Ruined Recipe - Heinz Beans and Sausages

[matticus]

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.

I think you're being very selfish. What if some people quite like the reduced sugar option?

 

[Time Waster]

I think you're being very selfish. What if some people quite like the reduced sugar option?

That is the point of those with and without no? Diet coke vs original coke right? Currently they are not offering anything except the reduced whatever version. If it is your way then someone has to be disappointed I just say that nobody has to they just have diet coke and normal coke. Heinz produce enough tins of beans that I am certain it would be economic (that is even before the plant making them does own brand versions too no doubt).

 

[Beebo]

Argh, they have ruined it, and no longer GF.

Living with a wife who is celiac makes you realise that a change of any product that was once gluten free is a total ballache.

We don’t check ingredients on stuff we regularly buy, so this will catch many people out and seems like a bit of an own goal for Heinz.

why introduce gluten to a product when it clearly doesn’t need to be there.

 

[matticus]

That is the point of those with and without no? Diet coke vs original coke right? Currently they are not offering anything except the reduced whatever version. If it is your way then someone has to be disappointed I just say that nobody has to they just have diet coke and normal coke. Heinz produce enough tins of beans that I am certain it would be economic (that is even before the plant making them does own brand versions too no doubt).

But you could add your own sugar. Like with tea.

 

[Brandane]

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

I have the same memories with Imperial Leather!

 

[matticus]

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.

Is this a euphemism?!?

 

[Brandane]

I think you're being very selfish. What if some people quite like the reduced sugar option?

With possibly carcinogenic Aspartame as a substitute sweetener? No thanks!!

 

[Reynard]

Artificial sweeteners. Yuk!

My favourite instant hot chocolate was fubared that way a few years back, when some of the sugar was replaced with sweetener. I stopped buying it, as the "new lower sugar" version tasted vile i.e. much too sweet, with a horrible chemical aftertaste.

Very irritating, as it was a low sugar version that didn't have sweeteners in it. It simply had less sugar.

Switched back to proper drinking chocolate and make it with milk. I just have far fewer hot chocolates.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

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.

Imo you're overthinking this: the recipes have mainly been changed for maximizing profit.
The no sugar/less sugar products have been formulated because of the sugar tax that was introduced a couple of years ago.

 

[fossyant]

Living with a wife who is celiac makes you realise that a change of any product that was once gluten free is a total ballache.

We don’t check ingredients on stuff we regularly buy, so this will catch many people out and seems like a bit of an own goal for Heinz.

why introduce gluten to a product when it clearly doesn’t need to be there.

My sister is Celiac. Bisto best gravy changed the recipe so it's no longer GF also. Bit of a bummer when you are making roast beef at a party and ensuring everything is GF...

No need for sausages to be with gluten - most 'good' sausages in the supermarket are GF

 

[simongt]

Prince's Chilli con carne is more sauce than meat,

Interesting point this. I've always loved sardine & tomato paste on toast. It's been very noticeable that the 'leading brands' of which Prince's is one, have a noticeably lower fish content by % than any of the leading supermarket brands.
And of course, the supermarket ones are cheaper.
Odd that inn'it - ?

 

[Reynard]

My sister is Celiac. Bisto best gravy changed the recipe so it's no longer GF also. Bit of a bummer when you are making roast beef at a party and ensuring everything is GF...

No need for sausages to be with gluten - most 'good' sausages in the supermarket are GF

Tesco's "Finest" sausages are gluten-free, and have been for some time. They swapped out the rusk for rice starch. Not that I'm complaining, because it's meant that the meat content has increased to 95%.

On the downside, they've ditched the old fashioned sausage casings for seaweed ones on account of them being cheaper. I'm a bit miffed, because it changes the "bite" of what is otherwise a really good sausage.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Tesco's "Finest" sausages are gluten-free, and have been for some time. They swapped out the rusk for rice starch. Not that I'm complaining, because it's meant that the meat content has increased to 95%.

On the downside, they've ditched the old fashioned sausage casings for seaweed ones on account of them being cheaper. I'm a bit miffed, because it changes the "bite" of what is otherwise a really good sausage.

Since I was disgnosed as coeliac I have been getting Tesco Finest sausages
my wife has looked on the WWW and apparently Heck sausages as GF as well - but Tesco have stopped selling them - at least in the one near us

I will be going to the butcher's soon to get mince and stuff and I will check if their sausages are GF - and their burgers

 

[Reynard]

Since I was disgnosed as coeliac I have been getting Tesco Finest sausages
my wife has looked on the WWW and apparently Heck sausages as GF as well - but Tesco have stopped selling them - at least in the one near us

I will be going to the butcher's soon to get mince and stuff and I will check if their sausages are GF - and their burgers

If you're buying good butcher's mince, then it's easy enough to make your own burgers. Just swap out fresh breadcrumbs (that act as the binder to stop your burgers falling apart) for something like rice flour, corn starch or oatmeal. Then add an egg, salt, lots of ground black pepper and some minced onion. Mix well, and divide into patties. If freezing, then open freeze each patty on some greaseproof / waxed paper before packaging.

 

[Reynard]

P.S. You can also add freshly chopped parsley, chopped chillies, blue cheese etc if you want to change things up.