I use canned corn all the time! Do canned tomatoes count as canned veggies? Or is that considered canned fruit? If they count as veggies, I use those too.
I use frozen steamer bags of veggies.
But seriously, while we are discussing canned veggies, what about canned fruit?!
Veggies: I use canned tomatoes. I lurve canned corn but we don't get it often. That's about it though. Everything else is fresh or frozen.
Fruit: I get more fresh than canned/jarred but I still eat the canned stuff. I try to get the kind that's canned in light syrup, water or it's own juice. The heavy syrup is gross. DS does not like canned fruit. He's a fruit snob.
In my pantry, I have canned tomatoes, black beans, chick peas, and pumpkin. I also have dried black beans and chick peas. I find that the canned ones make the best hummus. The rest is for convenience because I don't always think ahead (as you can see by my comprehensive weekly menu). I also keep frozen veggies around for that reason although I always prefer to use fresh. I often use the frozen in the winter when local veggies are not available.
I find that canning sucks a lot of the flavor out of vegetables and it gives them an odd texture that my causes my mouth to revolt.
Yes - PUMPKIN. Muddled, you just reminded me to pick up a can so I can make pumpkin pancakes this weekend. IT'S MY LAST SINGLE WEEKEND! And I'm home alone all weekend. PARTY!
I'll use canned stuff if a recipe calls for it. The only thing I prefer canned instead of fresh is artichoke hearts - because I'm a lazy daughter-of-a-bitch.
Beans are not veggies!!!! WTF is wrong with you people!!!
Legumes are vegetables. They are the seed of the plant, which makes them a vegetable.
Or does that mean it's a fruit because it's reproductive? Crap.
Anyway, the same can be said for corn, corn being a grain and all.
I went on wikipedia to try to learn the truth and now I'm just more confused. Some beans are veggies, some are legumes, some are "pulses"... This all seems to stem from our liberal use of the word "bean". We're all doing it wrong.
Post by flamingeaux on Oct 17, 2012 8:27:00 GMT -5
Wait are we talking mass produced green giant (ho ho ho) veggies, or the little old lady standing in her kitchen putting veggies and fruit in mason jars? Green giant vegetables were okay, until I tried frozen veggies as an adult, now I know better. Old lady vegetables are also good.
Wait are we talking mass produced green giant (ho ho ho) veggies, or the little old lady standing in her kitchen putting veggies and fruit in mason jars? Green giant vegetables were okay, until I tried frozen veggies as an adult, now I know better. Old lady vegetables are also good.
Mass produced. The canning revolution is its own thing.
As to the are beans veggies deal, we're discussing fresh v frozen v canned. God knows you are not buying fresh or frozen garbanzo beans so kindly stay on topic, douches.