When did you last eat...

I use tinned pineapple when making a sweet and sour sauce and my OH sometimes has peaches with ice cream.
Years back when we used to have a Sunday tea I would sometimes make a chocolate sponge flan case and put tinned pears and that quick setting jelly glaze (cannot remember the name) in it, lovely with a dollop of cream.

My daughter makes a chicken curry with tinned peaches HurdyGurdy. It's lovely.

This thread really makes me want to go back to eating old-fashioned comfort food.

I wish you still buy evaporated milk in the small tins. Only seem able to get the larger ones now.

Oh, and I also love chocolate orange overnight oats with tinned mandarin segments. Yum

I do a lovely chicken curry with tinned peach halves.

I love tinned lychees (but prefer fresh)

Used to love tinned fruit salad - especially if I managed to get the cherry half. And of course it HAD to be with carnation milk

Oh lovely stringy rhubarb in a crumble, with thick custard. Lovely!

How can anyone, hand on heart, say they enjoy eating rhubarb!!

There is a fab recipe on BBC Food which uses tinned pears. It is 'Squidgy chocolate pear pudding' and is absolutely delicious.

Not being used to using tinned fruit, I had to hunt for the pears as they are not stocked in all supermarkets but am now converted. I had assumed that the pears would be squashy but they were fine. It is worth persevering in finding tinned pears as the end result is wonderful and is obviously very healthy too.... Well, they are fruit!

I have been shopping this afternoon. As I couldn't find any tinned fruit in our new ALDI store, I went to Tesco.
They used to sell tinned Mango, Guava and Lychees, I'm sure, but not any of those in sight in the store.
But, while looking, I got chatting to a friendly chap, who asked if I had tried the value range of mandarins, rather than the more expensive ones.
I hadn't, but did put a tin in my basket. He said he had them for breakfast, with evaporated milk, and we had quite a chat. Nice.
There were very few people in our local Tesco, I think ALDI is having an impact.
By the way, I wanted to buy lard, for pastry making, but ALDI told me it was a seasonal product, so it will be in store at Christmas!
So that was a Tesco buy as well,
A visit to Waitrose seems to be on the cards for tomorrow.

My children loved ' Goldfish jelly ' in other words mandarin oranges in orange or lime jelly. My mother put tinned pears underneath the most delicious chocolate mousse.

When I was a child we either had rice pudding or tinned fruit for dessert on Sundays. The fruit was always with evaporated milk. Sometimes my gran sent a fruit tart for us which was lovely , especially blackberry and apple. My favourite.

I hate all tinned fruit, except for mandarin oranges ... can't stand stewed fruit either, which was a staple pud with custard when I was a child. Means that I am "not a pudding person", something I'm very glad of now I seem to have to fight the flab! ?

I keep Tinned Pineapple (mostly used on Gammon steaks baked in the oven) Tinned Grapefruit (eaten with "ready to eat" apricots for breakfast) and tinned mandarins (eaten with Ice cream or Sorbet in summer) in stock all the time. Sadly, my hubby doesn't like tinned pears at all (I do) but we have two Pear trees in the garden from which we get LOADS of fruit to eat. We end up giving them away at the gate, for anyone in the village to eat/use.

I seem to use tinned pineapple quite a lot - in various recipes, and I usually have a couple of tins of apples in the cupboard, in case I feel the urge to make a crumble, but no, we never have tinned fruit as part of a meal, mainly because we gave up having two courses for our dinner years ago.

Just had some tinned rhubarb not as good as real for sure but I love rhubarb and my own source died off in the garden and it’s not often in the shops

Last week. I was in hospital for a few days (pneumonia, still coughing but fine, thanks) and received a small dish of tinned pears every day to follow my bread rolls and jam at breakfast time.

We eat tinned peaches in syrup (hate the fruit juice variety. What fruit does it come from anyway? Doesn’t taste remotely like peaches). We have them with cream or ice cream or evaporated milk, DH’s favourite. Tinned rhubarb for crumbles, tinned pineapple on bacon joints, tinned raspberries in trifles, tinned mandarin oranges mixed with whipped cream to sandwich a sponge together, tinned black cherries for a Black Forest gateau, tinned whole pears topped with chocolate sauce and a crystallised violet for pear Helene. No we don’t eat tinned fruit much!?

Well, there's no hope for me then.
I'll end up with my bottom not fluffed.

I think the popularity of 'tinned fruit' began to wane after we joined the EU - way back when . After that, we could import fruit that was both 'fresh' AND 'out of season in the UK' relatively cheaply than what was previously available.

Maybe 'tinned fruit' will begin to increase in popularity once more, IF a no-deal Brexit does go ahead.

Have to admit that Tinned Grapefruit is very useful, as Teetime has already said and I always DID love 'tinned pears with evap' on a Sunday teatime .

Annsixty. My mum used to make raspberry fluff when we were children. Jelly and whipped in evaporated milk. As you say, im sure its only half the normal water for the jlly. Have tried making it myself but struggled. Always end up with top fluffed but bottom just milky. Don't know where I'm going wrong.

We had tinned pineapple with jelly and cream for our pudding on Sunday. Delicious.

I haven’t had any for years but used to love mandarin segments fruit cocktail n peaches with single cream over, that reminds me I must buy some lol

Jane 10, like you I guiltily sneak a little tinned fruit into my dish during hotel breakfasts, but it would never occur to me to buy tins in the supermarket!
During a recent hospital stay I was given little pots of ready-made jelly. It was the first time I had had jelly since childhood and I loved it!!

Waitrose do a tin of cooked slice Granny Smiths' which are ideal for a crumble. No slicing and dicing and peeling involved!

Ooh tinned mandarins and Carnation milk! Am transported back to Saturday treat of my long ago youth!