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Old 29-07-2011, 15:48
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I cleared out my uncles flat the other day and now have tins of ASDA smartprice veg in the cupboard.
There's also a tin of homepride chicken in white wine sauce.

How about a meal of
chicken in white wine sauce with a side of tinned marrowfat peas, tinned carrots and tinned new potatoes?
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Old 29-07-2011, 15:51
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I cleared out my uncles flat the other day and now have tins of ASDA smartprice veg in the cupboard.
There's also a tin of homepride chicken in white wine sauce.

How about a meal of
chicken in white wine sauce with a side of tinned marrowfat peas, tinned carrots and tinned new potatoes?
Bet thats bogging
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Old 29-07-2011, 15:53
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I make a nice pasta alla puttanesca from mostly tin stuff.

Uses a can of anchovies, a jar of olives, a can of plum tomatoes, some dried chilli flakes, some spaghetti, some dried oregano so yeah it all comes from the storecupbboard but it's very good.

It does use garlic but you can even use garlic granules in it.
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Old 29-07-2011, 16:02
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Do you think there is anything wrong with the tinned food you have ?

What you planned sounds fine. Just check if veggies are pre-cooked then obviously adjust when you add them to the dish appropriately.
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Old 29-07-2011, 16:02
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There's also a tin of homepride chicken in white wine sauce.

How about a meal of
chicken in white wine sauce with a side of tinned marrowfat peas, tinned carrots and tinned new potatoes?
Tinned peaches for afters.

Actually, this is probably your chance for a 70s meal theme night. If you could get a Vesta dried meal, you will get an accurate representation of what students used to eat back in the pre-microwavonic era when all you had to cook on was a single gas ring or electric hob.
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Old 29-07-2011, 16:05
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One of my favourite dishes of comfort food is something my dad made up when we were kids, very simple, I've got my husband into it now.

Tin oxtail soup, tin Heinz beans, good dash of Worcestershire sauce or HP, voila. Absolutely delish.
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Old 29-07-2011, 16:07
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I remember once, years ago, discovering I had no fresh food in the house so I had a Fray Bentos pie, tinned spuds and marrowfat peas. After that experience I always make damned sure i'm not in that position.
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Old 29-07-2011, 16:16
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Our kitchen is so small we don't even have a "tin" cupboard.

We may have a few tins of beans and some soup lurking about but other than that there is no tinned goods at all..
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Old 29-07-2011, 16:20
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I cleared out my uncles flat the other day and now have tins of ASDA smartprice veg in the cupboard.
There's also a tin of homepride chicken in white wine sauce.

How about a meal of
chicken in white wine sauce with a side of tinned marrowfat peas, tinned carrots and tinned new potatoes?
I dont think there is chicken in the tin of sauce is there
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Old 29-07-2011, 16:21
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I don't think i have ever eaten a meal entirely from tins. I always have tins of tomatos, soup, beans, a couple of cooking sauces and thats about it.
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Old 29-07-2011, 16:35
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Tinned peaches for afters.

Actually, this is probably your chance for a 70s meal theme night. If you could get a Vesta dried meal, you will get an accurate representation of what students used to eat back in the pre-microwavonic era when all you had to cook on was a single gas ring or electric hob.
There was a tin of smartprice ready to eat custard
I think there was also tinned fruit and tomato soup so I could get a three course meal out of it
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Old 29-07-2011, 16:41
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I dont think there is chicken in the tin of sauce is there
There is. It's actually Princes Chicken in White Sauce
http://www.princes.co.uk/our-product...in-white-sauce


Anyway, if there wasn't any chicken in it there's always the hotdogs to shot in
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Old 29-07-2011, 16:54
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There is. It's actually Princes Chicken in White Sauce
http://www.princes.co.uk/our-product...in-white-sauce


Anyway, if there wasn't any chicken in it there's always the hotdogs to shot in
Arrrhhhh OK. You said Homepride sauce in your first post, so i got a bit baffled. I am easily baffled.
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Old 29-07-2011, 17:34
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I remember once, years ago, discovering I had no fresh food in the house so I had a Fray Bentos pie, tinned spuds and marrowfat peas. After that experience I always make damned sure i'm not in that position.
Sounds like hell
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Old 29-07-2011, 20:30
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Do you think there is anything wrong with the tinned food you have ?

What you planned sounds fine. Just check if veggies are pre-cooked then obviously adjust when you add them to the dish appropriately.
Everything that comes in a can is precooked. Some foods are sealed raw into the can then cooked and some are cooked then sealed into sterilised cans.
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Old 30-07-2011, 13:30
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I used to have an emergency quick meal,
something that i always had in that could be cooked in minutes.
Tin of Stewing steak in Gravy, tin of new potatoes, peas if i wanted to treat myself,he he.
Not the best meal but good enough if you
have nothing in that can be cooked quickly and your in a rush to go out early.
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Old 30-07-2011, 14:13
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I used to have an emergency quick meal,
something that i always had in that could be cooked in minutes.
Tin of Stewing steak in Gravy, tin of new potatoes, peas if i wanted to treat myself,he he.
Not the best meal but good enough if you
have nothing in that can be cooked quickly and your in a rush to go out early.
I used to live off that when I first left home. But I always added an oxo cube to the tinned steak
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Old 30-07-2011, 14:43
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I used to live off that when I first left home. But I always added an oxo cube to the tinned steak
OHH never thought of that,thats my problem when it comes to cooking,no imagination,
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Old 30-07-2011, 14:50
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OHH never thought of that,thats my problem when it comes to cooking,no imagination,
I add oxos to anything with meat in it. I love to add one to tinned Irish stew
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Old 30-07-2011, 14:54
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Heinz Big Soup tastes a lot better when you're camping for some reason.
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Old 30-07-2011, 15:22
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There is. It's actually Princes Chicken in White Sauce
http://www.princes.co.uk/our-product...in-white-sauce


Anyway, if there wasn't any chicken in it there's always the hotdogs to shot in
You can get chicken in a tin in the US. A whole chicken!Looks bloody disgusting though.
http://i53.tinypic.com/2zoatr4.jpg
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Old 30-07-2011, 15:31
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You can get chicken in a tin in the US. A whole chicken!Looks bloody disgusting though.
http://i53.tinypic.com/2zoatr4.jpg
I can remember 30 years ago buying a whole cooked chicken in a can.
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Old 30-07-2011, 15:41
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I can remember 30 years ago buying a whole cooked chicken in a can.
A whole Chicken in a can, don't like the sound of that to be honest, does the Chicken still have all the bones left in,
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Old 30-07-2011, 15:50
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Often is the answer - when we are at the caravan for a weekend we have no refrigeration so dine on tinned and packet foods. Not too bad depending obviously on what we have in stock.
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Old 30-07-2011, 15:54
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A whole Chicken in a can, don't like the sound of that to be honest, does the Chicken still have all the bones left in,
It did still have the bones. It was just a whole cooked chicken in a can with lots of jelly. You used to remove the jelly and warm the chicken in the oven. You used to get them in Xmas hampers when I was little.
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