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Good things come in cans...

Haha ~_~!
Come here for more canned foods what you love'n www.fuboon.com .
Who can tell me where can I buy one here in my downtown,I ate one at my friend's house that he bought from somewhere,it's tasty.

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Good canned artichoke hearts

You are right.I love it too.
I will suggest to visit www.fuboon.com for all canned foods show.I sometimes go and get some idea from it.

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Canning Questions

Nothing I will speak more,just take a look at www.fuboon.com .My friend just told me they are excellent.I am trying to find if where I can buy this brand products,tell me if someone knows.

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I'd rather not eat canned ______

Good,I just found a canned product website,all canned looked great and tasty,I heard from my friend that they are a reliable seller,I think you'd better give a look at www.fuboon.com
I eat tinned vegetable and fruits,especially love in canned mandarin oranges,peaches,mushrooms,pineapples..

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I'd rather not eat canned ______


Cans are recyclable where I am too. They, along with newspapers were the first and that's been over twenty years. In fact, along with aluminum they are very recyclable and save tons of energy as written at "Thrifty Fun" website:

Reclaiming one ton of steel or tin saves 1.5 tons of ore. Tin recycling saves an estimated 2,600 kilowatt hours per ton. Steel recycling saves and average of 4,300 kilowatt hours per ton or 47% of the energy required to process steel from raw materials.

That said, I had to read through the thread to even think of canned products I wouldn't have besides peas since they are soooo not a part of my world.

Canned potatoes. I still wouldn't have a clue about these except for a British BF who ate them for breakfast. I did try a bite and am still getting over the trauma.

Canned Asparagus. Same in that who would of thought... but this was a Kiwi BF who made me an omelette of which he was quite proud. Wasn't helped by being told GF prior introduced him to the whole concept.

Canned Mushrooms. I don't eat any kind but canned seems a special abomination. My brother has been known to take a can of shrooms and a can of tomato sauce on noodles and call it spaghetti. I call it making BK on the way home seem gourmet.

Canned Spinach. I wouldn't eat spinach until deep in adulthood because of the bad memories from school lunches. Empty milk cartons were filled, and even ceilings were not safe to be under...

Canned Beets. See spinach above.

Canned Carrots. Eeeek!

I do like several canned beans but probably not like others here. I especially like black beans or black eyed peas heated up in their broth (organic) and then adding a dollop of butter. That's it. YUM! However, I can't seem to stomach canned chickpeas and so those get cooked up from dried and divided into servings in stackable containers and frozen. Very handy. Plus the bean stock is a rich add to soups. My goal is to do that with all beans.

I also like canned black olives and those are the only olives I seem to like. An indulgence once or twice a year.

Canned tomatoes actually are often more nutritious than fresh because they are at their peak when processed. They work better in some things but are too much in others. So they are seasonal for me.

Canned coconut milk and canned pumpkin (both organic) make a fabulous quick soup especially with a bit of curry. I'm told that some black beans are a great add too but I like the black beans so much the way I do that I haven't been able to part with them for soup. :)

I also have a can each of mango slices and lychees. My emergency food I guess. Sometimes they just hit the spot especially if I've been ill for few days and there's little else quick in the place.

Nothing in the fruit department is like the wonderful pears and peaches my best friend's grandma made and stored in her basement.

Probably the worst thing I've ever seen canned is a whole chicken. :(

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I'd rather not eat canned ______

Cans are recyclable here...

No to:
canned vegetables except corn, beans (not green) and tomatoes
canned pizza sauce (don't know why, just like jarred better than canned for tomato products...maybe it's the acid reacting with the metal?)

Yes to:
black olives
canned corn, beans (see above) and tomatoes
canned soup (lots more variety than there used to be)
spaghetti-o type products (3 kids ages 10 and under, and a hubby...'nuff said)

Undecided on:
canned fruit (those peeled grapes are truly horrible, but peaches aren't bad - however almost all of the good canned fruit is now available in plastic jars...same stuff, different packaging)
canned tuna (due to above-mentioned 3 kids, I can't justify the added expense of tuna in pouch...though this one's a moot point because no one but me likes tuna anything, anyway)

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when we lived where the fresh foods came in about every eight weeks, I made the Spam spread Cassandra mentioned - it's pretty good. I buy the Italian tuna in oil from Italy - more expensive - and it's good. I also like the Del Monte peaches in a jar in the winter in fruit salad and most of the beans mentioned above - rinsed! - coconut milk and tomatoes in all forms. Green Giant corn will do, but frozen is better. I like the brown bread, but it's difficult to find. Cooking for one, tinned baked beans are the answer - add sliced onion and a little brown sugar and bake them for 20 minutes. Almost awesome.

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Any canned vegetables except tomatoes and beans. Meats, even tuna (would rather have the pouch), and most definitely never those little cans of "deviled stuff."

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I cannot eat canned corn. Or frozen corn, for that matter. On the cob only for me!

Oh, and canned asparagus = yuck. And being the HUGE mushroom fan I am, I do not like canned mushrooms. Canned mushrooms are the reason I though I hated mushrooms for the first 25 years of my life.

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I'd rather not eat canned ______

Hm, I think the list of things I WILL eat in a can is much shorter: black beans, chick peas, niblets (guilty pleasure), San Marzano tomatoes, Campbell's tomato soup and Progresso Minestrone.

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i keep a can of pumpkin and a can of sweetened condensed milk around for baking, but that's about it for me.

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Mmm Spam. I could eat that every day! Crisp-fried with shoyu, little bit of sriracha and sesame oil or fried with Pietro sesame dressing...over rice and a little bit of kewpie mayo on the side. I wish they sold Tulip in Ohio. :(

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Asparagus was the very first item to jump into my head. That's truly vile stuff.

Shrooms would be second. They bear no resemblance to the real thing and are rubbery. No matter which brand I tried, they taste "off."

And WTF is Deviled Ham anyway???

Living in Florida, SPAM is a necessary evil product that needs to be in the Hurricane Kit. I have to force feed the stuff to myself if I expect to get through a hurricane - or a year like 2004. I don't, however, have to like it. And never, ever store brand SPAM (shudder).

I'd have to say canned beans are the #1 convenience product in terms of the time it would take to make their fresh counterpart and they suffer the least in the canning process. Other than a few Goya disappointments, canned beans are a Godsend and should be in a rainbow of colors in the pantry for so many quick meals.

Nipping at the heels of those beans - Tomato products. I need at least five different varieties of canned tomatoes at the ready.

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For a second there I thought JEP was back. Now LoCo has been missing for over a month. I'm missing you both!

I hate canned laughter.