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?

Tinning is just a preservation method. Tinned veg and meat are from an era when people ate fresh veg seasonally ie when the veg was available and people didn't have freezers at home. They still can be useful, and certain veg is arguably better/more convenient in tins eg tomatoes, chick peas. Some things survive the tinning process better than others, just like some things survive being frozen better than others. I'd rather eat stuff that's been kept fresh by tinning than eg a 'fresh' supermarket ready meal that's full of artificial preservatives or fruit that's been shipped a thousand miles and coated in a film of wax so I can eat it in the winter.

Tinned carrots remind me of my grandma. Yes, she bought fresh veg too, but she worked full time and the shops shut early, so she always kept some cans of veg in as a back up. And tinned carrots actually taste like fresh carrots that have been in cooked slowly in a stew for a few hours. Yummy.

You must be a good northern lass pinot

Maybe a slice of corned beef pie on the side...

Or the campers favourite '3 tin meal'

Tin of potatoes sliced and fried
Tin of hot dogs
Tins of beans

All sloshed on one plate and mopped up with a few slices of Sunblest covered in best butter..

Good lord I'm off to raid the larder...

my kids love tinned carrots. I cant stand them, but they love them - they're soft and sweet.

I eat lots of tinned tomatoes, ratatouille, sweetcorn, tuna

I also love the really salty fatty ham from tins. I am odd

I love tinned sweetcorn, I eat it by itself sometimes. Only like sweetcorn, peas, beans and tomatoes out of a tin though, the rest is rank.

I once saw a tin of fried onions

Pinot and Bill You two are really bringing back memories! Corned beef pie

Disclaimer: I love poncey quiches as well. Am a great big greedy bugger.

Poncy/Poncey, I just don't know. I cannot think of anything else but corned beef pie and pease pudding.

Tinned potatoes, chicken and meat - all vile.

Well I bought a rather lovely retro enamel plate pie dish from lakeland so I can be a teensy bit poncey whilst ramming said corned beef pie down my throat [Smile]

At Christmas (and maybe Easter), we make an Italian Salad that has tinned peas, tinned carrots, gherkins, fresh onions, fresh ham and mayonnaise. The peas and carrots only work because they're tinned.

I've got a tin of potatoes in the cupboard, I don't know why or what for, but they're there.

Does anybody remember the Heinz tinned 'vegetable salad'? They used to do a potato salad too but it was the vegetable one I loved. It used to give me chronic heartburn but I still crave it... yum.

I like creamed mushrooms in a tin. I have them for lunch on toast sometimes. There used to be a brand called Cresswells (I think) that did them but they don't seem to be around anymore. It's a bit like having condensed soup on toast. Twist of pepper, yum.

I'm from the North and certainly for my grandparents generation, the canning process brought them produce they would never ever have had the option to eat.

I still love tinned fruit - peaches and pears and occassionally fruit cocktail (who's going to get the cherry was always a squabble with my cousins). I'm also partial to tinned grapefruit.

Canned food was the first convenience food and it's great for people who don't have easy access to grocery stores. We don't all live with 4 branches of Tesco in spitting distance.

xstitch - I would do the same in your shoes.

My auntie does a lovely ham and mushroom pie using tinned ham and a couple of tins of condensed mushroom soup as the sauce, some leeks or onions lovely puff pastry. Comfort food.

Tinned hamburgers! Had them as a kid, yummy.

I don't mind most tinned veg, hate mushrooms though, yuck.

Anyone fancy a whole chicken in a tin? Looks delicious

eeeeeeeeeeeeew muminthecity that looks horrible!!

xstitch I couldn't agree with you more. I always argue with him that frozen carrots and potatoes are never better than fresh. I also try to do the food shop on my own now so I don't have a running commentary about the latest 'innovations' in food.

eurghhhhhhhh.

When I went into hospital during pregnancy I was eating my "lunch" and DH was there. I said "taste this potato - its really weird and soft and just, well weird". And he had some and said "its a tinned potato!" - I'd never eaten a tinned potato before! it was fairly tasty though I guess?

What will I eat tinned - sweetcorn I have put in a tuna/sweetcorn combo for a jacket spud - the tuna is tinned too. Don't mind tinned tuna but don't really like tinned salmon. Too cat foody. I guess tinned tuna is too but you tend to get used to that earlier in childhood so it seems normal enough. I prefer a fresh tuna steak though, nice and raw in the middle.

Not sure if I've ever had tinned peas, probably have at a dogey pub.

Baked beans, fine. Same with kidney beans. Actually I used to use a lot of tinned lentils and that kind of thing when I was Gillian McKeithing my husband.

I put a tinned artichoke heart on a posh pizza once at college?

I might start browsing the tinned aisle more. Apparently you can get cans of curry and all sorts. I need to try me some filth!

I'm pretty sure tinned tomatoes have nutrients. When tomatoes are heated they release more lycopene which is jolly good for you. If tinned fruit counts as one of a five a day, surely tinned veg does too?

Tinned kidney beans, baked beans, sweetcorn all yummy. Tinned potatoes are great in a Spanish omelette. Tinned drained fruit in sugar free jelly is another way of getting my 2 to eat 5 a day.

It does, they do, etc Nesta - I learned that at college

Actually I can imagine that about the spanish omlette, that's a good use for the spuds.

Oh I just remembered my parents used to put tinned mushrooms in (otherwise fresh and homemade) spaghetti bolognaise. This might have been in the days when mushrooms weren't so readily available...they were called "champignons"

That said, they then went to the other extreme and had a mushroom-growing "farm" thing in a box in the dark cupboard they kept the wine in for a while too...

Are chick peas and beans veg?

YANBU op. Tinned veg are rank. I like fresh or frozen. I guess mushy peas are ok so there are exceptions. Also, they have a lot of added salt. Very retro camping.

Tinned tomatoes are actually better than fresh, something about the canning process that releases more licopenes, or something like that.

We use a lot of tins of tomatoes, sweetcorn, various pulses. Not much else though. We get through a lot of frozen veg, great stuff that is - more nutrients and a heck of a lot quicker!

When I do get tins - including tinned fruit - I always make sure they are just in water/juice, with no added salt/sugar. They are often cheaper anyway.

I saw a full english breakfast in a tin a couple of weeks ago. Apparently, it contains bacon, sausage, beans, black pudding and a friend egg.
We eat tomatoes, sweetcorn, beans and pulses and occasionally ratatouille from tins.
When I was in England I got some pease pudding, mushy and processed peas and a couple of Fray Bentos pies. They were taken away from me at passport control. Anyone who saw a weeping fat woman at Manchester terminal three. That was me that was.

Aww kreecher! My DH used to keep a few tins of those breakfast in a tin at work when he was on night shifts a few years ago. If he got called in early due to emergencies, he knew he had a gross meal to at least get him through the shift.

Here in Australia they sell tinned beans in a ham flavour sauce.

Corned beef fritters anyone....? Thick slices of cb, dipped in thick batter and fried in lard. No calories whatsoever.