Cold from the can?

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Stan Horwitz said:

None. It takes all of two minutes to dump a can of food into a bowl and
nuke it. If your job gets so busy that you do not have even two minutes
to prepare something for lunch is the day you should start looking for
another job!

I worked for a University also. It is easy to take stuff for granted.

When you work construction or drive a garbage truck, there probably
isn't a microwave. There are a lot of jobs like that.

There are jobs where you don't even know where you work. You report in,
and they send you where you are needed.

--
Dan Abel
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Petaluma, California, USA

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Dan Abel said:

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OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

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Dan Abel <[email hidden]> wrote:

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I love this group. It is always interesting seeing what people like to
eat, or in this case, are willing to eat.

<lol>
Sometimes I'm hungry to the point of being nearly ill, but just too
darned swamped to take a break!

I'm taking a break. At least a year. I'll decide what to do in a
while. A long while.

I wish I could do that...
but I hope you are ok???
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

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Dan Abel said:

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OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

Since I don't watch television any more, I don't see some of the "new
and improved" items on the market.

What's a television?

:-)

Heh!

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It's been a bit over 3 years since I quit watching anything but news

I hate tv news, really hate it. I don't know about where you live, but
here it gets dumbed down continually. They think we are two years old.
When my wife turns on the news, I leave. Sometimes it is dark, cold or
raining. After 10 minutes, they start repeating the exact same story.
In 10 more minutes, another repeat.

I get most of my news off of BBC radio.
I'll watch CNN or Fox for maybe 10 minutes if I think something
important is going on, but only on rare occasions.

I'm more likely to Google for it. American News lies a lot.

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weather on the [censored] tube,

I hate the tv weather also. These people know nothing about weather.
They are hired because they are actors. It's not their fault that they
are often wrong. They are just reading their lines.

The weather channel has that robotic reporter, and I look at the weather
map and draw my own conclusions. ;-) I also read cloud patterns for at
least my own 24 hour prediction. I also watch the ant hills.

If the ants are building a larger than normal mound, it's rain within 24
hours. The bigger the mound, the more the rain. <G>

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and I listen to the radio more.

There is so much bad radio. My wife likes it.

BBC on NPR is good for world News updates.
I listen to it while I am commuting to and from work.

It's a 30 minute commute.

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I guess I'm just old a grumpy.

That's ok. ;-)
You are probably just spoilt by the internet too.

Did you know that Richard Prior died a few days ago?

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

~patches~ said:

Personally, I can do quite nicely
without commercially canned foods 🙂

Not me. I use tomatoes in lots of my cooking, and except for about two
months of the year it's pointless to try to use fresh. I use a lot of
canned beans too, because the lead time to prepare dried is long, and I
really don't feel there's much improvement unless you're making bean
soup.

Brian

Dan Abel said:

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OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

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Nancy Young said:

"OmManiPadmeOmelet" <[email hidden]> wrote

>Well, canned fruits are kind of a given. ;-)

In the can? Normally it should be put on a plate.

I just open the can and grab a fork.

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I'm willing to bet that most canned fruit never makes it into a bowl. <G>

Canned fruit doesn't make it into our house.

Homecanned fruit makes it into our house. Homecanned peaches and toast
make a very nice breakfast 🙂 I've never bought the commercial canned
stuff.

Default User said:

~patches~ said:

Personally, I can do quite nicely
without commercially canned foods 🙂

Not me. I use tomatoes in lots of my cooking, and except for about two
months of the year it's pointless to try to use fresh. I use a lot of
canned beans too, because the lead time to prepare dried is long, and I
really don't feel there's much improvement unless you're making bean
soup.

Brian

Brian, I do a lot of home canning including just about anything you
could make with tomatoes. I have no need to buy anything commercially
canned. Oh, and I can all kinds of soups and beans as well. They are
easy to do and IMO taste a better than the commercially canned versions.
As I said, I can do quite nicely without commercially canned foods 🙂

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OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

Canned cream soups
Spinach
Cut green beans
Asparagus spears
Baby corns
Black Olives
Green Olives
Any other canned veggie depending on my mood.

I find all of this except for the olives revolting. The only canned
things I can eat without using as ingredients are canned fruit.

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Ranee

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Spitzmaus said:

As Patches mentioned earlier, commercially canned foods aren't a happenin'
thing [for me]. I will, however, make an exception for any type of canned
fish; I agree with Sheldon on that point. And as I child, I used to adore
cold canned corned beef on saltines with hot mustard; I seriously doubt I'd
like it these days.

Oh, I do eat canned tuna out of the can sometimes, usually when I'm
pregnant.

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OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:

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So what do you take to work for emergency cold meals? :-)

For cold meals away from home, I tend to go with sandwiches, wraps or
salads along with a couple of pieces of cheese and fresh fruit. Hard
boiled eggs are good too. I have a nice thermos though so I can take
along hot homemade soups if I choose. Personally, I can do quite nicely
without commercially canned foods 🙂

Pretty much the same here. Sandwiches are good cold, as are salads.
Cheese and crackers, fruit (though not fridge cold, I don't like that).
If I were in a situation with no stove and no microwave and no fire,
this is the kind of thing I would eat. Not cold canned food. *shudder*

Regards,
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Dan Abel said:

Whatever works for you. We don't eat stewed tomatoes. There is just no
use for these things. A couple of times I've gotten desperate and there
are some in the pantry. Dump in bowl and eat. Not bad.

How is it that things you don't eat end up in your pantry? I ask
this as a general question. We somehow ended up with canned peas. We
don't eat canned peas. Ever. I'm sending it with the kids for their
chapel offering at school. I know other people eat them.

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Ranee

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Stan Horwitz said:

Nothing in my life is so important
that it can't wait a couple of minutes for me to heat up a can of soup.

You don't work in emergency care or response do you?

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Ranee Mueller said:

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Dan Abel said:

Whatever works for you. We don't eat stewed tomatoes. There is just no
use for these things. A couple of times I've gotten desperate and there
are some in the pantry. Dump in bowl and eat. Not bad.

How is it that things you don't eat end up in your pantry? I ask
this as a general question. We somehow ended up with canned peas. We
don't eat canned peas. Ever. I'm sending it with the kids for their
chapel offering at school. I know other people eat them.

Regards,
Ranee

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I've had things show up in my pantry stores that I know we won't eat or
some things we might not eat within a year. There tends to be two
sources for these things. The first being the kids or friends who will
bring along something and it doesn't get used but they don't want to
take it back with them. The kids are pretty good at not doing this much
but it still happens. DD is the queen of bringing me *different* things
to try especially sauces and spice mixes. That can add up! The second
way this happens is through home canning. Thank goodness it doesn't
happen a lot but it does never the less. It usually happens with
something that we will only use one or two jars but the recipe produces
four to six jars. There are a couple of these types of recipes that
stick out in my mind - corn relish and port wine jelly being two. I
always try a couple of new canning recipes each year and sometimes they
are not quite as expected. Unfortunately, you can't really donate home
canned goods to the food banks so I generally come up with a way to use
the food up anyway rather than waste it.

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Ranee Mueller said:

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Dan Abel said:

Whatever works for you. We don't eat stewed tomatoes. There is just no
use for these things. A couple of times I've gotten desperate and there
are some in the pantry. Dump in bowl and eat. Not bad.

How is it that things you don't eat end up in your pantry?

I think that we used to eat these.

--
Dan Abel
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Petaluma, California, USA

jmcquown said:

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

When rushed and hungry, (generally at work when it's busy), what types
of foods can or do you eat right out of the can, cold?

Canned cream soups
Spinach
Cut green beans
Asparagus spears
Baby corns
Black Olives
Green Olives
Any other canned veggie depending on my mood.

Canned beans are out tho'. Those have GOT to be warmed up!

I can't eat canned creamed soup cold, sorry. That's one reason I really
like those Campbell's Soup at Hand and other quick microwaveable soup
containers. 3 minutes... about the time it takes to make a phone call at
the office. Voila... sip or spoon up lunch.

But SO expensive!

I can eat canned corn (regular or cream style), green olives, cream of
mushroom or clam chowder soup (condensed or not), or pasta
(spaghettios with meatballs, for instance) cold out of the can, but I
can't eat most canned veggies at all -- spinach, green beans, etc.,
are just things I'd rather not have than have out of a can.

Let's see, what else can I eat straight out of the can?

Beets (regular or pickled)
Pickled cabbage
Campbell's vegetarian vegetable soup
water chestnuts

serene

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Ranee Mueller said:

Pretty much the same here. Sandwiches are good cold, as are salads.
Cheese and crackers, fruit (though not fridge cold, I don't like that).
If I were in a situation with no stove and no microwave and no fire,
this is the kind of thing I would eat. Not cold canned food. *shudder*

Your ideas are good, but I think we are talking about emergency
supplies. Even with a fridge, some of these things don't keep. With no
fridge, stuff in cans might be an option. Especially the olives.

:-)

--
Dan Abel
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Petaluma, California, USA

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OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

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Dan Abel said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
OmManiPadmeOmelet <[email hidden]> wrote:

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The weather channel has that robotic reporter, and I look at the weather
map and draw my own conclusions. ;-)

I have my very own weather channel. It's called a "window". I can tell
whether it is raining or not. I have a thermometer outside and I can
see that also.

My weather channel didn't work very well yesterday. I got soaked, a few
times. It was 60F, so it wasn't a health crisis. The second time I was
walking through the hospital parking lot, so if I needed treatment for
hypothermia, I was right there.

:-)

--
Dan Abel
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Petaluma, California, USA

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OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
Dan Abel <[email hidden]> wrote:

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I'm taking a break. At least a year. I'll decide what to do in a
while. A long while.

I wish I could do that...
but I hope you are ok???

I'm OK. So OK. I worked at my last job for 25 years. I didn't make a
fortune, but a computer programmer makes good money. Part of the reason
I stuck it out there was because I knew the retirement benefits were
fantastic. They are paying me *so* much for not working there. My net
pay, which wasn't minor, is now about 2/3 what it was. For not working.
We have no rent or mortgage. The vehicles are fairly new and paid off.
We have no other debts. The kids are all grown up. They don't need a
stay at home mom anymore. So my wife has agreed to go back to work.
She has two jobs. She has actually had the one job for more than a
decade, but it didn't pay. She works about 20 hours a week, and is paid
US$240 a month. The other job is 10 hours a week, and pays US$1000 a
month. She goes here there and everywhere, but mostly in town, and most
of her time is working at home, on the computer and the telephone. I
have lifetime health and dental coverage.

--
Dan Abel
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Petaluma, California, USA

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serene said:

jmcquown said:

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

When rushed and hungry, (generally at work when it's busy), what types
of foods can or do you eat right out of the can, cold?

Canned cream soups
Spinach
Cut green beans
Asparagus spears
Baby corns
Black Olives
Green Olives
Any other canned veggie depending on my mood.

Canned beans are out tho'. Those have GOT to be warmed up!

I can't eat canned creamed soup cold, sorry. That's one reason I really
like those Campbell's Soup at Hand and other quick microwaveable soup
containers. 3 minutes... about the time it takes to make a phone call at
the office. Voila... sip or spoon up lunch.

But SO expensive!

I can eat canned corn (regular or cream style), green olives, cream of
mushroom or clam chowder soup (condensed or not), or pasta
(spaghettios with meatballs, for instance) cold out of the can, but I
can't eat most canned veggies at all -- spinach, green beans, etc.,
are just things I'd rather not have than have out of a can.

Let's see, what else can I eat straight out of the can?

Beets (regular or pickled)
Pickled cabbage
Campbell's vegetarian vegetable soup
water chestnuts

serene

Add to the above list:

Canned ham
Smoked baby clams
Smoked oysters
Sardines
Kipper snacks

Those are items I tend to keep in my locker
for emergency low carb snacking. ;-)

Boston brown bread used to be one my parents
used when we were camping, but mom generally
used the campfire toaster and served it hot
with butter, so that one does not count.
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

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Dan Abel said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ranee Mueller said:

Pretty much the same here. Sandwiches are good cold, as are salads.
Cheese and crackers, fruit (though not fridge cold, I don't like that).
If I were in a situation with no stove and no microwave and no fire,
this is the kind of thing I would eat. Not cold canned food. *shudder*

Your ideas are good, but I think we are talking about emergency
supplies. Even with a fridge, some of these things don't keep. With no
fridge, stuff in cans might be an option. Especially the olives.

:-)

This thread could easily expand into emergency eating with no
refrigeration and no power, and no way to really heat stuff.

How long does canned sterno keep? I just had to toss about 2 dozen cans
of canned sterno (it rattled hard as a rock) out of the storage shed a
couple of weeks ago when I was going thru stuff. I don't really know how
old it was, but probably close to 10 years old. I wonder if there is a
really good way to store sterno long term and keep it from evaporating?

Can one cook over candles?
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

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Dan Abel said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Dan Abel said:

In article <[email hidden]>,
OmManiPadmeOmelet <[email hidden]> wrote:

Quoted message said:

The weather channel has that robotic reporter, and I look at the weather
map and draw my own conclusions. ;-)

I have my very own weather channel. It's called a "window". I can tell
whether it is raining or not. I have a thermometer outside and I can
see that also.

My weather channel didn't work very well yesterday. I got soaked, a few
times. It was 60F, so it wasn't a health crisis. The second time I was
walking through the hospital parking lot, so if I needed treatment for
hypothermia, I was right there.

:-)

<lol> you sound like me...

But DO watch the anthills!
They are a great little rain predictor.
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson