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

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I use beans of various kinds quite a lot but I always use dried ones. I don't like the texture of the canned ones.