Do you buy much tinned food?

AmberGran

I forgot the corned beef. DH likes a corned beef and potato pie now and again. The only thing I make that is better than his mother's 😆

I buy the packets, daren't tackle a corned beef tin nowadays.

Sainsbury's Albacore Tuna Steak In Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Taste the Difference - it's not posh! It's only £2.85
However, the blurb claims that it is pole and line caught.

By Mortimer and Whitehouse, no less.

I forgot the corned beef. DH likes a corned beef and potato pie now and again. The only thing I make that is better than his mother's 😆

Nanny27

Quite

Quite again!

Alwaysoptumistic

Very similar to everyone else but also my guilty secret, Fray Bentos pies

The last time I bought one I couldn’t get the top off. I do keep a tin of M&S curry in stock for when I fancy a curry.

Quite

Didn't take long for the food police to arrive, did it?
Totally agree with you on your last two posts, M0nica!
Keeping a stock of basic tinned foods is just common sense for us, particularly during the winter months when it's often not as easy or sensible to go out shopping every day, depending on the weather. It certainly doesn't mean we don't eat fresh food as well.

Menopauselbitch

Everyone should download the app ‘Yuka’ and get scanning what they buy. It might then open your eyes.

What do you mean? what might open my eyes? Information about the farming regimes of the dicttorships growing the green beans or tomatoes? Information about chemicals used on crops? Poisons in the canning process, additives in the tins but not listed in the labels.

What is happening to what are usually simply canned unprocessed products that we do not know about?

I have looked the app up and it seems to deal mainly with highly processed foods not basic foodstuffs of the type usually bought in cans.

Frenchgalinspain

Only Spanish albacore white tuna in extra virgin olive oil from CUCA brand and on occasion Baby Sardines in Extra virgin olive oil - same brand Cuca ..

Otherwise I prefer fresh seasonal fruits, vegetables and seasonal fish ..

Beans: I buy Mario Iglesias Franco lentils in a linen bag:
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Gomecello, Salamanca

I also buy Garbanzos in linen bags ..

What has consuming tinned products got to do with whether anyone consumes fresh fruit and veg.

Look at the list of things that people buy in tins and they are almost entirely basic cooking ingredients, tinned beans, tinned tomatoes, tins of fish, usually oily fish specifically recommended by nutritionists, tinned tomatoes for soups and casseroles, coconut milk. How do you buy that fresh at a greengrocers?

This remark strikes me as irrelevant virtue-signalling. Although considering the number of us who use tinned beans, lentils etc and canned oily fish are we too virtue signalling how we eat the things we are always being told to eat and which so many do not.

Same as most of the above but also keep tinned ratatouille. It's great for a quick veggie lasagne

YES for the tinned peaches and evaporated milk. I’m half ashamed to admit it!

Frenchgalinspain

Only Spanish albacore white tuna in extra virgin olive oil from CUCA brand and on occasion Baby Sardines in Extra virgin olive oil - same brand Cuca ..

Otherwise I prefer fresh seasonal fruits, vegetables and seasonal fish ..

Beans: I buy Mario Iglesias Franco lentils in a linen bag:
[email protected]
Gomecello, Salamanca

I also buy Garbanzos in linen bags ..

But you have a choice of wonderful places to eat right on your doorstep!

We do have some good pubs and restaurants but they are a good drive away.

I think the tinned foods are contingencies, perhaps because of worries of empty shelves or being snowed in, besides the fact that we can't get good stone fruits in the winter. The last nectarines I bought from Waitrose were like bullets and never ripened.

We probably have much more freezer food than the few tins and obviously a fridge for fresh food.

Everyone should download the app ‘Yuka’ and get scanning what they buy. It might then open your eyes.

Yes, I love tinned food. As well as the usual staples mentioned above, I like Baxter’s Chicken Broth which is lovely for cold days and a bit Eastern European. I also love tinned mackerel which is not strong tasting at all and has the highest amount of calcium pretty much that you can get in a food (I get the ones in olive oil). I also stock up when I’m in France on their tinned “baked beans” which are larger than our standard ones and cooked in a much milder tomato sauce - specifically I get the ones in Casino and Monoprix that are cooked in goose fat (just be careful when buying French baked beans if you are vegetarian or vegan!! that you don’t get these!) because they are delicious and literally melt in the mouth. Finally, the condensed chicken soup which is good for various recipes.

I always have one or two tins of M&S tinned Ham for emergencies.

Only Spanish albacore white tuna in extra virgin olive oil from CUCA brand and on occasion Baby Sardines in Extra virgin olive oil - same brand Cuca ..

Otherwise I prefer fresh seasonal fruits, vegetables and seasonal fish ..

Beans: I buy Mario Iglesias Franco lentils in a linen bag:
[email protected]
Gomecello, Salamanca

I also buy Garbanzos in linen bags ..

Tuna (in summer), sweetcorn, & tomatoes - plus all varieties of pulses; I can't eat tinned baked beans or soup as it's impossible to find either without garlic or leeks (both of which make me extremely ill) hidden in them, so we make both from scratch & freeze in single portions.

Various tinned beans, mushy peas, evaporated milk and red salmon, occasional consomme or tomatoes for cooking.

Tinned tomatoes, various beans, tuna, coconut milk, pineapple and peaches. I always keep a stock of these.
I occasionally buy sardines, mushy peas, rice pudding and soup.

AmberGran

Alwaysoptumistic

Very similar to everyone else but also my guilty secret, Fray Bentos pies

We used to keep some Fray Bentos pies too, but they have got so small we don't bother anymore

Forgot those, too! About twice a year, when I really just CBA to cook, we have one each with frozen peas.

Witzend

Baked beans, kidney and butter beans, tomatoes, an occasional tin of corned beef or pineapple slices (to go on dh’s gammon steak), occasional tins of black cherries for a clafoutis, sweetcorn now and then, for Gdcs’ egg fried rice (not keen on sweetcorn myself), the odd tin of condensed mushroom soup for a tuna/pasta dish - can’t think of anything else.

Coconut milk! Used some the other day for pumpkin soup.

Baked beans, kidney and butter beans, tomatoes, an occasional tin of corned beef or pineapple slices (to go on dh’s gammon steak), occasional tins of black cherries for a clafoutis, sweetcorn now and then, for Gdcs’ egg fried rice (not keen on sweetcorn myself), the odd tin of condensed mushroom soup for a tuna/pasta dish - can’t think of anything else.

Alwaysoptumistic

Very similar to everyone else but also my guilty secret, Fray Bentos pies

We used to keep some Fray Bentos pies too, but they have got so small we don't bother anymore

Just the usual stock of soups, beans of various sorts, tuna, broad beans, coconut milk, tomatoes, a couple of tins of pineapple rings and one or two other fruits. We keep the stock up in case of emergencies and revolve them to keep the dates up. The soups only ever get used when I have the flu and can't eat anything

StripeyGran

Butter beans, haricot beans, tomatoes, soup ( standby), mushy peas.

I know this isn't the question but frozen mixed fruit is very nice and cheap too.

It may be the answer though. Has frozen food usurped tinned?