Culinary question

[chickenfeet]

I'm pretty much a cook from scratch kind of guy but there are canned/bottled/powdered things that I use on a regular basis. I'm curious about other people's use of such processed stuff. My list isn't especially long:

Canned tomatoes
Canned corn
Canned fishy things of various kinds; sardines, mackerel, clams, anchovies
Tomato puree
Coconut milk
Szichuan vegetable
Various Chinese or Thai condiments like preserved beancurd and chillibean sauce

How about you?

ETA: This is actually quite ironic given the amount of time I've spent involved with industrial scale food processing.

Comments

[jez-e-bel.livejournal.com]

hmmm... that's tough...

tomatoes (paste, crushed, sauce, peeled)
condiments (soy sauce, oyster sauce, ketchup, etc)
curry paste
dips (hummus etc - because I'm lazy)
pickles (kosher dills)
kraft dinner (because I was raised on it and sometimes you have to)
papadam
there's probably more but can't think of any right now...