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    Canned vegetables

    Posts: 216 Member
    edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    I would like to know if I can eat canned vegetables or single servings in order to lose weight? I can't stand the fresh kinds so I'm not really eating enough. Please help!

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    • Posts: 9,487 Member
      Why would you think you can't eat canned or single serve veggies? If they fit your calories and you like them then eat them.
    • Posts: 216 Member
      But are they healthy for you and does it count as your daily vegetable though. Isn't canned processed? I was told its bad for you but wanna hear it from more then one person
    • Posts: 3,502 Member
      Yes, why couldn't you? Canned may not be quite as nutritious as fresh or frozen but they are still fairly nutritious.

      Of course eating vegetables alone won't be enough to help you lose weight, right?
    • Posts: 1,799 Member
      Jruzer wrote: »
      Yes, why couldn't you? Canned may not be quite as nutritious as fresh or frozen but they are still fairly nutritious.

      Of course eating vegetables alone won't be enough to help you lose weight, right?

      Here's another person chiming in. Agree completely! Canned vegetables are still vegetables and have a good portion of their nutrients still, which is much better than not eating vegetables at all.
    • Posts: 216 Member
      Yup! Thank you so much for clarifying it! I already lost almost 50 pounds since end of March. Mainly my weight came off from doing zumba and stopped eating junk everyday. Mmm I miss my candy though! My pre diabetic will be fought sooner then expected!
    • Posts: 4,334 Member
      The vegetables don't turn into something else once they are in the can, they are still vegetables. The only thing to watch for is if you are watching your sodium, many times the canned items have sodium added to them to help preserve them.
    • Posts: 232 Member
      I eat canned green beans nearly 3-4 times a week. I just make sure to drain them and rinse them before cooking to lower the salt content. Fresh veggies go bad in my house since I'm the only one eating them, and I only like certain frozen veggies. As long as it fits your macros, you'll be fine!
    • Posts: 216 Member
      I wonder if there is any with little sodium. I'll look later when I go shopping.

      Oh and do I really gotta heat them up? I would like to know if I can eat out if the can. Yes I know sounds nuts lol
    • Posts: 476 Member
      KristenMarie1181 wrote: »
      I wonder if there is any with little sodium. I'll look later when I go shopping.

      Oh and do I really gotta heat them up? I would like to know if I can eat out if the can. Yes I know sounds nuts lol
      You can eat them out of the can.
    • Posts: 4,334 Member
      I don't see a problem eating them out of the can.

      Here is a list of the lower sodium canned. I'm not sure if this will help or not.

      http://www.lowsaltfoods.com/food_center/lsfoods/fruit.htm
    • Posts: 216 Member
      Ty again everyone! I wish I asked this sooner! Been buying vegetables that I don't even like and sometimes they went to waste
    • Posts: 216 Member
      Because my parents and fiance never ate them lol
    • Posts: 3,502 Member
      OP, as an aside: If you don't like fresh vegetables have you tried roasting them in the oven with a little olive oil and salt?
    • Posts: 9,487 Member
      Jruzer wrote: »
      OP, as an aside: If you don't like fresh vegetables have you tried roasting them in the oven with a little olive oil and salt?

      I was also going to suggest this. I love roasted veggies - gives them a really nice flavor.

    • Posts: 9,603 Member
      Yes, of course you can eat canned veggies.

      Personally I think they're pretty gross and MUCH prefer frozen, but if you like them, eat them. ...except corn. I like canned corn.
    • Posts: 647 Member
      Canned tomatoes are good if you buy good canned tomatoes. Canned hominy is about the only way you can get it. Canned beets are alright.

      Canned peas are just a different thing altogether. Bear no relation to frozen or fresh. I've been hungry and glad to have them, though. Hate canned carrots, even when I'm hungry.
    • Posts: 9,562 Member
      It is easy to mix canned veggies into omelets. Bacon on the side. B)
    • Posts: 9,410 Member
      I don't eat canned vegies out of the can but I frequently have a salad plate which includes canned corn cold on the plate.
      Other than corn, I don't eat canned vegies, except canned tomatoes in cooking.and canned kidney beans in cooking.

      If you like canned vegies and they fit into your calorie limit ( which they should easily do) then of course you can eat them.
    • Posts: 9,410 Member
      Also it does not matter if you heat them up or eat them cold - or eat directly from the can or on your finest Doulton China.

      I just remembered I also eat baked beans - I guess they are also canned vegies.
    • Posts: 9,410 Member
      And tinned beetroot - I eat that too.

      Also cold on salad plates.
    • Posts: 206 Member
      Depending on where you live and what kind of canned vegetables you like, you can find "No Salt Added" cans of corn, peas, green beans, and carrots. I live in the Washington DC area and can get these at my local Giant grocery store. If you want lima beans or kidney beans, you'll probably have to get dried beans and cook them yourself.
    • Posts: 206 Member
      Oh, and I forgot to mention that I eat a can of peas, corn, carrots, or green beans almost every day.
    • Posts: 18,878 Member
      paperpudding wrote: »
      And tinned beetroot - I eat that too.

      Also cold on salad plates.

      I have a thing for canned baby potatoes in potato salad. I just love the texture. Otherwise I'm the same as you. Corn, beetroot, tomatoes and legumes.

      But OP - eat them! They're veg, just preserved in a different way
    • Posts: 647 Member
      Alatariel75 wrote: »
      ...I have a thing for canned baby potatoes in potato salad. I just love the texture. ...
      I think potatoes are another of those things that morph into something else when canned. Not bad necessarily, but so different that they seem unrelated to the fresh product. There is a diner nearby that must serve canned hash browns. All I can think of while eating them is that they are just very weird. It is mainly a textural difference. I get a small sense of the same thing from those little canned new potatoes.
    • Posts: 608 Member
      edited August 2015
      KristenMarie1181 wrote: »
      I would like to know if I can eat canned vegetables or single servings in order to lose weight? I can't stand the fresh kinds so I'm not really eating enough. Please help!
      Canned veggies are not optimal, but you do what you can.
      100% perfection is nice when you can get it... :)

      I try to avoid anything canned, boxed or packaged or processed in any way.
      Optimal food intake is whole, real foods...lean meats, fresh fruits and veggies, nuts, whole eggs, 100% whole grained, home bakes breads and such, beans and raw, whole un-pasteurized dairy.
      That's my definition, and to get there 70% of the time - close enough!

    • Posts: 30,886 Member
      Pinnacle_IAO wrote: »
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      Canned veggies are not optimal, but you do what you can.
      100% perfection is nice when you can get it... :)

      I try to avoid anything canned, boxed or packaged or processed in any way.
      Optimal food intake is whole, real foods...lean meats, fresh fruits and veggies, nuts, whole eggs, 100% whole grained, home bakes breads and such, beans and raw, whole un-pasteurized dairy.
      That's my definition, and to get there 70% of the time - close enough!

      Out of season (and even in season if you don't actually buy local), frozen is probably more nutritious.

      I usually like the non frozen stuff better anyway, although there are certain things I simply don't buy "fresh" out of season (like corn and tomatoes and a lot of fruit, among other things), but I don't pretend there is any nutrition-based reason for that.
    • Posts: 608 Member
      lemurcat12 wrote: »
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      Out of season (and even in season if you don't actually buy local), frozen is probably more nutritious.

      I usually like the non frozen stuff better anyway, although there are certain things I simply don't buy "fresh" out of season (like corn and tomatoes and a lot of fruit, among other things), but I don't pretend there is any nutrition-based reason for that.
      We live next to a working farm, and their Farmer's Market is literally across a field from my home.
      One day I needed a bell pepper for a recipe and just picked some, then paid the next morning.
      :)
      I love frozen veggies out of season. The huge difference in my health was the switch from nutritionally depleted, processed, demineralized foods to real, whole foods dense in nutrition. Whole foods are best - everybody knows this, but I never go nuts about it.
      As I mentioned, I eat whole foods 70% of the time with great results.
    • Posts: 15,573 Member
      Alatariel75 wrote: »
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      I have a thing for canned baby potatoes in potato salad. I just love the texture. Otherwise I'm the same as you. Corn, beetroot, tomatoes and legumes.

      But OP - eat them! They're veg, just preserved in a different way

      You can get potatoes in a can? Looking for them tonight.
    • Posts: 30,886 Member
      Pinnacle_IAO wrote: »
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      We live next to a working farm, and their Farmer's Market is literally across a field from my home.
      One day I needed a bell pepper for a recipe and just picked some, then paid the next morning.
      :)
      I love frozen veggies out of season. The huge difference in my health was the switch from nutritionally depleted, processed, demineralized foods to real, whole foods dense in nutrition. Whole foods are best - everybody knows this, but I never go nuts about it.
      As I mentioned, I eat whole foods 70% of the time with great results.

      I can't tell--are you trying to argue that frozen veggies are "nutritionally depleted, processed, demineralized foods"? Because that's just not accurate as to how the processing works in that case.

      If not, never mind.
    • Posts: 608 Member
      --are you trying to argue that frozen veggies are "nutritionally depleted, processed, demineralized foods"? Because that's just not accurate as to how the processing works in that case.

      If not, never mind.
      I am not....frozen veggies are fine...

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