When did you last eat...

Apart from tinned grapefruit for breakfasts I tend to buy fresh because it's not as expensive now as it was when we were small

About a week ago. We always have tinned fruit and whipped cream in the house for a quick treat.

Can't remember the last time we had tinned fruit. We're fortunate enough to have a large garden & orchard with all manner of fruit and veg so never short of fresh, stored or frozen. When I day " fortunate"...it's hard work! Thinking of downsizing to somewhere easier to manage so may well be heading for the tinned fruit aisles....!

I remember the tins of mixed fruit, there was always one random cherry in it! Served with evaporated milk!

Don't forget lychees. To be honest I don't think I've ever had fresh ones -they look so challenging ! But tinned ones are delicious.

As a child we ate tinned fruit and custard but it's so long ago since I've eaten any tinned fruit that I can't remember.

However, I do recall trying tinned raspberries with tinned cream and it was horrible. Never again.

That sounds sensible, ann.

I'll give it a whirl, I think.

I used to make fluff dessert but I don’t think you use the full amount of water in the jelly.
I think you subtract the volume of the evaporated milk.
Could be wrong, often am.

mrswoo grapefruit is a strange one. I was not allowed to eat it when on my cancer medication as it made it work too well!

Missadventure the fluff dessert I was describing can be made more fancy by topping with whipped cream and the relevant fruit. We used to have blackcurrant jelly flavour, topped with freshly picked blackberries ( brambles), or raspberry with fresh ones on top. Let me know how you get on!

Oh yes Gad3....the bread and butter with tinned fruit! Post war time....the bread filled your tummy, cheap n cheerful! If I didn’t eat it, there was no homemade cake after!

Hate all tinned fruit except lychees. My mother used to bring tinned peaches and salmon when she came to stay. Straight in the bin after she had left.

Oh my word - tinned peaches from Lidl with homemade rice pudding is a staple in our home.

You do know that fruit tinned in syrup is a very highly processed food?

Yes. I know. Never did me any harm.

Yes Riggie. My mum made us have bread and butter with our tinned peaches and evaporated milk. Very odd!

Just had a look at the label on my statins it reads:

“ Do not take more than one or two small glasses of Grapefruit Juice per day with this medicine”

So I reckon it’s ok to have a bit of tinned grapefruit from time to time. Too much grapefruit in any form can prevent the statins from working.

In fact I sometimes have tinned mandarins mixed with a bit of tinned grapefruit for breakfast topped with honey and natural yogurt. Delicious.

Tinned fruit were very much a Sunday treat in our house. My mum also always had at least one tin of salmon in the larder for Sunday tea sandwiches, the salmon she used to mash with vinegar before making the sandwiches.
We then used to either have homemade cake or if we had visitors, tinned fruit and tinned cream yum!
When we have a family barbecue, my son often makes a trifle, of course using tinned fruit. I must get some when I do my grocery shopping - I may even treat myself to a tin of evaporated milk!

As children a regular pudding was tinned fruit and evaporated milk. Only tinned fruit I've had for years though has been tinned pineapple rings to top gammon.

I buy tinned mandarins as one of the GC decided they were fish and loves them, good way to get some fruit down. Peaches and custard, yes a childhood memory my dad called them sunshine fruit.

I always tempted a poorly toddler who wouldn't eat with tinned pears it worked every time

Just back from Lanzarote. One of the dessert options was tinned fruit alongside fresh fruit. I tried some and found it too sweet and soft.

I buy tinned fruit for my son who loves it.

And also have memories of tinned fruit with evaporated milk for sunday tea. Mum always made us have some bread and butter with it too.

We had tinned fruit every day when we were children. Our kitchen cupboards were crammed with it. This has made me nostalgic as I do like tinned fruit. I buy tinned grapefruit for breakfast and tinned pineapple for grilled gammon. I. Notice now though that the pineapple is sliced so thinly.

Recently had tinned fruit when I was very ill in Greece and not allowed any raw food! Don’t think I had eaten this since I was a child! It did manage to go down very easily though!

I buy tinned pineapple for a delicious carrot cake recipe I have.