Do you buy much tinned food?

Branston baked beans, lentils and other beans of various types, tuna, Mutti chopped tomatoes. Also black cherries and Ambrosia chocolate custard as ingredients for the black cherry trifle I make for family ‘dos’. At the moment there’s a tin of jackfruit which I must remember to give back to my DIL. left over from a meal she cooked for us. (Not a fan of jackfruit!)

*cling

EVE Some peaches vling tightly to the stone.

I'm always buying tins of

Fray Bentos Meat Balls
Heinz Macaroni Cheese
Peas
Ambrosia Creamed Rice
Carnation Evaporated Milk

But no other tins!

Heinz spaghetti, baked beans, ravioli, soups. Tinned plum & chopped tomatoes, tuna, sardines, salmon, kidney beans, butter beans, sweetcorn, bicarbonate of soda, tinned fruit, mushy peas.

We 'inherited' a load of tins when we cleaned out my late inlaws' house. They had quite the stash. I've just used one of the last of the tins - mushrooms - in a chicken and pesto pasta bake.

I’ve just been through all my tins, jars and packets 🙄

In the new year and beyond I hope to behave myself with purchases as I often end up either forgetting what I bought a particular item for or not bothering to make it.

Greengage

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 have bought tinned petits pois in France, when the supermarket was out of frozen peas - I was cooking for around 10 children! They’re perfectly OK - I brought a couple of leftover tins home, to add to e.g a veg soup.

I buy Lentils, White Beans, Sardines, Tomatoes, Chickpeas and some Confits Canard plus a few soups. I make sure they are pull rings but in some cases this is not possible. I do have a preppers stock of them as well as using them occasionally.

I forgot chickpeas and beans though not baked beans - I hate them !

DH loves tinned custard, otherwise I buy pretty much the same as most other people on here - tomatoes, chickpeas, various beans, coconut milk plus condensed milk for making ice cream for DGC. I usually make my own soup but these days would buy fresh soup in a carton if I couldn't be bothered to make some.

For many years I seldom bought canned goods apart from tinned tomatoes for pasta sauces and coconut milk for Thai food .
Since covid and due to a local shop closing-I've stocked up on all sorts of canned goods for emergencies .
Over the last two years my health has been compromised at times and I don't always get to the shops .
So I've relied on them .
I tend to buy :
Tomato soup - the only one that I like.
Tinned salmon
Ham
Corned beef
Pies
Any vegetables
Any fruit
Custard
Rice pudding
And a spare can opener !

Definitely beans. There was a trend, some years ago, when you cooked your own beans. Made our kitchen wall paper peel off.

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?

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.

Ratatouille

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

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

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!

JPB123

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!

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

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.

We buy tinned soup, beans, tomatoes and fish

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!

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.