Tinned food has seen a resurgence with shoppers looking to cut down on costs and have quick-easy meals available while juggling busy lives. A 25-minute crispy tinned potato air-fryer snack recently went viral on social media, while the Hawaiian snack Spam musubi - Spam on a block of rice - gained millions of views on TikTok. The supermarket tinned alcohol drinks boom has even seen Michelin-starred restaurants serving wine in a can.
As well as the increasing cost of food - prices reached the highest level in 40 years in 2022 - the coronavirus pandemic also altered shopping habits. People were increasingly looking towards store cupboard staples. READ MORE: Three TGI Fridays restaurants in Wales to shut immediately with staff made redundant LATEST: B&M's Cadbury Chocolate Selection box is back - and it's even bigger this Christmas With supermarket shelves often left bare, shoppers turned to produce they could rely on when needed.
Items such as tomatoes, pineapple, sweetcorn are said to be particularly popular with shoppers. Shoppers may have rediscovered their love of tinned food, but could you live a week eating purely from cans? The i's Sophie Morris decided to give it a go, and was pleasantly surprised by the result. Her initial breakfast option, tinned fruit with yoghurt, felt like “pudding for breakfast” she said, admitting she did however lose out on the fibre provided by the skin of the fruit.
She also tucked-in to the newly released Heinz carbonara, which Sophie said.
