Ruined Recipe - Heinz Beans and Sausages

[cyberknight]

WOW

Just been told to go on a GF diet but had checked the store cupboard and thought they were OK

but just looked again and the oldest was a "non richmond" version and was GF
the other FOUR (!!!) are all no good for me anymore!

I tried RIchmond some years ago and they were rubbish - come across them since and they had not improved

just better marketing that some more expensive ones

But thanks for spreading the word!

Is that the girl friend diet ? ...

 

[Time Waster]

I resist the drive to reduce sugar by eating heinz baked beans and adding tomato sauce to make them close to what they used to be like before the sugar reduction thing came into effect.

Is this similar to the anti vaxxer mindest or is it just that I like to choose my own diet which is pretty good except for the very occasional comfort food in moderation.

Perhaps they should have the original recipes available to people who are healthy and can eat in moderation. Perhaps they could do an age check kind of thing where your height and weight is scanned and too high a fat content, BMI, etc you can't buy the good stuff!!??!!

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Is that the girl friend diet ? ...

err - wife actually

but anyway

we are talking here about someone who - when I met her - commented that my diet is ridiculously healthy
(it isn't!!)
but she did get her 5-a-day
3 glasses of wine and a packet of chocolate raisins a night!!!

Fray Bentos pies are actually one of the healthy part of her diet - especially if I can get her to have some mushy peas with it!!!

 

[Alex321]

Victory V lozenges

Years since I've had any of those. I used to love them in the 70's.

 

[potsy]

Not had Heinz beans for years, much prefer Sainsbury's own nowadays, their beans & sausage are ok for the money.
Not something I have too often but every now and then for a quick lunch.

As for Fray Bentos pies

 

[tyred]

The best thing to do with a Fray Bentos pie is to throw away the pie and eat the tin. It has more nutrition and flavour.

 

[Brandane]

Don't start me on Wrights Coal Tar soap. It is now a completely different product with an unpleasant odour. But they kept the same colour of bar, and almost identical packaging, although it now says "Traditional Soap" rather than "Coal Tar Soap". Another product on the growing list of things never to be bought again.

 

[Gwylan]

Don't start me on Wrights Coal Tar soap. It is now a completely different product with an unpleasant odour. But they kept the same colour of bar, and almost identical packaging, although it now says "Traditional Soap" rather than "Coal Tar Soap". Another product on the growing list of things never to be bought again.

But it's smell, like mothballs, redolent of old or dead people.

Now, Pear's soap reminds me of great aunts who were generous with the half crown piece.

 

[Fnaar]

Is @Fnaar still on CC?

Heinz has teamed up with Richmond to launch “improved”, co-branded versions of its canned sausage products.
Beanz with Sausages 415g and Spaghetti with Sausages 400g (both rsp: £2) now include Richmond pork sausages, and their pack designs have been updated to feature its logo.
The two products – which were developed as part of Heinz’s mission to “elevate its sausage portfolio” – are permanent additions to the range, replacing the former tins.

I am never far away :-) Thanks for the mention ... I don't come on so often these days (life habits changed a bit, and don't have to work any more) but I'm a lurker, and a weekly quizzer :-)

 

[matticus]

I resist the drive to reduce sugar by eating heinz baked beans and adding tomato sauce to make them close to what they used to be like before the sugar reduction thing came into effect.

Is this similar to the anti vaxxer mindest or is it just that I like to choose my own diet which is pretty good except for the very occasional comfort food in moderation.

Perhaps they should have the original recipes available to people who are healthy and can eat in moderation. Perhaps they could do an age check kind of thing where your height and weight is scanned and too high a fat content, BMI, etc you can't buy the good stuff!!??!!

Arguably, as most food shops also sell sugar, it would be easier to just stock the "healthy"/natural version.

 

[Time Waster]

Arguably, as most food shops also sell sugar, it would be easier to just stock the "healthy"/natural version.

It is not healthier it is just dumbed down food because people can not eat the original product that was worth eating as part of a healthy diet. Ignorance of dietary requirements and what amounts to a good, balanced and healthy diet means that those who can manage it are no unable to have baked beans that are worth eating. Taste murder from the new recipes compared to the old. And I bet those eating this modern recipe stuff still manage an unhealthy diet despite the state and food companies paying lipservice to offering healthy alternatives.

Change habits not the recipes is my opinon on this!! Rant over!!!!

 

[matticus]

It is not healthier it is just dumbed down food because people can not eat the original product that was worth eating as part of a healthy diet. Ignorance of dietary requirements and what amounts to a good, balanced and healthy diet means that those who can manage it are no unable to have baked beans that are worth eating. Taste murder from the new recipes compared to the old. And I bet those eating this modern recipe stuff still manage an unhealthy diet despite the state and food companies paying lipservice to offering healthy alternatives.

Change habits not the recipes is my opinon on this!! Rant over!!!!

This is like telling me I should put sugar in my tea, cos that's how you like it! x

 

[vickster]

It is not healthier it is just dumbed down food because people can not eat the original product that was worth eating as part of a healthy diet. Ignorance of dietary requirements and what amounts to a good, balanced and healthy diet means that those who can manage it are no unable to have baked beans that are worth eating. Taste murder from the new recipes compared to the old. And I bet those eating this modern recipe stuff still manage an unhealthy diet despite the state and food companies paying lipservice to offering healthy alternatives.

Change habits not the recipes is my opinon on this!! Rant over!!!!

preachy much?

 

[Time Waster]

This is like telling me I should put sugar in my tea, cos that's how you like it! x

Not at all because you add it or not which is personal choice.

What I am saying they removed or changed the recipes of certain food due to inability of some to eat a healthy balanced diet thus removing a choice to eat it or not. I am, not telling you to add anything I am saying that they removed or changed something which ruined the flavour. This act has not changed the issue with obesity or the health of the population. It has only taken away choice to eat the food for people who could choose to eat as part of a healthy diet. So no reall advantage for what I see as a disadvantage. YMMV of course.

It would be nice to have a choice for sugar free or reduced sugar and the original recipe that was sold before the change. It was once that rybena came in sugar free and sugared. It does not now it is all with artificial sweetener. This dumbing down of foods is removing them from people who can choose a healthy diet with them occasionally yet it does not on the whole alter the unhealthy diet of this nation that is causing obesity and other products.

The real issue is not what is in the food but access to good quality,. healthy raw ingredients that are cheap enough, the knowledge of how to use them and the time to make use of them. A lot of the areas where there is poverty are in places where there are mostly only processed foods available. In more wealthy areas you can get access to better foods whether through deliveries, local higher end shops or ability to travel to places that have more choice. In a nearby city people have overprice convenience type stores, a long walk to a supermarket then back with the food or paying out for a taxi ride home to get your shopping home. More likely it is processed foods on offer at the convenience store. Some areas are better or worse for this but it is access to food alternatives that can be significant then the ability or inclination to use them that matters. I just think things are backwards when it comes to trying to improve diet to get national health benefits.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

In my view a lot of the supposedly healthy version of normal foods are done at the instigation of the marketing department to
a) make the company look more responsible
and
b) to allow people to buy food that they think is more healthy - probably at a higher profit for teh company - which also means they are buying something from this company rather than someone else

OK - maybe I am cynical - but I don;t think I am a million miles off the truth