Healthy tinned food?

newlywed

I read one article that examined all the vitamins in fruit and apparently you can get every single one from veg, so as long as you eat a wide variety of veg, there is no nutritional need for fruit.

just flinging that one in there

Eldi_Dos

Longwalker said:

KxMx said:

Longwalker said:

I adore tinned Kippers, topped with a poached egg - a very healthy meal

I tend to eat a lot of tinned fish - sardines, mackerel etc. An extremely cheap way of getting oily fish in the diet 

Tinned beans - very healthy. All tinned beans are 

Tinned fruit, in natural juice is fine as well. Yes its full of sugar - all fruit is, but there again you arent supposed to eat lots of fruit anyway, but tinned fruit is better then no fruit 

When I was a nipper we only had tinned food, home freezers weren't affordable to most. I remember having frozen peas for the first time after growing up on tinned - and hated them. I still also prefer tinned carrots to this day 

Fruit contains natural sugar and not processed, refined sugar.
Fruit also gives you not only vitamins, minerals and anti oxidants, but the fibre within the fruit slows down the bodies absorption of the sugar. An apple won't spike your blood sugar like say a chocolate bar would.

Im aware of that, Im also aware that as part of your 5/10 a day only one should be liquid fruit and the rest of the fruit should be that of the fibrous variety and whole 

I personally dont eat fruit, I dont feel the need, I dont particularly like it and it hurts my teeth.

I can understand that, most fruit is picked to look good on the shelf but still needs a bit of time to ripen before eating.
The way we work round this is to have two fruit bowls,one with fruit bought last week to be eaten this coming week and another bowl with fruit bought this week waiting to ripen up and be used then.
Small apples are coming in at very good price just now and after good growing season should hopefully stay that way.

Eldi_Dos

YoungBlueEyes said:

I quite like tinned fish but mmmm fresh fish and smoked fish.... 

Only frozen petit pois here too!

Bucatini with smoked trout and petit pois topped with a bit of parmesan, easy enough to turn out a tasty meal which would cost a fortune in a restaurant

JIL

Tinned crab and cream crackers make good thai fishcakes, with other bits added. 

It's about balance isnt it? 

Like the tinned fruit discussion. 

You use what you have or you buy additional, choices and situations. We hopefully do what works for us.