To think the idea of tinned vegetables is a bit gross?

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I've just seen some tinned mushrooms in a supermarket and yo me, the idea of vegetables in a tin is a strange and slightly gross one, aiby?

I forgot to add, DH works in the food business and doesn't like any tinned veg in the house. As far as he is concerned the processing (heating up to higher temperatures) removes a lot of the nutrients. He does love his frozen veg and says that often the frozen is better than 'fresh'. In his opinion fruit and veg should be eaten within 72 hours of leaving the tree/soil/field where it was grown.

For me its walk to the local shop, spend 20 and eke it out for the week or spend £10 travelling to the nearest decent sized town and spend £10 on food in a more expensive shop and eat for less than half the week. which is healthier then?

'veg should be eaten within 72 hours of leaving the tree/soil/field where it was grown.' would love to oblige, sounds fantastic but when its compromising on that or starve well I compromise. Maybe I am just stupid.

I know it's slightly o/t but can I just state for the record how much I LOVE tinned cream?

haven't had any for decades but I can remember that taste

Oh I remember that, can you even still get it?

What about tinned meat ?!

Pease pudding is awesome. Reminds me every time of my Pop (Grandad).

What about it organic?

why wouldn't they be nutritious? Canning ^preserves" food, and nutrients, thats the point.

If you don't like, don't use, but it smacks of snobbery with the "oh how horrible" stuff.

What do you think about it? Do you eat it? I eat tinned tuna and had corned beef as a kid

living in the sticks it's always been travel to nearest town on market day, load up with library books, fruit, veg, other stuff, shove as much in the fridge as possible to keep it fresh till the end of the week, eat stuff that goes off first /stuff that 'lasts' last

not a question of eking it out or chcuking out halfway through the week - just what everyone with a fridge does surely

I do have a thing about tinned new potatoes....a throwback to my sixties childhood when tinned taties, Fray Bentos pie and frozen peas was a he'll of a meal.

MsTeak - I don't think it's snobbery, I think some people just don't like the idea of it and/or the taste, I don't think it's to do with class if that's what you mean by snobbery

pinot what is pease pudding? I know it's white stuff in a tin.... I imagine it tastes like bread sauce (yum)

I love camping specifically for tinned potatoes :)

spam

yum

Well snobbery isn't just about class, but who do you imagine buys most of the tinned veg sold? It's not the organic farmers market class, is it?

Oh no spam! I remember having it at school, it's bright pink and is like pate with grissle in it if I remember rightly

I don't particularly like tinned meat (taste wise) but I do eat it sometimes as well as tuna.

I used to do that when I had money cat but when you have £20 to spend then spending £10 of it on getting there and back leaves very little to actually spend on food so having a fridge is irrelevant. Unless you can advise on how to survive on a £10 of food a week its not going to change any time soon.

Goo The description makes it sound gross, but it's mashed yellow split peas. It's sort of a butterscotch colour. But in actuality, it's yummy sticky gorgeousness that is divine with gammon or pork. The cans are about 35p (and it's less than 2% fat) so please do try some when you see them (next to tinned carrots etc). Blue tin with really retro 60's writing in red. You just heat it up with a blob of butter and feast away

I thought it would be mainly elderly people tbh. DH and I are probably upper working/lower middle class and are still quite fussy about eating fresh. My mum is middle class and eats lots of tinned food, DH's family are all working class and only use fresh veg

Most things are fine but tinned mixed veg is rank

beans are cooked though and with a sauce so not really the same thing.

I use tinned tomatoes and sweetcorn. Have never tried anything else tbh.

Sorry that last post was in reply to msteak

YANBU

I find the idea of a lot of tinned food a bit gross. Not in a "ewww, peasant food" way, but in a "you can get tinned mushrooms? I think I might vomit" way.

I have weird food issues though.

Foods I think are acceptable from a tin: beans (NOT baked beans, they are the work of the devil, I won't have them near me), tomatoes, tuna, sardines (at a push, but not really), pineapple

In fact I don't find the idea of tinned fruit that gross. I don't like tinned fruit very much because I pretty much only like my fruit fresh (no dried fruit, no cooked fruit, definitely NO fruit in my dinner) but it doesn't turn my stomach like the very thought of tinned spinach (despite my Popeye worship as a child).

tinned
tomatoes
sweetcorn
beans
chick peas
more beans (borlotti, black eye, cannelini)

all great.
can't stand canned carrots or potatoes though. yuck.

canned tuna i like as well. canned salmon i have time for.

Fray Bentos pie...yum. if only they did a vegetarian one.

i think it is a bit of a cost issue, but also there are plenty of recipes that work better with tinned tomatoes.. tuna tomato pasta particularly...

also conveniene. if i have tins in the cupboard on the off chance i feel like cooking, they don't go off waiting for that day.

Major thanks Pinot :)

I have been wondering what pease porridge was ever since I was a child.

Pease porridge hot
Pease porridge cold
Pease porridge in the pot
Nine days old