Beans?
 

Hello all,
Does anyone know if they sell Heinz baked beans over in OZ???
I can't live without them myself!!!!!!
;)

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Yes they do but quite expensive I understand.

Lindsey

What about HP Sauce - do they sell that also ?

Sorry. not sure about that one.

Lindsey

Yes they do 2.11AuD for a 250ml bottle

Lindsey

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AuD1.41 a tin

Lindsey

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Beans are pricey compared to Uk. There are Oz heinz beans, in a green tin and "UK style" beans in the famliar blue/black stamp. They were about 1.70 is I recall. Although watties and coles beans are not too bad and cheaper than heinz , not as cheap as UKers though!

Basics like bread, beans,milk,pasta etc cost a bit more in oz mate!

Beans on Toast no longer the cheap meal it was in England - ordinary sliced load can set you back $2.:scared:

The "ordinary" sliced loaf in coles/wollies is bloody ordinary, about sainsburys economy standard, yet 5 times the cost!!!!

Why is bread so expensive?

A mate of mine opened a bakery thats makes Turkish bread and he is loaded now:rolleyes:

I better take my breadmaker with me!

A lot of Aussies do make their own, due to the cost and crap quality of Aussie supermarket bread. My father in law made his own every day, at first I thought why?? After a couple of weeks I respected his decision and helped myself.:cool:

And yogurt maker 6 tubs of ski yogurt $5.09.

Some others from yesterday

Salmon portions $32.99 a kilo

Lamb cutlets $24.00 a kilo

Lean mince $9.99 a kilo

Loaf of granary bread $2.69

2 litres of trim milk $3.06

8 meusli bars $3.72

Spuds $2.70 a kilo, bulk buy better if you eat heaps tho.

Apples $4.99 kilo

Decent tomatoes with flavour $7.99 kilo, nasty ones $2.99 kilo

Jarlsberg cheese $29.99 a kilo Brie Same

Dozen barn, not cage eggs $4.99

Cucumber $2.99

Generic bargains tho 100 teabags 99c
Loaf of white $1.20
Paper towel 99c
Strawberry jam $1.25

We try all the cheapo/generic stuff once and stick with it if its good, but a lot of cheap meat for eg is just cheap because its not trimmed and just fat or bone. Food aint cheap here.

And the chip shops are crap!

and dont even think about a curry ...........

Coles recent flyer quoting:

Heinz Baked Beans 99c

'Mighty Soft' bread $1.98


:)

and thats "on special" no doubt.

Never get the buy one get one free deals in coles/wollies.

Food is more expensive in Aus.

Rent/petrol cheaper, however wages reflect this.

We (Australians) aren't big eaters of baked beans. We fart enough as it is without 3rd party help, thanks.

Is it really the case that you can't find a good curry anywhere? With the "relatively" high amount of asian immigrants, surely they would know when they were on to a good thing.

Oh well, will just have to make my own. Are there asian supermarkets around gold coast/brissy?

There's plenty of Asian stores and restaurants around Brisbane and the Coast. You'll have no problem finding them.

Asian in OZ genarally means oriental chinese/thai/jap etc. The ethinic restaurants/stores in oz reflect this trend.


In the UK Asian means Indian/bangaldeshii/pakistani. This is reflected in the great British " curry house"

Aus is good for chinise/thai food. Indian food is rare in Oz and not what a Brit would identify as a decent curry, the aussies pretty much dismiss it in perference for thai.

Kong!!!!!

You are my hero - you have just made a positive comment (apart from finding an aussie mrs:D ) on aus. Good on ya mate

Heinz do spaghetti aswell but it is different it has cheese n the sause, you can get regular (with cheese) or extra cheesy, different but nice (not sure if the beans are the same)

You dont get a curry house like you do over here, indian takeaway is pretty much a meat (alway worried about what "meat" is exactly) curry or a chicken curry, however ther selection in the supermarkets of pataks sauces outweighs the selection in the uk.

As others have said the Asian comunity in Australia is more Chinese, Thai etc than indian and you can still get a damn good feed.

Kala

Not if they are run by Italians they're not.

We've had two great local chip shops taken over by Pommy owners and the quality and portion sizes have dropped dramatically.

What no Iceburg?!??!!?

Re: Beans?
 

Heinz Baked beans English Recipe listed on www.greengrocer.com.au at $1.41 a can

Not the ones I went too - chips were great and the fish - wow you ould choose from about 15 different types.

Have you bought fish and chips in the UK recently? It is about £5 for a standard portion of fish and chips and the fish is about twice as small as it was 5 yrs ago - depetion of cod stocks in the North Sea!!

Heinz beans - yes, in all supermarkets, unless shane warne has eaten them all that is.

Breadmakers.. can anyone tell me are they any good? I'm thinking of buying one ( I love warm hot crusty bread) , but don't know where to start... can someone explain the run down on them ( have not got a clue about these gadgets) .. i.e. does the bread come out with a nice crisp crust.. like a cob loaf .. how long does it take to make a loaf in one? Is it a gadget.. ie , you tend to use it for the first few weeks and gets chucked in the cupboard with the dusty food processor which you don't use because it's too much trouble to put together and clean afterwards. Best makes etc.. are they any good, do you use them often.. or are they collecting dust after a while?

cheers:)

P.s iceburg lettuce is down in price at last, around $1.45 in my local woolworths now.. last week in Bilo it was just 75 cents.. special offer. but potatoes are up :D

Hiya Ceri
I have got a breadmaker. It is great as you can put it on the timer before you go to bed and you wake to the aroma of freshly baked bread.
When I first got mine, I used it for making loads of different breads (rosemary and potato was my favourite), I used it for pizza and bun dough and I was always making cinnamon rolls like you buy in cinnabon Yummy:)

I then had a look at my bum in the mirror and not use it for a while as they can be lethal:eek: I think that these could be one of those things that you use a lot when you first get it and then it gets sent to the back of the cupboard:D
Have a nice day.

Bugger me - I was in town shopping so I checked the price of Bloody Baked Beans - HomeBrand $0.65 / 420 g; Heinz $1.27 / 450 g, $1.87 / 850 g (all kinds of funny flavours to keep the Baked Bean aficionado diverted for life).

So I decided on Chilli con Carne tonight:

$6.25 / 700 g good lookin' pork ribs,
$1.39 / 375 g dry red kidney beans,
$0.64 / 683 g paleish stewing tomatoes,
$0.22 / 73 g reasonable garlic.
(Had the chillis etc)

Total $8.50

Prep time ~15 min, cook time ~3 hours.

6 meals for office workers, 4 for proper workers.

BTW:

Rot-gut white bread: $2 / 750 g loaf - stale tomorrow.
Schinkenbrot: $3.95 / 900 g loaf - good for ~2 weeks.

I've got a bread maker Ceri. It has spent a few months in the cupboard, while sprog was little. I didn't even have the time to sneeze then! I've got it out again recently as we're baking bread when people come round to see the house! I will deffo use it in Aus if the bread is so poor, as the quality of my own bread is great. It is really easy to measure the ingredients, as you have these plastic measuring things. The basic loaves use skimmed milk powder, but I've just ben using milk and it's turned out alright... or you colud maybe use soya milk? I've been playing about with mine, adding extras to the basic mix... I made a loaf with bits of fresh cherries in yesterday and it was woofed down by the family. Banana bread is lovely too. I will proably experiement with different seeds and nuts etc. too, good fro us veggies.
If it's just the two of you, buy a smaller size one... we could really do with a bigger one, as there are four of us, plus we really love the bread. Also, if you want it to cook bread for when you wake up, mine has a timer, but there are better ones that add the fruit for you - I have to put mine in when the bleeper goes.
I'm sure you will have fun experimenting... it is soooo easy!
Also, if you are thinking of kiddies, get a cool wall one. Be careful where you place it in the kitchen as they emit a lot of steam.
I would also check the availiability of yeast. I've always used dried yeast, but would experiment with fresh if needed. Also, make sure you use strong bread flour, not the ordinary stuff, as it doesn't rise.
ATB
Larissa
PS Easy to put together and clean - the thing you put the bread in is non-stick metal and lifts out the bread maker, so you put the stuff in away from the machine, so it doesn't fall in. There is a little paddle, which lifts out - usually gets stuck in the bottom of the loaf, but you just cut round it carefully. That's all the parts really.

Hey thanks for all the input re the "BAKED BEANS"!!
Any idea what the bangers (sausages) are like? I've heard they are abit crap.
What's the price on a 4 pack of beer? Do they sell stella?:beer:

Stella costs and to buy beer at a good price you have to buy it by the case of 24. The cheap beers generally are Tooheys, VB and 4x and are not that great. Case is normally $25 - 30$.

Snags here are crap unless you can find a good butcher. Supermarket snags are the pits.

Thought I had better correct the latest 'Ministry of Truth' propaganda.

Yes, you CAN get good curries in Oz. I'm quite fussy about Indian food, and have eaten excellent curries in several Aussie cities (Melbourne, Sydney, Gosford to name a few). They were just as good as - if not better/more authentic than - the Indian food you get here in the Uk. My indian colleague Deepak reckoned the curry we had in Sydney was as good as the ones his Mom makes. So there..... :p

IME if you try hard enough :) there's nowhere in the world where you can't get a curry. Even in NYC, the least curry friendly city on the planet, after much searching, I found a really good place on W 48th St (PM me if you want the details).

Anya.

Sausages - if you choose better quality ones, they are excellent, very lean.

Also there is a good selection of non-pork ones, so I was able to keep on the straight & narrrow with my Kosher diet!

However, a disappointing selection of veggie sausages :(

Anya.

Cheers Bondipom,
Bad luck on the snags, you can't beat bangers and mash, guess i'll have to get used to life without it!
Plus i'm sure a case of beer will help me drown my sorrows:beer:

Anya4oz thanks,
I spose you get what you pay for! Although you can't beat a good pork sausage if you ask me.
Not too keen on anything veggie "that's sposed to be meat"!

Dunno where you shop, but you are getting ripped off.

Shop elsewhere. I have never paid those sort of prices

Siren's b/h

I stil think that it depends where you shop! I know that these options are not available for everyone, but here aresome examples from my shopping trip to the local asian market in Melbourne yesterday:

2 kg apples: $2.50
loaf nice seeded bread $1.59
tin tomatoes 65c
dozen free range eggs $ 2.99
tomatoes (with flavour) $2.99 a kilo
peppers (red and green $2.89 a kilo
spices 65 c a packet
herbs 75c a bunch

Yes, supermarket prices are much more expensive, and we don't eat meat, but I have found food here _much_ cheaper than in the USA and a hell of a lot nicer.

These are my observations though. I know that everyone has different experiences/time constraints/location constraints. I just didn;t want everyone thinking that the prices stated by jad an rich are the only option.

:rolleyes: COLES you know one of the two major grocery stores here. Lamb chops were from the butchers outside, could have got some nice fatty ones for less tho, half of which would have gone in the garbage can.

Wish I had a scanner here, I'd stick up the docket. :D