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Forgot about this stuff ... for real comfort in a chill, empty a bag of salt and vinegar crisps into a flattish bowl before pouring a large can of Habitant soup over it :) Crisps go all gooey and soggy and just excellent. Garli bread too ... just don't expect to be able to move much afterwards :lol:

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That looks like a classic Swedish pea soup.
Thursday lunch food by tradition! Southern Sweden - bits of hardwood smoked ham, the rest of Sweden boiled with a ham bone.

Should have thyme inside, sometimes a pinch of Marjoram.
I dollop of mustard, stir, and watch the Eight Wonder of the World, a gradual thickening!
 
"All day breakfast" but only from the poundshop! Never tastes as nice if I have had to pay more then a quid,lord only knows why.
Tinned Mackeral with oatcakes makes a very fine snack but not quite a meal.
At home the humble tin of Beans on toast is not to be underestimated.
Having said that I still come back to a tin of "all day" in the field is just so easy and so good.
 
I couldn't pin myself down to a single favourite, there's so much to choose from. My shortlist is thus:

Stagg - Chilli Con Carne (I sprinkle on some grated cheese and accompany with a bag of doritos for dipping)
Hunger Breaks - All Day Breakfast (I'm with Hammock Man when it comes to getting them cheap though!! B&M's is a good store to get them)
Spam (preferably the one with added bacon!)
Ambrosia - Semolina (never fails to remind me of school dinners!)
 
Hard to pick a favourite. I'm pretty disinterested in cooking and I like foods that I can stock up on and always have in the cupboard on standby, so many of my favourites are canned.

Corned beef is OK, but expensive now for what it is. I haven't eaten it 'raw' in years, but still love a tattie pot.

Best though has to be rice pudding. I prefer it canned to homemade (sacrilege to many!) and with a big dollop of jam in it - perfection!
+1 for rice pudding from a can :inlove:
 
Literally just heard on the radio. The firm ambrosia faces closure if a buyer cannot be found. So stock up on your favourite tins of custard and rice pud. Have I now started a panic buying incident?!!!!
 
Thought that was happening anyway! I can't find my favourite kallo stock cubes anywhere. I keep asking the shop and I'm going to chain myself to the railings with a huge placard and refuse to move untill they are in stock. :)
 
Have you tried the 'wet' stock concentrate?
Once we discovered it we do not use the cubes anymore, except a Shrimp stock cube.
( not sure you can get that one in UK. It is fantastic for fish soups and sauces for all types of sea food)
 
I was hoping you would pick up on the "civil unrest" bit rather than the missing stock cubes. They have promised they will be in stock (pun intended ) next week. I use kallo as they are gluten free. Anyway, I've just thought of another favourite tinfull. Tinned pineapple. My favourite pudding.
 
Far too many to list. But just a few in no particular order:
-Bush's Baked Beans
-Corned Beef
-Campbell's Tomato Soup (especially with a dash of Tobasco added and served along with a grilled cheese sandwich)
-Wolf Chile (had this for supper tonight)
-Spam
-Vienna Sausages
-Sardines (any brand)
-Potted Meat or Deviled Ham
-Any canned fruit
-Chef Boyardee (any)......and on, and on, and on
 
Chef Boyardee......
Yep, food for real mafiosi!
My fav there are those giant ravioli.

I aldo love Tapioca pudding.
First take one spoonful to make space. Then drizzle maple syrup, or liquid honey, or if you chill the can properly, Dulce de Leche (warm) or Nutella (warm)
 
Gawd, Janne, that's really crap in a can. Make pasta, make 3" tortelli. I had my own maple wood molds made.
Seems to take the gaff for several days dried to the camp. Cook time is maybe 11 minutes, not 8 minutes.
Very cheap to learn to make and NO, you do not need a pasta machine. Big knife and a big pin.

santaman: nice to see that Bush's Baked Beans made the top of yout list. Mine, too.

The deal has to be calories/carbs as #1. Then essential fats.
Always back to finding good water.
Virus gone? Bacteria gone? Feces and mineral chemicals gone? Really?
 
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Far too many to list. But just a few in no particular order:
-Bush's Baked Beans
-Corned Beef
-Campbell's Tomato Soup (especially with a dash of Tobasco added and served along with a grilled cheese sandwich)
-Wolf Chile (had this for supper tonight)
-Spam
-Vienna Sausages
-Sardines (any brand)
-Potted Meat or Deviled Ham
-Any canned fruit
-Chef Boyardee (any)......and on, and on, and on
Can you get the tomato rice flavour of cambells soup? They've stopped selling it in supermarkets over here when I was still at school (decades ago). It's the one canned food I really miss. I don't know why I like it but I do. I'd forgotten about it but this thread is now making me obsess about it. I can still imagine the taste. And being a concentrate you don't always dissolve it in the added water so I can still taste the lumps of heated concentrated soup that's not fully mixed.
 
Gawd, Janne, that's really crap in a can. Make pasta, make 3" tortelli. I had my own maple wood molds made.
Seems to take the gaff for several days dried to the camp. Cook time is maybe 11 minutes, not 8 minutes.
Very cheap to learn to make and NO, you do not need a pasta machine. Big knife and a big pin.

santaman: nice to see that Bush's Baked Beans made the top of yout list. Mine, too.

The deal has to be calories/carbs as #1. Then essential fats.
Always back to finding good water.
Virus gone? Bacteria gone? Feces and mineral chemicals gone? Really?

Baked beans are even easier to make then tortelini!
 
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When younger I used to save time on cooking by eating a tin of corned beef, a tin of baked beans and a load of pickled onions. If I had a 6 pack of crisps they'd be gone too.

That's a lazy man's corned beef hash!

Not that nice but you'll survive.
 

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