Vegetables, fresh, frozen or canned?

[tvguy]

I have also purchased and used artichoke hearts in cans, I actually have 3 cans in my cabinet now because they were on sale and I do like to add them to a few different dishes I make.

You know, while I prefer fresh and frozen veggies, I will eat canned, but canned artichoke hearts have to be my biggest disappointment of the whole bunch.

 

[A_Princess'_Daddy]

We eat mainly fresh (one of the benefits of living in Iowa is a plethora of fresh produce not only in the summer, but also in the winters due to the large number of greenhouse farms) but my son absolutely adores frozen peas (he eats them by the bowl-full, still frozen, like they're ice cream) so we buy a bag or so of those each week from Trader Joe's. We'll also occasionally buy frozen haricot vert if we can't find good looking fresh ones.

The most disgusting vegetable I ever ate was a frozen Brussels sprout. It was absolute mush even after roasting. Blech!

The only canned "vegetable" we buy is pozole for a delicious pork and pozole stew that my wife makes, but that is because it's the only way we can find it locally.

ETA, I lied, we also use canned tomato sauce. Not sure if that counts, but don't want to give the impression we make our own tomato sauce.

 

[tasha99]

I buy canned tomato sauces and tomato products for soups. Also buy canned pumpkin for pies and muffins. Other than those, I avoid canned vegies because I don't like the texture.

We eat more frozen than I'd like to because fresh tends to be expensive and poor quality in the winter. I'd say it's about half and half (no frozen brussels sprouts or asparagus, though. Mostly frozen green beans and broccoli.)