Own Brand Cereals

[biggs682]

Eww. Cardboard with synthetic over sweet 'fruit' filling

Here's hoping they weren't made by Baketime last month

http://www.foodmanufacture.co.uk/Manufacturing/Dirty-food-factory-forces-Aldi-biscuit-recall

Weevilabix anyone?

@vickster thanks , they are not too sweet

 

[Bollo]

That's my house about 5 minutes before my Muslim* in-laws visit.

*It's complicated.

 

[Lullabelle]

I am fussy about breakfast cereal, cannot eat anything chocolate/sugary sweet in the morning so I stick to Special K or shreddies. I haven't tried supermarket own brand of anything, maybe1 day..

 

[Tanis8472]

I am fussy about breakfast cereal, cannot eat anything chocolate/sugary sweet in the morning so I stick to Special K or shreddies. I haven't tried supermarket own brand of anything, maybe1 day..

Special K has 17% sugar

 

[Tanis8472]

Until recently I would have agreed, but then they messed with the recipe and the sauce is now a pale watery imitation of the original. It's Branston beans for me these days; give them a try!
As for cereal, I gave them all up years ago when they became p!ss takingly expensive. Porridge man now. Apart from when my halo slips and I need a fix of Cinnamon Toast Crunch/Cinnamon Grahams/Curiously Cinnamon or whatever they are called this month - and ONLY Nestlé will do.

That is so weird. Exactly my thoughts

 

[Lullabelle]

[QUOTE 4258766, member: 259"]Special K is far too sweet for me![/QUOTE]

Sweet? I wouldn't have said it was sweet.

 

[jefmcg]

Heinz really seem to have developed a particularly strong brand loyalty. I suppose you could say it's left their competitors playing ketchup. Anyhow, I tried a bottle of the Aldi home brand - Batts, I think it is - and it's pretty good.

Here's a weird thing: when they first introduced compulsory ingredients labelling in Australia, I remember reading the ingredients on Heinz Tomato Sauce (Australian for ketchup). The first ingredient on the list was apple. Some time later, I checked the ingredient list again, and it now contained no apple, just tomatoes. I was a kid, so ate enough of the stuff to know what it tasted like, but never noticed the change in ingredients. My guess is that if you put enough salt and sugar in something it pretty well masks any other flavouring; colour and texture can be tweaked.

I assume the product was first made with tomatoes; they changed to mostly apples at some point to save some bucks. Once it went on the label, there was a consumer backlash so they put the tomatoes back in. I'd also guess they did the same in the UK.

Notes:

1. meat pie and tomato sauce is usually my one junk food indulgence when I go to Australia. That's only because I don't count Cherry Ripes and capricciosa pizza as junk food
2. The Australian version contains more tomatoes and less vinegar than the UK version
3. Heinz now calls it ketchup in Australia. All other brands are still tomato sauce.
4. And makes it in New Zealand!

 

[Brandane]

That is so weird. Exactly my thoughts

Clearly another man of good taste!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

This own brand cerial would just be awful.

 

[marknotgeorge]

Here's a weird thing: when they first introduced compulsory ingredients labelling in Australia, I remember reading the ingredients on Heinz Tomato Sauce (Australian for ketchup). The first ingredient on the list was apple. Some time later, I checked the ingredient list again, and it now contained no apple, just tomatoes. I was a kid, so ate enough of the stuff to know what it tasted like, but never noticed the change in ingredients. My guess is that if you put enough salt and sugar in something it pretty well masks any other flavouring; colour and texture can be tweaked.

I assume the product was first made with tomatoes; they changed to mostly apples at some point to save some bucks. Once it went on the label, there was a consumer backlash so they put the tomatoes back in. I'd also guess they did the same in the UK.

Notes:

1. meat pie and tomato sauce is usually my one junk food indulgence when I go to Australia. That's only because I don't count Cherry Ripes and capricciosa pizza as junk food
2. The Australian version contains more tomatoes and less vinegar than the UK version
3. Heinz now calls it ketchup in Australia. All other brands are still tomato sauce.
4. And makes it in New Zealand!

That's nothing. Heinz closed down the HP sauce factory and moved production to the Netherlands!

Speaking of sauces, we use Aldi's own brands except for ketchup (Heinz) and pickle (can't remember the brand, but it's a suburb of Burton). Ketchup is partly because Mad Scientist gets a rash from anything but Heinz (her lips go all red, poor thing). Pickle is mainly for me, and I suppose that's just force of habit.

 

[Haitch]

There was a film made about Kellog and his sanatorium called The Road to Welville. It portrayed Kellog as a fanatical anti-masturbationist but a staunch fist-f***.

 

[albion]

Here's a weird thing: when they first introduced compulsory ingredients labelling in Australia, I remember reading the ingredients on Heinz Tomato Sauce (Australian for ketchup). The first ingredient on the list was apple. Some time later, I checked the ingredient list again, and it now contained no apple, just tomatoes. I was a kid, so ate enough of the stuff to know what it tasted like, but never noticed the change in ingredients. My guess is that if you put enough salt and sugar in something it pretty well masks any other flavouring; colour and texture can be tweaked.

I assume the product was first made with tomatoes; they changed to mostly apples at some point to save some bucks. Once it went on the label, there was a consumer backlash so they put the tomatoes back in. I'd also guess they did the same in the UK.

Notes:

1. meat pie and tomato sauce is usually my one junk food indulgence when I go to Australia. That's only because I don't count Cherry Ripes and capricciosa pizza as junk food
2. The Australian version contains more tomatoes and less vinegar than the UK version
3. Heinz now calls it ketchup in Australia. All other brands are still tomato sauce.
4. And makes it in New Zealand!

Maybe because Heinz has a loyalty Britain they get away with using less tomatoes. I assume then, Heinz Australia matches the tomato content of the Batts(Lidl) stuff we get here.

 

[Tin Pot]

There was a film made about Kellog and his sanatorium called The Road to Welville. It portrayed Kellog as a fanatical anti-masturbationist but a staunch fist-f***.

 

[winjim]

There was a film made about Kellog and his sanatorium called The Road to Welville. It portrayed Kellog as a fanatical anti-masturbationist but a staunch fist-f**.

And contained the immortal line: "With friends like you, who needs enemas?"

 

[Lullabelle]

[QUOTE 4259546, member: 259"]It's got a fair bit of sugar and corn syrup in it. I was really surprised when @Tanis8472 said it was 17% though - much more than cornflakes. My wife has it but as I said, too sweet for me, so I'll stick with porridge made with water and salt - but I don't eat in standing up in a kilt. [/QUOTE]



TBH during the working week I just want something to tip into a bowl with the minimum of fuss.