Do you buy much tinned food?

Sardines, tuna, baked beans, peach slices, apricots and pineapple. I buy frozen peas. Never use tinned tomatoes.

WithNobsOnIt

Yes. Nearly everything mentioned in these post bar spam and some other tinned meats.

Tinned food is essential oldie food fayre and may be looked down upon but keeps us all fed .

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Since when has baked beans, tinned lentils, mixed beans, tomatoes, coconut milk, all the tinned oily fish that all main stream nutritionists are always extolling and frequently appear in recipes online and in the print media, been oldie food fayre.

Go into any foodstore and the tinned baked beans in tomato sauce will be piled as high as the Empire State building. The people buying them up are certainly not pensioners.

WithNobsOnIt it is sad to say but you are 20 years or more behind the times.

Sardines

Yes. Nearly everything mentioned in these post bar spam and some other tinned meats.

Tinned food is essential oldie food fayre and may be looked down upon but keeps us all fed .

Give it up for Frey Bentos!
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Rice pudding, custard, tuna, mushy peas, beans, tomatoes, soup, fruit oh and an occasional tin of m&s chicken curry.

All of the above!
Plus canned confit duck if I see it. Fragonard canned stuffed olives are lovely.
OP was prompted by an article suggesting that canned food was going out of fashion - I wonder if we are the best demographic to test that idea 😉

Very rarely I buy tinned food, I live on may own and buy fresh only.

I'm on a few preppers groups, not that I think that the end of the world is nigh, more in case of something like a pandemic. They say the pull tab tins aren't as good, dont last as long and are lined with something these days, maybe plastic, it's a long time ago that I read it. I don't know if that is true as I don't have a lot of tinned food and rotate it well. I do remember however clearing my MIL cupboard years ago and there was a very old tin of something and the tin did seem uncompromised. Maybe they were better.

In my storecupboard I always have tinned peaches and the evaporated milk to go with them or to help make a delicious rice pudding, a tin of rice pudding because it takes a long time to make one, baked beans (where would we be without them!), chick peas, a tin of tomatoes preferably chopped and with herbs or garlic, various soups (especially in the winter), corned beef - I like mine chunky, not thin sliced, sardines, sometimes mackerel and an emergency tin of sweetcorn. Recently I did indulge in a tin of processed peas and a tin of mushrooms "just in case". I still have the mushrooms.

Things I wouldn't buy in tins - broad beans (disgusting, unlike the ones I grow) tinned garden peas (weird taste) and potatoes (pretty nasty). I too, like another poster, was very disappointed when, for nostalgia, I bought a Fray Bentos pie.

The normal stuff like tinned tomatoes, beans, sweet corn etc but am aware that I should have a good stock of tinned goods in case of a disaster.

Tinned tomatoes, baked beans, lentils , tuna, coconut milk, rice pudding, sardines, anchovies, Greek stuffed vine leaves, chick peas, kidney beans, butter beans, tomato purée, corned beef , soup ( to add to homemade) mushy peas.
My dad once looked in my cupboard and asked if I was expecting a siege. He did not live to experience covid but I was prepared!

Tinned food is absolutely fine and I use a lot of tinned tomatoes for many dishes.

Yes.

I know quite a few souls regard them as vile - but Fray Bentos steak & kidney pie is comfort food to moi when things have gone pear-shaped..........

I just had a rummage in my cupboard and unearthed a tin of smoked mussels which were an impulse buy years ago. They've still got two years to go. Maybe I'll produce them on Ritz crackers at Christmas and see how the family react.

My bicarbonate of soda and English mustard powder are also in tins.

re tinned peaches - why were some called ‘cling’ peaches ?

Tinned Tomatoes are popular aren't they?

Tinned tomatoes (plum and chopped), Sweet corn, Mackerel & Sardines for me, Tuna for mum, Danish Ham (Tescos, used to be £1.10, now £1.80, I have a few in stock.....) Anchovies (watched an episode of Bones and Puttenesca was mentioned, found a recipe, took 3 attempts with tweaks until it was perfect for me! Gave some to my sister, a friend of hers was there, she tried it and said it was better than her version! Gave her a copy of my version and apparently the family of 5 scoffed everything and asked for more!)

Tinned mushrooms, tomato puree, (these 2 for chilli). I do buy jars of curry sauces as they get whacked in the slow cooker.

We're Armageddon ready here, mum brought us up for always having grub in stock in case snowed in! Might not get the snow the same but we do stock up. Also, DON'T keep it all in one place, we had a fire some years ago and it took out all our food including the freezers!

Sounds pretty much like my list, plus DH and DGS lie tinned meatballs (!!)

Yes always a few in cupboard..."iron rations" as my granny would day.....pity about the expiry dates!.

I forgot tuna and salmon.

Baked beans even ..not backed lol

seasider I agree, I used to love Chesswood Creamed Mushrooms either on toast, or with a jacket potato. However, if you buy Campbell's Condensed Mushroom Soup it does very much the same job, and is also good to make a sauce for chicken supreme and the like

Tin peas, soups, sweetcorn, backed beans, that’s about all really mostly I buy fresh …

Tomatoes, tuna, baked beans and condensed soup (cheat sauce!).

The usual, Baked Beans, Tuna, Pilchards, Tomatoes, Mixed beans. Occasional tinned fruit. I buy tinned dog and cat food for our foxes.

Prunes.

I too love tinned peaches and evaporated milk, although evaporated milk in my cupboard is usually used as a substitute for cream when cooking.

As for Fray Bentos pies. These were an essential part of any holiday - and the fight to open them. However I did buy one recently and was very disappointed with the filling, it seemed to be mainly gravy with the odd bit of meat, not the meat packed delight I remembered from last year.