Do you buy much tinned food?

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

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 ..

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.

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

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

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 ..

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.

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.

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.

Quite

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.

Nanny27

Quite

Quite again!

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 😆

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.

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.

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.

Prunes.

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

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

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

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

Baked beans even ..not backed lol

I forgot tuna and salmon.

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

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

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!

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