Applesauce

Broth, beef

Musselmans Home Style Musselmans Lite

Bacon

Redi-Base Beef Base Pacic

Broth, chicken

Cheese, cheddar, sharp

Cheese, Gruyre

Farmland Hickory Smoked Boars Head Brand

Naturally Smoked Sliced

Swanson Certied Organic

Free Range

Cabot Sharp Vermont Tillamook Sharp Cracker Barrel Sharp

White

Gruyre Reserve Wheel Emmi Le Gruyre Reserve

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Sharp

Dragone Whole Milk

SHREDDED

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Cheese, Parmesan

Beans, canned
CHICKPEAS

Pepperidge Farm Premium

Bakery Rolls

Cheese, cheddar, reduced-fat

Pastene

Cracker Barrel Reduced

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Boars Head ParmigianoReggiano Reggiano

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Buns, hot dog

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Butter, unsalted
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Cheese, cottage

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Cheese, cream

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Cheese, ricotta, part-skim

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Blueberries, frozen

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Philadelphia
Cheese, cream, reduced-fat

Calabro
Chicken, breasts, boneless skinless

Wymans Frozen Wild

Bread, white sandwich

Land OLakes
Cheese, American, presliced

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Less Fat

Pepperidge Farm
White

Farmhouse Hearty White

Arnold Country Classics

Bread, whole wheat

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Cheese, feta

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Chicken, whole

Kraft Deli Deluxe

Cheese, Asiago

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Cheese, fontina
FOR EATING RAW FOR COOKING

Empire Kosher Bell & Evans

Chili powder

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Dove Schar en Berger Lindt Excellence Extra

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Ice cream, vanilla, light

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Muellers Bow Ties

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Mustard, whole-grain

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Hersheys Milk Chocolate

Chips

Hunts Heinz Organic Annies Natural Organic

Lemonade

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Olive oil, extra-virgin

Barilla Ronzoni DeFino

Pasta, penne

Muellers
Pasta, spaghetti

Millstone Colombian
Supremo
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Ghirardelli 60% Cacao

Bittersweet

Green Mountain Co

Half-and-half, fat-free

Newmans Own Old

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Columela Lucini Colavita

Olive oil, pure

Ronzoni
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Roasters Our Blend

Land OLakes
Ham, spiral-cut

Floridas Natural Minute Maid Premium

Frozen Concentrated

Hersheys Special Dark

Mildly Sweet

Cookies, ready-tobake chocolate chip

Cooks Spiral Sliced Hickory

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Chocolate, unsweetened

Nestl Toll House Chocolate

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Lemonade, powdered

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Pasta sauce

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Hoisin Sauce

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Kool-Aid Country Time

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Bertolli Tomato & Basil Francesco Rinaldi Prego Marinara

Peanut butter

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Chocolate, white chips

Arrowhead Mills Whole-Grain Hodgson Mill Whole-Grain

Cumin

Hot fudge sauce

Highland Sugarworks Grade B Spring Tree Grade A Dark

Amber

The Spice House

Hungarian Sweet

Penzeys Hungarian Sweet

Pasta, alternative

Skippy Creamy Jif Creamy Reeses Creamy

Peanut butter, reduced-fat

Hersheys
Hot sauce

Guittard Choc-Au-Lait
Cinnamon

Penzeys McCormick Gourmet

Collection

Franks RedHot Original

Ice cream, chocolate

Mayonnaise

Vita-Spelt Spaghetti
Pasta, egg noodles

Skippy Reduced Fat

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Molasses

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Kalustyans Indian
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McCormick/Schilling

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Grandmas Original or Robust Brer Rabbit Mild or Full

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Barilla

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Muellers Ronzoni Smart Taste

Morton & Basset Organic Zingermans Tellichery

Peppers, roasted red

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Relish, sweet pickle

Soy sauce
FOR COOKING

Cascadian Farm
Pie crust

Cascadian Farm Heinz

Rice, Arborio

Tomatoes, canned diced

Tortillas, our

Vinegar, balsamic

Lee Kum Kee

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Pillsbury Just Unroll!

Pizza, cheese, frozen

RiceSelect
Rice, basmati

Ohsawa Nama Shoyu

Spice rub, blackening

Muir Glen Organic S&W Ready-Cut Redpack (Redgold on the

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Tyson Mexican Original Mission

Tuna, canned

Lucini Monari Federzoni Ortalli

Vinegar, red wine

Chicken of the Sea Solid

White Albacore Tuna in Water

California Pizza Kitchen

Crispy Thin Crust Margherita Cheese

Tilda Pure
Rice, long-grain white

Paul Prudhommes

Blackened Redsh Magic

Tomatoes, canned pureed

Spectrum Naturals
Organic

Freschetta Ultra Thin 5 Tombstone Extra Cheese Original

Potato chips

Canilla Extra Long Grain Enriched Carolina Extra Long-Grain Enriched Sem-Chi Organically Grown
Florida Long Grain

Strawberries, frozen

Cascadian Farm
Stu ng, packaged
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Hunts Progresso Cento

Tomatoes, canned whole

Starkist Solid White

Tuna, in olive oil

Albacore Tuna in Water

Pompeian
Vinegar, white wine
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Ortiz Bonito del Norte

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Stove Top Stu

Savory Herbs

Acetaia Bellei Four Monks

FOR COOKING

Lays Kettle Cooked

Original

Bells Traditional Stu

Sweetened condensed milk

Salsa, hot

Progresso Italian-Style Redpack Hunts

Tomatoes, sun-dried

Tuna, pouch

StarKist
Turkey, whole

Colavita

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Preserves, raspberry

Pace Chunky
Salt

Smuckers
Preserves, strawberry

Bordens Whole Milk

Tartar Sauce

Trader Joes Julienne Blend

Tomato paste

Empire Kosher
Turkey breast, deli

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Wa es, frozen
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Welchs
Prosciutto

Maldon Sea Salt Fleur de Sel de Camargue Morton Coarse Kosher

Salt, light

Legal Sea Foods

Tea, black
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Amore

Sara Lees Oven Roasted

Vanilla extract

Eggo Homestyle Wa
Water, bottled

Redpack
Tortilla chips
FOR DIPS

Prosciutto di Parma

Prosciutto San Daniele

Pumpkin, canned

Morton Lite
Sausage, breakfast

Twinings English Breakfast

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Libbys

Farmland Pork Sausage

Links, Fully Cooked Sausage Links

Tazo Awake
Teriyaki sauce

Santitas Authentic Mexican

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McCormick Pure Rodelle Pure Neilsen-Massey

Volvic Natural Spring Fiji Natural Artesian Dannon Natural Spring

Yeast

One-Pie
Raspberries, frozen

Tostitos 100% White Corn

Restaurant Style Natural

Madagascar Bourbon Pure

SAF

Farmland Original Pork

Annie Chuns
Tomatoes, canned crushed

Veggie burgers

(Instant or Perfect Rise) or Quick Rise)

Green Mountain Gringo All

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Gardenburger Original
Vinegar, apple cider

Red Star (Instant Active

Yogurt, whole milk

Cascadian Farm 100%

Organic

Big Valley

Tuttorosso (Blue Label) Muir Glen Organic

Tostitos Natural Yellow

Corn Restaurant Style

Maille Spectrum Naturals

Brown Cow Cream Top

Plain

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