I don’t care for Chips Ahoy at all. I go for Tates for store-bought chocolate chip cookies.
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We do.
It was on sale at one of the supermarkets (small local chain) near me for, as I recall, $3.00/container. M-m-good!
Best Foods (Hellman’s) mayo
Jif peanut butter
Maille bleu cheese mustard, but most any plain dijon mustard
Darigold milk
C&H sugar
Quaker Oats
I’m not really big on ice cream, but when I have it, it’s only Olympic Mountain Kentucky Pie flavor. OM is a very regional brand.
I’ve been into cocktails the last few years, but surprisingly enough I haven’t settled on any particular whiskey, rye, or gin. I always have Grand Marnier, Campari, and Aperol in the house. I don’t like vodka, so whatever anyone leaves here is fine by me.
I honestly don’t know about Jif to venture an opinion. I buy Kirkland PB.
Its ingredients are simple and natural. Peanuts and salt.
Jif (which Costco sells) has roasted peanuts, sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oils - rapeseed and soybean, salt, mono and digylcerides.
I don’t eat clean but when I see stuff like that when others don’t have - I stay away.
Btw - kinders bbq hot is good (at Costco) as is trader Joe Carolina gold.
My better half likes breyers lactose free vanilla ice cream.
And only lactaid milk. She says the store brand doesn’t compare. I’m a regular non fat milk drinker. The name doesn’t matter.
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Phish Food is our favorite!
Yes. Bought one time by mistake. Now I avoid entire Scott’s brand like a plague.
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It’s in a lot of hotels - it’s cheap. - and not gentle on the tush 
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If you especially like the smooth, rich (creamy) texture, then it sounds like we may favor different brands. For example, a comparison of the ingredient list for my favorite brand of strawberry Ice Cream (Breyers) to Tillamook and Haagen-Dazs is below. I also included a supermarket brand as a reference,
I like Breyers because it goes really heavy on real strawberries. It taste like actual strawberry ice cream rather than like an artificially flavored strawberry-like sugar. However, they go light on the cream and instead get most of fat from natural milk, so I’m guessing you wouldn’t be as enthusiastic.
Tillamook takes the opposite approach to Breyers. They go heavy on the cream, with cream as first ingredient, giving it the smooth, rich texture you mention. However, they go light on the strawberries. They get the sweetness from sugar, rather than strawberries. It’s no surprise that I am not a big fan of this flavor. It’s much better than the supermarket brand, but that’s not a high bar – just okay.
Perhaps you would like Haggen-Dazs. It’s much more rich and creamy than Tillamook, but unlike Tillamook, they get the flavor primarily from real strawberries, with more strawberries than sugar. I’d make a similar comment about the other Haggen-Dazs pure flavors like vanilla. They aren’t quiet as adept with candy/cookie flavors due their history of collusion with Ben & Jerry’s (a podcast summary is at Why Ben & Jerry's is chunky, and Häagen-Dazs is smooth : Planet Money : NPR )
- Supermarket Strawberry Ice Cream – Milk, Cream, Sugar, Strawberry Syrup, Corn Syrup; 7g fat per 2/3 cup, 170 calories
- Breyers Strawberry Ice Cream – Milk, Strawberries, Sugar, Cream (Strawberries is #2, Cream is #4); 7g fat per 2/3 cup, 150 calories
- Tillamook Strawberry Ice Cream – Cream, Skim Milk, Sugar, Milk, Strawberries (Cream is #1, Strawberries is #5); 10g fat per 2/3 cup, 200 calories
- Haagen-Dazs Strawberry Ice Cream – Cream, Skim Milk, Strawberries, Sugar (Cream is #1, Strawberries is #3), 19g fat per 2/3 cup, 310 calories
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Actually, I’m with you when it comes to fruit. Generally I prefer sorbets and travor tart citrusy varieties. I can’t stand artificial fruity flavors and hardly ever get fruit ice cream. With few exceptions, I dislike fruit + dairy. I am going to have to try Bryer’s Strawberry.
Amy fans of Cottonelle TP? Horrible IMO. Many fancier hotels seem to love it. That TP dissolves as soon as it is torn off the roll, it seems like that for sure! 
King Arthur flour.
Bob’s Red Mill grains.
Rao’s jarred sauces (although Costco’s marinara was not bad at all!).
Snoqualmie or Whidbey Island ice cream in pints (local creameries)
Ellenos yogurt
Another fruit one: pineapple - if it is not from Hawaii, I pass. The Costa Rican ones are always duds because they are likely harvested too early so they are easier to transport, but pineapple doesn’t ripen off the plant.
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H is the picky one and does 90% of the grocery shopping, so I am pulling this off the top of my head –
H’s list:
Heinz ketchup
Nathan’s fries (frozen)
Breakstone soft sweet unsalted butter
Tillamook cheese, ice cream
Orville Redenbacher microwave theater butter popcorn
Hellman’s
Coke Zero
Barilla pasta
Thomas’ English Muffins (original)
Utz’s pretzels (preferable pumpernickel)
Bounty
Charmin
Talenti mango or raspberry sorbet
Trader Joe’s fresh squeezed OJ
Simply Lemonade products
Pickle Guys’ full sour dills
Kraft Thousand Island & Bacon dressing
Sweet Baby Ray’s Honey BBQ sauce
My list:
diet Pepsi
Kirkland extra soft TP (Charmin and Northern are too linty)
Fage yogurt
TJ’s pumpkin yogurt (seasonal)
Kellogg’s raisin bran
Thomas’s English Muffins (whole wheat)
Killer Dave’s bread
Ricola cough drops from Europe (better flavors over there)
Bella Sun Luci sun-dried tomatoes (Costco gets them periodically and we stock up)
Haven’t tried but would generally not gravitate toward these types of flavors. One of my favorite ice cream flavor combinations is chocolate peanut butter. Sadly, Tillamook’s version has a poor peanut butter-to-chocolate ratio. Haagen-Daz is best for that flavor, with yummy ribbons of PB. I just purchased Tillamook’s Neapolitan to make ice cream sundaes and can report that their strawberry is very good as well.
I have noticed the shrinking on some of the pint brands. Tillamook’s packaging has looked squattier to me, and I assumed they were also giving us less. I’m glad that doesn’t seem to be the case. Also a big fan of their cheeses.
I had this for the first time at Pike Place Market while on vacation and fell in LOVE! It’s in a few of our higher end grocery stores now. Not quite the same as getting it at the Market, but a nice treat every once and a while.
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I’ll eat store brand anything.
When I buy chips, however, it’s always Lay’s potato chips. And it’s not just because my daughter works for Frito-Lay, lol - they really are better!
Oh, and Charmin TP and Brawny paper towels.
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I agree that Coke and Pepsi are NOT the same thing (I prefer Pepsi if I drink a soda).
If we are in a restaurant and the server says “is X okay” I just don’t order a soft drink lol.
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Talk about shrinkage…bags of things like chips, Doritos, Cheetos…
I have to give Haagen-Daz the award for consistently good. I watch for it to go on sale and then let myself pick my own pint to enjoy!
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The Kirkland PB in my house says it also includes sugar and palm oil- so it’s not just peanuts and salt.
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Regarding peanut butter, mainly I just get whatever is just peanuts without added sugar or hydrogenated oils. Obviously, that does mean stirring it.
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