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Post by daylilydude on Nov 4, 2018 7:32:16 GMT -5
What are your thoughts on these... taste, value, longevity... do you use them?
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Post by brownrexx on Nov 4, 2018 7:41:30 GMT -5
I use very few canned vegetables. They are too salty and we don't like the taste of most of them.
I do occasionally use canned tomatoes if I don't have any thawed and I sometimes make canned tomato soup with grilled cheese. I actually like canned tomato soup. I also use canned tomato paste in recipes since I don't make my own.
Other than that I have a couple of cans of kidney beans in the pantry but that's it.
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Post by guruofgardens on Nov 4, 2018 8:41:11 GMT -5
We don’t really used canned veggies except for Chile beans - Black, pinto, white northern. If there’s a good sale, I will buy them for the food bank.
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Post by paulf on Nov 4, 2018 8:45:51 GMT -5
Like the others, canned tomato products and kidney and chili beans plus green beans. As for taste, canned are canned and not up to fresh standards but still have some value. We don't can or freeze any of our home grown except tomatoes. We used to but we are getting too old and lazy for that chore.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Nov 4, 2018 9:46:29 GMT -5
When I want convenience, I prefer the flavor and texture of frozen vegetables to commercial canned vegetables - commercial canned vegetables are almost always too mushy and salty.
So, there are only a few commercially canned vegetables I normally buy: tomatoes, tomato products, beans, olives, and some pickled/jarred items like dill pickles, jalepenos nacho slices, and other chiles when I don't have my own. Oh, and canned artichoke hearts for artichoke-spinach dip.
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Post by spike on Nov 4, 2018 10:02:11 GMT -5
I wouldn't even know what brands to even buy? With one exception, I have a weakness for hominy.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Nov 4, 2018 10:26:19 GMT -5
They are handy when throwing together soup. Rotel has a thousand uses.
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Post by september on Nov 4, 2018 10:29:09 GMT -5
Tend to agree with everyone. Mostly only buy canned whole beans and tomato products when I don't have any of my own around. All other veggies I buy frozen if needed. spike , What do you like to use hominy in? I like it in pozole, but don't know what else to use it in. I wonder how it would be in beef stews.
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Post by pepperhead212 on Nov 4, 2018 10:33:29 GMT -5
I hadn't thought of the hominy until you mentioned it, spike - something I occasionally use canned, as it is not quick to make from scratch. As with the others, I also use tomato products, as well as many beans. I also use things like canned chipotles, and Chinese and other canned ingredients, but those aren't really veggies - mostly seasonings. september, While I was growing up, I would be served hominy, simply with butter on it. Not bad, but it wasn't until I learned how to use it in Mexican cooking that I started using it.
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Post by paquebot on Nov 4, 2018 11:35:32 GMT -5
Baked and lima beans, hominy, and peas are about the extent of our canned vegetable purchases in recent years. Not much else that we need that I don't can.
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Post by paulf on Nov 4, 2018 12:58:34 GMT -5
My wife and son-in-law will eat an entire can of black olives at a meal, so there is another canned product we buy. May have to find an olive tree hardy to zone 5.
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Post by octave1 on Nov 4, 2018 13:08:09 GMT -5
My canned food staples are beans and tuna. These are the only ones I use.
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Post by spike on Nov 4, 2018 15:12:52 GMT -5
Love it in pozole!! I use it in veggie soups but mostly just like it sauteed in butter with salt and pepper. The first time I ever had it was fried up and served along side some over easy eggs for breakfast. Was addicted from that moment on!
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Post by september on Nov 4, 2018 17:04:05 GMT -5
Love it in pozole!! I use it in veggie soups but mostly just like it sauteed in butter with salt and pepper. The first time I ever had it was fried up and served along side some over easy eggs for breakfast. Was addicted from that moment on! I'll have to try it that way!
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Post by carolyn on Nov 9, 2018 7:29:16 GMT -5
sweet potatoes and black beans. thats about it.
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Post by ldc on Nov 9, 2018 12:13:47 GMT -5
Being in So. Louisiana, I stock a variety of canned things that don't need cooking for hurricane times.
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