Sainsbury's super spaghetti bolognese bonanza

Advantages: cheap, big, tastes nice for the price
Disadvantages: hardly top quality

...Spaghetti bolognese is one of the products in the large and ever growing sainsbury's basics range and without a doubt one of my favourites. You can buy this meal for 86p which is bargain price considering the size of the meal. You can cook it in the oven for around twenty minutes and you can microwave in two minutes. The size of the meal is absoulutely brilliant and on the size of it, it could warrant a three or two pound price tag, even though the meal packaging avertises just for one it could easily feed two people. When you look at the price tag of the meal you'll probably think oh it's only eighty six oence it's obviously going to be bland and tasteless (in fact thats what I thought) but it's not I has a really nice flavour that will leave your taste buds watering for a long time. However it's not got a top quality taste and you...

mcleism01 01.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Sainsbury's Spaghetti Bolognese Basics

This tinned spaghetti is what they eat in Heinz Heaven

Advantages: Absolutely delicious; cheap; low fat and calories
Disadvantages: None for me but for beef lovers there's not much meat

...I've just read some reviews that absoluetly slaughter this product and say it's disgusting. Now, everyone is entilted to their opinion and we all of course have different preferences to taste but I am really struggling to understand how ANYONE could not like this! This is my absolute favourite spaghetti Bol in the world! Better than any homemade, an fresh or any frozen variety. I've already previously written a review on Heinz tinned Ravioli where I established brand reputation and the fact I would never trust buying a supermarket own brand of tinned pasta. This product comes in the same style tin as mentioned in my previous Heinz post; yellow paper covering over either a 200g or 400g tin with the same 'Heinz' logo and picture of plump tomatoes. The only difference is obviously, the front says 'spaghetti bolognese' and there is...

LaceyR26 11.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Heinz Spaghetti Bolognese

Absolute Bolognese

Advantages: Cheap
Disadvantages: Disgusting

...and potatoes. There was no basmati rice, choice of pastas, sun-dried anything, ugli fruit, bread fruit, kiwi fruit, kumquats, frozen pizzas, ready-meals, extra virgin oils. Most supermarkets in Stoke-on-Trent didn't even sell garlic in the early '70s! Which brings me to Heinz Spaghetti Bolognese, a tinned offering from the company of 57 varieties? If you were working class, or even middle class, in the 1970's, and your tastebuds yearned for something more than egg and chips followed by a tinned sponge pudding, Heinz Spaghetti Bolognese was what you turned to. Heinz Spaghetti Bolognese was the ONLY thing you COULD turn to in my neck of the woods. My grandma introduced me to it as a child, and until I tasted my first real Spag Bol at the age of 17, I thought of it as food. HSB comes in 200g and 400g tins costing from around 60 pence...

sandrabarber 21.10.2002 · Read review
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Review of Heinz Spaghetti Bolognese

Spaghetti Boringese

Advantages: Quick and Easy to make, Good Price
Disadvantages: Bland

...Being a mother of 2 boys with a husband who is in Afghanistan at the moment, I tend to take the easy road as much as possible and I buy ready made meals. I've had some good ready meals and I've had some bad ones. This is one of the bad ones. After having a long day, I purchased two 400g packages of Tesco Italian Spaghetti Bolognese for 3 quid at our local Tesco Express. You have to buy the 2 packages to get the deal and because I have had the Tesco Healthy Living Spaghetti Bolognese before and liked that, I thought it must be good. Boy, was I wrong. When we cooked it later, I used the microwave because it's the fastest and my poor kids were starving. At least, that's what my eldest had me believe. We have a 800 watt microwave so I put it on for 4 1/2 minutes on full power. When done, I let it stand for a few minutes because...

pixie_girl76 24.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of Tesco Italiano Spaghetti Bolognese

Heniz Spaghetti Bolognese - lazy day meal

Advantages: very quick and easy to prepare
Disadvantages: can be messy!

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lazysplodge 25.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Heinz Spaghetti Bolognese

Spaghetti bolognese and lasagne

Advantages: Just like you'd get in an Italian restaurant
Disadvantages: none, just very addictive (moreish)

...well, if it needs thickening up a bit more then add some more gravy granules. 4. Put it onto simmer for half an hour. 5. Boil the water for the spaghetti and cook the spaghetti as the packet tells you. For the lasagne: Ingredients: Bolognese sauce Lasagne sheets mozzarella cheese (sprinkle on top) Parmesan cheese cheese sauce: 1 pint 2oz margarine 2oz flour 1 pt milk 2oz cheese Method: 1. use an ovenproof dish (10" by 12"), heat the oven at gas-mark 5, 190 Celsius (375oF). 2. Put a layer of Bolognese sauce on the bottom, then a layer of lasagne sheets, bolognese sauce and so on until you don't have anymore sauce left. 3. Cheese sauce: melt the marg, stir in the flour to form a sandy texture. Mix in the milk until it forms a sauce and if you run your...

emmachef 28.06.2005 · Read review
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Review of Recipes for Main Courses

Spaghetti Suprise!

Advantages: Great book to accompany the TV show
Disadvantages: None

...Spaghetti Surprise is a lovely little book which accompanies the very popular Cbeebies program. THE BOOK The book is an orange colour with a picture of a few of the houses at the top and the title underneath. There is a round circle and inside this is a photo of Miss Hoolie and PC Plum eating birthday cake. The back of the book has a line of balloons and a short description about the story. THE STORY The story begins with Miss Hoolie telling us that it is a play day in Balamory and that it is PC Plum's birthday. She shows us a big pile of cards she has for him. We then go to the café where friends have joined Miss Hoolie and Suzie has made a cake for PC Plum. PC Plum arrives and they all sing Happy Birthday to him. PC Plum asks Miss Hoolie if she would like to celebrate his birthday with him at an Italian restaurant...

sewbizzie 11.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Balamory Spaghetti Surprise

Basic price, not taste ...

Advantages: Good value and quality for money
Disadvantages: None

...Sainsbury's Basics Spaghetti Bolognaise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ These are available from most Sainsbury's stores and can be found in the chilled ready meal section of the store. Summary of the Product. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sainsbury's Basics Spaghetti Bolognaise is a chilled ready meal that gives you a 300g portion of spaghetti and minced beef in a bolognaise sauce, which retails for 86p per portion. The product is suitable for home freezing but must be thoroughly defrosted before cooking following the product cooking instructions printed on the reverse of the product. What You Get. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For 86p you get a 300g potion of spaghetti in a bolognaise sauce. It is not a large portion but it is quite ample when served as an accompaniment of a main meal or just as a quick snack style meal...

welshwickedone 30.08.2006 · Read review
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Review of Sainsbury's Spaghetti Bolognese Basics

Everything You See, I Owe To Spaghetti

Advantages: Good menu, some decent set-menu offers
Disadvantages: Only in central London at present

..."First opened in 1955, today Spaghetti House still brings the same authentic Italian passion for conviviality to neighbourhood restaurants throughout the West End of London. Generations of Londoners have been enjoying Spaghetti House..." - from their website Years and years ago, before marriage and babies and divorce and death, my parents were students in London and, in their dating days, frequented the Spaghetti House restaurant. That's not the reason their two offspring ate there on a recent trip to London - once again that would be thanks to Mr Tesco and his mighty Clubcard Deals - but it makes a nice story. We were in London to watch the Gymnastics at the O2. Since it kicked off at 6.30pm, a rather inconvenient time, we decided a big lunch was in order to tide us over. Having both travelled down / over to the capital that...

zoe_page 29.10.2009 · Read review
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Heinz spaghetti in tomato sauce

Advantages: A useful lunchtime snack
Disadvantages: The sauce used to be thicker

...Offer me a plateful of Spaghetti Bolognese and I might tell you that I am not too keen, offer me a couple of slices of buttered toast with some Heinz Spaghetti on the top and my reaction would be entirely different. Or so I always thought... There is no doubt about it, Heinz are the market leaders, on the whole they produce first class products. Take the Heinz beans for example, I have endlessly tried cheaper brands, promotional brands and some brands that have been recommended by friends and family. Try as I might I still head straight for the Heinz baked beans. There is definitely something very different about them. We hadn't had any Heinz spaghetti for ages, it used to be a real favourite, so I added it to my shopping list. When I spotted it on the shelf at Morrison's and saw it was 52p for a 400g can I must admit that I...

Sarahjh1 26.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Heinz Spaghetti, in Tomato Sauce