July 29, 2024

Recipe Book Ingredients

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about what brands we use for sauces, tortillas, buns, pasta, marinara sauce, chicken sausages, and more from recipes in our CSE+ App and seasonal recipe books. I'm giving you the low-down and sharing my go-to brands below. 🙌🏻 Hope you find this helpful!

Sauces / Dips

  • BBQ Sauce: Stubbs
  • Hot Sauce: Franks
  • Hummus: Sabra
  • Marinara Sauce: Newman’s Own Organic or Rao’s Homemade
  • Olive Oil Mayo: Kraft
  • Pesto Sauce: Kirkland
  • Pizza Sauce: Muir Glen Organic
  • Salsa: Jack's Salsa (Costco)
  • Salsa: Jacks (Costco) or Pace
  • Yellow Curry Sauce: Whatever I can find! (Target or Trader Joe's)

Dressings

  • Avocado Cilantro Dressing: Bolthouse
  • Blue Cheese Dressing: Bolthouse 
  • Classic Ranch: Bolthouse
  • Honey Mustard Dressing: Bolthouse
  • Italian Vinaigrette Dressing: Bolthouse
  • Salsa Verde: Bolthouse

Protein

  • Canned Tuna (Chunk Light): Wild Planet (Costco)
  • Chicken Sausage Links: Aidells
  • Deli Turkey: Boar’s Head
  • Egg Whites: Kirkland
  • Maple Chicken Sausages: Sugarhouse
  • Turkey Bacon: Columbus (Costco) or Applegate
  • Turkey Jerky: Archer or Chomps 
  • Turkey Pepperoni: Applegate
  • Wild Caught Salmon: fresh from Costco

Dairy

  • Cheddar Cheese (Low-Fat, Shredded): Harmons 
  • Cheese Wedges: Laughing Cow
  • Cottage Cheese: Daisy 2%
  • Grass-Fed Unsalted Butter: Kerry Gold
  • Mozzarella Cheese (Low-Fat, Shredded): Harmons
  • Non-Fat Plain Greek Yogurt: Kirkland Organic
  • Protein Ice Cream: Halo Top
  • Spray Whipped Cream: Land ‘o Lakes (Costco) or Reddi Wip
  • String Cheese: Frigo
  • Vegan Mozzarella Cheese: Miyoko’s Creamery

Pasta / Noodles

  • Egg Noodles: Jovial
  • Pasta (Ditalini, Macaroni, Penne, Fusilli, Linguine): Banza or Jovial
  • Whole Wheat or Brown Rice Spaghetti: Jovial

Grains

  • Crispy Rice Cereal: generic brand without malt 
  • Jasmine Rice: Lundberg Organic
  • Old Fashioned Rolled Oats: Bob’s Red Mill Organic Gluten Free
  • Quinoa: Kirkland Organic
  • Rice Cakes: Quaker

Breads

  • Bread: Harpers Bran, Ezekial Bread
  • English Muffins: Ezekial
  • Flatbread Wraps: Joseph’s
  • Naan Bread: Stonefire
  • Whole Grain Bread Crumbs: homemade from Ezekiel Bread or Canyon Bakehouse GF Bread
  • Whole Wheat Hamburger Buns: Rudi’s, Orowheat, Dave’s Killer Bread
  • Whole Wheat Lavash Bread: Joseph’s
  • Whole-Wheat or Potato Hot Dog Buns: Rudi’s, Orowheat, Dave’s Killer Bread

Tortillas

  • Brown Rice Tortillas: Food for Life or Siete
  • 6-inch Corn Tortillas: Mission Organics or La Tortilla Factory Organic

Flour

  • Self-Rising Flour: King Arthur
  • White Whole-Wheat Flour: King Arthur Organic
  • Whole Wheat Pastry Flour: Bob’s Red Mill

Misc.

  • Açaí Superfruit Pack (Unsweetened): Sambazon
  • Almond Milk: Organic Silk (Costco)
  • Avocado Oil: Kirkland
  • Caramel Syrup: Walden Farms
  • Creme Filled Chocolate Cookies: Newman-O’s
  • Coconut (Unsweetened, Shredded): Bob’s Red Mill
  • Coconut Aminos: Coconut Secret Organic
  • Coconut Milk: Thai Kitchen Organic
  • Flaxseed Meal: Bob’s Red Mill
  • Granola: Nature’s Path, Love Crunch, or Purely Elizabeth
  • Honey: from our hive or Utah’s Own
  • Kefir (Plain): Lifeway
  • Low-Sodium Chicken Broth: Kirkland Organic Bone Broth
  • Mini Chocolate Chips: Enjoy Life
  • Orange Juice: Matt’s Organic 
  • Pure Maple Syrup: Kirkland
  • Stevia Drops: 365 French Vanilla (Whole Foods)
  • Sweet Potato Crackers: RW Garcia or Good Thins
  • Sweet Potato Fries: Alexia

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