Started my canned food store

[Theoracle]

I agree, tinned food, make sure buy stuff you could stomach day in day out! Shops own brands are just as good as branded stuff, I just throw an extra £20 worth of stuff in the basket with every monthly shop, after 6 months I reckon I have enough to see 5 people through a year.

[thecrock]

my personal favorite.....sainsbury's basics, vegetable & chicken stew....very tasty and cheap at 79p

[dazz675]

home and bargains goblin chilli con carne 79p , tried foxhall homebrand stewed steak , tried a tin , not awful , but not as tasty as known brands need some worcester sauce to zing it up

[Attack Warning Red]

Last year my wife was away for a few weeks with family stuff, so I stocked up the cupboard with tins for my own convenience. They were all M&S tinned meats and stuff. Very nice - but you wouldn't be able to do long-term storage unless you are quite rich!

[MickyP]

I agree, tinned food, make sure buy stuff you could stomach day in day out! Shops own brands are just as good as branded stuff, I just throw an extra £20 worth of stuff in the basket with every monthly shop, after 6 months I reckon I have enough to see 5 people through a year.

Tins are good and definitely have there place but if you only eat 3 tins a day per person, which isnt a lot, then you would need to store over 1000 tins per person per year. Thats a hell of a lot of tins to store and rotate

[jansman]

I agree, tinned food, make sure buy stuff you could stomach day in day out! Shops own brands are just as good as branded stuff, I just throw an extra £20 worth of stuff in the basket with every monthly shop, after 6 months I reckon I have enough to see 5 people through a year.

Tins are good and definitely have there place but if you only eat 3 tins a day per person, which isnt a lot, then you would need to store over 1000 tins per person per year. Thats a hell of a lot of tins to store and rotate

Totally agree. I think tins are good for combining with spuds, rice, pasta and fresh foods that are available to you. For example that tin of chilli, it makes rice interesting. The tin of tomatoes, with a bit of seasoning means you fill your belly with pasta.
And tin meats and fish are superb. Of course tins are cheap, and that is a very attractive storage option.

[JOE90]

I am sorry but I don't regard unsupported statements by companies with a vested interest (tin manufacturer and retail seller (who only offers a three year guarantee)) as good enough evidence for me to lay down a store that will keep for "at least 50 years with out losing anything in value" with any confidence.

One tin surviving which was not mass produced, in those days each tin was hand made and individually processed with the intention of lasting as long as possible, really does not prove the point, it was for an Arctic expedition after all.

From my scanty research on the 'RRS Discovery' Antarctic expedition all food was specially selected, manufactured, packed and stored for the expedition and I am sure the same would have been true 80 years earlier,

the fact is companies do not have any interest in saying that there food lasts 50 plus years in a tin!( read your own statement! ) in fact the opposite is true they want you to buy more ! Canned food as old as 100 years has been found in sunken ships and it is still micro biologically safe it not just the odd tin !! also there are several thread on here with links to scientific sites that show that tinned food is safe to over 50 years!! so want i stated is not unsupported !
as for the arctic expedition i am guessing you mean In 1820, William Perry (Parry) took an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage, toward the North Pole. He took with him some canned meats. At the time, food canning was about a 10-year-old technology.

At least one can of meat was not used and wound up in a museum in England. In 1938, it was opened and found to be edible. It was fed to a cat which suffered no ill effects from eating the 118-year-old meat.

I work as an engineer in the canning industry,Soups and chilli, and can tell you that tinned produce can last a very long time. Certainly longer than any date we print on the cans. I did a training course on canning and as well as technical aspects of canning it went into the history of it and how we would have a lot more starving people in the world if it wasn't for canning. You must remember to keep the cans dry and in perfect conditions otherwise you will get something bad. We check our cans in a lab and all seams are examined to fine tolerances so they are sealed perfectly. I would have no issues eating 50 year old beans, Heinz of course.

[dreamcatcher]

Can't believe it I'm running out or storage room already. Might need to re- think this one