Do you buy much tinned food?

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.

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..........

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 😉

Rice pudding, custard, tuna, mushy peas, beans, tomatoes, soup, fruit oh and an occasional tin of m&s chicken curry.

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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Sardines

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 .

Give it up for Frey Bentos!
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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, tuna, baked beans, peach slices, apricots and pineapple. I buy frozen peas. Never use tinned tomatoes.

Beans and spaghetti is about it. Maybe the od tim of spam when I have a few quid to spare for a treat
I do buy jars of things, like curry mixes etc but not a lot in tins.

Looking at the price of diced stewing steak,the other day,I decided to buy a tin of stewing steak.Mum used to buy a tin of Wilson’s stewing steak.I couldn’t find that brand but made a lovely pie with the tin I bought.I know someone who makes roast potatoes for Sunday lunch using tinned potatoes. She pops them in the oven ,covered in fat and apparently they are delicious!

We buy tinned soup, beans, tomatoes and fish

Tomatoes, baked beans, tuna, salmon, soup, fruit, evap milk. . Used regularly but not frequently. Others are there for emergencies. Tinned foods keep for ever and a day. Take no notice of dates.
One thing I always fancy if I am unwell is tinned rice pudding. I never had it as a child as Mum made a proper one every week, baked in the oven.
I might just go and see what tinned fruit I’ve got in the cupboard right now. I could fancy some tinned peaches or apricots.

Baked beans, tomatoes, pineapple rings, coconut milk, mushy peas, (my favourite), soup, sweetcorn,

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Looking at the price of diced stewing steak,the other day,I decided to buy a tin of stewing steak.Mum used to buy a tin of Wilson’s stewing steak.I couldn’t find that brand but made a lovely pie with the tin I bought.I know someone who makes roast potatoes for Sunday lunch using tinned potatoes. She pops them in the oven ,covered in fat and apparently they are delicious!

Yes I have thought about this- you can even get beef curry in a tin. Much cheaper than the ready meal ones, and pretty tasty if you're not in the mood for cooking.

I am thinking of buying tinned potatoes too, though my mum might turn in her grave!

I keep a good store cupboard which includes plenty of tinned goods, many of the items mentioned by others. I also love proper tinned petit pois when I can get them. They must include sugar otherwise they are just tinned peas!

I was going to say no, not really, but then I had I think about what’s actually in my store cupboard. So I don’t buy every week, but have the tins in and replace as used.

Tomatoes
Butter bean
Kidney beans
Mixed taco beans
Baked beans
Pineapple
Evaporated milk
Peaches
Oranges
Cherry pie filling

And a must for my little granddaughters - Stetty hoooooops

You all sound like people who cook - having tinned beans, lentils fish etc means that you can always have healthy food, I think?

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Just coconut milk, Italian tomatoes for hotpots etc. and beans. I used to get tinned fruit but these days you don’t really need to. Mangos are in season for us just now - lovely.

I too have lots of tins in my store cupboard. Tomatoes, beans, coconut milk, sweetcorn, tuna, etc.

A friend told me yesterday that his student DD phoned him to ask how to open a tin! It had no ring pull and she either didn't have a tin opener or couldn't make it work.

He had to talk her through how to get it open. Sorry I can't remember if she ever managed 😅

Do Swiss army knives come with tin openers?