Get all your veggies from Allens & Recipe: Praline Yams with Sugary Sam Sweet Potatoes

I love getting fresh veggies from the garden but that only works for me for a few months a year. For the rest of the year, I need to rely on what I can get from the grocery store. I'd love to be able to walk out to my garden 12 months a year and pick fresh vegetables to feed the family but that just isn't realistic for me in rural Vermont. Winters are long and there's nothing that grows in three feet of snow.

While I like fresh vegetables, there are times when my grocery budget or my limited dinner preparation time doesn't allow me to start from fresh. When that's the case, I turn to frozen or canned vegetables to feed my family quickly while still providing a healthy dinner.


Allens is the leader in canned and frozen vegetables, producing brands including Popeye’s Spinach, Freshlike, Veg-All and of course their Allens brand. I recently had the chance to try several of the Allens brands veggies and was very impressed with them. Not all canned veggies taste good. I've tried a few where the veggies were more bits than actual whole pieces of vegetable but the Allens brand isn't like that.  I had a chance to try the Veg-All, canned carrots and Popeye spinach and was pleased with each of the vegetables I tried.

My garden isn't quite up and running yet & I've never had any luck growing sweet potatoes or yams. I recently had the opportunity to try Sugary Sam Sweet Potatoes distributed by Allen's Inc. I decided to try the recipe for Praline Yams that was printed on their can.

Praline Yams

15 oz can Sugary Sam Cut Yams, drained
3 tablespoons chopped pecans
3 tablespoons coconut
3 tablespoons firmly packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon flour
2 tablespoons margarine or butter, melted

Put drained yams or sweet potatoes in one quart baking dish. Preheat oven to 350F. In small bowl, combine remaining ingredients. Blend Well. Sprinkle over yams. Bake at 350F for 30 minutes or until bubbly. Makes 4 servings.

This was delicious! The sweet potatoes from Sugary Sam were in big chunks not tiny pieces which was a pleasant surprise.  Some canned veggies aren't that great quality and I was pleased to see that Sugary Sam Sweet Potatoes was a canned vegetable I could trust for quality.

My thanks to Allens for allowing me to review this product.

As required by the FTC: I received a product sample in order to write my review.  I received no monetary compensation.  All opinions expressed are mine and mine alone.