A tin of tomatoes is not just a handy store cupboard item but a versatile food and full of goodness.
I have always been a sucker (not literally!)for tomatoes,especially being veggie, but I now buy at least six tins on each shopping trip,and have conquered my dislike of being spotted with ... Read review
Advantages: versatile and very cheap Disadvantages: maybe slightly poorer quality
A tin of tomatoes is not just a handy store cupboard item but a versatile food and full of goodness.
I have always been a sucker (not literally!)for tomatoes,especially being veggie, but I now buy at least six tins on each shopping trip,and have conquered my dislike of being spotted with Tesco Value packaging filling up my trolley!
You will find Tesco Value tomatoes,always in 400g tins, in the tinned food section,usually ... ...is packaged in predominantly white labels with blue stripes,announcing Tesco and a bigger Value in red.You can buy this product as chopped tomatoes or plum tomatoes.The plums are 15p per tin in my store and the chopped variety are 23p.I cannot see why anybody would pay more when they could chop them up themselves!
I think this is so cheap and notice that other leading brands charge far more,around the 40p mark.
A tin of tomatoes is not just a handy store cupboard item but a versatile food and full of goodness.
I have always been a sucker (not literally!)for tomatoes,especially being veggie, but I now buy at least six tins on each shopping trip,and have conquered my dislike of being spotted with Tesco Value packaging filling up my trolley!
You will find Tesco Value tomatoes,always in 400g tins, in the tinned food section,usually near the baked beans.
Tesco Value range is packaged in predominantly white labels with blue stripes,announcing Tesco and a bigger Value in red.You can buy this product as chopped tomatoes or plum tomatoes.The plums are 15p per tin in my store and the chopped variety are 23p.I cannot see why anybody would pay more when they could chop them up themselves!
I think this is so cheap and notice that other leading brands charge far more,around the 40p mark.
The fruits themselves ( I still find it hard to describe a tomato as a fruit,why? I dont know)are red."Obviously!",I hear you all mutter but they do sometimes have an odd hard,greenish one in a tin.They are very juicy,maybe a little sloppier than other brands and the tin also contains a lot of juice.This isn't too bad for 15p!
So what do I find so exciting about my tin of juicy fruits?
I use them in curries,casseroles,soups,stews,pasta sauces,on top of homemade pizza,spag bol,sweet and sour dishes,shepherds pie,alone on toast topped with herbs/grated cheese/black pepper,mixing with vodka and tabasco or quite simply as an accompaniment to a meal as a vegetable portion.
It now appears that I seemingly use tinned tomatoes in every meal but they are so useful and its easy just to open a tin whilst cooking,adding a fat free and vegetarian ingredient,loaded with Vitamin C and fibre (if my memory from school cookery lessons serves me correctly).The label states that 400g tin only contains 72 calories and no fat whatsoever.
A top tip for any dieter is that these count as zero points on the WeightWatchers diet and I ate even more of them than ever when dieting.
The tins contain nothing other than Tomatoes (60%),Tomato Juice,and Citric Acid. You empty the contents into a pan and heat gently for 4 minutes,stirring occasionally.I prefer to heat in a microwave for a minute or two.You should not let them boil.
They can sometimes taste rather acidic,not always very sweet but I tend to squirt a shot of tomato ketchup into the recipe or a drop of Worcestshire sauce to counteract this sharpness.Fresh or dried herbs also blend well.
At first,I didnt think I could write so much on a basic tin of tomatoes so I have surprised myself! Next time,anybody snootily looks into my trolley full of Value tins,I'll know that they haven't read my Ciao op!
I have been trying to use up my entire emergency / just in case, store in my pantry as we are having a new kitchen extension built. I have no room to store excess food till it is built.
I discovered a tin or two of Tesco value tomatoes, packaged in the standard tesco value blue stripe wrapper. I have some beef and was going to make a large beef casserole to last me 2 or 3 days that way I shall probably curry it tomorrow .I have added tomatoes to ... ...to a casserole makes it tasty.
Tinned Tomatoes are excellent for dieters contain 0.1 g just a trace per 100g 2.9g of carbohydrates of which 2.7 are sugars only 17kcal per 100g.
Tesco value tomatoes contain tomatoes 60% tomato juice and citric acid
These tomatoes can be stored in the fridge for 2 days after opening if in a non-metallic container, useful if you are on your own and only use half a tin
I have other tinned tomatoes in the past and ...
mumsymary 07.09.2003
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Tescos Tinned Plum Tomatoes
Advantages: Fantastic price! Nice taste. Can do lots with it. Disadvantages: None
When it comes to shopping I have to shop on a budget. So I generally do my shopping in Tesco's and buy their own value brand products. They're really cheap, and I can get LOTS more for my money! I once told my Nanny that I felt a bit embarressed buying the value range of products as people could then tell I was poor - especially when I saw people putting stuff like Heinz, Walkers and Walls ice cream in their trollies! She said "Oh, I wouldn't worry ... ...I always stock up with plenty of their baked beans and plum tomatoes. Tesco Value Plum Tomatoes can be bought for the princely some of just £0.15p for a 400g tin. Not bad, eh?!
The tin is predominantly white and red with the famous blue and white striped Tesco mark at the top of the tin. On one side of the tin are the ingredients, nutritional information, how to cook information (just in case you need telling!) and storage details.
On opening the ...
Louise90 03.10.2005
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Advantages: Cheap and cheerful Disadvantages: None that I can think of
You know what it's like when you haven't got much dosh and you want something cheap to eat. Well that's the predicament that I was in.
Plum tomato's go with almost anything and I thought, yeah I'm going to make a casserole with these. O.k they weren't anything to look at in the plain blue striped Tesco tin, but what I saw when I opened the tin was surprising. They were just like any other plum tomato's, but yet I'd paid half the price for them. ... ...you know when you want to stock up on anything well these are great to stock up on cause they last for ages. These Tesco tomato's contain 60 % tomato juice and citric acid. 23p for 400g and you can't go wrong.
My husbands sitting there hungry and I throw a tin of these into the casserole it just adds extra flavour. I have known people eating these with a breakfast fry up too. With their bacon. O.k you may look at these tomato's and think your being ...
Mickie26 22.02.2004
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Tescos Tinned Plum Tomatoes
Advantages: Price,Tasty,value for money Disadvantages: the 1/2 a tomato in every tin
...problem I personally have with tescos own brand is the "Value" design. I find that I tend to be slightly embarassed about appearing mean if I have too many Value items in my trolley (probably just be being strange).
Below is some information from the tin which you may find useful:
Free from: Egg, Benzoate, Gluten, Maize, Wheat, Glutamate, Milk, Sulphur Dioxide
Suitable for vegetarians and vegans ...
natzx1 15.01.2003 (16.01.2003)
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