Beans, Beans.........

Advantages: taste, price
Disadvantages: not as good as heinz

...Branston Baked Beans................... I am very partial to baked beans on toast (covered in cheese) or indeed I have been known to eat them cold straight from the can either way I have always bought Heinz as they are literally the ultimate baked bean. However as Branston Baked Beans have been on special offer in Tesco's recently (buy 4 for £1) I snapped them up and was pleasantly surprised. The Branston Baked Bean tin design is a lot different from that of the Heinz tin. Of course it still has a picture of some beans on the front but instead of the Heinz green label Branston's is silver and looks just as good as its rival. The beans inside the tin look pretty much the same as Heinz with the thick red/orange sauce and the tin full to the top with beans and juice. The smell again is practically the same only Branston...

newby2 19.06.2009 · Read review
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Bag and baggage

Advantages: I don't have one
Disadvantages: I don't have one

...While awaiting inspiration for a new review, I remembered that this one was overdue for an update. Although I rewrote it a year or so ago for Dooyoo, to include selected items from handbag reviews posted over there, I never got round to revising the Ciao version. So here it is. All the articles mentioned appeared in reviews by women on one site or the other. * What have I in my handbag? I mustn't tell you lies; In truth the only bags I own Are those beneath my eyes. You don't need special insight, No expertise in rockets, To guess that, being just a man, I keep stuff in my pockets. But if I now said: "Nothing! So there, and that?s your lot!" You might not feel satisfied And rate this Helpful ? Not. * In any case, the subject Has made me realise how Much women carry in their bags...

torr 06.11.2004 (11.10.2009) · Read review
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Bags of jiffy bag envelopes

Advantages: padds some fragile goods
Disadvantages: not suitable for glass

...I received a DVD in a jiffy bag recently opened the bag carefully and put the bag ready to reuse with about 20 other old jiffy bags I have ready for recycling. Actually I am not sure that all of them are genuine jiffy bags but they are the same sort of thing. Jiffy bags made by Jiffy have been available for several years now I think they go back to the 1950?s. Jiffy bags are handy padded envelope bags that can be bought in a variety of sizes some as small as to 164 x 285mm, then several sizes upwards to 247 x 387mm, probably even larger ones available. The original bag is a golden brown heavy duty paper. The padded filling can be as simple as shredded paper. The envelope closures are one you peel to reveal a sticky surface this will then stick to seal the bag and contents. Some jiffy bags are filled with a macerated...

mumsymary 30.09.2009 · Read review
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Bargain Beans

Advantages: cheap, taste and smell good
Disadvantages: Well we all know what too many beans means!

...Always on the lookout for a bargain and a way to save a few pennies I was pleased when I came across a new brand of beans in my local Tesco. Hubby just does not like the value beans so I was buying Tesco?s own brand but as these can in at over 10p a can cheaper I decided to give them a go. ~~OAK LANE~~ Oak Lane are a new brand of foods which Tesco have taken on and advertise as their ?discount brand?. it is available on a lot of products in store and I have personally found every one which I have tried to be of good quality. The price of this brand always seems to match the Tesco Value price. ~~THE TIN~~ The beans come in the standard metal tin which unfortunately does not have a ring pull on top but this is no problem if you have a can opener. The label is wrapped around the tin and is a blue colour and has the Oak Lane...

sewbizzie 08.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Oak Lane Baked Beans in Tomato Sauce

BEANS, BEANS, FULL OF BEANS!

Advantages: Cheap and good quality
Disadvantages: No ring pull can lid, sauce runny

...Review of Sainsbury's Economy Baked Beans. As regular readers of my reviews may have gathered, I am living on a very modest budget, credit crunch, early retirement and other factors mean that I do have to watch my pennies, hence my recent purchase of these baked beans! The Product Baked Beans in tomato sauce are a popular dish in many households. We don't actually eat them as an accompaniment to meals, but as a source of protein in recipes. Being a vegetarian, I tend to obtain most of my protein intake from beans, pulses or legumes and the humble baked beans is a quick and easy way to add texture, interest and substance to a vegetarian meal. Not only are they full of protein, they are low in fat and contain valuable dietary fibre. Baked beans also provide important vitamins and minerals, including iron, folic acid, zinc...

brittle1906 23.03.2009 · Read review
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BEAN!

Advantages: A few good scenes
Disadvantages: Where's the holiday?

...There's something about Mr. Bean that is very family friendly, I suppose it could be down to the most violent thing he has ever done is slam his yellow mini door or cut off someones poney tail in a hairdressing mix-up, or it could just be that the silent character brings everyone together in a humerous fashion. I sat down to watch Mr Bean's Holiday the other weekend, and as I was much younger when I saw his first Hollywood outing I wasn't sure what to expect - I remember liking the first movie, and if the movie saw a combination of some of his greatest sketches then it should have been a big hit for me. With my mum coming in and out of the room every now and again, it was interesting to get a diverse view of how older viewers found the movie and how me, perhaps someone growing up too quickly, found the movie as someone in their late...

nathaninnit 10.10.2007 · Read review
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NOT A HAS BEAN.

Advantages: SATISFYING TO GROW YOURSELF.
Disadvantages: fOUR MONTHS OF LOVE AND CARE, WHEN YOU CAN JUST BUY THEM IN A SUPERMARKET!

...I don't recall what sparked the idea, but March 2005, my husband and I decided to try our hand at growing vegetables. We realised it was a very un-cool and un-hip thing for a young couple, to be doing in their spare time. But, we felt inspired. Dressed in disguise; so, not to be noticed by our peers, we went in search for vegetable seeds in the garden centre. Amongst the vegetables we had decided to grow, were broad beans: my favourite vegetable. We found broad beans seeds; being sold by 'Thompson & Morgan' for around, two pounds. There were around fifty seeds in the pack and looked basically, like dried out broad beans, as served at the dinner table. Arriving home, feeling motivated, we researched how to propagate these seeds. - First of all, the soil where you plan to plant the beans needs to be prepared. This is done...

L0BSTER_QUADRILLE 28.08.2005 · Read review
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Review of Broad Beans

Vaccum Storage Bags

Advantages: Space Saving Ideas for Home and Abroad
Disadvantages: None I can think of

...I love this idea, whoever thought this up is a genius. A lot of families have storage problems my main pain in the backside is lack of room for excess bedding that i keep spare for guests and what not, So this is magnificent, how the air can be sucked out of the bag with any pipe vacuum cleaner and reduce the size of package to less than a quarter of the size. Brilliant for duvets and pillows i might add and to top it all off it keeps all those bugs away and when you do unpack them they smell as good as the day you washed them and put the items in there. Excellent I would rate these to anybody you can even use them for going abroad and storing your much loved items and reducing space which we all know must happen when traveling on a plane think of the goodies you can bring back !! Although I have never tries them in my suitcase while...

funkychic123 14.08.2007 · Read review
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Spilling some inconsistent beans?.

Advantages: An easy read, relatively interesting
Disadvantages: Inconsistencies, and possible lies

...................................................................................... Intro Having decided to force myself back into reading while on the train (rather than staring aimlessly at sheep), I came across ?Spilling the Beans? by Clarissa Dickson Wright on the charity book list at work (books for 25p), and I do like autobiographies. I bought the book knowing nothing except that Clarissa was one of the ?Two Fat Ladies? (from the cookery programme in the late 1990s) - the one who hadn?t died (hence the book!), and that she was from quite a privileged background, and an alcoholic. The Book Published in hardback in 2007, and paperback in 2008, my copy is 316 pages long including the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and excluding a fairly extensive but selective index (i.e. I couldn?t find the thing I wanted to...

marymoose99 09.09.2009 (02.10.2009) · Read review
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Beans & Sausages...

Advantages: Good taste, nice sausages, very cheap, recyclable can
Disadvantages: No ring pull, beans aren't Heinz (but then they don't cost Heinz money).

...I recently purchased these when looking for some bargain lunch items from my local Tesco store. The can is aluminium and has a paper label with the familiar Tesco value logo as well as the heating instruction & nutritional information. There is no ring pull on the can but it's very easy to open with a can opener and this helps to keep the product nice and cheap so I don't mind at all. Once the can is opened I can see beans in tomato sauce with a few mini sausages poking out and it looks quite well proportioned as I throw the contents in to a saucepan and put them on the hob for a few minutes. I warm them through for about 5 minutes (without boiling them) whilst I am waiting for my toast to cook in the toaster. Once my toast is ready and buttered I spread the beans & sausages over the toast along with all of the tomato sauce...

katyeverett 31.07.2009 · Read review
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