To not know how people can afford Heinz Beans?

[HJ83]

Well how? My budget will only stretch to supermarket own brand beans, yet everywhere I look people are eating Heinz beans. How do they afford it?

I don't know how old you are, OP, but when I had just started renting my own house in the mid-90s and had a very, very tight budget, Tesco used to do a loss leader where their basic brand beans cost minus 1p. So for each can you bought (limit was 3 per shop I think) 1p was deducted from your bill. The beans weren't marvellous - about 1/4 bean juice - but who'd complain when you were being paid to eat them?

That's where I've gone wrong, should have booked a holiday to Spain rather than Northumberland.

Oh her.

She deserves it. And they should repossess her jaunty wee bonnet while they're at it.

I could buy them if I wanted to, but I can't justify the price 🤣 Tesco ones are excellent anyway and my kids absolutely love beans, so we get through alot. They will quite often ask for a snack of "beans in a bowl"... (It is as literal as it sounds) and eldest likes them cold straight out of the can. In fact, thinking about the amount they eat, I probably would end up in debt if I did buy heinz... I'll stick to Tesco ones

We started saving for our kids future baked beans before they were even born, but if the government puts VAT on baked beans I don't know what we'll do. Might have to start eating haricot beans instead 😢

By getting them when they're on offer.

😂🤣😂

Wtf is it with all these 'to not understand how people afford xx' posts? Is it bots? Bored teenagers???

You can obviously afford alcohol.

Heinz beans are the best!

My local community pantry always have them, hooray!

OMG I think this might be the funniest thread I've ever read 😂🤣

Fortunately my soon to be departing to university DD doesn't like BB's. Massive saving right there.

(You're part of the problem OP 😄)

You're all very silly.

You should have done what my grannie did; bought heinz mini tins single serve in 1972 (before they were popular mind and were a bit rough), with inflation they have now grown to catering size and we regularly bathe in beans just because we can. I do feel sorry for those less fortunate but thems the breaks.

And red hot gravel!

Do people really use so many they have a ready made abbreviation ('BBs')?

Panicked 18 year olds who will soon be off to uni. (Apart from aforementioned DD)

I was able to buy them via salary sacrifice scheme in work. There no way I could afford them otherwise.

M&S beans are fab and indistinguishable from Heinz.

I used to love Heinz I. Refused to eat anything else

I work hard so if wanted to spend £1 on a tin fair enough

One day I tried Aldi as friends kept saying about them

This was years back when really cheap and think 26p or 4 for £1

I was amazed how nice they were and swapped to them

I tried Heinz's a few months later and find them rank now

Watery - bland and hard and no taste or thick sauce like Aldi

People should def do the taste test they do on eat well for less

Anyway to answer your question

Priorities - people spend they money on what they want

People who smoke for example they say they are skint but then spend £20/40 a week on cigs

How do you know it’s Heinz they are eating? Are they taking tins to work or are you spying on them?

That's a lie perpetuated by MN.😂

We put money aside every month. It’s just a matter of priorities.

Definitely loans/credit/living beyond their means.

Psssst...follow me to the Dark Web. I'll show you where to get cheap Heinz beans.