Frozen or Canned

"Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie." ~Jim Davis

What is better frozen or canned veggies? I love eating fresh vegetables but sometimes you can't eat them before they go bad, so you have to make a choice weather to buy frozen or canned veggies. What is your fix?

Me personally, I think that it is a mixture of both. For example: green beans are better canned than frozen, while peas are better frozen than canned. It seems that somehow when being frozen some veggies, like green beans, seem to loose their flavor and texture; and that while being canned some vegges, like peas, get all mushy! :) Why is that?

And then, are there some veggies that don't taste good either way: fresh, frozen, or canned? Like beets? :) (Sorry, when I think of beets all I can think of is the pickled beets that we would serve everyone every night for dinner at the nursing home!)

I was reading about frozen and canned veggies, and this is what I found . . . it is always better for you to eat fresh veggies, but if you can't have them fresh (due to not eating them fast enough or too expensive or not enough storage or whatever) it is better to go with frozen. The store-bought frozen veggies are usually frozen at the peek of their ripeness, while store-bought canned veggies usually have extra sugar and salt. Oh, and the other hand, canned veggies take up less room in the freeze! :)

I suppose it depends on what you are looking for in buying veggies . . . taste, health, price, space  . . . or a combination of everything. In the end, I don't think it really matters where you get your veggies (fresh, organic, frozen, canned, home grown) as long as you try to have a healthy balanced diet and that you enjoy it! Food is something to fuel our bodies, and we shouldn't have to be gagging at every bite we take! :)