Playing /Spelling with your food (Heinz Alphabetti)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Heinz Alphabetti
Date:	22/07/07 (226 review reads)
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Advantages: fun for children

Disadvantages: ?

I bought a tin of Alphabetti spaghetti as a store cupboard stand by for when I get a visit from the grandchildren. I served it to them when I had an unexpected visit from them at meal time last weekend. Adrian enjoyed his spaghetti and did comment that some of it was the same shapes as the letters in his name.

Alphabetti spaghetti was first available from Hienz in 1940 and then in 1990 Hienz decided to stop producing it. In 2005 Heinz brought back this product.
I am not sure if the ingredients are the same. They looked and tasted the same to the ones I used to eat in the 1960’s. Sadly I threw the tin away after we had used it so I can not be sure. . Looking at the Heinz website it groups all the spaghetti products together. I guess the ingredients are the same whatever the shape of the spaghetti is.
Heinz spaghetti is made with Durham wheat and tomato sauce they are low in fat, low in sugar, free of preservatives added colours and flavours …Apparently it was parental demand that made Heinz bring back Alphabetti spaghetti. There are 112 calories in a 200g can of alpabetti spaghetti

Anyway I opened the can for lunch and emptied the contents into a microwave dish, set the timer for 3 minutes and put some toast on to cook. The soft pasta is in a tomato sauce. Only needs reheating a few minutes. I served with toast but you could serve aphabetti spaghetti with fish fingers, burgers, sausage, and egg.

Adrian enjoyed his spaghetti letters and did find a few letters of his name.
Alphabetti spaghetti is easy for children to eat as it is soft, be warned though the tomato sauce can make them messy leaving pink faces and bibs, your children will probably need cleaning after eating Alphabetti spaghetti.
As you child reaches the age to recognise letters he/she will enjoy making words out of their dinner of alphabetti spaghetti. So a good extra edible tool to help letter recognition. There seemed to be good mixtures of letters in the meal we had with this spaghetti.

Heinz Alpabetti spaghetti costs 33p per 200g, 44p per 400g Heinz spaghetti hoops and normal spaghetti in tomato sauce cost 21p to 32p per 200g tin at tesco. So why not relive your childhood and buy some see if you can spell your name 

Summary: tinned letter shapedspagetti in tomato sauce