Tinned meal recipes success and disasters

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Has anyone tried putting together tinned meals and had success?
I know Jack Monroe is bringing a book out with tinned food recpies but that's not till May.

I tried Princes mild chicken curry for a £1 in Asda and it wasn't bad but I'm looking for inspiration for weird concoctions of tinned food that people have tried

In recent years I have had to cater for 10 people for a week's camping at a festival.
We have poor facilities (no electricity, poor ice pack freezing facilities), little time between events, only 4 gas rings to cook on and a midweek supermarket trip means I would miss events I want to attend. So I generally use cans as much as possible.

These are some meals we have done.

2 cans chicken Korma, mixed with one jar of Korma sauce served with rice.

2 cans mild chilli con carne, mixed with 2 cans chopped tomatoes (otherwise it is too spicy for most of our people) served with rice. I would serve with a can of beans, such as kidney or pinto, but mine wouldn't eat that.

Canned minced beef, canned potato canned carrots.

Chicken in white sauce with rice.

Jar of Pasta bake sauce with pasta. (We usually manage real grated cheddar cheese sprinkled on top of that, but I'm sure a tub of parmesan style hard cheese would work.)

Jar of sweet and sour sauce, noodles, and that vacuum packed garlic sausage (is it made by mattesons? )

When we run out of fresh veg. They eat tinned sweet corn, carrots, or peas on the side.

It's not haute cuisine, but it fills a load of hungry adults and teens for a week.

M&S tinned meals are pretty good especially the chicken in white sauce with tinned new potatoes

Nasi Goreng.

Tin of tuna (preferably in oil rather than brine)
Tin of Sweetcorn
1 onion
1 clove garlic
Couple of mixed handfuls of veggies lying in the fridge (mushrooms, peppers, courgette, carrot, broccoli, etc) or freezer (peas, beans) (or more tins!)
Handful of frozen prawns or leftover cooked chicken (if either available)
Cooked rice (I use leftovers from previous day - but Uncle Ben's ready cooked pouches do work ok)
Mild curry powder

Open tuna, drain oil into pan (drain brine down the sink and use regular oil in pan)
Dice and fry the onion
Add the sliced garlic and allow to fry
Add the veggies in batches, longest to cook going in first, allow to cook
Add about half the tin of sweetcorn, all the tuna and the prawns/chicken
Add 2-3 tablespoons of curry powder (to taste) and stir through
Add the rice, stir well and allow to cook long enough for rice to be hot

Serve
You can serve a fried egg on top if you want

A great dish to use up small bits of things from the fridge - almost an Indian stir fry type meal, and store cupboard/freezer staples

We also do Chinese style stir fries with tins of beansprouts and water chestnuts and bamboo shoots (all seperate tins - we usually only use 1 or maybe 2 at a time) to add interest to whatever mixed veg/meat we have lying around. Blue dragon pouches of Chinese sauces are long life to go with those.

Hummus is very easy to make with a tin of chickpeas, crushed garlic, some lime juice and a little of the tin water to thin it out.

And I do a pork knuckle dish in the slow cooker with a sliced onion, a couple of tins of white cannelli beans and apple juice that is very nice and yet very simple.

I make a sauce similar to one up thread but just with;
Anchovy tinned
Olives from a jar
Tinned tomato
Dried spaghetti
Onion keep if you want

Tomato in pan, on high heat, use scissors to cut anchovy’s into pan let this cook for 4/5 minutes add olives and cook gently then serve with spaghetti

Slimming world garlic prawns and noodles, use frozen pawns, dried noddles, lazy garlic & chilli, tinned bambo shots - not quite a tinned receipt but a good store cupboard dish

Tinned beans to make a chilli, kidney beans in chilli sauce, add another two tins of beans and serve with rice

Chickpea curry, use tinned x 2 and a 🥫 with curry paste and serve with rice

Not quite tinned, but another Store cupboard dinner is mushroom risotto. Everything is long life ingredients (parmesan lasts ages in fridge!).

Fry an onion,
Add Arborio rice
Add stock made from either stock cubes or powdered stock (or rehydration water from mushrooms)
Add mushrooms that are either rehydrated from dried, or from a jar in oil
Stir through a handful of parmesan before serving

Basic tomato sauce:
Fry an onion
Add sliced/crushed garlic (or garlic paste from a tube/jar if your supplies of fresh are gone - garlic and ginger are the 2 spices I would get that way for storecupboard)
Add tinned tomatoes (I prefer plum tomatoes and chop them myself)
Add some tomato puree if you have it
Add a pinch of sugar if that's needed (due to tinned toms)
I like to add a splash of balsamic vinegar and slug of wine for flavor
Dried herbs (oregano, basil, thyme are all good, perhaps a pinch of rosemary), and salt/pepper

Good additions for a veggie sauce are jarred roasted peppers, jarred mushrooms, some rehydrated mushrooms (don't leave them in the water too long, let them absorb tomato liquid as well), and I remember having jarred courgettes one time.

Or roasted veggies from the freezer (I think I mentioned these on this or the "how to preserve veg" thread).

Or either some good sausages (chopped)/chicken/prawns etc from the freezer, bacon lardons fried up from fridge (lasts weeks and weeks), tinned clams work ok too, if you need meat/fish.

I completely forgot about veggie curries.
Tinned chickpeas, curry powder/paste, an onion, tin coconut milk.
Long life veg are good in that too for interest - butternut squash, pumpkin, carrots, even parsnips as part of a mix.
Cauliflower or brocolli (from fridge or frozen).

I bought a bag of dried onions because our diet here relies so much on them. I do grow them but not nearly enough.
I store them in a glass jar- relatively cheap big ones from ikea.
Others will know with some amusement that I like to dehydrate fruit and veg I have either grown or bought cheap in the shops. I draw the line at dehydrating onions because that stinks the house out!

We use the sause part of this recipe in a few recipes www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/beef-recipes/jamie-s-meatloaf/
Its not all tins but as we use jars of garlic and chilli you only need a fresh onion which we always have in.

Campbell's condensed mushroom soup
Marrowfat peas
Tuna

Mix it all up with some pasta - cook fresh or use the micro stuff.

Cover with crushed crisps and grated cheese

Bake until crispy.

This was my ultimate comfort food growing up!