I will admit a fondness for Ben & Jerry’s non dairy chocolate garcia. I can’t remember who non-dairy milk but it tasted close enough to dairy to be highly enjoyable by me and all my lactose intolerant loved ones.
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We are a Tillamook family - although I’ve noticed that their tubs have gotten smaller over the past year or so ( as have many other products).
For premium, I go more by flavors than brands. Haagan-Daz chocolate peanut butter, Ben & Jerry’s mint chip and milk & cookies. We have several Jeni’s shops - always long lines. I’ve gone a couple of times but the portions are tiny and the price is high. Some flavors I’ve liked, but others are just strange and too sweet. I miss Friendly’s.
Not a food item, but Charmin toilet paper. Anything less would result in an uprising from my DH. The toilet paper shortage during the pandemic was……challenging.
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Oh! I thought I had imagined this! We mostly by ice cream in the summer and availability depends on where we are shopping. The texture of Tillamook is simply hard to beat. Do you have any favorite flavors?
Waffle Cone Swirl is a fav of mine. But I really want to try Marionberry Pie!!!
I don’t think I’ve seen half of their reported flavors: All Ice Cream Products - Tillamook
A couple of people mentioned Bush’s Original Baked Beans (canned). These were always my go to. Really the only ones my H would eat. If I tried to get a little adventurous with another of their varieties he would know in a bite! But I swear they have changed the recipe in the last couple of years. They seem more bland, more runny, lacking flavor - anyone else notice that??
Only Kirkland TP in our house (Costco). Paper towels too. But Kleenex tissues.
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Mudslide and chocolate peanut butter!
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Bounty paper towels and napkins 
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Bounty paper towels, and Kleenex tissues only!
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I only buy Barilla pasta. Rao’s sauce when it’s on sale.
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Greek yogurt = Kirkland brand.
I don’t partake, but DH only likes name-brand cereals.
I’ll have to try Tillamook ice cream
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It looks like we may need a whole thread on cottage cheese. I completely agree on Daisy - the dry, uniform tiny cubes are unpleasant, and the whey is overly thin and runny. The only brand worse than that is Great Value (Walmart), where the whey is essentially cloudy water. Our family preference is Lucerne (Tom Thumb/Randalls), with Target brand not bad, Kroger brand passable, and Trader Joe’s meh. Many have mentioned Good Culture, which I’m not familiar with but will now be looking for.
I am kind of like you - I like some flavors of different brands.
BUT, I never buy “off brand” or store brand ice cream, if I can help it.
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I used to buy white Colgate in the hard packaging, it was discontinued but I found a white Crest in hard packaging. I hate to see blue in the sink or icky tubes.
Not only has to be Colgate, I much prefer the one available in my home country. I restock whenever I visit.
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Dove Bar Soap
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For some odd reason, I can’t use Colgate. It does something to the roof of my mouth.
We like Charmin or Northern TP. Not really a fan of Kirkland for that.
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I’ll be the outlier. For me, a couple things where brand doesn’t matter:
Toilet paper. Honestly all I ask is that the rolls don’t have just like 10 squares on them. Call me weird but soft doesn’t matter - I actually prefer the Scott thin paper like you’d find out in public! Roll lasts forever!
Paper towels. We try to limit our use of them using re-usable/washable kitchen cloths and cloth napkins. So I’m cool with the store brand - prefer no prints like the fancy ones - just your basic white and probably thin.
Another item I am now sold on brand wise: Dawn Powerwash for cleaning dishes out of the dishwasher. I never want to buy anything else.
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I love my Kirkland TP and paper towels, as the sole person living in a house with 6 other adults who replaces rolls, I like how big they are. I supplement with charmin in between Costco runs.
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