Don't know if I'm understanding you but;

=VLOOKUP(product,A20:B25,2,FALSE)

I renamed cell A1 to "product" then A20;A25 as "cheese" etc and B20:B25 as the prices.

The above formula sits in cell A2 and displays the price found in B20:B25

Is this what you're looking for?

Cheers

Tony