Tinned carrots. Who eats these?

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Sorry, inspired by another thread, but really not a TAAT!

I know supermarkets sell tinned carrots (and potatoes etc) but who buys and eats them?

I always assumed (when a young child) that older people, who'd gone through the war would like the peace of mind of having a good stock of non-perishable food. Indeed, there were a great number of power cuts when I was small, so everyone had something in, so you could eat if you came home and the power was off.

But that was forty years ago, and there are dwindling numbers of people left from those generations, sadly.

So who (under the age of seventy, say) buys tinned veg, but particularly tinned carrots?

Do you actually prefer the taste to fresh ones?

I've given up trying to get some elderly friends to prepare fresh vegetables or use frozen/dehydrated ones*. For me, tinned vegetables are a reasonable compromise and they don't even need to faff about with adding salt. It also limits storage problems.

Agreed that there are some frozen mixed dishes in which fresh potatoes just don't work for some reason and the tinned come into their own.

Tinned fish is so much easier for some people as well - less skinning/boning and no need to gut them.

*This isn't meant as a criticism. I have psoriatic arthritis that affects my hands particularly badly and they're pretty useless morning and night - so I know that dexterity, hand issues affect the personal assessment as to whether it's worth dealing with fresh vegetables (particularly if there are sight problems as well).

Tinned ratatouille- about 70p for a large tin, brilliant with jacket potatoes or as a side with fish cakes, bean burgers or similar. Very similar to the small containers of salsa at twice the price by ratio.

10 Ways with Tinned Potatoes

I use tinned petit pois & tinned carrots for cottage pie, much quicker and they soak up the gravy so taste fine.
If I'm making a vegetarian cottage pie then I use fresh because they retain a firmness which is nicer with lentils which are softer than mince.
Tinned sweetcorn, great in salads, chicken noodle soup, half whizzed up for sweetcorn fritters.
Tinned new potatoes, also good in stews/casseroles, soak up the flavours they're cooked in. Good for quick fish cakes, frittatas, soups. Tinned mushy peas 😍 love them with salt, pepper and vinegar.

My kids take a tinned fruit salad to school for their pack ups. I make a big tub of it on Sunday night/Monday morning.
One tin of pineapple, one tube of tangerine segments, one tin of peaches, all drained of juice, never syrup and covered with a good slug of orange juice. Put some frozen blueberries on top before it gets packed a away and keeps in the fridge for 5 days.

Tinned potatoes, only when camping, great added to a campfire chilli. Tinned carrots, very rarely, and then only to go in mince 'n tatties or a cottage pie. Tinned sweetcorn, always in the cupboard 'just in case' of an urge to make sweetcorn fritters. Tinned peas, never, but am considering a few in prep for possible Brexit shortages. Tinned tomatoes - always. they are essential in so many things!

Ooh Platypuss Russian Salad in a tin yum

Nowt wrong with tins. I buy tinned baby carrots, potatoes and green beans for 'emergencies'. I use the potatoes in an omelette with peppers, etc, and the carrots with pie/cottage pie. It's usually when I go to stick the veg on and find it's gone off/ran out. Rare, but it happens.

I often buy tinned peas, including mushy and marrowfat and tinned plum tomatoes. We always have tins of baked beans and Green Giant sweetcorn in too, the kids will eat them with everything.

We also buy lots of canned mackerel, sardines, salmon, tuna, etc, and I buy canned fruit like mandarins and pineapple too. And Ambrosia custard. I've strayed from the point now haven't I?

Why you would choose to eat tinned carrots or potatoes is beyond my comprehension. Prepping and cooking fresh isn't exactly difficult is it?

silvery

That depends on a persons needs and circumstances though. What might not be difficult for you maybe for someone else.

Personally I can no longer prepare fresh due to hand problems and have storage issues due to where I live.

When I was less disabled I'd use fresh and couldn't understand it either, now I'm grateful for them.

A lot of our family but tinned vegs because they don’t have freezer for frozen and can’t afford Fresh.

Fresh carrots are cheaper though?

Funny! I thought that when I read the original thread.

We eat tinned tomatoes on an industrial scale (spag bol, moussaka, chilli) and also tinned sweetcorn (tuna mayo with sweetcorn) but somehow tinned carrots feel just wrong.

Yes @meadowmeow but as I said above....

Yes if you can get to a supermarket., if you can store the big bag and if they don’t go bad before you use them.
Then yes you can get a big bag for 30p

The local shop sells tins cheap here
The local supermarket,Sainsbury’s sells then fresh for considerably more.
Of course they could get the £4 per person return bus to Aldi. Lazy poor bastards

Really SilverySurfer? Then either you haven't RTFT or your comprehension isn't up to much, is it?

alonso I was responding to the post where you said

A lot of our family but tinned vegs because they don’t have freezer for frozen and can’t afford Fresh.

There was no mention of the reasons you have just given. Simply because they can't afford fresh. Fresh IS cheaper.

None of this was in the post I responded to.

Yes if you can get to a supermarket., if you can store the big bag and if they don’t go bad before you use them.
Then yes you can get a big bag for 30p

The local shop sells tins cheap here
The local supermarket,Sainsbury’s sells then fresh for considerably more.
Of course they could get the £4 per person return bus to Aldi. Lazy poor bastards

I'm not disagreeing, but I was simply replying to the idea of buying tinned because they are poor.

Fresh IS cheaper. if you can get to the place that sells it.

But those are the reasons why tinned food works out cheaper than buying fresh, meadowmeow - it isn't just the initial outlay of 30p vs 36p a tin or whatever it was, it's whether you can get to the supermarket, whether you can afford the fuel to cook from fresh, whether you have a functional fridge.

I have a weakness for tinned fruit - it reminds me of visiting my great grandmother. She's always serve tinned fruit.
If I make an orange jelly for the dc's I put tinned mandarins in.

I hate food snobbery

I make carrot and apple muffins, and the tinned carrots are so simple to just mash into the mixture - no need to peel, cook and slice first, so the preparation time and amount of faffing about are greatly reduced.
I still use fresh raw apples though!

I only like tinned carrots.

Absolutely no idea, completely baffled. Why anyone would buy tinned food when the same food is readily available fresh is a mystery to me. I do admit to buying frozen peas though as I can’t be bothered shelling the fresh ones but they are snap frozen not put in a can swimming in liquid with all sorts of additives (shudder).

happymummy I only like tinned peas . Oh and not the sugar free ones!

I do think there's a lot of food snobbery on MN. They're carrots. They're in a tin. So what?

And HoppingPavlova is yet another poster with comprehension issues...

Shudder? Seriously??

We use tinned tomatoes lots and chickpeas and lentils. Baked beans are eaten by everyone except me. I like tinned sweetcorn and DP likes potatoes and carrots. The kids like carrots too. I also love tinned peach slices in syrup. The only soup I like is Heinz Oxtail from a tin.

Nope, no comprehension issues. If you think that over cooked veg in tins sitting in a soup of additives is your thing then who can argue? As long as no one else has to eat it. People obviously do though as they are sold. As I said a complete mystery to me personally but if it floats your boat then sail on my friend.