brand names & selection

[shootingstar]

If that's all the "brand names", then your pantry is like ours.

Yea, we have a version of Dijon mustard ..megajar to last for at least 8 months. And curry paste which lasts several months, when we keep it in refrigerator. I doubt I can pound out a decent tasting green curry paste from scratch.

And oh, frozen phyllo dough. I can't imagine honing my skills to make phyllo dough from scratch.

Some pkgs. of Japanese-labelled seaweed (no not nori. Seaweed for soups and stews.)

Egg whites

Really that's all. And everything else is whole food --fruit, veggies and some meat. When I go to a large Chinese supermarket, I get the shock of so many processed food choices.. like other types of supermarkets.

[malkin]

Still-I'm not observing any particular reinheitsgebot.

I'll try (almost) anything and if I like it, I'll chow it down or slurp it up! I've been sick from food more times than anyone I know and about died from a hot dog at Candlestick Park.

It's good for people to know what they like and can tolerate. At home, I do alright, but out in the world I'm certainly not very good at it.

[Owlie]

I just went through my kitchen. Probably more here than in most of yours, but...
-Jif peanut butter (both extra crunchy and creamy).
-Newman's Own oil&vinegar salad dressing.
-Grey Poupon mustard
-Heinz ketchup
-three different brands of pasta
-Classico pasta sauce, though no particular loyalty.
-Kikkoman's low-sodium soy sauce.
-store brand milk
-Lea&Perrin's Worcestershire sauce
-spices are a mixture of McCormick's, Whole Foods, and the Indian bulk spices out of my parents' pantry.
-Quaker oatmeal
-Morton's table salt
-Beer, wine and cheese: Of course I have preferences, but that's less an issue of brand loyalty.
-Lunch meat for BF: Boar's Head.
-Hershey's cocoa powder (for baking).
-two or three types of canned fish or tomato products.
-breakfast cereals. I have mine; BF bounces around between oatmeal and two or three brands of cold cereal.
Flour and sugar are usually store brands. For Mexican, Chinese, or Thai ingredients, I'm really limited by what I can buy here, since my local grocery store is pretty small. And of course, what I buy here is different from what I'd buy if I'm living at home.

[malkin]

-Lea&Perrin's Worcestershire sauce

We have that too.
Is there any other brand?