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chickenstrip wrote: | RhynoCZ wrote: | I gave up on Heinz baked beans years ago. For whatever reason they just got bland, or perhaps my taste changed.
Googling ''Branston beans'', they do sell them in the Czech republic. I might give them a go. They ask £1,05 for a 410g can. Heinz's 415g can of baked beans goes for £2,35 at my local Tesco's. |
Good grief, those prices are ridiculous! Are they generally representative of food prices in the CR? |
Ever since the Russian special crap started and then the oil crisis, natural gas crisis, electricity crisis, grain crisis... the food prices went up by about 20%.
The political changes in my country don't help either. I don't follow politics, never cared much about who was in charge, but the current events are rather worrying to many people. Imagine you take experienced people who know how to run things, people with a vision and plan, people who are capable to explain these plans to the general public properly (one very popular political party)... and then replace them with complete amateurs (5 not so popular political parties that formed a coalition, inexperienced people who never ran anything) in the worst time possible, that have no idea what to do, send mixed signals and do one mistake after another, leading the whole country into poverty while burning money like mad and doing everything out of spite against their predecesors. The inflation in this country used to be around healthy 2%, now it's 17.5% and not going down any time soon; our rating also goes down. Being the biggest exporter of electricity while at the same time having the highest prices of it in the whole Europe is just the icing on the cake. ____________________ '87 Honda XBR 500, '96 Kawasaki ZX7R P1, '90 Honda CB-1, '88 Kawasaki GPz550, MZ 150 ETZ
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Polarbear wrote: | There's only 1 sweet chilli sauce, Linghams.
Has anyone found a diet cola that tastes like Diet CocoCola. All the ones I'vre tried make the rum tase shite.
Oh, and Tescos own brand spiced rum is cheap and crap. |
Diet coke uses aspartame, wouldn't give it to a dog
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Although diet soda has no calories, sugar, or fat, it has been linked to the development of type 2 diabetes and heart disease in several studies. Research has found that just one serving of an artificially sweetened drink per day is associated with an 8–13% higher risk of type 2 diabetes ( 22 , 23 ). ____________________ bikers smell of wee |
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RhynoCZ wrote: |
Ever since the Russian special crap started and then the oil crisis, natural gas crisis, electricity crisis, grain crisis... the food prices went up by about 20%.
The political changes in my country don't help either. I don't follow politics, never cared much about who was in charge, but the current events are rather worrying to many people. Imagine you take experienced people who know how to run things, people with a vision and plan, people who are capable to explain these plans to the general public properly (one very popular political party)... and then replace them with complete amateurs (5 not so popular political parties that formed a coalition, inexperienced people who never ran anything) in the worst time possible, that have no idea what to do, send mixed signals and do one mistake after another, leading the whole country into poverty while burning money like mad and doing everything out of spite against their predecesors. The inflation in this country used to be around healthy 2%, now it's 17.5% and not going down any time soon; our rating also goes down. Being the biggest exporter of electricity while at the same time having the highest prices of it in the whole Europe is just the icing on the cake. |
Yes, we have inflation somewhere in the region of 17% here too, but those prices are still shocking. The cheap brand baked beans I use were 22p a can for ages, and even with this current inflation, they're still under 30p. That's for a 420g tin. Admittedly being a cheap brand there's more sauce and less beans than a comparable name brand, but it's not that much difference.
Next time I'm in Tesco I must check the current price of the name brands, but I'm sure it's not that high, even with rampant inflation.
Mind you, that'll all change if we get a Labour government here no doubt, and the way the Tories have gone, we may not even need that. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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I tried some Daddies Sauce the other day.
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If I could get mayo without any hint of vinegar taste, I would. Is that what this is like? ____________________ "Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."
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trevor saxe-coburg-gotha wrote: |
If I could get mayo without any hint of vinegar taste, I would. Is that what this is like? |
All mayo is an emulsion of egg yolk, oil and an acid. Cheaper shite uses vinegar. The Winiary stuff tastes like proper mayo - there's a hint of lemon juice in it which is how it should be made. |
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Is it cheap? If not, you're off topic!
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to v or not to v wrote: | i havent been able to find a tomato ketchup as good as Heinz, so i dont skimp there. |
You'll feel this way about most things when you look to go for cheaper brands, but it really is just a case of reeducating your taste buds in most instances if you're serious about saving money. I certainly felt that way about ketchup, and it was one of the last things where I hung on to a brand name, but eventually, I had to go cheaper, and have got used to a flavour that at first I thought wasn't as good. Needs must for real in my case - might even have to drop ketchup altogether before things get better. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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chickenstrip wrote: |
Is it cheap? If not, you're off topic!
I'm buying 450ml of mayonnaise for 44p. |
I think it's around £2 for 400ish ml. Worth every penny if you like a decent mayonnaise although if you're on a tight budget making your own would probably be better. |
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Sometimes I like to go to extremes, and take myself patriotically to somewhere that sells NZ products.
If I could afford to buy proper Anchor butter and NZ Lamb, I would. I certainly used to, until I didn't really have a reason to make a Sunday roast
I don't care about Marmite or Vegemite, its all the same to me and supermarket own brands are just as good.
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Islander wrote: | chickenstrip wrote: |
Is it cheap? If not, you're off topic!
I'm buying 450ml of mayonnaise for 44p. |
I think it's around £2 for 400ish ml. Worth every penny if you like a decent mayonnaise although if you're on a tight budget making your own would probably be better. |
I don't think I'll be making my own mayonnaise tbh. I'm more likely to be quitting the stuff as an unnecessary expense. But at 44p for a 450ml bottle, I can hang on with it for a little longer. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 1 year, 234 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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