnics. Stop by the meat counter for ready-to-grill pub burgers and brats or choose from a variety of pre-seasoned or pre-marinated chicken, ribs, steaks and more.

Spiralized Hot Dogs

Montreal Steakhouse Burger

Salsa Crunch Burger

Go Forth and Grill

Cub's 2023 Summer Magazine

Chock-full of ideas and available now.

Summer is here and so is the Cub summer magazine. From fast, no-fuss meals to a grilling ideas for your backyard get-together, we’ve got everything you need to celebrate your way. Pick up your FREE copy next to the weekly flyers in-store or see and download the PDF.

Knock Meal Time Out of the Park

We drafted the freshest ingredients of the season and stacked the roster with delicious twists so that no matter which dishes you put into play, you’re guaranteed a win.

Montreal Steakhouse Burger

Watermelon & Prosciutto Salad

Watermelon Jalapeno Cups

Creamy Pesto Dressing

Esquites (Mexican Street Corn Salad)

Summer Vegetable Pasta Salad

Raspberry Limeade

Pepperoni Pizza Pudgy Pies

Long Days, Quick Cooking

Every minute matters when the sun is shining. (alt: Every minute of sunshine matters.) Get the most out of your summer with our favorite fast recipes. Each of these delicious dishes comes together in under 30 minutes. Whip up a satisfying salad with chicken and quinoa, leave the prep to us when grilling kabobs, or go meatless with Impossible gyros.

Veggie Pita Pizza

Impossible Gyros

Country Thai Chicken & Quinoa Salad

Smoked Paprika Grilled Chicken with Feta Asparagus

Here’s the Scoop

The hottest season of the year is no match for a cool ice cream treat! From pints to pops, Cub is the place to go for chilly treats of all shapes and sizes.

Pick Your Favorite Flavor

Muffin Tin Mixer

There’s clever (hello, muffin tin meals) and then there’s genius: introducing, perfectly portioned build-your-own sundae bar muffin tins. They’re adorable, practical, and a breeze to pull together. Plus, they’re guaranteed to impress everyone you serve one to. Can you say host with the most? We recommend four flavors of ice cream, four sauces, and four toppings for maximum mix-and-match potential. But of course, anything goes. There’s no wrong answer when it comes to ice cream!

More Berries? No Problem.

You know that point in summer where you can’t stop buying fresh strawberries and inevitably end up with more than you know what to do with? This two-in-one recipe puts them to brilliant use. We doubt you’ll have any trouble savoring every last one.

Trending Tequila Recipes

Keep it cool this summer with bright, spicy, and surprising cocktails with this season’s star of the show: Tequila! We’ve got you covered with recipes that highlight the spirited properties of tequila, mezcal, anejo, and resposado. Discover a new summer fave and toast to friends, family, and sunshine.

How-to: Perfect Pineapple Margarita

Tart pineapple is balanced beautifully with a blanco tequila in this recipe

Combine 1 1/2 ounce blanco tequila, 1/2 ounce triple sec, 1 ounce pineapple juice, and 1/2 ounce lime juice in a shaker with ice. Shake until combined and chilled. Strain into a Ta-jín-rimmed glass filled with ice. Garnish with a pineapple slice.

Añejo Old Fashioned

Island Cooler

Tequila Sunrise

Ranch Water

S’mores All Summer

Common opinion is that summer unofficially starts Memorial Day weekend. We’d argue it’s when you’ve had your first s’more. We’ve upped the ante from the basic three-ingredient form to include dips, bars a good old-fashioned milkshake and so much more. Take your pick so we can summer—and s’more— to the fullest!

Super Simple S'mores Cookies

Elvis S'mores

S'mores Milkshakes

S'mores Cheesecake Pie

S’mores Bars with Toasted Marshmallow Frosting

craving more smores find additional recipes

Host with the Most

Gather your favorite folks and host them, hasslefree, with these simple ideas! Picnics, parties, and happy hours are no sweat when you platter crackers and cheese with a spirited spin or pull out all the stops on pizza night! Behold the power of presentation.

Nothing Brat the Hits

Your brat, your way

Get the gang together and toast to good times with a brat (or two!). Fill your cart with as many brats and ears of corn you’re willing to shuck clean, and then load up on toppings and condiments so your pals can prep their brat, their way.

Fill Your Table

Pull out all the stops at your next pizza party

We planned the prep, all that’s left to do is bake the pizzas, assemble the bruschetta, and share the salad. Go ahead, invite your friends — this shopping list can feed them all! Fill your cart with: 3 frozen pizzas, 1 lb fresh mozzarella slices, 3 large tomatoes, fresh basil leaves, balsamic glaze, 1 package romaine hearts plus 1 bag croutons, 1 bottle Caesar dressing, 1 container shredded Parmesan, 1 jar pepperoncini + salami, pepperoni, prosciutto.

Game Day Eats at Cub

Bring your ballpark faves to the best seat in the house—your couch. You won’t miss a moment of gameplay when you grab a cool can of Summit’s Twins Pils, the official craft beer of your hometown team, from your fridge.

Stadium Shopping at Home

Red, White, and Wow

Dazzle guests with this star spangled snacking solution

Max out this grazeable spread with your favorite mix of crunchy, creamy, salty, sweet, and surprising (think pickled peppadew peppers!) to get everyone talking, and, more importantly, eating! We’ll be making this firecracker of a board all summer long and hope you will too!