Fridge: Country Life Butter; Stork margerine (for baking); vegetables, fruit and fruitjuice (from concentrate) are all supermarket own brand. Buxton Spring Water (English Spring Water tastes better to me; also Thames (ie London tap) Water is "hard" (high in limescale) so tastes crap. I have a filter built into my kettle to deal with it for hot drinks etc but never drink the stuff "neat".)
Mug Cupboard (above the worksurface): Twinings (By Royal Appointment, hereafter indicated by "RA") Tea: Lady Grey; Earl Grey; English Breakfast; and Classic Green. Twinings Infusions - Lemon & Ginger and Pure Camomile. Silver Spoon Granulated Sugar - made in England (teh factory is actually in the town where I live, Bury St Edmunds) from sugar beet, it has a lower carbon cost than cane sugar. Douwe Egberts Coffee: Instant (we drink a lot more instant than you guys because good coffee producers make instant versions) in Pure Gold; Pure Smooth; and Pure Indulgence (my Mum and I like different coffees so I buy her type as well as my own); and "Real" Medium Roast for filters and cafetieres.
Cupboard below the worksurface: Don Mario Olive Oil; Kikkoman Soy Sauce; Lea & Perrins' Worchestershire (pronounced "Wooster", honest!) Sauce "RA"; HP Sauce "RA" (brown sauce, which I prefer to tomato ketchup); Colmans' "RA" - English Mustard, Horseradish Sauce and Tartare Sauce; Baxters' tinned soups (various - please note "tinned" not canned); Dolmio Pasta Sauce for Bolognese; various Schwartz "RA" dried herbs, spices, curry powders etc; Saxa Table Salt; Maldon Sea Salt (produced in Essex, on the London borders); Sarson's Malt Vinegar; Hartleys' jam (various - both "no bits" and Extra fruit); McIlhenny Co Tabasco Sauce; Knorr Stock cubes (dried) and "Stock Pots"; Ovaltine (Malt drink made with hot milk, supposed to be relaxing at bedtime); Homepride flour (plain and self-raising); Kelloggs "RA" Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.
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Brands in My Kitchen Cupboards and What's Own Brand
Date: 2012-07-10 06:31 pm (UTC)Cupboard under the sink: Domestos Bleach; Harpic Antilimescale Toilet Cleaner; Flash One-for-All (used for washing floors); Dettol Antibacterial Surface Cleaner; Mr Muscle Kitchen Cleaner; Mr Muscle Bathroom Cleaner; Fairy liquid (dishsoap); Bold 2-in-1 liquid detergent.
Fridge: Country Life Butter; Stork margerine (for baking); vegetables, fruit and fruitjuice (from concentrate) are all supermarket own brand.
Buxton Spring Water (English Spring Water tastes better to me; also Thames (ie London tap) Water is "hard" (high in limescale) so tastes crap. I have a filter built into my kettle to deal with it for hot drinks etc but never drink the stuff "neat".)
Mug Cupboard (above the worksurface): Twinings (By Royal Appointment, hereafter indicated by "RA") Tea: Lady Grey; Earl Grey; English Breakfast; and Classic Green. Twinings Infusions - Lemon & Ginger and Pure Camomile.
Silver Spoon Granulated Sugar - made in England (teh factory is actually in the town where I live, Bury St Edmunds) from sugar beet, it has a lower carbon cost than cane sugar.
Douwe Egberts Coffee: Instant (we drink a lot more instant than you guys because good coffee producers make instant versions) in Pure Gold; Pure Smooth; and Pure Indulgence (my Mum and I like different coffees so I buy her type as well as my own); and "Real" Medium Roast for filters and cafetieres.
Cupboard below the worksurface: Don Mario Olive Oil; Kikkoman Soy Sauce; Lea & Perrins' Worchestershire (pronounced "Wooster", honest!) Sauce "RA"; HP Sauce "RA" (brown sauce, which I prefer to tomato ketchup); Colmans' "RA" - English Mustard, Horseradish Sauce and Tartare Sauce; Baxters' tinned soups (various - please note "tinned" not canned); Dolmio Pasta Sauce for Bolognese; various Schwartz "RA" dried herbs, spices, curry powders etc; Saxa Table Salt; Maldon Sea Salt (produced in Essex, on the London borders); Sarson's Malt Vinegar; Hartleys' jam (various - both "no bits" and Extra fruit); McIlhenny Co Tabasco Sauce; Knorr Stock cubes (dried) and "Stock Pots"; Ovaltine (Malt drink made with hot milk, supposed to be relaxing at bedtime); Homepride flour (plain and self-raising); Kelloggs "RA" Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.
Supermarket brand rice; pasta; tinned low salt & sugar baked beans; tinned kidney, harricot, flageolet, and bortolli beans, tinned chick peas, tinned lentils (but I'm vegetarian!); tinned tomatoes.