Heinz Baked Beans

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At nearly CHF3 a tin in Coop, I am looking for a cheaper source of Heinz Baked Beans. Anyone had any luck finding cheaper options?

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They are less than a euro a tin in Germany. Go there and stock up every couple of years.

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In France they are available as well. Don't recall the exact price but less than 3 chf in euro equivalent.

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The coop own brand Guarantie & Prix (sp) are very good.

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think I’ve bought them at Denner before for less, Lidl as well (when the randomly stock brand-name items)

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The Lidl own brand ones which they sometimes have when they have a British week are pretty decent and cheap

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Tom

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Denner had an "Aktion" last year with perhaps 25% rebate.

It appears that nobody sells for less than 2.90-3.00 CHF in CH so it's probably due to Heinz' not allowing a lower regular price. Denner may have imported them themselves, they do that with some products.

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The Indian supermarket on Hazelstrasse in Baden sell them for 2chf a can. I was there on Saturday.

Perhaps check out similar shops closer to you?

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I've not eating baked beans since I was a child in the UK...

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Quite often the ones I see in France have been part of multipacks, clearly not intended (and marked as such) to be sold separately, but with French labels (ingredients, nutrition etc.) manually stuck on each tin. So they've been imported by something other than an official Heinz route.

They're usually in the eu1.50 - 1.80 range, but vary considerably in both price and availability. In the Alps, with loads of visiting Brits, they're much easier to find, whereas even Géant in St. Louis doesn't always have them, and often seems to have other varieties like Bio or with sausages. Someone responsible for the importing thereof has a limited understanding of the product.

But I've long since given up on them, nowadays always taking some generic beans in tomato sauce and cooking them up with onion, chili, vinegar and whatever else takes my fancy or is needed (often they're very much lacking in flavour) . Far superior, but not the same thing at all, I realise.

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Selling out there Tom?

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I used to enjoy the beans with chipollata sausages - they had some strange soggy impregnated taste about them.

Must be 35 years since Iast had them.

The big can in the photo reminds me of camping with the scouts when I was 13 - they always bought the catering size beans.

Brilliant breakfast by Lake Coniston.

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An Irish friend who used to make the best English breakfasts ever used to melt cheese in the baked beans. That was yummy.

I once heard those tinned ones have an extremly high sugar-content. Not sure why I would want lots of sugar with beans and tomato sauce these days.

Those who do, I understand they go for Heinz though, there was something different about them.

Guess Germany is the easiest to get them cheaper. Brit shop wants Fr. 2.90 too. Here's an offer for Fr. 2.05 if you buy 4 tins. Jim's - a shop in Gland - even wants Fr. 4.25. But hey, quality food has it's price, right?

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Had cheesey beans for dinner today.

With sausages!

The kids are loving Daddy cooking! 😁

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Cheesey peas is the way to go.

An acquired taste - but cleans the bilges.

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No, that was Roger, 51 years ago.

Now he has his own-named champagne:

Tom

(P.S. One of my favorite albums)

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I usually buy them in a jar at Kaufland in Waldshut:

https://www.supermarktcheck.de/produ...86-heinz-beanz

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Went and googled that - sounds nice, will try it definitely.

I used to hate peas. Then I spent a lot of time in England and they had these big, sweet peas. Great stuff. Can't find them here. Anybody who has?

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Roger’s manager’s wife (close friend) says she is soon up to her elbows in Christmas pud - his favourite hamper item after beans