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Baked Beans excessive sauce

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Jaxjacky Thu 09-Dec-21 19:58:13

Anyone else noticed that tins of beans, we use Branston or Heinz, have a lot more sauce in the last 2/3 months?
Anyone recommend some that aren’t swimming beans please?

Calistemon Fri 10-Dec-21 11:08:50

Kali2

Bigger and bigger cardboard tube, and looser and looser rolled WC paper too- shrinking chocolate bars, and so many more. Do they really think we are sooo stupid that we don't notice!

I used to think the tin with the extra sauce or juice was the one from the end of the production line but it is happening more often now.

Yes, they charge the same price but downsize and think we're too daft to realise!

AGAA4 Fri 10-Dec-21 11:38:58

I have noticed more sauce lately in my small tins of Heinz beans
One tin I opened only had 3 beans and loads of sauce but that was just a production error.

toscalily Fri 10-Dec-21 12:25:38

I don't like baked beans but other half does and definitely noticed less beans & more sauce, I drain some away prior to heating. The shrinking quantities for the same money/or more seems to be getting worse. Anyone else buy Eccles cakes (major brand) they seem to be shrinking fast, will soon be the size of a 50p piece. Activia yoghurt, used to be 125g now 120 per pot and if you check the quantities on many of the manufacturers larger pots of yoghurt they are now 450 instead of 500g.

Maudi Fri 10-Dec-21 12:48:32

I like Lidl baked beans (with soy sauce) best I've tried nearly all the others except M&S.

Yes Eccles cakes are shrinking, cheapest place to buy them Home Bargains.

Jaxjacky Mon 13-Dec-21 17:48:14

Two tins of M&S beans purchased, I’ll report back when we’ve tried them.

Grannyben Mon 13-Dec-21 18:12:28

I'm for M&S beans as well. Excellent quality and only 35p a large tin. Also love their time of tomato soup at 50p a tin

Grannyben Mon 13-Dec-21 18:13:37

Tins!

M0nica Mon 13-Dec-21 19:47:13

Just had beans on toast for supper, Waitrose own brand, so many beans there was almost too little sauce.

MissAdventure Mon 13-Dec-21 20:05:59

I love beans on toast; one of my favourite things, saucy or otherwise.
Branston is the most flavoursome and stodgy, I think.

Pammie1 Mon 13-Dec-21 20:08:09

M&S - good ratio of beans to sauce.

MissAdventure Mon 13-Dec-21 20:08:56

I haven't tried M & S. Yet.

Calistemon Mon 13-Dec-21 22:55:33

M0nica

Just had beans on toast for supper, Waitrose own brand, so many beans there was almost too little sauce.

I bought some tins of Waitrose beans as they were on offer, have yet to try them.
I don't like too much sauce, it makes gf toast go soggy.

Sarnia Tue 14-Dec-21 16:41:15

Everyone's doing it. Reducing the size and making a big thing about how considerate they are to the consumer by keeping the price the same. Years ago Ryvita had a tin you could send away for and it took exactly 1 packet of Ryvita. I still use that tin today but a new packet doesn't fill the tin. I could fit another 5-6 crispbreads in to fill it.