I want to take a break from cooking and need a change from vegetable dishes so I plan to fix something simple tonight: canned corned beef and scrambled eggs, basically, breakfast for dinner as a serving of corned beef, rice and a cooked egg is a common breakfast dish in the Philippines.
The variety of available canned foods found here is, well, not what most ex-pats are used to in their home countries. You can find corned beef, carne norte (a variety of corned beef that's chopped up finer and contains more juice), Vienna sausages, tuna in various flavors, sardines in assorted flavors, pork and beans, SPAM, something called "beef loaf" which is a finely-ground meat product of some sort, plus a few favorite Filipino foods such as lechon paksiw and sisig. You can sometimes find things like canned soups (and not very many flavors of these: cream of mushroom, mainly) and vegetables in the regular old #2 size cans, but these are usually located in the Imported Foods aisle of a supermarket and they're rather expensive. You probably won't find very many canned convenience foods (meals in a can), such as Chef Boy-Ar-Di products, canned beef stew, tamales, "Chinese food" or lima beans with ham. No Spaghetti-Os!
The canned corned beef you find here is different than that in the US: chunkier and more flavorful. The cans are small, round 155 gram size rather than the larger, squarish cans that are opened with a key. You open these with a regular can opener. I actually prefer carne norte, which is both cheaper and tastier, but my wife likes corned beef because it has larger chunks of meat. Anyway, it's an easy and nourishing meal to eat occasionally if you want to take a break from vegetables.