so tonight whilst baking i opened the cupboard to discover....

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7 yes 7 tins with their ring pulls pointing skyward

severe protestations of innocence quickly led to the culprit who is 6!

Anyone else had such a mishap? dare i eat the contents?

We don't get that, but we do get little cars and plastic dinosaurs and soft toys in the cupboards hidden amongst the tinned tomatoes and tuna. DSs have a mania for hiding things. I'm sure one day I'll cook a dinosaur curry.

PS I'd probably not eat the contents, being quite paranoid when it comes to food safety ...

De[ends on what foodstuffs it was.

Baked beans? the culprit would be having beans for breakfast and tea tomorrow.

heinz soup
beans
rice pudding

i was horrified but then amidst mutterings of 'so much for economising' i saw the funny side

Lol you can just picture it can't you?

Oooh that looks tempting. I wonder what happens when I just.... Ooo again!! Ping, PING, PING PIIIINNGG!!

OMG what have I done?? Quick hide it. Mum'll never know. Deny deny and look cute..always works

so soup for starters, beans for main and rice pudding for dessert! Sorted!

tsar yes you can cant you - sooooo satisfying 'tin therapy'
'ring-pull- peutic' ahhh almost makes me want to nip down to the cellar and attack the whole tray of beans i got from costco.

hmm different id - i said when did you do it and he said 'this morning' but would you trust your tummy to the say so of a six year old boy ?

yeah, good point.

Personally, for tin therapy, I prefer the funny key thing that corned beef tins have that you turn and peel of a strip of the tin and open it IYKWIM.

I always always slice my hand open on those tins with keys. Blood everywhere. I gave up on corned beef long ago.

do they still make those ham tins?

been vegetarian for longer than i care to admit...hmm corned beef might try it on the teens

I always buy corned beef in the packets, sliced, like ham. DP gets tinned. I hate the way it looks when you slide it out though, with all the white jelly on the bottom!

See, if you were really economising you would have stupid annoying 'value' tins, with no ring pulls and which are in fact impossible to open even with a tin opener until - as I discovered this evening - you turn them upside down [duh]

I would eat everything not involving meat, personally, as long as it had been well heated through.

Not fair. I am hungry for tinned rice pud now. I can't even make myself the cheap slow-cooker version tomorrow as I have already filled the slow cooker with tomorrow's supper

We did that aged 19 with a dozen tins of catfood - I seem to remember you could win a car, but of course we didn't..

I opened a cupboard the other day and found an open tub of cocoa with a sticky spoon in it. And an enormous mess around it. I'm not sure who it was but they would have had to climb on the counter to do it.

I also once found a block of butter open in the fridge with huge bite marks in it (ew)

at least your small person left the labels on.......

cat food on toast for lunch anyone?

thedevilwearsprimark lol at that

the same one of my children would bite the butter - he loves the stuff - we call him 'dough ball'!!