We tried some 18 Cents cheap discount supermarket
Baked Beans for our tea tonight:
We had a tin of corned beef, chips 🍟 and the cheap Baked Beans 🫘.
My favourite Baked Beans are made in Wigan in Lancashire the town where the best pies 🥧 come from.
Here's a picture of the 18 Cents beans:
Would you try them or would you pay 4.99 Euros for four?
Oh to be a fly on the ceiling of expats in a Spanish or Portuguese hotel dining room:
"But they are not proper Beans and it's not like 'our' bacon what we have back at home. It's that streaky stuff!"
I might have uttered similar words myself.
So dear readers what do you think cheap Baked Beans or the expensive brand?
I will hopefully tell you what I thought of the cheap beans in my comments.
Urgh... I have always disliked baked beans, even as a child. When I was told to eat them up or go hungry, I went hungry. Even now the thought of them makes me feel queasy.
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I used to like baked beans but although I do find tins of Heinz now and again I never buy any. I don't like the taste anymore. I think I've got too used to the bean soup, fassolatha, that I cook here in Greece.
ReplyDeleteI bet you didn't like these cheap ones. They usually taste cheap too
How did you guess Linda? Mr 57 different varieties are far sweeter. I think if had a b and b or cafe I would be selling the famous brands. It's the taste that you are use to isn't it?
DeleteAs a family we prefer to have Aldi beans to the market leader because they are less sweet and I prefer them because the are so much cheaper at 41p a can. Jane
ReplyDeleteThanks Jane. I will check the Aldi beans out. They stock a nice blended Scottish whisky I like. We can't get English beer though, sadly.
DeleteI love the famous German sounding baked beans JayCee. When we went to the Algarve in 2015 we saw a sign in the window of a cafeteria advertising: Beaked Beans. Perhaps they sold them to the storks that you see there? Isn't blogging good when you can write about anything?
ReplyDeleteYou know, if you like Heinz baked beans, have you ever tried making your own? https://www.recipetineats.com/homemade-baked-beans-recipe-heinz/
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link Debby. I believe they originate in North America and were called Navy Beans or Haricot Beans. I think they are white coloured beans. Have you ever grown them or seen them growing?
DeleteYep. I have. I dried them, but did it improperly. They molded and it broke my heart. But I will try again. They are easy enough. You can't buy bags of beans there? Because, if you can, Dave, save a few of them to plant. They not only feed you now, they will grow another crop to feed you in the future.
DeleteI have never seen bags of beans over here Debby. Everything seems to come in a tin. I don't think I ever seen Haricot beans growing.
DeleteGoogle dried beans. Seriously, you will save a ton of money and have beans to grow too. You will never have to buy canned baked beans again.
DeleteWill do Debby.
DeleteI can not stand baked beans, never could, hubby does occasionally have a can which he cooks himself.
ReplyDeleteI love them Marlene. I always have. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI eat baked beans and they are healthy, cheap and easy. I get the brand that I like because brands vary slightly in the tomato sauce.
ReplyDeleteYes taste is very strange Rachel. If you don't eat or drink something that you haven't had for a while. They taste strange. I suppose that's why we like what we are familiar with? Saying that. When I lived in England and we bought Sainsburys own brands. There was nothing I didn't like. Thanks Rachel.
ReplyDeleteBack here in Dear Old Blighty, the citizenship have long preferred "Heinz" baked beans but in the last couple of years the cost of a tin of them has climbed to well over a £1. In our local Sainsburys store I saw them for £1.55 a can just last week! This is the reason why we have tried out other brands in recent months. Some taste better than others but I guess that the nutritional value is roughly similar.
ReplyDeleteYes YP. I think taste means so much and so does the price. According to Professor Google. The Heinz factory in Wigan makes between 1.5 and 3 million tins of baked beans per day. Blighty people love their baked beans and so do I.
ReplyDeleteBeans are first rate if you need to generate super farts. Cabbage also does the job nicely and tends to be more odorous when you blast 'em out.
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ReplyDeleteI love baked beans, although I've never tried the budget ones. My preference is a supermarket own brand, or Branstons.
ReplyDeleteI have never tried Branstons Baked Beans Jules. Thanks.
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