Recently, I was grocery shopping at a store I don't normally shop at, and I needed diced tomatoes for my vegetarian chili recipe. Often I will just buy fresh tomatoes, dice them myself, but that isn't always practical, so when that is the case, I like to buy the tomatoes in a box, not in a can. In fact, I try to avoid anything in a can. If I can't buy it fresh, I'll resort to frozen, but only canned if I am seriously desperate. This is usually a great policy for most foods, except tomatoes.
