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you get the tinned/metal taste because you're not cooking your carrots enough. 
Canned veggies, can you eat them?
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^ Chopped tomatoes don't count, besides, they are fruit
Nerd.
Next you'll be telling me strawberries aren't fruit and brazil nuts are really seeds.
Yeah, I agree with this in general, but the ready-chopped tomatoes are just so much more convenient and cost-effective.
This is very true. Tomatoes in my grocery store are usually $2.99/lb, and a can of diced tomatoes or whole tomatoes for sauce is $1/can or cheaper.
Not to mention, in some cases canned tomatoes are actually higher quality than "fresh" ones. Think about it. To get tomatoes that are ripe in the store, they have to be picked unripe, so by the time they're in the store they've ripened. Canned tomatoes though are picked ripe off of the vine.
Oh, and another great canned vegie is fetal corn. It's really hard to get here fresh, and is wonderful in anything stirfry like.
Canned veggies? Grew up on them (busy mom, freezer not much used), avoid them as much as I can. Although I have even less of a bargain with frozen vegetables than with fresh ones. I should peel'em an chop'em an cook'en an freeze'em myself (much more often, that is). But instead, I'm here on my computer and my kitchen runs are short. 
Although, now that I have a big, 8-inch long kitchen knife (it was a freebee) and a chopping board of course, I enjoy using it.
Although, now that I have a big, 8-inch long kitchen knife (it was a freebee) and a chopping board of course, I enjoy using it.
Feh. Just wait. When the economy collapses and the dead start to walk, you people will be GLAD to eat canned veggies!
Actually the only canned veggie I buy is kidney beans when I make chili. I prefer frozen to spare myself the salt and other unhealthy crap they tend to add to canned items.
Actually the only canned veggie I buy is kidney beans when I make chili. I prefer frozen to spare myself the salt and other unhealthy crap they tend to add to canned items.
Contrary to popular belief, canned vegetables have him roughly the same nutritonal value as their raw counterparts. For starters they're cooked and canned almosr immediately after harvest, raw vegetables lose their nutritional value the longer they're exposed to light and air and during extreme temperature changes (as may happen during the warehousing, shipping, store-level storage, store-level product placement and consumer-level handling/storage would open them up to.)
So if your choices are no veggies or canned veggies you're better off with the latter. Myself? I prefer frozen vegetables over most of their canned counterparts. The exceptions being in greenbeans and peas.
So if your choices are no veggies or canned veggies you're better off with the latter. Myself? I prefer frozen vegetables over most of their canned counterparts. The exceptions being in greenbeans and peas.
My question is...how old can you let a can of veggies get before you have to toss it out?
I have to love the convenience of 'em.
I have to love the convenience of 'em.
Sometimes a knife is only a knife.
I just raided my pantry; here's what I have:
* Green Giant Sweet Peas -- 31 Aug 2012
* Green Giant Whole Kernel Sweet Corn -- 15 Sept 2012
* Del Monte Cut Green Beans -- 25 Sept 2011
I'm pretty sure that's a best-used-by date, though if the can is intact (no rust, dents, or swelling), the food inside should be safe to eat if properly prepared, though it will probably lose nutritional value with age.
I do, too.
I like can veggies that don't even have a date on them because they are that cheap. A friend of mine was on food stamps and got food from the food pantry. He still has the canned corn, and cheap SPAM from 2.5 years ago. Neither one have a date, and cheap Spam? 
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