Who is spending £1.40 on a tin of Heinz baked beans?

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Bloody hell - I haven't bought baked beans for ages and went to add them to weekly shop and couldn't believe the price of them. Ended up going for own brand (which I've had before and are fine). I'm sure Heinz must know what they're doing but their like baked beans for millionaires now!

(Lighthearted btw)

Try being coeliac. You can double the price and halve the amount in the pack.

Same with bread or pasta or anything gluten free.

I can’t afford to eat GF products anymore. I just stick to meat, veg and rice. Healthier yes, but it’s frustrating if you just want a treat (comes to to something when a slice of toast is a treat!).

Please nonone tell me to bake my own. Sometimes you just want tea and biscuits, I don’t want to bake the bloody things first.

We’ve always used value products (so no way down for us!), we shop in Adli now as there is one a 5 min walk away, but we used to use Tesco.

Always used to buy there 9p tins of baked beans etc. They were fine.

i liked the value beans, they were juicier

When I started eating low carb I tried Heinz salt & sugar free baked beans. They were so disgusting that I've been making my own ever since. They're not that much cheaper tbh - I'd say the M&S ones beat them on price, but they are tasty & healthy.

I'll try M&S beans, can recommend M&S tomato soup at 65p over Heinz at £1.40 a tin
They also do mushroom and chicken at 65p

The only Heinz product i buy now is ketchup and thats only because the kids will not eat any other brand! They are an absolute joke with their price increases!

M&S tomato soup (and Waitrose Essential) are both the same as Baxter's tomato soup as far as I can tell. All far nicer than Heinz and for Waitrose/M&S, less than half the price.

I do if DH and I are having beans on toast for our dinner. 70p each plus the bread/butter and perhaps a bit of cheese is still cheap for a main meal.

If its just dh having them as part of a full English he chooses to buy a himelf cheaper brand.

Heinz Tomato soup £1.70 🤯 I've started buying Sainsbury's own brand 57p EXACTLY the same. Honestly if you put them side by side, I could not tell the difference!

@ PineapplePomPom · Today 11:46

"Heinz Tomato soup £1.70 🤯 I've started buying Sainsbury's own brand 57p EXACTLY the same. Honestly if you put them side by side, I could not tell the difference!"

That's really good to know, thank you.

For the first time ever I bought a supermarket own brand of baked beans (Tesco). Tested them on DH who is notoriously fussy but seems he likes them better than Heinz (after all these years, who'd a thunk it). I've been using a lot more own brands recently and it has really saved me money and made no difference to flavour in most cases.

Just a heads up that the salt, fat, sugar and calories in different brands can be surprisingly different. It doesnt follow that cheaper is worse either, but its worth checking if you are sensitive about salt/sugar or fats for any reason.

I used to buy my daughter Walkers crisps for school as a ‘treat’ as she preferred them and I’m normally a value gal 😄 They were £4 for a box of 20, I suffered it. The third time I bought the box, £4.50. I grumbled. Went to buy the fifth box the other day, £4.85!!! In a couple of months! I’ve told her it’s the last box she’s getting!

My fussy 3yo loves the Heinz beans and sausages - £1.70 or £2 per tin!
I discovered Aldi did some for about 59p so I bought some and tentatively fed them to him for the first time yesterday, making a hasty exit in case of meltdown.

He didn't notice. Jackpot!

Like others I can afford Heinz but I object to the ridiculous price increases recently.

Yes I think it’s good to sort of re-set every now and then.

A while back I bought the absolute cheapest version of everything. Some things I found just the same and some I found barely edible.. but at least now I know where I draw the line. Teabags for instance - I know which brands I like.

People who like the taste.
People who don't look at prices.
I buy baked beans very rarely - I have no idea what they're supposed to cost, tbh.

Tell me about it! Saw an advert for some new Nairn biscuits, managed to find them in Sainsburys and they were £2.70! For that princely sum I got 4 packs of 2 biscuits 🥲 I mean they’re lovely but why? Why is it so much for us that are suffering for a life long medical condition and yet Vegans get a bigger selection and a whole month of offers. I’m not bashing Vegans by the way, it’s just that being a Coeliac is not a choice ❤️

Oh this just cracked me up 🤣

Me. I love beans.

And vegans don’t get miniature versions of food either.

Why is GF food so small?! Tiny biscuits, tiny slices of bread, tiny pizzas (looking at you, Pizza hut), but it’s all three times the price? It’s an absolute scandal and they get away with it becuase coeliacs don’t have an option but to buy it!

They have gone up here in Oz too. I prefer Aldi ones. Heinz will go under if it does stuff like that, pushing up the prices too much. Serve them right.

I didn’t know that!

£1.99 for Devonshire tinned custard!! WTF?! We've moved back to powdered, as there is no way I'm paying that much for custard.

Where's that at? Tesco the tins of Ambrosia are 2 for £2.50 right now.

I have pretty much stopped buying any branded food items. I might buy some bits if they're on offer in home bargains, but it's way cheaper to just do my shop in Aldi and buy their stuff.