How much is a can of Heinz Beans in the UK?

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skibbin@reddit

6 cans for 6.75 at Tesco.

When I was younger Aldi used to sell cans for 6p. They were shit, but I was a student.

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fanatic_tarantula@reddit

Aldi beans are banging. Closest thing to Branstons without being branstons

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I’ll need to try this. I’m in the Branstons camp, I think they are the best tasting tin of beans. Wife and 2 kids couldn’t care less, say they all taste the same😂 Toast, butter, Bransons beans, brown sauce…perfect.

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Dragonfruit7837@reddit

Bit of cheese ?

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jamessobotowski@reddit

Cheddar or Wensleydale

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Dragonfruit7837@reddit

Have to go Red Leicester or cheddar

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jamessobotowski@reddit

Branstons are the best

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ImpressiveStorm8914@reddit

Agreed. We used to get the standard own brand Asad beans, as Heinz aren’t worth it, and they are nice enough but Branston beans are so much better and only priced slightly higher.

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According-Course1894@reddit

What kind of brown sauce ?

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CptPricesMustache@reddit

Gloves off time😂 For me it’s Daddies, that’s what we always had at home when I was young. HP is the original I believe. In a pinch the M&S own brand one is pretty decent and is up there.

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fanatic_tarantula@reddit

I probably prefer the aldi ones. Especially at about 45p a tin. Taste amazing if you slowly cook them and they go stodgy

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kendoddsdadsdeaddog@reddit

I think the cooking method matters more than the beans. A nice slow simmer on the hob will thicken the sauce and lift even a cheap, saucey tin to higher levels than a good brand that’s been microwaved

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Tom_FooIery@reddit

Asda used to do tins of “no frills” beans for 1p per tin back in the day!

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mokosmam@reddit

No frills was kwik save

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Tom_FooIery@reddit

That’s the one!

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wildflower12345678@reddit

Kwik save back in the day, 1p tin of beans.

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MINKIN2@reddit

The Bean Wars was a real thing.

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mokosmam@reddit

I can remember when kwik saves no feills beans were 2p in the bean wars 😂😂

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Flash__PuP@reddit

Reminds me of being at uni in Liverpool. There were a load of sausage-in-a-bun sellers. So many that at one point they kept trying to g to undercut each other. Hot Sausage Price war, what a time to be alive AND a poor student with a high metabolism.

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Majestic_Manta@reddit

'Sausage in a bun sir? I'll sell it for less and that's cutting me own throat'

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Raven-Nightshade@reddit

GNU

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natatronica@reddit

GNU STP

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fezzuk@reddit

gnu terry pratchett

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Good_Ad_1386@reddit

They're cheaper onna stick, though.

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Flash__PuP@reddit

No flies on him. He’d have charged them rent.

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Then-Mango-8795@reddit

Those were things that I remember as a kid in late 70s / early 80s that years later I wondered where they'd all gone.

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Flash__PuP@reddit

I moved to Liverpool 99/00.

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Marzipan_civil@reddit

In the early 2000s Liverpool was the cheapest city for a student to live in the UK

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Flash__PuP@reddit

Didn’t feel it for my broke ass. 😆

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Physical_Heart2766@reddit

There was also a Bread War in the late 1990s.

Tesco was setting loaves of their own bread for £0.19 at one point in a war with Lidl and Sainsburys.

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-MARMITEnTOAST-@reddit

...still going

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HumourNoire@reddit

£4.50 at Morrisons according to Pricerunner.

Tesco are expensive these days.

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Primary_Gift_8719@reddit

Jesus are you serious? I left the UK a few years ago and realize inflation etc... but that sounds crazy expensive now.

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homemadegrub@reddit

Fcuking hell is six cans 6.75??? I'm sure it was 3.99 just a couple years ago

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MsPB01@reddit

£4.50 at Sainsbury's with a Nectar card

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snapper1971@reddit

Back in the early 90s, Tesco basic beans were 2p.

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Feline-Sloth@reddit

My daughter prefers Aldi baked beans as they are less sweet... I hate baked beans along with Marmite - foods of the Devil - shudder!!!

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Cheap-Vegetable-4317@reddit

When I was a student own brand beans on toast with cheese grated on them was a big part of my diet. You could turn them into something quite edible with spices cooked in oil, garlic, chili and ginger, but just Worcester sauce, black pepper and grated cheddar was pretty good.

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Long-Woodpecker-1980@reddit

Own brand beans are still about 20p in lidl. I'm sure a million students are still living on them to this day

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Ill_Apricot_7668@reddit

Interesting thing:

A bunch of professionals / TV chefs reviewed the available beans some time in the 90s and Aldi's 6p"Corralle" brand came out tops (no longer what Aldi sells).

Their rationale was that they liked the sauce as it was not overly sweet, and the beans were firmer and more like they would make in thier restaurants.

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TabularConferta@reddit

That's for 8

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Aggravating_Cloud657@reddit

Wow do they really cost that much?

I buy the cheap ones from Aldi.

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dismaldunc@reddit

ah! pink bean juice

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-MARMITEnTOAST-@reddit

Packs of 8 where I am...

Used to be packs of 7...

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YchYFi@reddit

Aldis have their own brand that are much cheaper.

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mogzie1976@reddit

I prefer Branstons. From Asda they're half the price of Heinz. So expect they'd been even cheaper from the cheapo shops.

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TheJonatron@reddit

If you can get Branston Beans they're way better. They're not hard as bullets like Heins and you get a lot more bean per sauce ratio. And the sauce is a better consistency.

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bearwillzi@reddit

I get accused by my other half for shilling for Branstons anytime a baked beans conversation comes up with friends (quite regularly) but they're so much better than Heinz! I tell her it's my civic duty to fight back against Big Bean propaganda ('has to be Heinz')

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TheJonatron@reddit

Big Bean. Love it. 😂

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64bitninja@reddit

We used to much prefer branston beans but then about 18 months or two years ago they changed something. Every can we had just tasted awful so we now just have supermarket own brand. They used to be great but they changed something and they were aweful

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VolatileFudge@reddit

Did you possibly get covid? Completely random stuff never returned to normal smells for me.

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BG3restart@reddit

I really don't like Branston beans. For me, they're overcooked and too saucy. On the few occasions I've had them, I've had to fry them to evaporate some of the sauce, then they're even mushier, like baby food. When I fry Heinz beans, they still have a good texture. I guess we prefer the taste we're used to.

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nearlydeadasababy@reddit

Don't fry, boil. That will thicken the sauce but not over cook the beans.

But each to thier own, I prefer Branston due to the softer beans and the thicker sauce, I can get the same effect with Heinz by "boiling" them. Heinz are a bit more expensive.

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fezzuk@reddit

Honestly to soft for me, and you csn make heniz softer but youncsnt make.branston harder.

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TheJonatron@reddit

Yeah exactly. When I do fry branstons its after cooking bacon in the pan and soft beans and super stick tacky sauce with the bacon flavour is the objective. Mmm...

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Grommulox@reddit

Fried baked beans is a lovely treat though. Do them in the pan you’ve done everything else in as the last step on a fried breakfast. Amazing.

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Alarmed-Newspaper994@reddit

who the fuck fries baked beans?

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BG3restart@reddit

You've clearly never been camping where you cook everything in one pot to minimise washing up. Beans fried in bacon fat are the best.

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NiniMinja@reddit

I had to scroll too far for this comment. I despise heinz beans, Branston are excellent though.

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TmB-Eggo@reddit

I used to like branston, but then they (or the company that sold their cans) developed a QA issue, and all their beans were laced with this really rank taste. They weren't the only brand affected, which is why I thought it might be an issue with the cans. But it made them inedible to me. I gave them a chance over several months, but I wasted so much on them because of this taste, I will only buy heinz now.

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64bitninja@reddit

Oh I just posted a similar thing. Something happened and they were awful. We assumed they changed the recipe...

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Masty1992@reddit

I’ve never had a Heinz bean too hard that it couldn’t be eaten by someone with no teeth. Is that still “hard as bullets” on the bean scale?

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ThatSamShow@reddit

.Just as an example, Iceland sells a four-pack of Heinz beans for £3.90, which works out at less than £1 per can. Based on the prices you mentioned ($3.97 or $4), once converted to pound sterling, you’re actually buying them more cheaply.

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SoupMaleficent9513@reddit

Asda’s own branded beans are the best imo. You can get a 4 pack for £1.50.

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dragongirl_3@reddit

£1.70 in my local co-op. Crazy prices

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mokosmam@reddit

1.65 in morrisons

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Alarmed-Newspaper994@reddit

I mean it's a co op, they are small convenience stores, of course they are expensive

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Desperate_Border6904@reddit

And they don't greedy shareholders

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mokosmam@reddit

Heinz beans in morrisons near me are £1.65 per tin, according to googled thats $2.28

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CockyKaxe@reddit (OP)

Dang! Thanks for answering all!!!!!!

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nearlydeadasababy@reddit

Mate, you were unlikely to have asked a question British people would be more motivated to answer.

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thefishingdj@reddit

With maybe the exception of does milk go in first?

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themightychew@reddit

Milky beans? What is this?!

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Aware_Ad_431@reddit

They’re not even the best beans

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Amazed_townie@reddit

Stopped eating Heinz BB after seeing how much sugar content there is on the “How it’s made” series

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Verbal-Gerbil@reddit

all Heinz items (soup, sauce, beans) have jumped MASSIVELY in price since the Ukraine war. I now get own brand (Sainsbury's, about 44p a can) and I don't notice the difference

at $3.97 for 6, they're far cheaper than they are here, and you wanna stock up!

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Jacktheforkie@reddit

3.90 for 4x415g

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Guilty_Nebula5446@reddit

£1.40 a tin

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ladyatlantica@reddit

Half cans 65p, big ones £1.05 (I literally just bought some yesterday)

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rtrs_bastiat@reddit

An individual can is £1.40 in Tesco right now. Can get 4 for £3.50 if you sell them your data.

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Justan0therthrow4way@reddit

Just ask someone shopping to scan their rewards card if you don’t want to give them your data

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TmB-Eggo@reddit

That's cringey though, just have someone else's barcode in your app.

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fezzuk@reddit

I used to carry around my mates QR code on a keyfob. She was very halpy woth the arrangement given st one point in was filling up a generator with about £300 worth lf desiel in a weekly basis.

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Justan0therthrow4way@reddit

Free points and therefore discounts eventually for them, discount for you. What’s that cringy ?

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nearlydeadasababy@reddit

The points thing is basically non-existant now.

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Justan0therthrow4way@reddit

I know but if someone asked me can they borrow my club card so they can have their cheap baked beans I’m not gonna say no.

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fezzuk@reddit

Fick me that a lot of a can of beans.

Dont think i take notice of the price, i really should.

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OldTimeConGoer@reddit

Tesco basic baked beans are 28p, price matching with Aldi and probably from the same megafactory that Aldi and Lidl get their own supplies from. They taste okay to me but I'm a "food is fuel" type. Tesco own brand baked beans are 42p.

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rtrs_bastiat@reddit

I'm a big fan of their 48p cans myself, with a little extra salt I think they can rub shoulders with the big boys

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davenuk@reddit

You can get as good beans for about 50p a tin, DM me your address, I'll send you some Tesco's own lolz. I won't even skimp and get the Stocktons

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Then-Mango-8795@reddit

Are you in the USA or Canada? When I go to Canada I've had Heinz beans aren't they just aren't the same, lower salt or something. Even the ones labelled as British Style aren't the same at all.

To answer your question it works out at £1 a tin with various multi buy packs

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LeastInsurance8578@reddit

The sauce in the US version is completely different to the version in the UK

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snavej1@reddit

Heinz Beans are fairly high in sugar. Not the healthiest option.

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MsPB01@reddit

6 cans is £4.50 at Sainsbury's if you have a Nectar card

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Key_Seaworthiness827@reddit

Far too much for what they are. Branston or Lidl/Aldi own brands are far superior to heinz and cost less than £0.50 per can

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FreshMontrealer12@reddit

The thing is, I’m not sure why, but they still taste not quite right. I have Heinz Original in my Walmart and the sauce is not as great. They sometimes do a Heinz ‘British Style’ too but not all the time. It’s weird. I pay about 2$ CAD a can

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spittingparasite@reddit

Are you buying them in the British section? The American-made British style baked beans are nothing like the imported ones.

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FreshMontrealer12@reddit

There’s no British section in mine 😢

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Then-Mango-8795@reddit

Oh I just replied to another comment about these. When I go to Canada I think they have less salt in Canadian version. The British Style ones aren't right either.

I keep threatening that I'm going to open an import/export business shipping heinz beans, digestives and custard creams over and bringing back proper Maple Syrup.

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wildflower12345678@reddit

Why limit yourself to heinz? There's so many better brands out there.

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ProfessionalEven296@reddit

In the USA, if we're lucky we can get Heinz. Otherwise we end up with American beans. Which are truly disgusting...

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ProfessionalEven296@reddit

Thank you for this post - I'm going to Costco today with a truck! Compared to the English stores around me, $8.99 was a bargain anyway....

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loveswimmingpools@reddit

They're too expensive for me now. I but tesco value beans. Add a bit of salt, ketchup and Worcestershire sauce to them.

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kernowgringo@reddit

Is this one of those quizzes to prove I'm a man of the people?

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jingleballs088@reddit

Don't get heinz it's all sauce and no beans. Branston is where the beans are.

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FancyAd3942@reddit

Way too much and they aren’t even good. GIVE ME SOME SHOP OWN BRAND

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imtheorangeycenter@reddit

Ironically, we get ours from Costco. £15.29 for 24 cans, so 64p (so about 87 US cents) per can.

It's one of their "holy moly that's way cheaper than the supermarket" lines. I couldn't imagine paying a quid or more per can.

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Acidphire21@reddit

£1 a tin or a 6 pack for £4.50 i think it is

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f8rter@reddit

Who the fcuk buys Heinz beans any more ?

Aldi beans quarter of the price ?

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Rex__Luscus@reddit

Which? blind tested baked beans January 2026. Aldi and Lidl came top @ 40p per can, followed by Heinz and Branston, typically £1 per can when bought in multipacks.

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Xenozip3371Alpha@reddit

Like 4 for £5 usually? At least when you're getting individual tins instead of multipacks.

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regalroomba@reddit

I'm not brand-loyal with beans but Heinz are the only ones who do barbecue baked beans so I buy them. I can't go back to regular beans, they're so much nicer. I think they're about 4 for £5.

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andyone100@reddit

They’re over a £1 a can in the U.K. so you got them for a good price😊. They used to be far and away the most popular baked beans, although these days, many prefer Branston’s, which have a richer, thicker sauce. Personally, these days I enjoy Sainsbury’s (most of our supermarkets have their own brand), which are 40p a tin!

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veryblocky@reddit

I bought a pack of 6 tins in Sainsbury’s yesterday for £4.50

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Adventurous_Deal2788@reddit

I buy a pack of 4 for £1.50

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happymisery@reddit

Home Bargain do Branston beans as 4 for £4 or Heinz for 4 for £4.50

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shelleypiper@reddit

Once upon a time, own brand beans were 4p

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cakesforever@reddit

And you could tell they were cheap. Tasted vile.

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Dic_Penderyn@reddit

Wow, lots of posh people on reddit today! A can of Stockwell baked beans is just 28p at Tesco's. Thats the equivalent of 38 cents, including sales tax. The tomato sauce may not be the best, but you can always add a dash of cheap tomato ketchup if you want. It will do for me, and fills the hole in my stomach when hungry.

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TabularConferta@reddit

£2.75 on offer for 4 normally £3.50 in Tesco £1.40 per can

The own brand is 42p and I prefer them

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hedaenerys@reddit

Costco does 24 tins for £13.99. so about 59p per can if you want a Costco comparison.

I prefer the ones with the little sausages in them which are a bit more expensive!

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