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annsixty Thu 12-Sept-19 14:31:24

Tinned fruit?
I have just done an online food order and one of the special offers that came up was
tinned pears.
I can't remember the last time I ate tinned fruit of any sort.
It reminds me of Sunday tea with the Aunts, peaches and evaporated milk after tinned salmon and lettuce with salad cream

Maggiemaybe Thu 12-Sept-19 21:54:57

I'm adding prunes to mine, SirChenjin.

SirChenjin Thu 12-Sept-19 21:57:58

I’ve got prunes, mandarins, pineapple for the toasted cheese and tinned cream on mine smile

Auntieflo Thu 12-Sept-19 22:22:17

We love tinned mango, and I have peaches and pineapple in the cupboard.
I had forgotten tinned Nestles cream, used to love it.
As for jelly, I made one last week. Is there anybody who likes cold jelly and warm custard? Mmmmmm.
Please stop with the grapefruit, as I am on statins, and don't eat it now.

Teebles64 Thu 12-Sept-19 22:30:26

Tinned pineapple for sweet and sour dishes

HettyMaud Thu 12-Sept-19 22:36:06

Oh goodness...all this is making me hungry!

CanadianGran Thu 12-Sept-19 22:41:42

I love canned peaches (we use the term canned here in Canada). My mum used to can peaches, pears, apricots, plums and cherries every year. We had dessert every night with canned fruit, sometimes with ice cream or Birds custard.

Now that most of those fruits are available all year long we hardly use canned fruit, although I still enjoy it. I do use canned pineapple for upside down cake though.

I have never heard of tinned rhubarb and don't think it is available here.

Evangeline Thu 12-Sept-19 22:56:57

My mum’s tinned fruit treat-guavas.
Loved them even as a child.
Can you still buy them? Haven’t had them for many years.

SirChenjin Fri 13-Sept-19 07:49:15

CanadianGran - how did your mum put fruit in tins to can them? If that makes sense?!

SirChenjin Fri 13-Sept-19 07:49:41

I mean that metal tin cans are sealed shut

Auntieflo Fri 13-Sept-19 08:30:23

Does CanadianGran mean preserving in Mason jars, i.e. putting up?
Now guavas, I love those, so why haven't we had them for ages?
Shopping later, so I will look for some and report back.

Harris27 Fri 13-Sept-19 08:33:15

I always keep tin of peaches in they usually sit there forever. However. I love them and tinned pears. Fruit cocktail I use in my once in a while trifle.

Jane10 Fri 13-Sept-19 08:56:17

It never occurs to me to actually buy tinned fruit but on holiday I always enjoy an illicit tinned peach or pear from the breakfast buffet. I sneak it into my bowl of virtuous grapefruit and yoghurt and feel very naughty!
Don't know quite why though

Rosiebee Fri 13-Sept-19 09:32:29

Always have tins of Apple slices in. Add some lemon juice and light brown sugar for a crumble. Sometimes add fresh raspberries or whatever I have in. Make up a big batch of crumble mix and keep it in freezer. Almost instant pud for grandkids.

GranEd Fri 13-Sept-19 10:00:23

I always have a good stock in my cupboard - mango slices,strawberries,raspberries,sliced peaches,crushed pineapple,mandarin segments........
Saturday afternoon is ‘cocktail time’ here and it’s so much easier(and cheaper) to whizz up a daiquiri or pina colada using tinned fruit rather than the rigmarole of peeling/coring/de-stoning fresh!
Cheers! ??

Witzend Fri 13-Sept-19 10:05:02

Tinned pineapple slice on a gammon steak for dh.

If I ever see a tin of lychees, I will buy and scoff the lot straight out of the tin.

Sometimes I buy a couple of tins of black cherries, as wherewithal for an easy-pud clafoutis, but have usually scoffed them all straight out of the tins before any such (guest) occasion has arisen.

Urmstongran Fri 13-Sept-19 10:29:44

I only discovered tinned prunes again a few years ago. Bought them on an Ocado shop I think they were the ‘Essentials’ range. I didn’t have high expectations as I’d remembered the brown wrinkly ones served up at primary school with hot rice pudding. Ugh!

Anyway the tinned ones were bluddy gorgeous. Fat, over ripe plums - what not to like?

I always go for them now at an hotel buffet breakfast! And I do sometimes remember to buy some when I go home afterwards.

‘Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man , beggar man, thief’!
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pen50 Fri 13-Sept-19 10:56:44

Tinned lychees are in my opinion even better than the fresh ones. Quite expensive but I like to have some at Christmas. I just stick them into the fridge for at least 24 hours as they're better really cold.

maddyone Fri 13-Sept-19 11:05:14

Annsixty, we used to eat tinned fruit with evaporated milk for Saturday/Sunday tea. The rest of the week we had dinner at 5.30 to 6.00pm.
I still like tinned fruit, particularly apricots and pears, though I rarely eat it. I do often lightly stew some fruit though, which I suppose is similar.

Newatthis Fri 13-Sept-19 11:09:14

I buy tinned pineapple for a delicious carrot cake recipe I have.

Cambia Fri 13-Sept-19 11:09:30

Recently had tinned fruit when I was very ill in Greece and not allowed any raw food! Don’t think I had eaten this since I was a child! It did manage to go down very easily though!

Flossieturner Fri 13-Sept-19 11:12:04

We had tinned fruit every day when we were children. Our kitchen cupboards were crammed with it. This has made me nostalgic as I do like tinned fruit. I buy tinned grapefruit for breakfast and tinned pineapple for grilled gammon. I. Notice now though that the pineapple is sliced so thinly.

Riggie Fri 13-Sept-19 11:13:03

I buy tinned fruit for my son who loves it.

And also have memories of tinned fruit with evaporated milk for sunday tea. Mum always made us have some bread and butter with it too.

inishowen Fri 13-Sept-19 11:13:36

Just back from Lanzarote. One of the dessert options was tinned fruit alongside fresh fruit. I tried some and found it too sweet and soft.

Roses Fri 13-Sept-19 11:14:03

I always tempted a poorly toddler who wouldn't eat with tinned pears it worked every time

luluaugust Fri 13-Sept-19 11:14:35

I buy tinned mandarins as one of the GC decided they were fish and loves them, good way to get some fruit down. Peaches and custard, yes a childhood memory my dad called them sunshine fruit.