I don’t eat canned soup anymore – can’t stand it, not after being upgraded at home.
Beer, meanwhile, has a tab or comes in a bottle.
So here are my reasons for not throwing our can opener into the trash:
- Tuna fish
- Tomato paste, as well as whole and diced tomatoes
- Sweet corn
- Sweet condensed milk
- Garbanzo beans (already softened)
- Pumpkin filling, not just for pies
- Coconut milk
- Chipotle
- Pineapple (not fresh)
- Baked beans
If we only had a dog or cat and their cans of pet food.
Jnana's Red Barn 
Hmm. I think all of the items on the list that are produced in Aotearoa, they are either bottled or come in cans with tear tabs, come in sachets, or are frozen – well the ones we buy are. I’ve never seen pumpkin in any container other than as a soup. We tend to eat pumpkin, which is available all year round on supermarket shelves, as a boiled or roast vegetable in the same way as potatoes. Chipotle is not something I’ve seen in supermarkets, or anywhere else for that matter. It might be available in some imported food speciality shops, but not the ones we visit on a regular basis. We still have a can opener somewhere in a kitchen drawer but I doubt it’s been near a can for over a year.