"Treats" we can't enjoy anymore

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VickyA wrote:

I'm ashamed to say that I don't own a breadmaker. Please don't thrown me out of the fraternity (hangs head in shame). There's just no room in my kitchen - the slow cooker gets stored in the dining room! Oh to have a house that I own and I can put more cupboard in......................

I'd only eat everything that I made in the breadmaker in 5 mins anyway. I'm supposed to be getting married next year, wouldn't want my dad to roll me up to the altar because of all the lovely things I'd baked and eaten!

PS Do I get points for owning a slow cooker? Please?

but a bread maker isn't exactly Oldstyle anyway so don't worry,
making it yourself would be oldstyle

Curry_Queen

Something else I noticed recently that tasted very salty was baked beans!!!!

I've always used Heinz beans, as nothing else compares to the taste, although since finding MSE I have been persuaded to use value beans if I'm adding them to a dish, and I do enjoy beans on toast for lunch but after eating them last week I was left feeling very thirsty with a horrible claggy feeling in my mouth

Can anyone recommend a "tasty" low salt/sugar alternative? I believe Tesco do a HL version but have never tried them, or is this the end for the poor old baked bean <sob>

Mrs_Thrift

How much salt and sugar is in the Heinz ones for comparison?

I seem to remember in the mists of time comparing beans in Asda, but I can't remember what came out the best, so that's not much use, sorry! We don't use them often and are on a very tight budget at the moment so are using Asda Smart Price ones when we have them.

Lillibet_2

Curry Queen
I have the Tesco Healthy Living baked beans, low sugar & salt & I think they taste really nice (I am very sensitve to salt as I grew up without it in my diet). They are 88p for a 4 pack so very ecnomical too;) .

Vicky A
What about putting a bread maker on your wedding list next year? And one of those free-standing wheely kitchen trolly table things to keep it on?:p

Chipps
I am sllightly embarrassed to admit that I have never made a pizza from scratch:o I always buy Tescos cheese & tomato (3 for £2.50) and add my own toppings. I like having the convenience of having something I can whip out of the freezer & have done in 20 minutes without any effort at all. I'm sure I could make my own & freeze ready for use but to be honest I don't want too, it's nice knowing I have a cheap ready made fall-back on hand. I compromise on garlic bread too, I buy ciabatta when it is reduced, slice & add my own garlic-herb butter & freeze, I just pull one of these out with the pizza & defrost/heat through in the oven at the same time. In total probably costs me £1.75 for a convenient meal for 2, which I can live with:D

spendaholic

As I'm still missing stuff, ask me again in a month.

squeaky

You don't have to give everything up. It's a whole lot easier and considerably less painful, if you ease into these life style changes one at a time. Honest

Mrs_Thrift

I'm with squeaky on this, it shouldn't be painful! I find that the more little changes we make, the more we want to make, so it becomes a very natural progress if you start off gently.

Curry_Queen

Mrs_Thrift wrote:

How much salt and sugar is in the Heinz ones for comparison?

Good idea :T should have thought of that before :doh:

Ok, got a tin of Heinz and a Tesco Value for comparison (never tried eating Value on their own though) ...

Heinz: (per 100g)
Protein 4.6g
Carbs 12.9g (sugars 4.8g)
Fat 0.2g (sats Trace)
Fibre 3.7g
Salt 0.9g

Tesco Value: (100g)
Protein 4.5g
Carbs 16.6g (sugars 5.5g)
Fat 0.3g (sats 0.1g)
Fibre 3.5g
Salt 1.3g

Edit: Sodium is not the same as salt and the values listed as sodium make it appear artificially lower!!!!

Lillibet wrote:

Curry Queen
I have the Tesco Healthy Living baked beans, low sugar & salt & I think they taste really nice (I am very sensitve to salt as I grew up without it in my diet). They are 88p for a 4 pack so very ecnomical too;) .

Oooo that's much cheaper if they're as tasty You don't happen to have a can to add to the comparison please?

Lillibet_2

Curry_Queen wrote:

Oooo that's much cheaper if they're as tasty You don't happen to have a can to add to the comparison please?

Don't keep baked beans at work I'm afraid:p Speaking of which........I haven't done any for about 3 days, I really must get off of this site!!

spendaholic

Thanks Squeaks and Mrs T.

I've not had to give everything up because I'm a boring ol' fart and don't drink or smoke or anything like that. But I am missing my takeaways - although it's not the takeaway itself, it's the not-having-to-cook-it-myself I'm missing. I'm a bookaholic and have had to curb my spending there, which I'm only managing because I have a whole library of unread books. So I'm getting around to those now, too.

So I'm cheerfully missing things at the moment.