Tinned food

Love my tins!

My absolute staples - of which you will find enough to see me through an apocalypse (served me well when the pandemic hit) - are tinned tomatoes (plum and chopped), sardines (both tomato sauce & oil), tuna, kidney beans and chickpeas. I keep the above in enormous numbers. It's a rare week if I don't use at least 2 tins of sardines and kidney beans. Baked beans too, but not in such quantities.
Pre-pandemic people laughed, but I seriously have a cupboard that is just full of sardines.

There will be some sort of tinned fruit (probably pineapple, peaches or mandarins), usually some kind of soup, vegetables - probably peas and sweetcorn - and often other pulses.

I have loads of random things in there at the moment thanks to the pandemic and shielding, but beyond that what I have in will depend on what's cheap! If I come across it and it's cheap, that's what I'll be eating.

I have a shelf of dried pulses/pasta/rice/grains and am also in possession of a "drinks" (hot choc instead of coffee on mine) shelf!

Not many tins. Baked beans, Sweetcorn, Tomato soup. Evaporated Milk. \that's about it.

Tinned baked beans (dh)
Tinned Ambrosia rice pudding (dh)
Tinned Tuna (me)
Tinned Spam (dh)
Tinned plum tomato’s (me and dh)

Random bits and pieces of tinned food ds1 ds2 and dil left when they moved abroad.

Tinned Chickpeas
Tinned beans
Tinned olives (fancy ones I should eat these today!)
Tinned Spanish anchovies and capers
Tinned Italian tomato paste

You can definitely tell dh is a post war baby with his food tastes. No meal is complete without a smear of disgusting baked beans across the plate ?

We also have a can of farts kept in what was the boys old shared bathroom. A rare delight ds1 bough back from America ?

Mines full of tinned sweetcorn, tinned vegetable mixtures (various) for homemade dog food. Plenty tinned soup, tinned tuna and stewed steak etc. In sjrs I have cheese sauce, lasagne sauces and the odd jam and peanut butter (for dog).

Oh gosh yes, I forgot baked beans. I can only get the large tins here in German supermarkets. When I used to come over to the UK I would stock up with a few of the small tins. Once I was asked if I had any Christmas crackers in my luggage, as these had recently been banned from hand luggage and hold luggage. (Used to only be forbidden in hand luggage). I jokingly replied that the only explosives I had with me were the baked beans.

Now I have to order baked beans in little tins - and Christmas crackers - online from an expat shop.

We have baked beans/tomatoes/soup/spaghetti/ham/corned beef/friut/vegetables, mainly for holidays/rice pudding too.

Callistemon

I tried to buy a tin of mushy peas in M&S but they don't stock them any longer.
Obviously mushy peas are too downmarket for the average M&S Food shopper, the assistant (or is it colleague?) and I had a laugh about it.

I thought it was only Asda that referred to staff (from customers’ POV) as colleagues.

When they had a sign up saying, ‘If you can’t find what you want, please ask a colleague,’* my inner ? was very tempted to ask customer services how on earth my colleagues at work were supposed to know where to find the Worcester Sauce.

*Actually, IIRC, it was, ‘If you can’t find what you want. Please ask a colleague’, which again had my not-so-inner ? itching to go into pedant-mode at customer services.

I’m a vegetarian so always keep a ready supply of tin tomatoes as they are the basis for many vegetarian recipes. Also varieties of beans, chick peas and evaporated milk for puddings.

I have quite a few tin of tomatoes as use them in stir frys and other meals as they are quite healthy and as i am on strict diet they come in very handy for quick meals. I dont eat pasta but have some tins of pepper pig pasta shapes in tins for when my grandchildren come over. Also have tuna but i am not a great lover of tuna so the cat get a treat sometimes.

I couldn't get them from Sainsburys either. Do you think there's a shortage.....are people stockpiling . Cant abide them myself but Son in law loves them
I have tins of apricots, pears, mandarins, tomatoes, sweetcorn, broad beans, chick peas, refried beans, chowder, mulligatawny, broccoli and stilton soups, baby carrots and petit pois, spaghetti hoops and baked beans

I tried to buy a tin of mushy peas in M&S but they don't stock them any longer.
Obviously mushy peas are too downmarket for the average M&S Food shopper, the assistant (or is it colleague?) and I had a laugh about it.

i live on my own and get a tesco shop every 2 months, it is sometimes difficult to spend the £40 minimum so i stock up on tins and jars
soups
peas
beans
spaghetti
chicken curry
beans & sausages
salmon
fray bentos
rice pudding
custard
tinned fruit
pickled beetroot and red cabbage (usually 4 jars of each), and due to ill health the tins are handy to have for meals when i don't feel like going out.
i use the beetroot and cabbage a few times a week

It gives me terrible heartburn, Maggiemaybe.
Even before I've finished eating it.
That's probably just me, or I suppose it may be the bread I have with it, because I do like a lot.

MissAdventure

I always have tons of Heinz tomato soup in.
Comfort food.
(And heartburn food, too!)

We’ve just had it for tea. As you say, comfort food. But why heartburn, MissA - does it give you heartburn or ease it?

I haven’t had it for a while - I might find out later tonight!

Baked Beans, broad beans, tinned tomatoes, milk puddings, spam, pilchards, corned beef, salmon and tuna come and go regularly.
We usually make our own soup, but both of us like the taste of Heinz tomato soup even though I’m not sure how much tomato is actually in there.

I've loads of tinned pears, as everyone loves them on a pavlova or a cream flan. I myself love them with a large dollop of vanilla or honeycomb ice-cream.

Sorry, got carried away there meant to add that my cupboard holds Baked Beans,tinned tomatoes, tuna and red salmon.

What!? No one else has braised tofu? Or Eazy Onions (must check the date, sure they've moved home with me twice). Tins of orange tonic, Kombucha, Aqua Spritz & cream soda in the fridge. Otherwise pretty much the same (vegan things) as everyone else.

Baked beans are now a staple item of the store cupboard, but when my mother was in her teens this was not the case. Being a small town girl she had heard of them but never actually seen any. Aged about 15 the family went to stay with friends who lived on the coast who had a daughter of a similar age. They had a lengthy discussion about baked beans, which they considered to be an exotic American food and secretly took themselves off to a cafe to taste the delicacy. Disaster, they both hated them. I can’t speak for the other young lady, but my mother never ate another baked bean in her long life!

Baked beans, tomatoes, tuna, cornedbeef, tin fruit, custard, rice pud, spag boll (for unexpected visits from grandchildren) and a few odd tins on top shelf, which could be anything, because I can't reach them ?

Tinned tomatoes and a few tins of beans
A few tins of various soups
Tuna in spring water
Kidney beans
Corned beef
sometimes a Fray Bentos pie
Sometimes a tin of fruit of some sort - usually pineapple, grapefruit or mandarins

I think that's about all the tins we ever use

No one’s mentioned tinned pears. Great for making pear crumble with either a packet of crumble mix or homemade (quick and easy to make). Served with cream, custard or ice cream and can be baking while you’re eating your dinner. First thought of it with my school mate when we were supposed to make a meal in cookery/domestic science/home economics and we couldn’t be bothered to put much effort into it!

Mostly the same as everyone else. Got quite a few tins of tuna in spring water for the cat. Jars of fish paste and a tin of golden syrup thats always reminds me of a tin of sunshine when I take the lid off.
My DH loves corned beef hash with fried eggs

Tomatoes
Red kidney beans
Chick peas
Cannelloni beans
Baked beans
Sweet corn
Pineapple
Condensed milk
Dulce de Leche
Evaporated milk
Tuna

Several types of vegetables in jars, and many, many types of homemade jams, marmalade’s, chutneys etc.

Not a great fan of tinned stuffs but the basics such as various types of beans, tomatoes, tuna, salmon (hubby loves it) and peas/sweetcorn.