Asda Smart Price Baked Beans

Baked beans are not baked beans despite the label on the tin. They are stewed haricot beans served up in a sauce. Asda Smart Price does a very cheap but excellent quality 420 gram tin of these for just 14p. The packaging is plain white and green and the top of the tin doesn't have a ring pull, so you have to use a tin opener to open it. In contrast Heinz Baked Beans comes in a tin with a fancy green pictorial label and a ring pull to make it easy to remove the lid. The trouble is that you pay for fancy packaging and a similar sized tin of Heinz Baked Beans costs around 44p. When you first open the tin you will not notice any difference between this ...  Read the complete review

Well as far as beans go,baked beans are baked beans. So when i saw asda smart price baked beans for only 14p, i thought "why pay more". Packaging Well its pretty much the same as all smart price beans really. A plain white background, with green pannels and writing. And on the back of course the standard nutritional information and cooking instructions Ingredients Haricot Beans (45%) Tomatos (32%) water sugar modified maize starch Glucose-fructose syrup salt onion paprika Rapeseed oil Clove extract Cinnamon extract Capsicum Garlic oil ...  Read the complete review

Beans - used to meanz Heinz. However the price of baked beans in a tin (Especially branded versions have shot up at an alarming rate. Through my credit crunching research I have come across Smart Price Baked Beans from ASDA. The packaging is not as sexy as the big brands, the tins are often on the bottom shelf and they are not advertised -ever. But I have sneaked past the marketing people, the ones who say Heinz is the only way, the ones who say that you can tell the difference between the sexy brands with millions in marketing budget to the Smart Price brands. I have proved to myself and my family that paying double for beans is ridiculous and makes the ...  Read the complete review

Asda Smart Price beans are easy to spot because they don't have quite the same standard of exciting packaging that the other brands, such as heinz or branston do have. Having said this, and being quite a fan of the Heinz baked bean, these aren't too bad and I find them to be the best of all the supermarket budget ranges. One tin costs 29p at the moment and I think that's very good value for money. You still get a tins worth and the same weight, but you need to consider that there are not quite as many beans in the tin as you might have hoped. This tends to be bulked out with sauce a bit, which tastes fine, but it isn't quite as good at Heinz. I find it ...  Read the complete review

If you have read any of my previous reviews you will know I love a bargain and love trying to reduce my monthly grocery shopping budget, hence my review now for asda smart price baked beans. The beans themselves come in a tin with the basic green and white labeling as with all the asda basic range which is a little different from the picture shown above. On opening the can you will see that the beans are quite good quality and have a good amount of them too, the sauce is fairly thick, as for me I find some cheaper brands have really watery sauce which is like eating soup but I was pleasantly surprised with these and I found them to be very ...  Read the complete review