Heinz spaghetti in tomato sauce

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

...almost walked away. But then I rationalised, if we had a can between us on toast for lunch it wasn't too bad a deal. Yes I know that I could have bought an own brand far cheaper but it isn't the same at all. The sunshine yellow label is eye catching, even attractive if you can refer to a can using those terms! There is a narrow green band running around the top of the can, a recent addition I am sure, it tells you that Heinz have used Multi grain pasta for their spaghetti. The label tells you that the can contains Heinz spaghetti in tomato sauce and towards the bottom of the can are those unforgettable words `Heinz 57`. A ring pull makes the can easy to open, I have noticed that many of the cheaper brands don't have ring pulls, you need to get to grips with the tin opener. My saucepan is ready and waiting to greet the Heinz spaghetti...

Sarahjh1 26.01.2009 · Read review
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Dolmio Spicy Pepperoni & Tomato Stir-in Sauce

Advantages: Delicious
Disadvantages: None

...Here comes along another cheeky addition from the stock cupboard, and a tasty one at that - Dolmio's Stir-in Spicy Pepperoni & Tomato sauce. Now I'm a man who enjoys a pizza with a load of meat on it, so the humble pepperoni is a must. Yet a sauce for pasta?! Surely not. Well, yes in fact, and it works superbly. As you'd expect, the main taste is a strong tomato base with a peppery kick to proceedings. The sauce is relatively thick, but it does come in a small pot so expect it to be concentrated. Once stirred in fully to a bowl of pasta then it breaks down and the overpowering taste you'll get from the sauce when you open the foil-sealed lid dissipates to a manageable tomato-cum-pepperoni flavour. The sauce comes in a small 150g plastic pot with a foil lid and in a cardboard cover with Dolmio's logo and designs plastered all over...

carl.mcqueen 03.10.2009 · Read review
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Tomatoes? Sauce!

Advantages: Easy to grow, tasty and heavy cropping
Disadvantages: Prone to diseases, Requires heavy watering

...Tomatoes are one of the easiest of the vegetables to grow at home fom seed and they are most certainly one of my favourites. In our country, they are grown as annuals, and if grown in the tropics, then they are grown as short lived perennials. Indeterminate types of tomatoes (mid-size, non bushy) has a very long trailing main stem, which may grow to as long as 8 feet and has vigorous side shoots. The shorter (semi-determinate) and bush (determinate) types of tomato stop growing much sooner than other indeterminate types of tomatoe, and the stems on these end in a truss of fruits. You can also obtain some dwarf varieties, which will only grow to approx 9 inches wide and the same tall. From the many different types of tomatoes that are available, you can select for different colours. Tomatoes come in yellow, red, pink, orange or white...

SnowiestElf 04.01.2006 · Read review
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Sacla Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto Sauce

Advantages: Tastes like real Italian Pesto, strong
Disadvantages: A little oily

...I am a big pasta fan as it's quick and easy to make in the evening but recently got bored with the usual tomato sauce such as Dolmio that I usually put over my pasta so set out to Sainsburys to find a new sauce when I came across these great pesto sauces from Sacla. They were only £1.39 a jar so I decided to try the sundried tomato one to begin with although they do come in ten other flavours: Classic Pesto Organic Green Pesto Organic Tomato Pesto Roasted Red pepper Pesto Wild rocket pesto Pesto Alla Genovese Italian Fennel Pesto Creamy vine ripened Char-grilled aubergine Coriander Pesto Basically you cook your pasta and then spoon the Sacla pesto sauce over the pesto until it is covered in the sauce and the sauce is clinging to the pasta. I find for one person I generally use a third of a 190g jar and if you have four...

Spottydog11 14.04.2008 · Read review
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Tomatoes

Advantages: love the smell and taste
Disadvantages: have to wait so long for them

...Tomatoes - lycopersicon esculentum Tomatoes are normally red and round shape fruits but as the market for them still grow there different varieties, callous and shapes. The first tomato came from Eastern Mexico and they first been grown by Aztecs. The tomatoes spared all over the world after Spain made their great discoveries of America. And from about 18th century tomatoes has been eaten nearly all over the world. In Brittan first tomato has been grown by John Gerard. As I was reading I find out that the biggest tomato tree is growing inside the Walt Disney Resort?s in Lake Buena Vista and this is the biggest single tomato plant in the world and produce 32000 tomatoes. Tomatoes are very good for you, they are high in nutrients and containing high level of vitamin and as we all know they are low in calories. One tomato can...

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Tesco Beans in Tomato Sauce.

Advantages: Inexpensive
Disadvantages: None.

...I tried Tesco Baked Beans a few years ago and found they were really no different to the big brand names which you pay a lot more for. They have a rich and thick tomato sauce and are very good value. They can be used for quick a snack such as beans on toast or served with a main meal. They can be served hot or cold and go well with the traditional breakfast of Sausage,Egg,Bacon and bread. I have also added them to minced beef to bulk up the meal when the children have brought their friends round. I have'nt met anyone yet who does'nt like baked beans, Since using Tesco's own brand baked beans I have found them satisfactory enough not to use any others and always have at least 4 tins in the cupboard. As they are Tesco's own brand they can only be found in Tesco's. And are available at a very low price of 420g for 13p...

smcccc 20.11.2005 (19.12.2005) · Read review
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Beautiful Bhuna! - Lloyd Grossman's sweet tomato bhuna sauce

Advantages: Incredible depth of flavour, rich tomatoes
Disadvantages: none for me

...I have a big problem with ready made sauces and generally prefer to make them from scratch. This is basically because I'm a massive fusspot when it comes to food and am even worse when it's ready made! In supermarket bought jars and tubs I find the trouble is there are so many ingredients and additives I don't like, I am admittedly a nightmare! One good example of a curry sauce that I tried and absolutely loathed is Patak's Balti sauce I know that I was far from impressed - it contained way too much garlic and massive chunks of chopped onion and therefore really put me off my meal! This kind of thing happens in pasta sauces too so I have devised my own recipe for tomato sauce using only ingredients I like, it's simple and takes no time at all to make. However I do enjoy a curry but it's one of the few things I just can't be bothered...

ciaomiaow 15.10.2009 · Read review
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Heinz Tomato Ketchup Sauce

Advantages: tastes great
Disadvantages: bit expensive

...I bet for many of us Tomato Ketch up is a must-have on the table,whether you having fish and chips or simply to enjoy your food.But well as the saying goes ,"quality matters".Indeed it does,esp when I have to choose between the varieties of ketch up sauces available in the supermarket.Hein'z my favourite.It simply tastes great. Personally I have tried different brands but at the end of the day I still find Heinz taste just better!They come in 57 different varieties and have simply revolutionised the way we enjoy our meals!The Heinz company has a very good reputation and established for over 100 years. Satisfaction Guarantee. You get free customer service helpline on a free phone number,in case you are not happy with the product,or get to write to them too,on the address which comes at the back of the bottle Ingredients...

liverpool21 23.04.2003 · Read review
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Olive and tomato pasta for supper anyone ?

Advantages: tasty
Disadvantages: price

...Do you want pasta for supper? Its easy cooks in 10 -15 minutes and there are a variety of sauces to add to it what I shall make tonight something quick and easy so I shall use a saccla sauce I have in the store cupboard it's an olive and tomato stir through sauce. I bought it at Tesco last week cost me £1.77p for the 190g jar. It's not the cheapest pasta sauce available but the Saccla make is one of the tastier. The jar is not really big enough on its own to add to pasta for a family meal, but it's just the two of us now with grown up daughter left home. All I have to do is to cook my pasta and stir in this sauce heat it for a little while and its ready to eat. Opening the jar we have a thick chunky sauce It has a tomato and olive spicy herby smell. This olive and tomato sauce is tasty It has lots of olives green and black...

mumsymary 19.04.2006 · Read review
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grow your own tomatoes

Advantages: great to grow indoors
Disadvantages: dont like the cold

...Tomatoes are not realy a fruit you can grow in the open due to our cold british weather we need to grow our tomatoes in a greenhouse. I dont usually plant mine untill early may as the frost will definatley kill them. I use grow bags to grow the tomatoes in as they dont require a lot of soil as there roots are not too large but the plant itself does get to around 6 foot tall. I space 3 plants along my grow bag, one at each end and one in the middle. I have never attempted to grow a tomato plant from seed as i always buy mine from a garden center as a baby plant. As tomatoes are very heavy they tend to pull the plant over so i tie mine to the poles in my greenhouse to stop this happening with garden string. There is no mistaking when your tomatoes are ready to eat as they will be hanging off the plant, green to begin...

danniell 16.02.2009 · Read review
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