Beans means saving some money off your weekly shopping bill (Tesco Value Baked Beans)

Member Name: MisterReview

Product:	Tesco Value Baked Beans
Date:	18/05/09 (19 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap and cheerful

Disadvantages: not as nice as the big brads, but not bad either

Sometimes in life I am not fussed about whether my beans are HP, Branston, Heinz or whatever - although admittedly Heinz Baked Beans are the best. If I am out and about on a shop and feeling not particularly rich in a particular week. I am going to plump for the value items.

Now lets be honest about this! When you want that good old classic snack of beans on toast, you are not going to get any finer a taste than your beans neing Heinz, but beans weren't just meant for being on toast were they?

I love bacon and baked beans together and I don't think it really matters what brand you have, as long as you have a really nice piece of salty smoked bacon to cover up just that slightest possibility of any cheap bean flavour nastiness.

So your Tesco Value Baked Beans. what do they come in? Well you have the classic, almost iconic now, white blue and red packaging that signifies Tesco's value range. Once you get the tin opened and look in, it just looks like any other tin of beans. Perhaps the sauce is amore orange than red.

But the proof is in the eating and all that, so get them on the saucepan, or in a microwaveable bowl, whichever you prefer. Right I don't need to tell you how to heat beans up!

I did first try these on toast, and I must admit, they weren't at all bad. Sometimes you just can't pin down what it is that makes something taste good or bad or different from something else. They tasted different from Heinz. They weren't as 'nice'. I can't pin down why. Perhaps they weren't as sweet as Heinz (I need three sugars in my tea when I am having Heinz), perhaps they weren't as tomatoey. I don't know! Something was lacking, but they weren't bad!

You will pay about 30 pence for these. On the other hand a name brand is about 50p upwards. A saving of 20p a tin might not seem much, but if you have a large family to feed and consider that over the course of the year we all eat a lot of beans. THat is an excellent saving to make.

I would thoroughly recommend these. not primarily for the taste, but for the eventual savings you make.

Summary: Value for Money staple food.