A Sea of Cans

Recently I've noticed that I consume too much canned food. Even "homemade" foods are really just a bunch of canned foods thrown into a pot together. How do I escape the high sodium and lack of nutrition associated with these cans when they make my life so much easier and tastier? Currently I am eating straight from a can of "fruit cocktail in lightly sweetened juice" (there are still 18 grams of sugar per serving, of which there are 3 and a half.. yeah right). Yummm.