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Canned Food......

17 years ago

What canned foods to you like? I enjoy Bush's Baked Beans,

Green Giant Green Beans with fresh squeeze lemon,canned fruit when not in season.

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monica_pa Grieves
17 years ago
I can list them on one hand:
Bush's Baked beans
Tuttorosso tomato sauce & tomato paste
Del Monte Stewed tomatoes
Campbell's cream of mushroom soup

These are the only people-food cans in my pantry.
ruthieg__tx
17 years ago
I prefer fresh or frozen but I am not opposed to eating canned food of any kind. I actually can or freeze a lot of my own veggies.
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I was just here checking to see if anyone was still canning anything, since I canned beef broth today. I raised the heritage Blue Slate turkey that we had at Thanksgiving, along with the fingerling potatoes which store very well in the cellar. Pumpkin pie was made from home canned pumpkin and an appetizer of a savory cheesecake was topped with my Habanero Gold. Mulled cider from cider we pressed and I had in the freezer stayed warm in the crockpot. Christmas thumbprint cookies contained homecanned jam and the green beans were from my basement "store" and my stepson roasted another one of those turkeys. The guys all doused theirs with my home canned hot sauce. All the Christmas baking was done with eggs from the freezer too, and the pie was made with homecanned apple pie filling. Throughout the holidays we snacked on fresh tortilla chips and salsa that I had canned (Yes, I'm THAT Annie). Oh, I made the ricotta for the lemon ricotta pancakes too, as well as the yogurt. Enchiladas made with leftover turkey were topped with tomatillo sauce that I made and froze when the last of my tomatillos vines were threatened by frost. My kids are coming over tomorrow and we're having beef roulades, with the onions in the rolled beef coming from the root cellar and the beef from my barnyard, good organic grassfed beef, a Hereford/Highland cross. Sweet and sour kale from our bumper crop of greens this year, home canned green beans with bacon for the grandkids and the cheesecake will be topped with homecanned blueberry topping. Appetizers will be venison sausage and homemade liverwurst from that same grassfed beef, pickled beets and Linda Lou's 10 day sweet pickles So, yeah, I use a lot of my canned goods. Annie
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patti43
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I have tuna, tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, green chilies, olives, some creamed soups, green beans, water chestnuts, pineapple and other fruits, evap. milk, condensed milk, a jar of spaghetti sauce and a jar of apple sauce. We need a lot of canned stuff in case we have a hurricane, but I depend on a lot of the above year round.
socks
17 years ago
Canned beans--black, white, etc.--are a real time saver for making soups, etc. I'll agree with Patti on the Green Chilies. Cat food, of course!!!
azzalea
17 years ago
We eat very little canned food.

Canned tomatoes.

DH likes tuna.

I use canned milk and sweetened condensed for cooking.

I prefer the almond paste in a can to that in a tube.

Occasionally water chestnuts, beans

Other than that, I don't think I buy much else in cans.
sheilajoyce_gw
17 years ago
We eat little canned food too. Soups, though I prefer to make my own. Applesauce, peaches, black cherries for Cherries Jubilee, tomato sauces, rarely canned corn, pickles beets, and some canned beans to throw into the homemade soups. Tuna is a good standby, but with DD pregnant, we don't fix it for sandwiches as much as we used to when the kids visit.
mariend
17 years ago
Guess I more than needed. That is because where we lived in CA we could be snowed in for days/or have an earthquake. Got used to keeping supplies on hand. Still have more than we need, so every so often go thru and donate in date stuff to food pantry.
lindyluwho
17 years ago
Glory Brand veggies put the others to shame. They are seasoned like homemade.

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Marilyn Sue
17 years ago
I keep a lot on hand as well as frozen. I like Van Camps Pork and beans, Campbell's tomato soup, Del Monte canned green beans, I keep different kinds of beans on hand. I also keep the little cooked potatoes, and all kinds of fruits.

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wildchild
17 years ago
Stagg's Chili

Bush's Baked Beans

Snow's Clam Chowder and other clam products

StarKist Tuna

Corned Beef Hash
lydia1959
17 years ago
tuna
canned soups (Progresso for lunches, cream of chicken and tomato for recipes)
beans
corn
manwich
mushrooms
tomato sauce

dog and cat food
twinklenose
17 years ago
Hmm, haven't seen the canned green beans with lemon!

I try keeping canned veggies on hand for making soup.

We buy canned chili, pork and beans, Ranch Style pinto beans (I prefer their flavor), spaghetti sauce, Manwich, tuna or chicekn breast, lite fruit cocktail, crushed pineapple, COFFEE....:)

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