Dinty Moore """Beef Stew"""" is more like: hamburger soup.

[DeathGrip]

I'd come closer to eating Alpo.

 

[JayFramer]

I'd come closer to eating Alpo.

+1

At least Alpo still tastes like it did in the old days.

 

[DeathGrip]

Ringo, If you got time to bake you have time to cook simple meals.

I can make a chili or spaghetti in an hour or so. I freeze the rest in meal sized containers for when I feel like it again.

Trust me. If you learn to do so and take a pot to work those ladies there are gonna fight for you.

 

[jrclen]

I haven't had Dinty Moore Beef Stew in years. Sounds like I won't in the future either. To bad.

 

[Mike SC Hunter]

Thankfully my wife still cooks our soups/chili's and 95% of all we eat. Thankful again I don't have to eat that high priced, cheap made, watered-salted down junk they now pass off as food.

 

[riverrat38]

I buy cans of high quality vegetarian chili at a whole food co-op, and brown my own low fat ground beef. Add chili and heat. Extra onions and chilis optional. I just chop, and brown with the hamburger.

An alternate to a slow cooker is to use an oven set on about 225 F. Get everything good and hot on the stove top in a pot or Dutch oven, cover and put in oven for several hours, same as slow cooker. The heat is even all around, and works the same way. I don't have a slow cooker because I do all my cooking at home. Works well for all soups, stews and sauces.

Best,
Rick

 

[JohnRippert]

I used to eat Austex beef stew. I would add a couple spices to it and put it over linguine. Too much salt and calories for me these days, like most canned foods.

 

[PALADIN85020]

I gave up on Hormel products many years ago. Just not to my taste.

I am EXTREMELY upset to learn from you that Wolf brand chili has been watered down. It was a staple of our pantry for many years, although we have not bought any recently. It was perfect for Coney Island chili dogs, also. There was a house brand that tasted nearly the same with the same texture, but I can't remember what it was, and we don't have any currently (I checked).

The only constant is change. That is why Smith puts those holes in the sides of most of their current revolvers, and I will NOT comment further on that.

John

 

[rwsmith]

Dinty Moore

Dinty Moore used to be one of the more decent canned beef stews, but nothing is what it used to be. Even 40 years ago Poss was GROSS.

 

[Golddollar]

If anybody wants to get some home made chili, at least for a day, go to the web site for the International Chili Society and locate a cookoff in your area. One of the main rules for the competition is that everything must be prepared at the site, so you can see what ingredients go into a particular batch of chili, and then go back to sample it. The cooks are there to win prizes and advance to the next level of competition, so they are going to try to make the best chili they can. I have been a competitive cook for better than 15 years and I can tell you the cooks take their chili seriously. In the picture you can see a fresh roast being cubed and it will be browned up in the #14 Griswold cast iron skillet on the table.

 

[Rpg]

Love the Griswold!!

Serious cooks need serious tools.

 

[cmort666]

I recently bought two cans of the stuff (before I realized it was made by Hormel (hell foods) and tried eating that garbage. It used to be good-but no longer is. I don't know who the jerk is who forced a change in their recipe? but--I'm completely done with ANY product they have except for an occasional SPAM. I am seriously thinking of suing them for false advertisement-the photo on the can shows large chunks of meat with the stew--no longer the case-at least with the two cans I bought. I MIGHT buy another can and see if there are actual meat chunks and actual gravy in it-instead of the terrible-tasting soup-like carp I got stuck with. Anyway, if that idiot who forced the corner-cutting STUPID change to what used to be a good tasting stew-is reading this? YOU, have one more shot with me-before you lose a long time loyal customer. However--ill never buy yer darned tamales again-as you ruined those years ago.

While I'm at it, I noticed that Wolf brand chili--did the same. It no longer is chili-but fragging SOUP!!!!!!!!!

IS there any alternates out there?? I don't cook from scratch chili or stews due to lack of time, energy and space.

Years ago on my first trip to the local Aldi's, I bought a can of "stew".

As a matter of course, I add a lot of pepper to soups, stews, etc. I was surprised to discover that, even with my usual generous portion of pepper, it was virtually tasteless.

So I added more pepper. It was still bland enough to make an Englishman gag.

I added Tabasco, and several other things. It was still like boiled typing paper.

I finally added a good teaspoon of Dave's Insanity Sauce. All I achieved was to make it too hot to eat, without giving it ANY taste at all. I think I was unemployed at the time and was loathe to waste money. I still threw it out.

Now that the local Big Lots closed, I no longer have a source for Wolf's chili with beans. Giant Eagle for some unaccountable reason stopped carrying the Wolf with beans. I won't even consider the chili without beans. And no, I'm not adding beans, or anything else for that matter. I buy canned chili so that I DON'T have to "cook".

 

[OLDSTER]

Dinty Moore Stew, Spam, Vienna Sausages, and Kippered Snacks AAH! great stuff. Are you health-food junkies just a little envious ??

 

[rond]

Check out the brick chili, usually by the hot dog section in the meat case. Be aware that it is pretty pricey.

 

[rockquarry]

Any canned "main course" food really sounds foul and probably tastes no better. Most are loaded with salt.

As described in a previous post, it's not that difficult or time-consuming to prepare much better and healthier meals even for someone that doesn't cook regularly. Many dishes, like chili, are suitable for freezing. Others, such as stew, don't do well frozen because potatoes will lose texture.

With one of the very small crock pots available today, a two-serving quantity of beef stew can be made easily with a minimal amount of ingredients and no waste. Aside from several hours cooking time in the crock pot, the time required for slicing vegetables and trimming /browning meat is probably no more than about fifteen to twenty minutes.

 

[wingriderz]

Thats stuff isn't cheap either even at Wal mart

 

[bill2000]

Anybody that expects a good dinner from a can has set his expectations way too high. Anybody with an ounce of self respect and common sense can whip up a simple stew and freeze leftovers to feast on another day. Grown men...Dinty Moor, Spaghetti-O's....please.

 

[S&WsRsweet]

Ok I too suffer from the shortcuts these companies are taking and the serious bad attitudes of most places where you get poor service and attitudes today all that said was to say this .Texas Pete the same today and yesterday and Morton salt and I love all the sauer spices ,my wife laughed when she saw my spice rack I said yea but with enough of this stuff I can eat an old boot if I have to , I didn't know at the time I might actually end up eating old boots the bad thing is the dog and cat food companies are putting more meat and better vegetables in their products read the labels of some of the newer high end brands .Thinking of trying it with salt n pepper and Texas Pete it all tastes the same anyway ,but spam now it tastes the same to me I hope they don't change I know it's not good for ya but remember how bad sugar was for ya now look at the new Pepsi commercials they are advertising good old sugar as there natural sweetener lol .Seriously though I have a friend who makes large pots of soups a stews that are really tasty and he and his wife raise the meat and vegetables themselves they and there families will sell to certain customers canned ( read mason jars ) meats soups stews and give you credit back if you return the jars unbroken or cracked ,they supplement their family income with this ,so find someone local or someone who has such a contact my friends are Mormons but you don't have to be a member of their religion to be a customer and I must admit their work ethic is admirable and their young people are very polite and clean none of them look like they just got out of prison or are trying their best to get in .I would also like to add that there are other religions that teach their families how to live a more family oriented lifestyle it's just my friend happens to be LDS not knocking anyone else or anything like that .

 

[Golddollar]

Love the Griswold!!

Serious cooks need serious tools.

It's definitely a serious tool. That particular skillet will hold 3 pounds of cubed beef, 3 chopped onions and 3 chopped peppers. Makes it easy to brown up everything together.

 

[Arik]

No surprise, really.

They want to keep the cost the same so the consumer doesn't ditch them. So as food prices rise, they simply add more and more water to the product. Trust me, I've noticed it to.

The REAL shame is that fresh beef and fresh vegetables are so expensive. I never understood how these companies can buy apparently at least some fresh meat and vegetables, can them, cook and season them, transport them all around the country, and sell them to me and you for a buck. To make the real thing yourself at home would cost $30 or better, and would not make 30 cans worth of soup, not even close.

It's a racket. These companies feed us their chemical and preservative ridden watered down mystery soup and it ends up being much more expensive to just cook your own fresh healthy soup... I really do not understand this country sometimes, what went wrong.

Because they're buying tons and you only buy a pound or two! Order 10 tons of beef and you'll probably get the same price

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