Alternative to Heinz Tinned Sponge Puds?

suki1964

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I totally get that for proper food. But pudding is hardly an essential.

I never eat pudding but my step dad always had to have pudding/ dessert after both lunch and dinner

Perhaps not essential. but that was how he was brought up and in his last years it was pudding he preferred

Horses for courses

Owain_Moneysaver

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I totally get that for proper food. But pudding is hardly an essential.

I think in the circumstances of

when there's no power, all you have to cook on is a wood stove, you're not feeling very well

one can be excused for prioritising pudding over a grilled skinless chicken breast with salad and an avocado smoothie

Si_Clist

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I totally get that for proper food. But pudding is hardly an essential.

But alas, dear, not everybody thinks like you do, and not everybody's circumstances are the same.

Not everyone lives with the benefit of mains gas and a reliable electricity supply. Not everyone has a car in which to nip to the shops for some wholesome ingredient or other when the fancy takes them to rustle up a tasty treat.

Some of us know that when you're not feeling too good, you're cold, you're fed up with the weather and the power's gone again, it's really nice to have something sweet and filling in the cupboard which you can just bung in a pan of boiling water on top of the woodstove ...

prowla

Why not get a microwave? They are great for doing some things.

C_J

** sigh **

Nargleblast

I suppose you could experiment - make up a cake batter, butter a frying pan, pour the batter in and cook it in the top of the stove. I assume it will turn out like a puffed up pancake rather than a sponge pud, but you could add jam or syrup and it would be hot, sweet and filling in an emergency.

Si_Clist

Nargleblast wrote: »

I suppose you could experiment - make up a cake batter, butter a frying pan, pour the batter in and cook it in the top of the stove. I assume it will turn out like a puffed up pancake rather than a sponge pud, but you could add jam or syrup and it would be hot, sweet and filling in an emergency.

We actually did that (and plenty of other improvised meals) when we were without power for a fortnight after the 1987 "hurricane", and we try to always have enough basic ingredients in stock to see us through most situations.
But all my OP was about was finding an alternative to the tinned sponge puds which we've kept in the store cupboard ever since, and we've now established that (a) Heinz stopped making them in 2015 and (b) Bestway do an alternative at £1.39 a throw.

The only problem now is tracking the blessed things down in a shop somewhere so I don't have to pay twice the marked price to get them from Amazon

C_J

I think you can only register order direct from the Bestway website if you are a bona fide retailer, which is a shame as they sell packs of 12 at a 30% discount.

I think Best One (Bestway's trade name) produce is sold through smaller convenience stores, such as Mace and Spar.

Si_Clist

C_J wrote: »

... I think Best One (Bestway's trade name) produce is sold through smaller convenience stores, such as Mace and Spar.

And I think you've found a way forward!

Time to plan an expedition to the nearest towns in search of convenience stores - once I've remembered where I put my bus pass...

maman

prowla wrote: »

Why not get a microwave? They are great for doing some things.

C_J wrote: »

** sigh **

Still doesn't explain why for the greater part of the time when electricity isn't off then a microwave would make absolute sense. At lease it would to me.

But OP is on a mission to have tinned sponge pudding and obviously not interested in listening any other solution offered.