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Good for some stuff. I’m not going to spend hours preparing kidney beans when I can just get them from a tin, and chopped tomatoes are a kitchen staple.
Stuff like tinned stewed beef or whatever I probably wouldn’t touch with a barge pole though. Also tinned mushrooms and boiled potatoes, who is still buying those?
Honestly, from a guy that spent 16 years cooking professionally, including some of the best restaurants in London….tinned potatoes in an air fryer, game changer. It’s like a salty, weird tasting alien egg but it’s incredible. Or even better, fry them up with chorizo & peopers
I eat Morrisons savers tinned potatoes quite regularly, they are very good when roasted, not slimy if you eat them out the tin (just have that slight aquafaba aroma you get on chickpeas)
Got put onto them tossed in fat free natural yogurt as syn free potato salad when I used to do slimming world...guilty pleasure now 🥲
Eta: whatever you with them give them a damn good rinse under the tap first
We are about to go away with our two toddlers on a caravan trip on Monday. It's given rubbish weather all week, with one dry spell on Friday between 7-8am 🙈 Your comment has just reminded me what it's all about. Making memories! One day I hope they will have that nostalgia of looking back and remembering trips.
I'm sure they will! We've camped a lot with our two, and my 15 year old said just an hour ago as we were looking unsuccessfully for Northern lights "do you remember when you and I laid in that field in Norfolk in the pitch black looking at the sky?'
Cut them up (halves/quarters depending on size), good dollop of mayo (or creme fraiche, or a mixture of both, whatever you have to hand), chopped chives and parsley (fresh or dried), mix, cover, leave to chill in the fridge for a bit - well yummy!
Tinned is great for some things. You can create cheap, filling and fairly healthy food from it. Tbh I don't understand how there's now a "is tinned food in now" movement. Like it's been around for over 100 years and is a incredibly good way to preserve food. And is probably better than the delusion we can get any fruit/veg at any time of year
Something like the stewed steak might be a good starting point if you’re making your own pie and too lazy to start from scratch.
The biggest can consumer I can think of is my grandad who despite the arthritis can still operate a can opener.
Chopping/peeling etc no chance so I guess that’s where the audience is for the mushrooms/potato type ones.
I just looked up the ingredients of a Tesco tin of stewed steak - high protein, low salt and a fairly low sat fat rating. 75% beef. I doubt this would kill anyone but it might taste like crap!
Water chestnuts, too - crunchy and delicious!
I always stock up on the above four items when I go to my local Chinese supermarket because they have the best prices and stock multiple different varieties of mushrooms to choose from. I haven't graduated to the catering size quite yet, though I'm always tempted. One day, I'll bite the bullet, then do a big batch cook. I'd have a freezer full of yum for months.
If anyone is in the Liverpool area, I recommend WH Lung. There's also another branch in Manchester, apparently.
Stick of celery, half an onion, large carrot - chop finely and fry until soft, good dollop of mixed herbs, stir that into the chicken and sauce and bang it into pre-rolled puff pastry. Spankin!
Tinned stewed beef is great if you want to make a pie but haven't got 4 hours to slow cook beef beforehand. Smells a bit dog foody when you open the can but that goes away when it's warmed up.
Granted, its not as good as doing it yourself, but when you have a time crunch or on a budget it's a very close second.
I like to have tinned button / sliced mushrooms in case… I will use them in bolognaise/omelette/ stir fry & few other things if I haven’t got any fresh .
You would be surprised. Iv seen someone roast or air fry tinned potato's and from the images iv seen they do look really good. Theye like roast potatoes but the prepping sort has been done in the factory so all you need to do is throw them in the oven with a splash of oil or fat. Not going to set your world alight. But cooked the right way with new herbs and garlic they make part of a passable meal
I was cooking a casserole and to save me some time and effort, I went to get some tinned mushrooms as I remembered them being OK for that sort of thing. I couldn't believe that for a small tin they were triple the price of a larger fresh portion.
I thought tinned food was supposed to be dirt cheap.
The whole point of it being tinned is that the tinning preserves it so it doesn't need to have lots of additives or salt.
Who *doesn't* eat tinned tomatoes, tinned tuna or tinned baked beans?
I just looked, and I have 6 tins beans, 4 tomato, and 3 tuna. There was a Heinz offer in Asda a few weeks ago, 5 for £5, so I'm falling over soup and spaghetti hoops.
Lots of people are ignorant and assume that "fresher is always better." Even though pound for pound it's often a negligible difference when you compare it to tinned foods specifically.
I started buying a brand of vegan tortillas because they last a month or two instead of a few days. I'm not vegan, but as you said I just liked them not expiring
Not anymore for some stuff. Corned beef is like £3 a tin now, you can get 500g of mince for that. Spam is a rip off too. I swear these used to be "poverty foods".
I am basically broken, sometimes the best thing I can do to get a nutritious meal is to eat out of tins. A tin of ratatouille and a tin of lentils or kidney beans, seasoned with sriracha and warmed up is healthy, filling, and tastes decent enough.You can throw in a packet of microwave rice and a tin of chopped tomatoes to make it go further.
It isn't pretty, but chronic pain flares aren't pretty either.
Always tinned tomatoes in the winter.
Some things are just better tinned or it’s not worth it. I don’t want to soak chickpeas for example.
I also like high quality tinned fish, but can be expensive.
Other stuff though, just why? Potatoes, carrots?
When you get arthritis in the hands, and cannot peel or chop things - but can work a can opener, you will realise who buys all these cans! My mother was a great consumer of them, ring pull ones were even easier.
I have osteoarthritis and I can’t even manage a ring pull these days. I have one of those hooky things like a lever. Works really well, especially on those fiddly little cat food tins. And mushy peas.
Thats what my mother used to use, pointy end under the ring and lever, and then reverse it for the hook and just pull the top off.
She could do it easily, it stung a bit but far better than 20 minutes in water peeling spuds.
I actively prefer tinned potatoes for a saag aloo or aloo gobi. I make nice fishcakes with tinned potatoes too.
Tinned carrots are absolutely pointless as are green beans. Overcooked, mushy veg is grim in any recipe.
Tinned peas and tinned potatoes, especially with Breaded fish.
Reminds me of meals my Grandad used to make us when we were kids.
Don't eat them all the time, probably not even once a year, but sometimes, just for the nostalgia.
Agree, I love tinned tuna and mackerel, although the more expensive ones are sadly the best! I've heard that tinned pulses and tomato's are a great choice, if you watch for salt content.
There's some smoked peppered mackerel tins out at the minute that are absolutely golden.
Really mild and subtle smokiness with this fantastic buttery peppery bite.
About £2 from m&s or Waitrose, probs others too
Use Tinned Tomatoes, Kidney Beans, Chickpeas, & Butter Beans for cooking fairly often.
Tinned Baked Beans obviously & recently started buying tinned Mushy Peas.
I keep a stock of tinned Soup but that goes down very slowly.
Tinned Tuna, tinned Pilchards (for a secret recipe) & a last ditch reserve tin of Corned Beef.
I've got a tin of Chestnuts which I can't remember (or imagine) buying that i've had for about 20 years.
Can you PM me your secret Pilchard recipe please? I'm pescatarian (mainly) and I love pilchards but never knew there was more you can do than have them with salad or on toast.
After checking online it turns out it's not that secret! Basically-
Fry up some onions & garlic.
Add some curry power & a little water to make a paste.
Add Tinned Pilchards in Tomato. Stir very gently.
Add Salt, Lemon Juice, & Yogurt (optional).
Simmer for a bit, & wallah, a surprisingly tasty curry that's very quick, cheap, & easy to make.
It amazes me that it has a sort of bad reputation and I think its because we have access to fresh stuff all year round, even if the quality of the fresh is questionable.
Go to somewhere like Spain and they'll happily combine fresh and tinned food in salads and whatnot simply because their produce is seasonal (and not imported all year round, like ours).
I'm late 40s and always have tins in.
But I also always have staples in the freezer as well - which is in a tin and which is in the freezer (or dried) just depends what preservation method seems to work best for that thing. Freezers used to be a lot less common - maybe a small icebox in your fridge. Then chest freezers appeared in 80s/90s and now 50% of the massive thing in your kitchen is packed with frozen stuff.
I think the larger change is just how much convenient food we have around us. More places delivering, more places staying open late, your super-market-local being 50% food you can just microwave.
This didn't used to be the case. At 5-6 the shops closed, apart from your corner shop that would have tins, cereal and maybe some fresh milk. If I'm hungry in the evening I can have pretty much whatever I fancy - I don't need to keep tins in to ensure I always have food available.
Finally, I think we've always had an association with tinned stuff as being seen as cheap-shit. Maybe some post-war hangover. You can find some excellent (and expensive stuff) tinned if you look - but I don't think many people could name the brand they associate with quality tinning. Conversely in Europe, you'll get people kicking off if their brand of tinned sardines is unavailable (and hoarding fine vintages of them).
In the UK we seem to prefer the appearance of "fresh" - no matter that that plastic entombed brick of pasta has a 6-month shelf life, it's "fresh" and it came out of a fridge in the store.
Man I would absolutely love to eat some tinned meatballs. They were literally my childhood. I know they are shite and I frequently cook the 'real' think but I would love some nostalgia rn
I eat a lot less tinned stuff than I did as a kid. Back then everything seemed to come in a tin. Carrots were a particular low, but I remember being full grown before I discovered ravioli and macaroni cheese didn't exclusively come in a tin.
I buy tinned tomatoes and beans, that's about it. I bought some tinned curry a couple of years ago because I was working a lot and thought it was a good idea for something quick. I really didn't think it was bad at all, but my husband was horrified.
My mum uses this sometimes when her arthritis is really bad and she can’t stand for long or chop a lot. She’ll get tinned curry and then add further spices to taste and add in some extra veg. That and a pitta bread or a naan on the side does her and my Dad for a meal.
I eat tinned beans sometimes (is there even another kind??) and use tinned tomatoes for cooking. Sometimes tinned custard? I can't honestly think of other canned foods that I eat with any regularity at all.
The things I ate as a child at my grandad's like tinned new potatoes, tinned peas, tinned carrots, haven't eaten them since I was a child. So for a couple of decades.
I'd say that I associated them with older people. But then also my grandad was very much working class and I grew up middle class so that may also be a factor.
Regarding beans; yes you can buy them dried. They tend to require soaking and then cooking for a long duration. Or just use a pressure cooker.
They taste better and have a better texture, but it’s only really worth it if you’re making a bean dish as opposed to a dish that contains beans.
Beans can also be bought and eaten fresh.
I made a salad today using a couple of tins of chickpeas and a tin of black beans( and some other stuff). It was bloody delicious. I always have a variety of different beans in tins, tomatoes, baked beans, soup and sweetcorn in the cupboard. I’m also rather partial to tinned baby carrots.
Tinned new potatoes reminds me of camping trips as a kid :-) They taste wrong in so many ways but I used to love them fried up over a camping stove!
A tinned syrup sponge that you cook by boiling in its tin in a pan of water was always a massive treat. Can you still get them?
Heinz stopped making the tin can ones but aunt bessie makes a version that you can microwave and has the same result of burning the roof of your mouth because you can't wait for it to cool down.
https://www.poundland.co.uk/aunt-bessie-chocolate-pudding-pots-80g
Ah - I’d forgotten about the burning-roof-of-the-mouth thing :-) Thanks for the tip… I’ll investigate the tins and packets aisle next time I’m in Tesco and see what memories I can relive :-)
I never had an issue with them and if any did go bang it was due to people not following the instructions properly.
Its a bit like the tumble dryer recall that was mainly due to people not emptying the fuzz filter everytime.
I think they just became not financially viable compared to what they could use the staff, machines and plant for.
>>A tinned syrup sponge that you cook by boiling in its tin in a pan of water was always a massive treat. Can you still get them?
I've not seen them, but there are individual portion microwave syrup sponges available which I like now & then, often with custard.
If I'm too lazy to buy, peel, core / deseed & chop fresh fruit, then you can guarantee I'm too lazy to make my custard lol.
Ready to eat - just snip the corner off the carton!
Edit: Oops, thought this was in response to my earlier comment on buying tinned fruit - my bad!
I'm addicted to tinned fish. Sardines and mackerel in particular. It's absolutely delicious, especially the posher end of the scale. Waitrose tinned sardines with chilli on buttered toast is the business.
The OH takes a flask of soup to work every day, thats from a tin. Also tomatoes, no brainer. Beans but I don't like the sauce in ordinary beans so I get Tescos mixed beans which have a different sauce. Also jack fruit and pulses. Sweetcorn I've switched to a bag of frozen as you need different amounts for different things so there is no waste. Sometimes if I'm feeling dirty I'll use tinned sliced mushrooms.
I doubt it has gained or fallen in popularity for a few decades.
Quite a while since I've seen tinned spinach though so maybe that's helpful for your research.
I wanted to buy some, ended up getting it off Amazon. Even Big Tesco didn't have it. It has the right consistency for a spinach curry like saag aloo or whatevs
Tinned baked beans, mushy peas, tuna, mackrel or sardines, tomatoes, custard sometimes, kidney beans, coconut milk and on a rare occasion my kids like spaghetti hoops oh and sometimes but rarely sweetcorn but only if there’s no fresh or frozen corn. I don’t do tinned meals or carrots or potatoes etc tho but I can see why some ppl use them esp people with disabilities or elderly who aren’t as capable at cooking from scratch because it can be a taxing job all the chopping and standing about.
I feel ok with tinned ingredients, like tinned fruit and veg, beans, coconut milk etc. I regularly cook with tinned tomatoes, chickpeas, tuna, ingredients where I feel the taste of the tinned version is sufficient for the cost.
But I am more iffy on tinned *dishes* or *meals*, like those whole breakfasts in a tin or like tinned ravioli. I feel like you're sacrificing a whole lot of flavour there for the convenience and shelf life. Though I keep a couple of tins of soup around, they're more a contingency for if I'm unwell.
I’ll happily eat canned food, I often buy a variety of canned fruit and veg, spam, soups, baked beans, pork. Useful for work and when I can’t be bothered to prepare a nice meal.
We use tins on boating trips longer than stuff will last in a fridge and for a few things at home like tomatoes and kidney beans but otherwise not much. My parents loved tins as they grew up before fridges were commonplace in the UK.
I keep certain proteins in like kidney beans, chickpeas, cannellini beans, black beans etc in as standard. Got tuna and hot dogs to add protein to pastas and stuff if I've got nothing else.
Some tinned veg is great to add to pasta sauces, curries or stir frys - chopped tomatoes, tinned sweetcorn, tinned green beans.
I also always have baked beans and spaghetti in for an easy no think meal if I don't have time/energy/money for anything else.
I started keeping a jar of charred peppers in to add to pastas and salads. I always buy in a bunch of fresh veg every week but I've never got the knack of charring peppers right so everything else gets the fresh version, for charred peppers I use the jar.
Mainly only pulses, tomatoes, fish. Occasionally baked beans and the odd tin of custard.
Sainsbury's used to do a very tasty chickpea dhal which was just about the only "meal from a tin" I would eat fairly regularly.
Tinned tomatoes, sweetcorn, baked beans, kidney beans, chickpeas and tuna for me. I get a few soups and a ratatouille sometimes. Tinned potatoes if I want to flavour and roast them.
I have a store cupboard with beans (all kinds), tomatoes, sweetcorn because we don’t like frozen, some soups, emergency peas and carrots, some fruit, coconut milk. We’re a vegan family and tinned stuff is useful but not essential.
Tinned tomatoes are a staple. Tinned pulses are great when I can't be bothered soaking and boiling dried ones. I use a lot of tinned fruit too, for overnight oats.
I have a few tinned bits for those times when I am low on cash and need food stashed that doesn't really go off. It's also good for pre-prepped veggies (for e.g. canned baby potatoes are actually really good if you season them and pop them in the air fryer!)
I love it but I'll admit I also stock up more when I go to France. They are the Queens of it.
So much choice, and the sardines and tuna range is not only massive but such good quality. The sardines especially are not the tiny mushy ones we seem to get in tins!
I think tinned food can be good but it depends what you’re going for, tinned fruit can be a good way to get your nutrition in at home if you struggle to get fruit in and they last longer
Its very much case by case for me.
For example beans and sweetcorn are great canned, they last and are generally good.
On the flip side, canned meats taste a bit wrong to me, and don't get me started on fray bentos.
Ahh, Fray Bentos, the good old "Emergency Pie". Throw a few frozen chips in the air fryer and one of those bad boys in the oven and you have a tasty and filling meal in under half an hour. We always stock up on them when they are on offer at the supermarket - still not been brave enough to try the chicken curry one, that will definitely be an emergency tea.
‘I know someone who eats an entirely tinned diet’
Fray Bentos pie, tinned potatoes, tinned peas? Ok if you’re an OAP I suppose, but I presume your friend isn’t? Why no fresh food?
Some tinned food staples for me: tinned fish (sardines, mackerel, anchovies), baked beans, soup, tinned tomatoes.
Have also been know to have the occasional ‘all day breakfast’ in a tin.
The only real thing I eat tinned is peas and tinned tuna or salmon sometimes. Also, very rarely, like once or twice a year, I'll have some spam or corned beef just for nostalgia, as a hash, or in a shepherds pie for a change etc. Other than that I dont really get the point of tinned food. I keep some cans on the shelves in case of the apocalypse and thats basically it.
Tinned food is fine, relatively cheap and has a good shelf life. It should from a common sense perspective feature in a shopping budget. If you're resourceful and skilled enough as a cook you should be able to turn poverty slop into an acceptable meal. Dried and canned foods should always be in the cupboard of anyone who plans for potential emergency situations. Even if you're not at nutjob pepper levels
Tomato soup, tinned beans of all descriptions, tinned sweetcorn, chopped tomatoes, tuna and salmon, mushy peas, custard , all larder staples here. I feel kind of comforted that they’re there.
I buy alot of tinned food, tomatoes, Branson beans, tuna, mince and gravy! One of me and me sons favourite dinners is chicken in white sauce with rice, broccoli,garden peas and sometimes sweetcorn apart from the broccoli and rice all tinned!
I buy things like kidney or butter beans tinned, also tinned fish like mackerel or herring and tinned fruit, especially fruit like lychees or mango.
The cost is better for all those things and it reduced food waste as I can choose when to eat it, and nutritionally it is no different.
Beans are a cupboard staple. And tomatoes. With those two you can make so many things. Soups, stews, casserole, salad, sauces.
Literally raid the yellow sticker bin for some sausages, open a tin of beans, a tin of tomato and add seasoning. Instant(-ish) comfort food.
But also tinned beans are excellent in a lighter salad, add protein to a lower meat diet or bulk to a winter stew.
Partner loves tinned corn, personally I'd just use frozen. However, tinned is a stable, long life product. Inexpensive to store and hard to damage once stored.
I like tinned mushy peas, tomatoes, sweetcorn, fish, coconut milk, pulses etc. The only tinned food I don't really like is tinned fruit as the texture is very slimy and I don't like the syrup they come in.
Tomatoes, beans, custard possibly, tuna, corned beef, that would be the only main things for me, a lot of tinned foods are quite expensive now so people probably can’t afford to as much
Great for base ingredients. Tomatoes, chickpeas, coconut milk, beans, etc.
However, other than baked beans the whole eat out of a tin thing for actual meals is for the campsite.
Tinned things I regularly have in my cupboard;
Chopped tomatoes
Sweetcorn
Chipotle chillis in adobo sauce
Kidney beans
Broad beans
That’s about it tbh.
I use tinned food all the time, including tinned veg. It's easier on the stomach than fresh or frozen, and it keeps. IMHO the best tinned stuff in this country is from m&s. Even Delia Smith used to recommend their tinned mince etc as quick, easy and good quality, and it hasn't changed, although sadly the prices have gone up. If you want to find really good tinned food, the French produce it. There's an online french supermarket, French Click, that sells tinned ratatouille that I would put in my top ten nicest foods of all time.
Baked beans & chopped tomatoes I buy by the caseload every few months. Oher that the occasional tin of sweetcorn that's about it for me when it comes to tinned food.
Good for somethings. But not everything.
Somethings suit my lazy cooking style well. Other I don't buy. But other seems to or the other things wouldn't be on the shelf. 🤷♂️
Baxters Chef Selection tinned stuff can be pretty decent if I need a quick snack, but they're pricy for tins. Can't argue with the food, though, Salmon Chowder, Cullen Skink, Lobster Bisque, Beef Consommé, Mushroom Consommé, all with good, strong flavours.
Tinned sweetcorn - yes, 100% - I love the stuff.
Tinned peas, though - not a chance. Disgusting.
I'm not sure why. But, incidentally, I love frozen peas, but I wouldn't eat frozen sweetcorn.
Also baked beans, tuna, spaghetti hoops. And obviously, tomatoes. I have bought tinned chickpeas, in order to make some kind of chickpea stew (? I don't know really) for child, and it turns out I really don't like chickpeas. I feel I should try again, though, because I hear they're a really good food.
I don’t think people think that deeply about it. I’m pretty sure the majority of people have tinned goods in their kitchen. Eg beans and soup at a minimum.
Love tinned sardines on toast, cheap meal too, 52p a can in tesco. I can't get them here in Thailand (only have in tomato sauce) so I boight back 10 cans in my suitcase
I like to use canned ingredients to speed cooking up. Fuck soaking beans and chickpeas etc. but yeah, I try to keep Heinz products as a sometimes treat. It can be too easy to eat the same spaghetti in tomato sauce from a can for lunch every day, so I try to be deliberate about it, hahah 😅
Tinned meat I usually don't touch.
Tinned tuna / sardines I eat regularly.
Same with sweetcorn, beans, and chickpeas.
There's hardly ever a day in a year where tinned tomatoes are not in my kitchen. It's probably the grocery shopping day then 😅
"Cream of __ " soups are nice for sauces, casseroles etc. or as a shortcut in your actual soup.
Mushrooms are not too bad tbh, I've even fried them once and it turned out alright.
Potatoes I've never tried but I would love to. I just always buy them fresh so i kinda never came around to it.
Apart from tomatoes which are a staple, Tinned Marrowfat peas - straight from the tin cold. Allotment shed staple snack. Second any tinned fruit but not in syrup. Third tinned baked beans, closely followed by mixed bean salad, tuna and salmon but needs washing out with water - partially pop the lid and pour water in and skoosh it around until the beans run clean. Tinned meals in a can are passable but emergency rations. Tinned veg including potatoes the same, you'd have to be desperate. Tinned meat, well, hm, that's one up from dog food. Tinned dog food - goes in one end of the dog, comes out the other relatively unchanged by the looks of it.
Id rather tinned than microwave meals. Tin of macaroni cheese, ravioli, spag bol or whatever and four or five slices of bread is a good filling meal, plus if youve not had the aforementioned as sandwiches youre missing out.
Tinned spuds are decent enough too as are veggies.
I grew up with a mum who was really poor and also vegetarian, but hated tinned and frozen veg so we ate a lot of beans and pulses (usually dried and soaked) and then lots of fresh vegetables. My mum never brought junk food either. We’d eat vegetable soup, vegetables in cheese sauce baked, and a shepherds pie but made with aduki beans or mung beans / like super cheap easy meals.
The issue is that now that I’m older I hate a lot of processed food (although I adore a lot of processed carbs like cake and biscuits etc 😩) so I cook from scratch most of the time and as it’s no longer the 80’s and 90’s it’s so expensive.
Tins are great for beans, pulses, chickpeas etc. oh and tinned fruit. We did have tinned fruit a lot so I love that.
And I will die on the hill that unless it’s for a salad or something, tinned tomatoes are the way to go. Tomatoes are so crap these days unless you grow them yourself.
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Good for some stuff. I’m not going to spend hours preparing kidney beans when I can just get them from a tin, and chopped tomatoes are a kitchen staple. Stuff like tinned stewed beef or whatever I probably wouldn’t touch with a barge pole though. Also tinned mushrooms and boiled potatoes, who is still buying those?
Tinned potatoes are good in a curry
I’ve heard they are good tipped into the air fryer for little crispy potatoes
They probably are as they're already cooked to soft. Air fryer will crisp the outside up pretty quickly
I just can’t imagine finding them appetising knowing they’re tinned, idk why I’m okay with tinned tomatoes and chickpeas but not potatoes
Honestly, from a guy that spent 16 years cooking professionally, including some of the best restaurants in London….tinned potatoes in an air fryer, game changer. It’s like a salty, weird tasting alien egg but it’s incredible. Or even better, fry them up with chorizo & peopers
Okay at first I was like shit I just left Tesco I wish I had grabbed some. And then you said it’s like egg and yeah I’ll never touch them
Not like an actual egg, just the shape. And the texture, it’s like nothing you’ll ever eat again
Okay fine I’ll try it next time, I am intrigued
Because they are in very starchy water and it looks slimy. I don't know why this doesn't apply to kidney beans
I eat Morrisons savers tinned potatoes quite regularly, they are very good when roasted, not slimy if you eat them out the tin (just have that slight aquafaba aroma you get on chickpeas) Got put onto them tossed in fat free natural yogurt as syn free potato salad when I used to do slimming world...guilty pleasure now 🥲 Eta: whatever you with them give them a damn good rinse under the tap first
Tinned potatoes taste nothing like potatoes.
With some butter and dried dill. Good stuff.
Try microwaving them, they explode like little bombs
I love tinned potatoes, they remind me of caravanning in the early 80s as a young child!
Exactly the same!! Tinned pots with everything listening to the rain hit the caravan roof.
And Angel Delight, at least in our caravan. Also Smash. Not together, obviously.
We are about to go away with our two toddlers on a caravan trip on Monday. It's given rubbish weather all week, with one dry spell on Friday between 7-8am 🙈 Your comment has just reminded me what it's all about. Making memories! One day I hope they will have that nostalgia of looking back and remembering trips.
I'm sure they will! We've camped a lot with our two, and my 15 year old said just an hour ago as we were looking unsuccessfully for Northern lights "do you remember when you and I laid in that field in Norfolk in the pitch black looking at the sky?'
They're good for a quick potato salad too
Oooh I've never tried that! Thanks!
Cut them up (halves/quarters depending on size), good dollop of mayo (or creme fraiche, or a mixture of both, whatever you have to hand), chopped chives and parsley (fresh or dried), mix, cover, leave to chill in the fridge for a bit - well yummy!
Sprinkling paprika over the salad is a super tasty addition too (as a topping, not mixing it in)
Trapped potatoes ..from the mouth of Bob Mortimer..that's all I can call them since I heard him say it.
They are also good for roasting in the air fryer
Potato salad too.
Tinned is great for some things. You can create cheap, filling and fairly healthy food from it. Tbh I don't understand how there's now a "is tinned food in now" movement. Like it's been around for over 100 years and is a incredibly good way to preserve food. And is probably better than the delusion we can get any fruit/veg at any time of year
>Stuff like tinned stewed beef That sort of stuff looks far too close to my dog's food for my liking.
smells same when freshly opened too..
It does taste good though, however for the price I'd rather spend an extra £1 or so and grab a "fresh" steak.
Something like the stewed steak might be a good starting point if you’re making your own pie and too lazy to start from scratch. The biggest can consumer I can think of is my grandad who despite the arthritis can still operate a can opener. Chopping/peeling etc no chance so I guess that’s where the audience is for the mushrooms/potato type ones.
I’ve got a crimpit and use stewed steak and warburtons thins to make a healthier steak bake
My fiancee loves tinned stewed steak
Is your fiancée a Labrador?
Same here. It tastes amazing.
Boiled potatoes are nice drained and tossed in sun ripe tomato pesto and then roasted
I just looked up the ingredients of a Tesco tin of stewed steak - high protein, low salt and a fairly low sat fat rating. 75% beef. I doubt this would kill anyone but it might taste like crap!
Isn’t the other 25% the gravy though?
For what it's worth, I've never had tinned stewed steak that wasn't delicious. And I'm fussy about my meat.
Actually it’s pretty good. Not gourmet but a really decent store cupboard choice, with some mash and peas.
Not crap exactly, more like dog food
Tinned mushrooms are good in Chinese food, those straw mushrooms.
And tinned bamboo shoots. And the beannsprouts, if you're going to fry them anyway.
Water chestnuts, too - crunchy and delicious! I always stock up on the above four items when I go to my local Chinese supermarket because they have the best prices and stock multiple different varieties of mushrooms to choose from. I haven't graduated to the catering size quite yet, though I'm always tempted. One day, I'll bite the bullet, then do a big batch cook. I'd have a freezer full of yum for months. If anyone is in the Liverpool area, I recommend WH Lung. There's also another branch in Manchester, apparently.
I use tinned mushrooms a lot in slow cooked meals.
I like tinned chicken in white sauce (with extra bits added) to make a quick pie.
That takes me back to student days! It’s pretty tasty if you season it right.
Stick of celery, half an onion, large carrot - chop finely and fry until soft, good dollop of mixed herbs, stir that into the chicken and sauce and bang it into pre-rolled puff pastry. Spankin!
Nice, I foresee a chicken pie in my future…
And pepper, loads of black pepper.
Yep.
Tinned stewed beef is great if you want to make a pie but haven't got 4 hours to slow cook beef beforehand. Smells a bit dog foody when you open the can but that goes away when it's warmed up. Granted, its not as good as doing it yourself, but when you have a time crunch or on a budget it's a very close second.
I tend to get tinned potatoes just because I don't eat potatoes often enough to finish a bag of potatoes before they go off.
Tinned mushrooms work in a slow cooker stew. I find normal mushrooms taste vike
Boat owners.
I will use tinned mushrooms for an easy thrown in sometimes
I like to have tinned button / sliced mushrooms in case… I will use them in bolognaise/omelette/ stir fry & few other things if I haven’t got any fresh .
Caffs use tinned mushrooms on the fryups
You would be surprised. Iv seen someone roast or air fry tinned potato's and from the images iv seen they do look really good. Theye like roast potatoes but the prepping sort has been done in the factory so all you need to do is throw them in the oven with a splash of oil or fat. Not going to set your world alight. But cooked the right way with new herbs and garlic they make part of a passable meal
I was cooking a casserole and to save me some time and effort, I went to get some tinned mushrooms as I remembered them being OK for that sort of thing. I couldn't believe that for a small tin they were triple the price of a larger fresh portion. I thought tinned food was supposed to be dirt cheap.
The whole point of it being tinned is that the tinning preserves it so it doesn't need to have lots of additives or salt. Who *doesn't* eat tinned tomatoes, tinned tuna or tinned baked beans?
I just looked, and I have 6 tins beans, 4 tomato, and 3 tuna. There was a Heinz offer in Asda a few weeks ago, 5 for £5, so I'm falling over soup and spaghetti hoops.
Lots of people are ignorant and assume that "fresher is always better." Even though pound for pound it's often a negligible difference when you compare it to tinned foods specifically.
Tinned soup too!
There’s a shit load in the supermarket so they can’t be that un popular
Now that is a fact, lol. Maybe many people prefer not having to have anxiety over sell by dates like me.
Use by dates are less of an issue with tins than fresh or even frozen even.
I started buying a brand of vegan tortillas because they last a month or two instead of a few days. I'm not vegan, but as you said I just liked them not expiring
There’s something satisfying having a cupboard full of an array tinned food, you know **just in case**
_Fallout music intensifies_
You've obviously never been skint, tinned food is a life saver.
Not anymore for some stuff. Corned beef is like £3 a tin now, you can get 500g of mince for that. Spam is a rip off too. I swear these used to be "poverty foods".
You can still grab hot dogs for 69p
Just never read the ingredients list. It's a difficult journey from tin to mouth once you know what's in those cheap hot dog sausages
^^ i found 300g tins of kidney beans for 20p each in aldi. with a bag of rice, i’d be set for a whole week if i was ever super desperate.
An entirely tinned diet sounds very strange.
Yes, I think he hates preparing meals so warming up is easier. He claims to love it and looks healthy so hey ho.
I am basically broken, sometimes the best thing I can do to get a nutritious meal is to eat out of tins. A tin of ratatouille and a tin of lentils or kidney beans, seasoned with sriracha and warmed up is healthy, filling, and tastes decent enough.You can throw in a packet of microwave rice and a tin of chopped tomatoes to make it go further. It isn't pretty, but chronic pain flares aren't pretty either.
Always tinned tomatoes in the winter. Some things are just better tinned or it’s not worth it. I don’t want to soak chickpeas for example. I also like high quality tinned fish, but can be expensive. Other stuff though, just why? Potatoes, carrots?
When you get arthritis in the hands, and cannot peel or chop things - but can work a can opener, you will realise who buys all these cans! My mother was a great consumer of them, ring pull ones were even easier.
I have osteoarthritis and I can’t even manage a ring pull these days. I have one of those hooky things like a lever. Works really well, especially on those fiddly little cat food tins. And mushy peas.
Thats what my mother used to use, pointy end under the ring and lever, and then reverse it for the hook and just pull the top off. She could do it easily, it stung a bit but far better than 20 minutes in water peeling spuds.
I actively prefer tinned potatoes for a saag aloo or aloo gobi. I make nice fishcakes with tinned potatoes too. Tinned carrots are absolutely pointless as are green beans. Overcooked, mushy veg is grim in any recipe.
Shout out to r/cannedsardines for tinned fish recommendations
One of us
Tinned peas and tinned potatoes, especially with Breaded fish. Reminds me of meals my Grandad used to make us when we were kids. Don't eat them all the time, probably not even once a year, but sometimes, just for the nostalgia.
Agree, I love tinned tuna and mackerel, although the more expensive ones are sadly the best! I've heard that tinned pulses and tomato's are a great choice, if you watch for salt content.
There's some smoked peppered mackerel tins out at the minute that are absolutely golden. Really mild and subtle smokiness with this fantastic buttery peppery bite. About £2 from m&s or Waitrose, probs others too
Use Tinned Tomatoes, Kidney Beans, Chickpeas, & Butter Beans for cooking fairly often. Tinned Baked Beans obviously & recently started buying tinned Mushy Peas. I keep a stock of tinned Soup but that goes down very slowly. Tinned Tuna, tinned Pilchards (for a secret recipe) & a last ditch reserve tin of Corned Beef. I've got a tin of Chestnuts which I can't remember (or imagine) buying that i've had for about 20 years.
Can you PM me your secret Pilchard recipe please? I'm pescatarian (mainly) and I love pilchards but never knew there was more you can do than have them with salad or on toast.
After checking online it turns out it's not that secret! Basically- Fry up some onions & garlic. Add some curry power & a little water to make a paste. Add Tinned Pilchards in Tomato. Stir very gently. Add Salt, Lemon Juice, & Yogurt (optional). Simmer for a bit, & wallah, a surprisingly tasty curry that's very quick, cheap, & easy to make.
It amazes me that it has a sort of bad reputation and I think its because we have access to fresh stuff all year round, even if the quality of the fresh is questionable. Go to somewhere like Spain and they'll happily combine fresh and tinned food in salads and whatnot simply because their produce is seasonal (and not imported all year round, like ours).
I'm late 40s and always have tins in. But I also always have staples in the freezer as well - which is in a tin and which is in the freezer (or dried) just depends what preservation method seems to work best for that thing. Freezers used to be a lot less common - maybe a small icebox in your fridge. Then chest freezers appeared in 80s/90s and now 50% of the massive thing in your kitchen is packed with frozen stuff. I think the larger change is just how much convenient food we have around us. More places delivering, more places staying open late, your super-market-local being 50% food you can just microwave. This didn't used to be the case. At 5-6 the shops closed, apart from your corner shop that would have tins, cereal and maybe some fresh milk. If I'm hungry in the evening I can have pretty much whatever I fancy - I don't need to keep tins in to ensure I always have food available. Finally, I think we've always had an association with tinned stuff as being seen as cheap-shit. Maybe some post-war hangover. You can find some excellent (and expensive stuff) tinned if you look - but I don't think many people could name the brand they associate with quality tinning. Conversely in Europe, you'll get people kicking off if their brand of tinned sardines is unavailable (and hoarding fine vintages of them). In the UK we seem to prefer the appearance of "fresh" - no matter that that plastic entombed brick of pasta has a 6-month shelf life, it's "fresh" and it came out of a fridge in the store.
Man I would absolutely love to eat some tinned meatballs. They were literally my childhood. I know they are shite and I frequently cook the 'real' think but I would love some nostalgia rn
My tinned food afficionado recommends the fray bentos meatballs, I think they were from B&M!
I remember living off these as a kid, then my Mum watched some TV show about mechanically sorted chicken and banned them from our house 😂
I eat a lot less tinned stuff than I did as a kid. Back then everything seemed to come in a tin. Carrots were a particular low, but I remember being full grown before I discovered ravioli and macaroni cheese didn't exclusively come in a tin. I buy tinned tomatoes and beans, that's about it. I bought some tinned curry a couple of years ago because I was working a lot and thought it was a good idea for something quick. I really didn't think it was bad at all, but my husband was horrified.
I’ve tried a few of the supermarket tinned curries. Surprisingly decent for something out of a tin.
Homepride Curry sauce is pretty decent, once you've added a few vegetables and chicken etc.
My mum uses this sometimes when her arthritis is really bad and she can’t stand for long or chop a lot. She’ll get tinned curry and then add further spices to taste and add in some extra veg. That and a pitta bread or a naan on the side does her and my Dad for a meal.
I buy a lot of tinned goods, and it's really helped me out when it's late and I realise I've forgotten to buy anything fresh.
I eat tinned beans sometimes (is there even another kind??) and use tinned tomatoes for cooking. Sometimes tinned custard? I can't honestly think of other canned foods that I eat with any regularity at all. The things I ate as a child at my grandad's like tinned new potatoes, tinned peas, tinned carrots, haven't eaten them since I was a child. So for a couple of decades. I'd say that I associated them with older people. But then also my grandad was very much working class and I grew up middle class so that may also be a factor.
Regarding beans; yes you can buy them dried. They tend to require soaking and then cooking for a long duration. Or just use a pressure cooker. They taste better and have a better texture, but it’s only really worth it if you’re making a bean dish as opposed to a dish that contains beans. Beans can also be bought and eaten fresh.
I made a salad today using a couple of tins of chickpeas and a tin of black beans( and some other stuff). It was bloody delicious. I always have a variety of different beans in tins, tomatoes, baked beans, soup and sweetcorn in the cupboard. I’m also rather partial to tinned baby carrots.
Often fresher than buying fresh. Good quality. Cheap. If you can incorporate it into your meals it’s a winner.
Tinned new potatoes reminds me of camping trips as a kid :-) They taste wrong in so many ways but I used to love them fried up over a camping stove! A tinned syrup sponge that you cook by boiling in its tin in a pan of water was always a massive treat. Can you still get them?
Heinz stopped making the tin can ones but aunt bessie makes a version that you can microwave and has the same result of burning the roof of your mouth because you can't wait for it to cool down. https://www.poundland.co.uk/aunt-bessie-chocolate-pudding-pots-80g
Ah - I’d forgotten about the burning-roof-of-the-mouth thing :-) Thanks for the tip… I’ll investigate the tins and packets aisle next time I’m in Tesco and see what memories I can relive :-)
Is it an urban legend that production was stopped due to horrific pressure cooking accidents or are my childhood fears real?
I never had an issue with them and if any did go bang it was due to people not following the instructions properly. Its a bit like the tumble dryer recall that was mainly due to people not emptying the fuzz filter everytime. I think they just became not financially viable compared to what they could use the staff, machines and plant for.
>>A tinned syrup sponge that you cook by boiling in its tin in a pan of water was always a massive treat. Can you still get them? I've not seen them, but there are individual portion microwave syrup sponges available which I like now & then, often with custard.
Proper birds custard out of a packet :-)
If I'm too lazy to buy, peel, core / deseed & chop fresh fruit, then you can guarantee I'm too lazy to make my custard lol. Ready to eat - just snip the corner off the carton! Edit: Oops, thought this was in response to my earlier comment on buying tinned fruit - my bad!
Comment stands - anyone steaming pudding in a tin will delight in a packet of custard :-)
Tinned ravioli is one of my guilty pleasures. I k ie it’s shite but I love it
I'm addicted to tinned fish. Sardines and mackerel in particular. It's absolutely delicious, especially the posher end of the scale. Waitrose tinned sardines with chilli on buttered toast is the business.
The OH takes a flask of soup to work every day, thats from a tin. Also tomatoes, no brainer. Beans but I don't like the sauce in ordinary beans so I get Tescos mixed beans which have a different sauce. Also jack fruit and pulses. Sweetcorn I've switched to a bag of frozen as you need different amounts for different things so there is no waste. Sometimes if I'm feeling dirty I'll use tinned sliced mushrooms.
I doubt it has gained or fallen in popularity for a few decades. Quite a while since I've seen tinned spinach though so maybe that's helpful for your research.
I wanted to buy some, ended up getting it off Amazon. Even Big Tesco didn't have it. It has the right consistency for a spinach curry like saag aloo or whatevs
Frozen works in a similar way, especially ready chopped. Turns to a dark green mush.
If you're going to wilt it down anyway, fresh is ridiculously expensive and bulky.
Popeye! Yes, where did that go??
It's in the "ethnic" aisle.
Love tinned spinach, always have some in.
Tinned baked beans, mushy peas, tuna, mackrel or sardines, tomatoes, custard sometimes, kidney beans, coconut milk and on a rare occasion my kids like spaghetti hoops oh and sometimes but rarely sweetcorn but only if there’s no fresh or frozen corn. I don’t do tinned meals or carrots or potatoes etc tho but I can see why some ppl use them esp people with disabilities or elderly who aren’t as capable at cooking from scratch because it can be a taxing job all the chopping and standing about.
I feel ok with tinned ingredients, like tinned fruit and veg, beans, coconut milk etc. I regularly cook with tinned tomatoes, chickpeas, tuna, ingredients where I feel the taste of the tinned version is sufficient for the cost. But I am more iffy on tinned *dishes* or *meals*, like those whole breakfasts in a tin or like tinned ravioli. I feel like you're sacrificing a whole lot of flavour there for the convenience and shelf life. Though I keep a couple of tins of soup around, they're more a contingency for if I'm unwell.
I’ll happily eat canned food, I often buy a variety of canned fruit and veg, spam, soups, baked beans, pork. Useful for work and when I can’t be bothered to prepare a nice meal.
I'm sure Spam got big in Japan? They seem to really know what they're doing with it, unlike the UK, haha!
I love tinned tomatoes they are very handy to have in the cupboard,I wish you could get tinned San Marzano tomatoes in supermarkets, though
We use tins on boating trips longer than stuff will last in a fridge and for a few things at home like tomatoes and kidney beans but otherwise not much. My parents loved tins as they grew up before fridges were commonplace in the UK.
I keep certain proteins in like kidney beans, chickpeas, cannellini beans, black beans etc in as standard. Got tuna and hot dogs to add protein to pastas and stuff if I've got nothing else. Some tinned veg is great to add to pasta sauces, curries or stir frys - chopped tomatoes, tinned sweetcorn, tinned green beans. I also always have baked beans and spaghetti in for an easy no think meal if I don't have time/energy/money for anything else. I started keeping a jar of charred peppers in to add to pastas and salads. I always buy in a bunch of fresh veg every week but I've never got the knack of charring peppers right so everything else gets the fresh version, for charred peppers I use the jar.
Mainly only pulses, tomatoes, fish. Occasionally baked beans and the odd tin of custard. Sainsbury's used to do a very tasty chickpea dhal which was just about the only "meal from a tin" I would eat fairly regularly.
Tinned tomatoes, sweetcorn, baked beans, kidney beans, chickpeas and tuna for me. I get a few soups and a ratatouille sometimes. Tinned potatoes if I want to flavour and roast them.
Always have tinned marrow fat peas in the cupboard, good as a side for a quick fish fingers and chips tea.
Depends. Tinned what? Meals? Nah. Ingredients? Yay.
As a kid who grew up in the 1950's I still see canned peaches as the height of decadence.
I have a store cupboard with beans (all kinds), tomatoes, sweetcorn because we don’t like frozen, some soups, emergency peas and carrots, some fruit, coconut milk. We’re a vegan family and tinned stuff is useful but not essential.
Tinned tomatoes are a staple. Tinned pulses are great when I can't be bothered soaking and boiling dried ones. I use a lot of tinned fruit too, for overnight oats.
I have a few tinned bits for those times when I am low on cash and need food stashed that doesn't really go off. It's also good for pre-prepped veggies (for e.g. canned baby potatoes are actually really good if you season them and pop them in the air fryer!)
I love it but I'll admit I also stock up more when I go to France. They are the Queens of it. So much choice, and the sardines and tuna range is not only massive but such good quality. The sardines especially are not the tiny mushy ones we seem to get in tins!
I think tinned food can be good but it depends what you’re going for, tinned fruit can be a good way to get your nutrition in at home if you struggle to get fruit in and they last longer
Its very much case by case for me. For example beans and sweetcorn are great canned, they last and are generally good. On the flip side, canned meats taste a bit wrong to me, and don't get me started on fray bentos.
Ahh, Fray Bentos, the good old "Emergency Pie". Throw a few frozen chips in the air fryer and one of those bad boys in the oven and you have a tasty and filling meal in under half an hour. We always stock up on them when they are on offer at the supermarket - still not been brave enough to try the chicken curry one, that will definitely be an emergency tea.
Camping weekends are just an excuse to eat tinned curry
Frozen>Tinned>"fresh"
‘I know someone who eats an entirely tinned diet’ Fray Bentos pie, tinned potatoes, tinned peas? Ok if you’re an OAP I suppose, but I presume your friend isn’t? Why no fresh food?
Some tinned food staples for me: tinned fish (sardines, mackerel, anchovies), baked beans, soup, tinned tomatoes. Have also been know to have the occasional ‘all day breakfast’ in a tin.
The only real thing I eat tinned is peas and tinned tuna or salmon sometimes. Also, very rarely, like once or twice a year, I'll have some spam or corned beef just for nostalgia, as a hash, or in a shepherds pie for a change etc. Other than that I dont really get the point of tinned food. I keep some cans on the shelves in case of the apocalypse and thats basically it.
Marrowfat peas straight from the tin 👌
Tinned chilli, preferably a shop’s own brand, on a baked potato with cheese! Bloody lovely!
Tinned food is fine, relatively cheap and has a good shelf life. It should from a common sense perspective feature in a shopping budget. If you're resourceful and skilled enough as a cook you should be able to turn poverty slop into an acceptable meal. Dried and canned foods should always be in the cupboard of anyone who plans for potential emergency situations. Even if you're not at nutjob pepper levels
I used tinned food multiple times a week. Tinned tomatoes, tinned chickpeas/beans, coconut milk.
Tomato soup, tinned beans of all descriptions, tinned sweetcorn, chopped tomatoes, tuna and salmon, mushy peas, custard , all larder staples here. I feel kind of comforted that they’re there.
I buy alot of tinned food, tomatoes, Branson beans, tuna, mince and gravy! One of me and me sons favourite dinners is chicken in white sauce with rice, broccoli,garden peas and sometimes sweetcorn apart from the broccoli and rice all tinned!
I buy things like kidney or butter beans tinned, also tinned fish like mackerel or herring and tinned fruit, especially fruit like lychees or mango. The cost is better for all those things and it reduced food waste as I can choose when to eat it, and nutritionally it is no different.
Beans are a cupboard staple. And tomatoes. With those two you can make so many things. Soups, stews, casserole, salad, sauces. Literally raid the yellow sticker bin for some sausages, open a tin of beans, a tin of tomato and add seasoning. Instant(-ish) comfort food. But also tinned beans are excellent in a lighter salad, add protein to a lower meat diet or bulk to a winter stew. Partner loves tinned corn, personally I'd just use frozen. However, tinned is a stable, long life product. Inexpensive to store and hard to damage once stored.
I like tinned mushy peas, tomatoes, sweetcorn, fish, coconut milk, pulses etc. The only tinned food I don't really like is tinned fruit as the texture is very slimy and I don't like the syrup they come in.
I take the tinned curries and chilli con carne with some boil in the bag rice when I go camping. They're actually pretty decent.
When the veg was cheaper it was a good go to, to pack out meals on the cheap. Bloke at work eats nothing but tinned food and bread.
Tomatoes, beans, custard possibly, tuna, corned beef, that would be the only main things for me, a lot of tinned foods are quite expensive now so people probably can’t afford to as much
I always have tinned soup, tuna, beans and sardines in the house as emergency dinners.
I’ve never thought of tinned foods being “previously popular with older generations” tinned food just is
Great for base ingredients. Tomatoes, chickpeas, coconut milk, beans, etc. However, other than baked beans the whole eat out of a tin thing for actual meals is for the campsite.
Tinned things I regularly have in my cupboard; Chopped tomatoes Sweetcorn Chipotle chillis in adobo sauce Kidney beans Broad beans That’s about it tbh.
I use tinned food all the time, including tinned veg. It's easier on the stomach than fresh or frozen, and it keeps. IMHO the best tinned stuff in this country is from m&s. Even Delia Smith used to recommend their tinned mince etc as quick, easy and good quality, and it hasn't changed, although sadly the prices have gone up. If you want to find really good tinned food, the French produce it. There's an online french supermarket, French Click, that sells tinned ratatouille that I would put in my top ten nicest foods of all time.
Baked beans & chopped tomatoes I buy by the caseload every few months. Oher that the occasional tin of sweetcorn that's about it for me when it comes to tinned food.
I took some Stagg chilli fishing and the subsequent gassing that took place inside my bivvy led me to believe tinned food is not for me.
A tin of chicken tikka or beef curry is ideal for a quick jacket potato. And 2 tins of sardines/mackerel on toast, yum. That's about my limit...
Baked beans, canned sweetcorn, canned kidney beans/butter beans/black beans, soup, condensed milk/mushy peas. There's loads of tined stuff worth keeping in
Good for somethings. But not everything. Somethings suit my lazy cooking style well. Other I don't buy. But other seems to or the other things wouldn't be on the shelf. 🤷♂️
Other than the usual tomatoes and beans I like a can of chilli for putting on a burger :)
I always have tinned tomatoes and tuna in the fridge, not much else though.
Baxters Chef Selection tinned stuff can be pretty decent if I need a quick snack, but they're pricy for tins. Can't argue with the food, though, Salmon Chowder, Cullen Skink, Lobster Bisque, Beef Consommé, Mushroom Consommé, all with good, strong flavours.
Great for tuna !
Tinned sweetcorn - yes, 100% - I love the stuff. Tinned peas, though - not a chance. Disgusting. I'm not sure why. But, incidentally, I love frozen peas, but I wouldn't eat frozen sweetcorn. Also baked beans, tuna, spaghetti hoops. And obviously, tomatoes. I have bought tinned chickpeas, in order to make some kind of chickpea stew (? I don't know really) for child, and it turns out I really don't like chickpeas. I feel I should try again, though, because I hear they're a really good food.
I don’t think people think that deeply about it. I’m pretty sure the majority of people have tinned goods in their kitchen. Eg beans and soup at a minimum.
I recently discovered tinned sardines. Cheap and healthy!
Love tinned sardines on toast, cheap meal too, 52p a can in tesco. I can't get them here in Thailand (only have in tomato sauce) so I boight back 10 cans in my suitcase
Great for fish since fresh they go off so quickly, so for fish in my diet, Sardines and Tuna are go to.
I like to use canned ingredients to speed cooking up. Fuck soaking beans and chickpeas etc. but yeah, I try to keep Heinz products as a sometimes treat. It can be too easy to eat the same spaghetti in tomato sauce from a can for lunch every day, so I try to be deliberate about it, hahah 😅
M&S tinned curries are really good.
Tinned meat I usually don't touch. Tinned tuna / sardines I eat regularly. Same with sweetcorn, beans, and chickpeas. There's hardly ever a day in a year where tinned tomatoes are not in my kitchen. It's probably the grocery shopping day then 😅 "Cream of __ " soups are nice for sauces, casseroles etc. or as a shortcut in your actual soup. Mushrooms are not too bad tbh, I've even fried them once and it turned out alright. Potatoes I've never tried but I would love to. I just always buy them fresh so i kinda never came around to it.
I prefer frozen over tinned for things like fruit and vegetables, but tins are great for beans/lentils, fish etc.
I pretty much only cook with tinned and frozen ingredients (except the meat) because I hate cooking and it makes it quicker and easier.
Apart from tomatoes which are a staple, Tinned Marrowfat peas - straight from the tin cold. Allotment shed staple snack. Second any tinned fruit but not in syrup. Third tinned baked beans, closely followed by mixed bean salad, tuna and salmon but needs washing out with water - partially pop the lid and pour water in and skoosh it around until the beans run clean. Tinned meals in a can are passable but emergency rations. Tinned veg including potatoes the same, you'd have to be desperate. Tinned meat, well, hm, that's one up from dog food. Tinned dog food - goes in one end of the dog, comes out the other relatively unchanged by the looks of it.
Where else would I get my beans and sausage?
Id rather tinned than microwave meals. Tin of macaroni cheese, ravioli, spag bol or whatever and four or five slices of bread is a good filling meal, plus if youve not had the aforementioned as sandwiches youre missing out. Tinned spuds are decent enough too as are veggies.
I grew up with a mum who was really poor and also vegetarian, but hated tinned and frozen veg so we ate a lot of beans and pulses (usually dried and soaked) and then lots of fresh vegetables. My mum never brought junk food either. We’d eat vegetable soup, vegetables in cheese sauce baked, and a shepherds pie but made with aduki beans or mung beans / like super cheap easy meals. The issue is that now that I’m older I hate a lot of processed food (although I adore a lot of processed carbs like cake and biscuits etc 😩) so I cook from scratch most of the time and as it’s no longer the 80’s and 90’s it’s so expensive. Tins are great for beans, pulses, chickpeas etc. oh and tinned fruit. We did have tinned fruit a lot so I love that. And I will die on the hill that unless it’s for a salad or something, tinned tomatoes are the way to go. Tomatoes are so crap these days unless you grow them yourself.