(+) cheap, good value for money, delicious, free from colours or ... more
(+) cheap, good value for money, delicious, free from colours or preservatives (-) the packaging is very cheap ALTHOUGH this does mean that they can sell the product cheaply (*) (On Ciao since: 08/2005)
Position: full sunSoil: humus-rich, moisture retentive soilRate of growth: averageHardiness:tender Nutritious beans that have many culinary uses. The...
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A blend of high quality 100% Arabica beans. Darkly roasted to create an exceptionally smooth and full-bodied flavour. Ideal for richer-tasting regular...
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Advantages: Very tasty. Disadvantages: None really.
...Baked beans may seem a bit of a dull thing to review but I am sure that most of us quite enjoy baked beans on toast for a snack meal or a quick supper.
If you are going to really enjoy baked beans then more often than not a good brand name is the only way forward. I am rather partial to the Branston baked beans and I can often find them on offer at a very good price - in fact as little as 25p a tin.
Heinz have a whole range of baked beans with a difference and the Curry Beanz are one of them. We used to enjoy these curried beans a few years ago but I thought that they had been taken off the production line until I spotted them in Sainsbury's.
Now the Heinz Curry Beanz are a little more expensive but we both feel that they are still good value for money. A 200g tin of the curry beanz costs in the region of 47p and that tin...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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First of all, the soil where you plan to plant the beans needs to be prepared. This is done...
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28.08.2005 ·Read review
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Advantages: An easy read, relatively interesting Disadvantages: Inconsistencies, and possible lies
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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...
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...
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...
...I would just like to write a review on Bean: the Ultimate Disaster Movie, the first movie that has been created for the character of Mr Bean. Many of you will know of Mr Bean, theh hapless character that was created by Rowan Atkinson (of Blackadder fame). Bean has this inept ability to create chaos wherever he goes without even realising what he is doing, but he also has an almost eccentrically intellectual mind that helps him to get through most things.
This film starts out in the National Art Gallery in London, where Bean is employed in a caretaker-type role who is paid to sit in the corner and 'look at the paintings' as he puts it during the course of the film. The gallery has been asked to send a represntative to the Grierson gallery in Los Angeles, but rather than send a member ofo staff who is worth anything to them...
Advantages: Cheapest of the high-end of the market brand beans, Highest bean and tomato content on the market, Disadvantages: None really. Can get cheaper beans but they are in my view of inferior quality and content.
...First of all, may I remark, that although a pack of 4 Branston Beans retail at £2.29, I managed to get a quartet of these tasty treats for only £1. Although this was a special offer, I have seen these promotions in many supermarkets such as Somerfield, Sainsbury's, Audi and Asda, all within the past two months. I even saw a pack of 4 for £1.19 in my local cornerstore. It seems Branston are seeking to undercut the dominant market player of which I'm sure you are all aware, but these cuts do not extend to quality. Branston Beans contain 86% percent beans and tomato content per tin, the highest percentage in the baked bean market.
And for the all important taste, they've managed to find the most delicious ratio between beans and tomato. Some other leading brands of beans I've found to be too rich when splashing spuds and brushing bacon...
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