Do you eat many canned foods?

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  • XpeargrlX
    XpeargrlX Posts: 21
    Not many just a few like kidney beans, tomato paste, and stewed tomatoes.
  • seal57
    seal57 Posts: 1,259 Member
    Yes.....Just tuna and baked beans.......love baked bean sanga but I drain the sauce off........
  • lucky2too
    lucky2too Posts: 69 Member
    Giving up canned soup...the sodium it through the roof. I guess for now tuna and chickpeas(for hummus). I think I'll home can or freeze some soup this summer.
  • JustineMarie21
    JustineMarie21 Posts: 437 Member
    ChickPeas, peas, and sometimes soup are the only things I eat canned and its once a week also before I eat the chickpeas and peas I drain them and rinse them for a while to get rid of the extra salt. Ouhh and tuna (DRAINED)
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I tend to use frozen over canned. It's safer.
    please explain.. or was that a cat joke?

    Yes. I have seven cats. If I run the can opener, there's a swarm of carpetsharks all around me. :laugh:

    But the frozen are also lower in sodium. I don't much care if I go over on sodium, but I'd rather go over because I used some buffalo or barbecue sauce on my chicken than because I used canned green beans instead of fresh or frozen. Or in other words, if I'm going to have a lot of sodium, I'm going to enjoy the flavor that comes with it! :happy:
  • dvisser1
    dvisser1 Posts: 788 Member
    Very little canned stuff. Tomatoes, beans (black, pinto and kidney) and green beans. Sometimes I will cook up dried beans instead of buying the canned black or kidney beans.

    Plastics (water bottles, soda bottles, storage containers) and the liners applied to tin cans are the major sources for ingested BPA. BPA leaches out very slowly at room temperature levels, but when it gets hot and in contact with food/liquids it does leach out much quicker. Part of the canning process does heat the canned food in the can to seal it. Canned soup like Cambells is cooked in the can.

    Use glass storage containers, don't microwave in plastic or with plastic lids / plastic wrap over the food or use cook in plastic bags (boil in bag rice, steam in bag frozen veg or oven roasting bags) unless they declared free of BPA and phthalates free. Also getting a stainless steel water bottle will save you a lot of money in the long run if you tend to drink a lot of bottle water. Water fountains are still free!
  • VelvetKey
    VelvetKey Posts: 193 Member
    Not anymore. I got a BPA lecture from the licensed nutritionist I work with for our local public school district when she caught me eating Progresso soup one day. I did some homework on my own about it, and found out that BPA has been banned in the U.S. from all infant bottle manufacturing. Although the USDA/FDA says that the levels present in most canned items are not harmful to adults, other countries have banned it from being manufactured. I even contacted Progresso to find out their stand on the issue and was informed that only one brand name of theirs is BPA-free, and it 's something I wouldn't buy anyway. So while I leave the government to figure things out, I'm going to live in the knowledge that I have a clean endocrine system.

    So now I buy dried beans instead of canned, and tomato products in glass jars instead. The only canned food in my cupboards is tuna and one can of diced tomatoes. The tuna predates my research, and the diced tomatoes were on sale and I forgot for a moment because I was thinking about making soup in the crockpot.

    My fiancee is in for a surprise when we get married! He is a man of fast food and convenience; I am learning to scratch cook for us. My desire is for him to be healthy, too, and for it not to break the bank. I think we can do it!

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