to ask who actually buys tinned veg??

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yada yada yada. I've seen the debates on here on fresh over frozen. I get that. But who the rubbery-fuck buys tinned veg??

Was strolling around the Co-Op today and clocked a a shelf of tinned peas/carrots/potatos.

Who the fuck would eat tinned peas?? The colour is so very wrong. I can't begin to imagine what the texture is like

There's usually a tin of sweetcorn and kidney beans in our pantry for a quick chili.

Cannot stand tinned tomatoes since my sister told me they were pig hearts in blood. Thanks, sis.

Other than that I am lucky to have the time and energy to use fresh ingredients (or frozen, when it comes to peas).

I have a very small freezer and small fridge so don't have much food storage space. I used tinned a lot when i had a very small newborn and no car or desire to go shopping every day.

I have tinned carrots, green beans, and mushrooms, potatoes and smash in the cupboard as emergency back up in case we get snowed in or illness. They are more for ingredients of stews rather than side veg. I couldn't eat them on the side.

Tinned tomatoes for the 10 months of the year i don't have then growing in the garden. I use tinned kidney beans for chilli, and sweetcorn for pasta bakes etc. we also have tinned peaches and pineapple for puddings for when we have run out of fruit. Tinned strawberries as cake/pudding ingredients during the winter when they a out of season. Tinned potatoes are good for frittatas and quick potato salads. I'm going to try and fry them in olive oil and butter now.

Another vote for the tinned artichoke hearts, how else would you make the cheaty chicken & artichoke risotto?

I sometimes buy tinned corn for corn fritters

and I love pickled onions

I do.
We have a mouse problem. Mouse nibbled home-grown vegies are not very desirable.
My two freezers are full of bargainacious reduced meat (and a packet of frozen peas).
I have a secret fondness for tinned peas, and tinned tiny potatoes make good instant potatoe salad, and even better mid-week roasties. (drain them,shake them in flour or semolina, roast along with whatever else I've bunged in the oven).
Tinned sweetcorn also seems to work better in some things than frozen.
Tinned Aubergine is an absolute godsend for making left-over moussaka.
So shoot me. Meh.

Great thread! Tinned mince tho?! really?

Only tins we have are kidney beans and tomatoes (chopped not plum) my mother however has a tonne of tinned fruit potatoes etc I think it's more down to convenience I'm liking the idea of tinned potatoes for quick salads and the 'one pot stew' will be used next time I camp!

Curry in a can tho is wrong. Never tried a fray bentos pie? Any good? I think the ingredients and calorie content put me off!

And I know I took that extraneous "e" out.... where did it sneak back from?

Tinned toms and sweetcorn are a staple in lots of meals.
Tinned beans of various kinds are great to throw in stews and curries
Tinned processed marrowfat peas and new potatoes are gorgeous and remind me of childhood - used to have this with a tin of "Casserole" meat on holidays when little.

Tinned Fray Bentos pies - nothing wrong with these - my kids eat them for treats or buy themselves one when they're hungry.

Tinned choc/syrup sponge puddings - excellent "on holiday" easy puddings.

Tinned peas - if you're self-catering on holiday and need peas, there's no point buying a bag of frozen peas, so these are useful.

The only tinned veg I don't buy is - tinned carrots (too soft), tinned spinach (too watery compared to the real thing), and tinned mushrooms (hate mushrooms anyway).

Instant potato salad (tm) must. MUST. be made with tinned or bottled hotdogs. It is the law

The only kind of pea's ds's and I like are canned ones, and only certain ones, the ones that are really soft and mushy in the bottom of the can. Most other veggies/fruit I buy fresh or frozen. I keep canned diced tomatoes, corn, red kidney beans, canned brown beans and mushrooms.
Hate canned carrots, canned mixed veggies and canned fruit except for pineapple (for baking).

I never liked mushy peas as a child but I like them now. Although I still think posh fish restaurant mushy peas taste better than tinned mushy peas. But yes to tinned tomatoes, mushy peas, pineapple in juice, pulses of all kinds, peaches in juice. No to sweetcorn, ordinary peas, carrots and potatoes in tins. Although I secretly like an Armageddon Cupboard filled with all manner of tins which I would keep all lined up and tidy, like in a book I once read where they rotated for date and everything. I'd love to find that book again.

I totally agree with marriedinwhite list.

I like baby carrots and green beans but haven't had them for years.

Tinned new potatoes are great for omelettes and BBQ (skewered and covered in pesto or tandoori paste)

In this house Tomatoes and passata come in tetra packs. I like Tesco garlic and olive oil chopped tomatoes for home made pizza and a quick pasta sauce.

Artichoke hearts are great too.

Camping/ Zombie apocalypse canned food feasts:
Vegetable curry with ready to eat rice and popadoms/ mini naans,
Breakfast with beans/ beans and sausage,
Bacon fry (just DH) - people mock but if they try it they like it,

Sponge and custard,
Soup - also cupasoup (gasp - don't tell Gwyneth)

I've actually been inspired by this thread!

Never thought of using tinned pots in curry or frittata. Great idea.

Currently buy tinned toms, kidney beans, sweetcorn and (occasionally) mushy peas.

Tinned fruit can be useful for emergency puds - nigella does a fantastic chocolate pudding with tinned pears. Delish.

i love tinned fruit. Tinned fruit and tinned custard, perfect quick pudding. yum yum!

If you're making sag aloo then tinned potatoes work much better than fresh ones.

tinned tomatoes - use all the time - tastes indistinguishable from the cartons of chopped tomataoes - mixed with canned tuna to make tuna tomato pasta...

tinned beans (kidney/ chick peas/ adzuki, black eyed) sometimes

i can't stand tinned carrots. yuck.

i think fray bentos pies rock. DH is not for..

i just love the flaky pastry - if only they did a non-meat version!

tinned beans, peas, sweetcorn, tomatoes, carrots and peas combined, mushy peas ... poatoes when camping lovely fried up with bacon.

Tinned new potatoes go in the curry in this house but we dont buy tinned veg for anything else

I usedto like tinned peaches when i was a kid with ice cream might try that when i go shopping next

eggrules what's bacon fry??

Mmm, I was weaned on tinned spinach. I must have been about twenty when I tasted fresh spinach, and thought-"that's not spinach!"

Does tinned veg have any nutrients left though, cos isn't it pre-cooked?

I get tinned peas, and sweetcorn, dont see what the problem is nor do I care

Cant stand tinned carrots though.

After surveying my tin cupboard, I have the following:

Tuna
Heinz soup (when I plan ahead I buy chilled but tins good form emergency)
Mushy peas
Marrowfat processed peas cos that's what we used to have when little with pie and potatoes so have the occassional dose of nostalgia
Tomatoes
Baked beans
Spaghetti.hoops
Kidney beans
Tinned chili (nothing like real chili obviously...but good on a jacket pot)

In the freezer I have florets (personally prefer to fresh) and petit pois (which I prefer to peas....)