To bean or not to bean

Advantages: Good value, tasty, nutritious, versatile.
Disadvantages: You need to like baked beans.

...If you are a lover, or buyer, of Baked Beans I guess you will have noticed how expensive they have become lately. Well relatively so. Unless you are absolutely loaded, money wise, I would think that you could not have failed to notice this rapid price hike. Even the cheap beans at Netto, which started out at 9p a tin, are now 29p. Heinz Baked beans are over 50p a tin unless you get a good offer so what alternatives are there?. Well to my mind Branston Baked Beans are a good option and I shall try and tell you why. At present a multi-pack of 4 large tins of Branston Baked Beans, hereafter to be called BBB, retail in Netto for a mere £1.19. That makes them slightly cheaper than Netto's traditional cheap beans which were ok for 9p a tin, but not for 29p. Branston of course are more well known for their pickles and sauces which are...

grafter123 18.12.2008 · Read review
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Time to spill the beans.

Advantages: Some unusual flavours in a bean
Disadvantages: Some unusual flavours in a bean!

...If you have never heard of these before they are small bean shaped sweets. Each with a different flavour jelly encased in a semi hard sugar shell. Jelly Belly class themselves as the makers of the original Gourmet Jelly Bean. Jelly Belly beans were first created in Los Angeles in 1976, A sweet distributor thought about only using natural flavourings to make jelly beans. He got in touch with the Jelly Belly company who had a reputation for making the very best sweets in the business. This was an all new idea in sweet making. In 1976, the recipe was decided upon and the first eight Jelly Belly flavors were born: Very Cherry, Lemon, Cream Soda, Tangerine, Green Apple, Root Beer, Grape and Licorice. *************************************************************************************************************** Whilst browsing...

LUNAH_C 05.06.2005 · Read review
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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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Its time to change your Tefal Quick Cup filter

Advantages: Neat filter cartridge replacement as easy as changing a light bulb
Disadvantages: Maybe you need to change it a little too often

...The Claris Quick Cup Filter Cartridge is the proprietary replacement water cartridge for use with the Tefal Quick Cup. This filtered water kettle-replacement is also capable of dispensing both room temperature and hot water. The Red button with an integral filter-replacement reminder lamp and is used to dispense hot filtered water for your coffee and tea. A black button dispenses filtered water at ambient temperature - for chilled filtered water, instead of having a filter jug for the refrigerator simply fill a regular jug from the Quick Cup using the black ambient button and place it in your refrigerator. You can currently (30th January 2009) purchase the Quick Cup for £48.74 and the replacement Claris filter for £4.80 from Amazon.co.uk. Currently orders over £5 attract no delivery charges for addresses in the UK. The top...

bigdoug 30.01.2009 · Read review
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Makes bottle to cup training SO EASY!

Advantages: Makes the transition from cup to bottle easy;You can buy replacement spouts
Disadvantages: Looks a bit dated! Blue valve mildy hard to clean!

...My daughter would not switch from a bottle to a cup for her milk drinks so I tried everything. I bought at least 5 other types of bottle before my husband (typical!!) found this one. My daughter took to it straight away. I have since recommended it to so many people - two of my best friends now use it as well, having tried all the rest. The cup itself looks like a bottle. However it has a spout that is shaped more like those you find on regular sippy cups. The spout is a very soft rubbery texture. It has a valve inside which stops spillages and yet it's easy to suck the liquid out of it. The capacity of the cup is slightly over 200ml - I get about 250ml in there although the scale on the outside stops at 200ml. It comes in yellow, green, orange and blue and so you can make a multi-coloured bottle by mixing the parts!!! Advantages...

Wackywaith 07.09.2006 · Read review
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Review of B Free Bottle to Cup Trainer

Cup a Soup TO GO

Advantages: Quick, easy and very convenient
Disadvantages: None

...With dieting as all you women or men, should know its having something at hand that is good on the calories, easy to make, satisfying and tasty. Yeah I hear you all shout CHOCOLATE, no sorry Cup a soup. But this cup a soup has something different its Cup a soup to go..woohoo lol ΩΩΩ PACKAGING ΩΩΩ These come in a pack of 2 blue cups, covered with a cardboard layout, with the name of the product emblazoned across the front. The usual trademark logo for Batchelors, red background box with the whit writing Batchelors flashed through the centre. The product is called Cup a soup written in bold whit letters then along side of it in bold red TO GO. Underneath is a cup of hot steamy soup with fresh vegetables lying around the cup. The Flavour I am tasting is Chicken & Vegetable with Croutons...

karen5416 31.05.2004 · Read review
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Review of Batchelors Cup a Soup

Half bottle, half cup

Advantages: easy transition from bottle to cup, soft spout, non spill
Disadvantages: a bit hard to find in shops

...The B Free (formerly Dr Browns) Bottle to Cup Trainer is the only cup I have succeeded in getting Leah to drink from, so naturally I am pleased with it. Although different babies take to different cups, this one does seem to be more bottle-like than any of the others, so would probably be successful for more than the average number of babies! My health visitor told me to start Leah with a cup at five months old, which was a bit optomistic. I've offered her the cup frequently but it's only now at 8 months that she is starting to get the hang of it, and the co-ordination to manage it herself. I tried free flowing cups first as I thought they would be easiest - and they are, but they are also very wet - perhaps fine on your own kitchen floor, but difficult to give to your baby on your friend's new carpet! I moved on to valve cups...

molelover 18.08.2005 (11.09.2005) · 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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