I absolutely love the most expensive one and it’s just as good in all the other fruit flavours they do. It’s a perfect example of a brand where paying top dollar is worth it. I have enjoyed Harley’s too, but the French one knows spots off any other brands.
The Sainsbury's conserve and the Coop equivalent is good. Ordinary jam is like eating straight sugar. The Sainsbury's one is £2. Do not much more than the highest priced jam. Aldi conserve is nice too. That is £1.25. Suspect this would have won if tried.
If you look at the ingredient you will see that the nicer ones had strawberries as the first ingredient. The other ones the first ingredient is fructose/glucose
The key ingredient to avoid is what the yanks call high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) but in Europe is called glucose-fructose syrup (GFS). The Bonne Maman stuff has none in it and 47g of fruit. Hartleys has more fruit than syrup, with Tesco brand the GFS is the main ingredient. Grandessa has slightly more fruit than GFS, then the Stockwell and ASDA are basically GFS with fruit flavouring.
@@davidgomm6043 I don't buy processed foods..... I eat low carb and everything from scratch like everyone else should. As the saying goes for unhealthy ppl, Sh1t in, then Sh1t out... You reap what you sow
As a kid I had homemade blackberry jam for breakfast on porridge and cereal and dinner and tea on rice pudding and pancakes. Blackberry picking resulted in copious amounts
I've just noticed that the Bonne Maman jam that Gareth tested is super expensive because it contains strawberries *and* wild strawberries. Bonne Maman also do a cheaper one without the wild berries. Only £2.80 at Tesco.
We have both jams. A Conosuerr jam like Bonne Maman. But they are not much good when you add them to your Rice pudding or Maids of Honour etc you need the cheaper jams for those type of things.
My daughter treated me to some M&S Strawberry Conserve. The ingredients are Sugar, Strawberries, Citric Acid, Pectin. The amounts are basically half fruit and half sugar. Because it's so flavoursome, you don't need much of it on your toast. Cost was £2.10 for 340g. Twenty servings in each jar.
Remember as a kid having the choice of having Strawberry Jam with Yorkshire Pudding on its own or leaving it for the meat Sunday Roast .... Delicious I remember. Had Yorkshire Pudding on its own with Lemon Curd as well. Great review as always, love Strawberry Jam. Again, the most expensive comes out on top 👍👏😉
We always use the French jams, apricot is fab like the raspberry. i know they are pricey but it’s proper jam but it has big chunks of real fruit as jam should.
Ah the beauty of growing up on a farm with nearly an acre of orchards with plums, apples, pears... to a mini strawberry 'plantation'.. 😜Helping mom making Jams, Chutney et et not forgetting sloe gin, various wines et et 😜Many bought 'jams' that are 'massed produced' will vary enormously in consistency but also in the actual 'fruit content'. Did you KNOW.. during WW2 many 'jams' actually contained vegetables !! 😶We are fans of Tiptree / Wilkin & sons jams/preserves et. Preserves are a cooked mix of fruit and sugar where the fruit is left in large pieces. Aside from the size of the fruit preserves are the same as jams. To be able to call your mixture a preserve the fruit must not be mashed, crushed or in small pieces.👀Jams made from a mixture of various fruits are called conserves. Basically, all conserves are jams, but not all jams are conserves. Make sense? Conserves usually contain fruit mixed together with sugar and sometimes nuts and dried fruits. Lastly as a born and bred Cornishman no gender trans nonsense here.. nothing beats moms home made SCONES with jam and freshly made CLOTTED cream. 😜Traditionally, the Cornish method is to split the scone in two, spread the jam and then add a spoonful of clotted cream, because apparently jam smothers the taste of the cream when applied the other way round. 😶👍
We like the Asda extra special raspberry conserve. £1.75 for 370g. It’s so nice. It’s prepared with 61g of fruit per 100g which I think makes a difference. Great vid, as always. 😊
I'm quite happy with the results of the test. I'm regularly buying the French one, a few times ASDA standard, which is relatively good as well. It's exactly how it should be. You're paying more, you will get more. Fair, logical and normal. I'm just curious, if is something normally available, not on the special websites, or so, but "normally" at a store, what is better than the French one.
I’ve noticed that most jams say they can only be eaten up to six weeks after opening. I’ve also noticed after the six weeks, some go very watery and seem to go off. The jams seem to be very artificial these days!!
Many jams use cheaper additives to produce a thick product the consumer likes ,for home made you used to be able to buy jam sugar but I haven't seen any anywhere in years,if you have a microwave put jams and sauces in glass jars in blast for a minute lid off re sterilises the jam to keep a while longer as the sugar content lifts the boiling point ,put on lids from heating and they will reseal as new.
I stopped eating sugar and sugary foods several years ago, but I do like jam, and the best one is indeed the Bonne Maman. However, Aldi also sells a strawberry conserve that is very similar to the Bonne Maman, but it's only £1.25. Unfortunately, the website says it's currently out of stock. Because I eat jam only occasionally I treat myself to the more expensive brands. That jelly-like jam from Stockwells (Tesco) would probably suit Americans to eat with peanut butter, which is curiously some weird concoction they enjoy.
I like jam (apricot is my favourite), but I so seldom have a snack which isn't fresh fruit, that I end up throwing away most of it before it climbs out of the jar and attacks! So, if I want jam, I get individual servings, either plastic pots or glass jars. The price is extortionate compared to a 1lb jar, and the jam itself is not usually up to scratch, unfortunately.
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@@CaptHollister I'll bet _your_ country eats strange (to foreigners) food combinations! How about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches? Without butter, nota bene! Or pancakes, maple syrup and _bacon_ for God's sake!
@@timitaliani3611 We butter our bread to make it more tasty. Try it! Try also European butter from France, Scandinavia or Ireland, all of which are much richer than bland American butter. As for peanut butter and "jelly", yuk. Peanut butter on its own, sure. Jam on its own, absolutely fine, but the combination is like mixing fish fingers with sliced bananas, or drinking lemonade with tomato juice. Some foods just don't belong together! Ever!
Never been a fan of jam. A couple of months ago I was making something I needed jam for so bought some of the Bonne Maman, much yo the other half’s horror. It is something else and really nice. As you go along them from most expensive to cheapest. The Bonne Maman is mostly strawberry and the cheaper ones mostly glucose syrup.
If you're going to eat the lower price jams(?) that are low flavour but very sweet you may as well save the cost of the jam(?) and just sprinkle sugar on buttered bread (I did as a kid and also used sweetened condensed milk instead of jam)
Bonne Marie often do deals - to around £2 each. If you're prepping (and you should be) My 2 penny worth, is get the BM on offer and another for prepping.
Great selection of videos, only discovered you a week back but binging all these comparison videos, weirdly interesting to watch someone review food. Nice to see a Cumbrian doing well on the tube , as you say spot on! Would love to see a coffee bean comparison, maybe something along the lines of own brand vs lavazza vs local coffee roasters and see the difference👍☕️
Years ago we went to visit Coombe Cottage, Dame Nellie Melba's house in Lilydale. They sell a jam inspired by Escoffier's legendary Peach Melba and I can safely say that it is the most sublimely delicious jam I have ever eaten. Ever. I now feel inspired to see if I can buy some more of it. Thank you for the video!
This was awesome , as haven’t purchased Jam for a number of years , because I now make my own . The first Jam you tried is lovely with clotted cream & scones 😁
For me, as a diabetic, if I am gonna eat jam, it better be GOOD, and I won't be using much so it better be intense. Cost is the least important thing, since I won't be eating it much. If I was packing it away, I might have a different opinion. Love the french stuff!
I always try to get the Bonne Maman for great flavour and ingredients. I normally get the BM strawberry conserve at £2.80 (50% fruit). The only difference with the wild strawberries (you had) has 10% wild strawberry and 40% farmed fruit at £3.25. I'm on Benefits so I have to limit my budget. I just don't eat as much. It would be nice to see you do a comparison of lemon curd too? I normally get Sainsbury's lemon curd. 😄👍
Wilkin and sons Tiptree jam is the best by far it’s got strawberries in it not just seeds lol but tbh when strawberries are in season buy them at the roadside and get some jam sugar, make your own it will keep for ages and it tastes amazing, I’ve made strawberry,blackberry and gooseberry jam all turned out really well, sterilise jam jars in the oven, buy a jam funnel easy peasy.
Another great video. Over this past year when I've been watching your videos, you've helped save my family pounds as I've tried cheaper things after watching so I hope you find that an encouragement. How about one on marmalade in the future? I do love the Bonne Maman jam though (I've often seen it cheaper than you paid).
I like my marmalade, and have always gone for the more expensive stuff, but when i couldn't get any, i bought a jar of 60p gear in Aldi to tide me over, and it really was as good as the expensive stuff i usually bought.
My mum used to make all our jam and marmalade when the fruit was cheap and in season. Her strawberry jam always had a lot of whole strawberries in it. After a few months it would be covered with a layer of white mould which we scraped off then ate without any ill effects!
MUST ADMIT only use blackcurrant and marmalade. I ALSO use both in cooking use blackcurrant in gravy nice with lamb and marmalade with carrots fetches out their sweet flavour
I almost buy the Bonne Maman exclusively. They have a Wild Blueberry that is very good, as well as the Strawberry. I’ve tried most jams over the years and the cheaper jams have always had less fruit content, and I’ve known they’ve been too sugary. I often end up not eating the jam at all then and it goes in the bin. You have confirmed my taste for quality food again.
I always buy the most expencive 1. I've been through the cheap one's But I've been spoilt with the expencive 1 lol. Great Review tho. Just what I thought the outcome would be
The Bonne Maman is BEAUTIFUL. I’d rather pay a little extra and use less to be honest but I do enjoy hartleys and the Tesco jams too💗…give me some hot buttered toast with a good jam and I’ll be a friend for life🤣🤣🤣
Best of all is Tiptree’s Little Scarlet, if you can find it. It’s over a fiver a jar. It’s made with tiny whole strawberries and spoils you for all others
When it comes to jam, I make some, or buy jams and marmalade from Lidl always a good price and I keep an eye out for seasonal friuts at moment its blueberry jam, sometimes they will have cherry jam, lemon curd, thats lovely stuff, Also as a jam maker my self the lidl jam jars are open neck jars easier to refill, and I have been reusing their jars for years for my own jam making , as it cost more to buy a open necked emty jar and lid , than you pay for the Lidls jar filled with jam, No brainer for me!
I live in the United States and I buy the Bonne Maman jam. It's very expensive over here but you know you're getting a good product. They did sell Wilkins jams in Walmart but it didn't sell very well.
I must admit that although I love Strawberry jam, I make my own sugar free jam as I'm a diabetic. I use Strawberries and Stevia. I miss buying it in a jar and would get the French one even though it's the most expensive.
We buy the expensive jam from Costco, in a big jar. The Bonne Mama is a conserve not a jam. It’s horses for courses, I use the mid range when cooking the expensive one on toast or scones.
Although it us the most expensive, Bonne Maman is the one I choose (I was spoilt by my Grandmother's jam and jelly making). I make sure I keep it in the fridge, so that lovely flavour stays fresh to taste on the tongue. It is also the most easily available in different supermarkets or on=line.
Checking out Bon Maman jam price on 28 Feb 2023, actually a little cheaper, and on offer in various supermarkets. But still expensive - better off supporting local home-made jams with honesty boxes in country villages - some cracking jams often there. Or make your own (hassle, I know...) Thanks again for a brilliant comparison ☺️
Bonne Maman is the nicest but I buy Sainsbury's Strawberry Conserve, Taste the Difference 340g which has even more fruit but is 2 quid a jar. I find the others including the Hartley are so similar so buy the cheapest one. Conserve is for scones the cheapy one i either have for a sponge pudding or in Greek Yogurt. I dont bake cakes or have jam in sandwiches or on toast.
Apparently back in Victorian times they made raspberry jam with tiny wooden seeds. What I wanna know was this accepted by people back then or were they being faked?
Waitrose sell Duchy Organic jam. Blackcurrant or Strawberry. It used to be £2 but has gone up to £2.45 It’s full of fruit. I used to buy it every week.
There is absolutely no way I'd ever buy anything but the very cheapest jam, because my husband uses a jar a week,( at least) either that or half a jar plus half a jar of marmalde ( again, the very cheapest) He doesn't spread it but just dumps a load on top of the toast. It would cost a fortune to get the more expensive ones. A jar of either would last me a year or more, as I rarely use it. We actually buy an Aldi one (jam), essentials or something, but they stopped doing the very basic marmalade so we get Morrisons or Asda basic stuff. When I was a kid we only ever had a very small jar of blackcurrant (Robertsons.....the golly one, whatever it's called) but it had bits of skin in, so I didn't like it. We very occasionally had the jelly version, which was much better for me. Bonne Maman is more like home made jam, I seem to remember. I used to live in France many years ago and people there always made their own....always much nicer but I always wondered if it would actually work out much different in price / cheaper, because it cost a fortune for all the strawberries, and an absolute load of sugar....I used to squirm watching all that sugar being tipped into a massive pot 😂
Hi Gareth, I did mention a while back about doing some sweet foods, you just went mental with these jams haha, your right once its on toast or sarnie, it, ll do, but if I was baking tarts the French one would be a good choice, nice one Gareth
Here in South Africa the Bonne Maman Strawberry jam (Conserve) sets a shopper back 3.92 (R79.99 )but the superior Strawberry Preserve costs 4.37 - (R89.00) Considering we are so far from UK and France I suppose that;s not too bad. I would go for the PRESERVE if I saw it on the supermarket shelf. I was told some yellow or mixed fruit jams have a bulk ingredient of pumpkin - maybe just here in my country. I love your channel - I love your accent - Lancashire?
I’m a Bonne Maman devotee. It’s runnier and more glossy than other jams - tastes delicious. A real depth of flavour. Their bitter orange marmalade is one of only two brands I’ll buy, the other being Wilkin and Son ‘Tiptree’ orange. Leagues ahead of any other marmalade.
While I like a good home make strawberry jam, I much prefer a spread called apple butter. but it needs to be made with the right spices not just thick applesauce.
“Hope you like jammin’ too we’re jammin” I used to get BM for free and I can’t complain though no surprise I haven’t had it since I left that company. Third jam 75p. They have not stopped making it.
Jam treats ..... oh yes. Take a large couple spoonfulls of strawberry jam, some strawberry topping, half to full punnet of real strawberries, up to a small container of thickened cream, a few to several large spoonfulls of vanilla ice cream and Strawberry Liquer ..... Marie Brizzard or Continental Brand are great along with lots of ice ...... mix all that in a blender. It's a decadent thickshake but delicious. Will need a lot of ice cream and experiment with amount of liquer but at least 50 mil gives it the correct kick..
Complain as you will about the cost of Bonne Maman, but its flavour in incomparable. I've compared it with a host of store and national name brands and it's superior to all of them. I don't enjoy paying a fortune for a jam, but I will pay gladly in the case of Bonne Maman because it's worth it. The Aldi jam has a metallic flavour that I just can't get past. The others are lacking as well.
Hi Gareth, thanks for the review, I think I would of preferred the dearer jam, but I buy sainsburys, or aldi 's as pretty good and much cheaper, thanks alot, you had a hard job as you had more than usual to choose from, maybe a few too many, 😊 All the best 👌
Hi, they are all conserves ie sugar cooked fruits, the only variable really is pectin content and fruit volume you obviously tasted the extra fruit content of the most expensive brand and quite rightly, favoured its overall taste, like you though i feel over 3 quid for a pot of jam is a rip off, unless your name is percy money bags, any of the others will do, after all we are looking at a jelly piece here as we say in scotland. refrigerating jam tends to pull more flavour out of jams i have found, i love your videos and fully support your efforts in enlightening everyone to the difference between products, i love it. iIhave subscribed as i think you are a genuine chap showing the vagaries of food types and making clear and precise real world appraisals on the food we all eat, more power to you. Thank you so much for sharing all these different products and telling it how it is. Your channel can only go from strength to strength. Cheers. Andy. Scotland. 👍
I picked up a jar of the Bonne Maman from Asda the other day. It was on the knock down shelf for £2.30. It is a nice conserve. The jam in Lidl is spot on too.
Cheap jam for baking a better jam for toast. Never would I ever spend nearly 3quid for jam. Would prefer to look for reduced price strawberries a bag of sugar and make it misen lol. Thanks Gareth for the show.
I absolutely love the most expensive one and it’s just as good in all the other fruit flavours they do. It’s a perfect example of a brand where paying top dollar is worth it. I have enjoyed Harley’s too, but the French one knows spots off any other brands.
Thanks for sharing!
The Sainsbury's conserve and the Coop equivalent is good. Ordinary jam is like eating straight sugar. The Sainsbury's one is £2. Do not much more than the highest priced jam. Aldi conserve is nice too. That is £1.25. Suspect this would have won if tried.
@@lesleyfarrington4809 yeah totally agree the Aldi conserve is very nice .
It always used to be possible to get it on offer regularly. That’s the thing I’m missing the most, nothing decent is ever on offer any more!
Its the best jam ever, the only one i buy
I love Bonne Maman jam, its almost as good as my home made. Frank Cooper's marmalade is excellent.
I buy both brands for my mother, she won't have any other.
If you look at the ingredient you will see that the nicer ones had strawberries as the first ingredient. The other ones the first ingredient is fructose/glucose
Cheers Ruth
The key ingredient to avoid is what the yanks call high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) but in Europe is called glucose-fructose syrup (GFS). The Bonne Maman stuff has none in it and 47g of fruit. Hartleys has more fruit than syrup, with Tesco brand the GFS is the main ingredient. Grandessa has slightly more fruit than GFS, then the Stockwell and ASDA are basically GFS with fruit flavouring.
Make yer own healthy version by simmering down berries and adding xylitol or Erythritol and a smidge of xanthan gum...... Superb and no insulin rising
anything with GFS is to be avoided. False sugar taste..and actively bad for you.
@@davidgomm6043 I know but xanthan gum in low carb/keto cooking can be used in all sorts of things.... It's good stuff
@@davidgomm6043 I don't buy processed foods..... I eat low carb and everything from scratch like everyone else should. As the saying goes for unhealthy ppl, Sh1t in, then Sh1t out... You reap what you sow
Great point. I noticed that the French one has about a third more fruit than the cheap ones.
Poor children lose out again,Dad not jam Butties again..we have had them for 6 weeks now LOL😂😂
They've got all that cheese to get through yet lol 😆
@@elaine8955 cheese and jam butties for tea?😂
Love a jam butty even at 35 😂
As a kid I had homemade blackberry jam for breakfast on porridge and cereal and dinner and tea on rice pudding and pancakes. Blackberry picking resulted in copious amounts
@@chriscringle7740 Semolina with a blob of jam in the middle and have a race to see who was the fastest to turn the semolina pink
I've just noticed that the Bonne Maman jam that Gareth tested is super expensive because it contains strawberries *and* wild strawberries. Bonne Maman also do a cheaper one without the wild berries. Only £2.80 at Tesco.
Thanks for the info
We have both jams. A Conosuerr jam like Bonne Maman. But they are not much good when you add them to your Rice pudding or Maids of Honour etc you need the cheaper jams for those type of things.
@@xvsupremacy7190 Ooh, I drizzle maple syrup over my rice pudding!
My daughter treated me to some M&S Strawberry Conserve. The ingredients are Sugar, Strawberries, Citric Acid, Pectin. The amounts are basically half fruit and half sugar. Because it's so flavoursome, you don't need much of it on your toast. Cost was £2.10 for 340g. Twenty servings in each jar.
Remember as a kid having the choice of having Strawberry Jam with Yorkshire Pudding on its own or leaving it for the meat Sunday Roast .... Delicious I remember. Had Yorkshire Pudding on its own with Lemon Curd as well. Great review as always, love Strawberry Jam. Again, the most expensive comes out on top 👍👏😉
Brilliant pal good memories for sure 👍👍
We had it with golden syrup, a dob of ice cream if we had it. Nom nom nom.
Try Yorkshire pudding with Black current jam as a starter
Brought back memories of school dinners when you got a spoon of strawberry jam in your rice pudding 👍
cheers Brian
We always use the French jams, apricot is fab like the raspberry. i know they are pricey but it’s proper jam but it has big chunks of real fruit as jam should.
Cheers Greg 👍
My favourite also
I agree. On a side note, the Bonne Maman jars are pretty, too - useful for storage, especially the large size.
Bonne Maman is the dogs doodahs. I won’t buy anything else.
Ah the beauty of growing up on a farm with nearly an acre of orchards with plums, apples, pears... to a mini strawberry 'plantation'.. 😜Helping mom making Jams, Chutney et et not forgetting sloe gin, various wines et et 😜Many bought 'jams' that are 'massed produced' will vary enormously in consistency but also in the actual 'fruit content'. Did you KNOW.. during WW2 many 'jams' actually contained vegetables !! 😶We are fans of Tiptree / Wilkin & sons jams/preserves et. Preserves are a cooked mix of fruit and sugar where the fruit is left in large pieces. Aside from the size of the fruit preserves are the same as jams. To be able to call your mixture a preserve the fruit must not be mashed, crushed or in small pieces.👀Jams made from a mixture of various fruits are called conserves. Basically, all conserves are jams, but not all jams are conserves. Make sense? Conserves usually contain fruit mixed together with sugar and sometimes nuts and dried fruits. Lastly as a born and bred Cornishman no gender trans nonsense here.. nothing beats moms home made SCONES with jam and freshly made CLOTTED cream. 😜Traditionally, the Cornish method is to split the scone in two, spread the jam and then add a spoonful of clotted cream, because apparently jam smothers the taste of the cream when applied the other way round. 😶👍
very nice indeed pal, thank you 😊
Mom's.? Are you American ?
@@peterchessell28 No thankyou... I'm Cornish which is in the UK
We like the Asda extra special raspberry conserve. £1.75 for 370g. It’s so nice. It’s prepared with 61g of fruit per 100g which I think makes a difference. Great vid, as always. 😊
Good to know!
I'm quite happy with the results of the test.
I'm regularly buying the French one,
a few times ASDA standard,
which is relatively good as well.
It's exactly how it should be.
You're paying more,
you will get more.
Fair, logical and normal.
I'm just curious,
if is something normally available,
not on the special websites,
or so, but "normally"
at a store, what is better than the French one.
I’ve noticed that most jams say they can only be eaten up to six weeks after opening. I’ve also noticed after the six weeks, some go very watery and seem to go off. The jams seem to be very artificial these days!!
Many jams use cheaper additives to produce a thick product the consumer likes ,for home made you used to be able to buy jam sugar but I haven't seen any anywhere in years,if you have a microwave put jams and sauces in glass jars in blast for a minute lid off re sterilises the jam to keep a while longer as the sugar content lifts the boiling point ,put on lids from heating and they will reseal as new.
I stopped eating sugar and sugary foods several years ago, but I do like jam, and the best one is indeed the Bonne Maman. However, Aldi also sells a strawberry conserve that is very similar to the Bonne Maman, but it's only £1.25. Unfortunately, the website says it's currently out of stock. Because I eat jam only occasionally I treat myself to the more expensive brands. That jelly-like jam from Stockwells (Tesco) would probably suit Americans to eat with peanut butter, which is curiously some weird concoction they enjoy.
I like jam (apricot is my favourite), but I so seldom have a snack which isn't fresh fruit, that I end up throwing away most of it before it climbs out of the jar and attacks! So, if I want jam, I get individual servings, either plastic pots or glass jars. The price is extortionate compared to a 1lb jar, and the jam itself is not usually up to scratch, unfortunately.
This comment brought to you by a country where they put beans on toast, canned ravioli on toast, canned spaghetti on toast, French fried potatoes (chips to you) on toast, potato chips (crisps to you) on toast, and, I believe, a slice of plain bread in between two slices of toast.
@@CaptHollister I'll bet _your_ country eats strange (to foreigners) food combinations! How about peanut butter and jelly sandwiches? Without butter, nota bene! Or pancakes, maple syrup and _bacon_ for God's sake!
@@SuperLittleTyke peanut butter and jam sandwiches are awesome!!! And what's with british people putting butter on most of their sandwiches?
@@timitaliani3611 We butter our bread to make it more tasty. Try it! Try also European butter from France, Scandinavia or Ireland, all of which are much richer than bland American butter. As for peanut butter and "jelly", yuk. Peanut butter on its own, sure. Jam on its own, absolutely fine, but the combination is like mixing fish fingers with sliced bananas, or drinking lemonade with tomato juice. Some foods just don't belong together! Ever!
Never been a fan of jam. A couple of months ago I was making something I needed jam for so bought some of the Bonne Maman, much yo the other half’s horror. It is something else and really nice. As you go along them from most expensive to cheapest. The Bonne Maman is mostly strawberry and the cheaper ones mostly glucose syrup.
If you're going to eat the lower price jams(?) that are low flavour but very sweet you may as well save the cost of the jam(?) and just sprinkle sugar on buttered bread (I did as a kid and also used sweetened condensed milk instead of jam)
I used to love a sugar sandwich 😮
Bonne Maman is quality, really good and you can use the jar when you're finished for your own jam (if you make your own!!)
Bonne Marie often do deals - to around £2 each.
If you're prepping (and you should be)
My 2 penny worth, is get the BM on offer and another for prepping.
Love lemon curd , apricot , and gooseberry jam .
Perfect. I really enjoy the food comparisons. Your uploads are very informative, pleasant, and spot on. Thank you. 🙂👍
Thank you very much!
Great selection of videos, only discovered you a week back but binging all these comparison videos, weirdly interesting to watch someone review food. Nice to see a Cumbrian doing well on the tube , as you say spot on! Would love to see a coffee bean comparison, maybe something along the lines of own brand vs lavazza vs local coffee roasters and see the difference👍☕️
Glad you like them! welcome to the channel pal
Years ago we went to visit Coombe Cottage, Dame Nellie Melba's house in Lilydale. They sell a jam inspired by Escoffier's legendary Peach Melba and I can safely say that it is the most sublimely delicious jam I have ever eaten. Ever. I now feel inspired to see if I can buy some more of it. Thank you for the video!
The best strawberry jam i have found is Polish ,its like jam from when i was a child in the 60s. A lot of Polish food is extra tasty.👍
Cheers Ron 👍👍
This was awesome , as haven’t purchased Jam for a number of years , because I now make my own . The first Jam you tried is lovely with clotted cream & scones 😁
Thank you
Mmmmmmn.
For me, as a diabetic, if I am gonna eat jam, it better be GOOD, and I won't be using much so it better be intense. Cost is the least important thing, since I won't be eating it much. If I was packing it away, I might have a different opinion. Love the french stuff!
I always try to get the Bonne Maman for great flavour and ingredients. I normally get the BM strawberry conserve at £2.80 (50% fruit). The only difference with the wild strawberries (you had) has 10% wild strawberry and 40% farmed fruit at £3.25. I'm on Benefits so I have to limit my budget. I just don't eat as much. It would be nice to see you do a comparison of lemon curd too? I normally get Sainsbury's lemon curd. 😄👍
Strawberry Jam, love it, but my favourite is Blackcurrant!
Wilkin and sons Tiptree jam is the best by far it’s got strawberries in it not just seeds lol but tbh when strawberries are in season buy them at the roadside and get some jam sugar, make your own it will keep for ages and it tastes amazing, I’ve made strawberry,blackberry and gooseberry jam all turned out really well, sterilise jam jars in the oven, buy a jam funnel easy peasy.
thanks
Everyone should learn how to make jam, its so easy and the fruit is free, it literally grows on trees 😉
Like spaghetti.
Looking forward to seeing you drop this down your t shirt 🤣x
That really was a jam packed episode
Haha
Lidl do a nice mid range jam. Most of the time I like to make my own jam, that way I know exactly what's in it.
I like the little hotel jams,I have quite a collection
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I thought you were gonna start dancing when you mentioned "jamming" lol.. I didn't know Hartley's still made jam 👍
Another great video. Over this past year when I've been watching your videos, you've helped save my family pounds as I've tried cheaper things after watching so I hope you find that an encouragement. How about one on marmalade in the future? I do love the Bonne Maman jam though (I've often seen it cheaper than you paid).
Cheers James thank you
I like my marmalade, and have always gone for the more expensive stuff, but when i couldn't get any, i bought a jar of 60p gear in Aldi to tide me over, and it really was as good as the expensive stuff i usually bought.
Not had jam in years.....use to have it when i was a kid on bread
My mum used to make all our jam and marmalade when the fruit was cheap and in season. Her strawberry jam always had a lot of whole strawberries in it. After a few months it would be covered with a layer of white mould which we scraped off then ate without any ill effects!
Thank you
Mold? Can't have sterilised the jars and put it in hot enough so the jars seal themselves.
If you look at the ingredients of the cheaper jams, you'll notice that they're mostly made of glucose-fructose syrup. The fancy one has no syrup in it
MUST ADMIT only use blackcurrant and marmalade. I ALSO use both in cooking use blackcurrant in gravy nice with lamb and marmalade with carrots fetches out their sweet flavour
I almost buy the Bonne Maman exclusively. They have a Wild Blueberry that is very good, as well as the Strawberry. I’ve tried most jams over the years and the cheaper jams have always had less fruit content, and I’ve known they’ve been too sugary. I often end up not eating the jam at all then and it goes in the bin. You have confirmed my taste for quality food again.
Rasberry.
I like raspberry jam and damson jam too
I always buy the most expencive 1. I've been through the cheap one's But I've been spoilt with the expencive 1 lol. Great Review tho. Just what I thought the outcome would be
The Bonne Maman is BEAUTIFUL. I’d rather pay a little extra and use less to be honest but I do enjoy hartleys and the Tesco jams too💗…give me some hot buttered toast with a good jam and I’ll be a friend for life🤣🤣🤣
Hi Gareth - another nice review mate - thanks. The Grandessa Strawberry Jam usually sells in ALDI for 67p mate. Regards, Dave
Thanks for the info
Best of all is Tiptree’s Little Scarlet, if you can find it. It’s over a fiver a jar. It’s made with tiny whole strawberries and spoils you for all others
When it comes to jam, I make some, or buy jams and marmalade from Lidl always a good price and I keep an eye out for seasonal friuts at moment its blueberry jam, sometimes they will have cherry jam, lemon curd, thats lovely stuff, Also as a jam maker my self the lidl jam jars are open neck jars easier to refill, and I have been reusing their jars for years for my own jam making , as it cost more to buy a open necked emty jar and lid , than you pay for the Lidls jar filled with jam, No brainer for me!
Cheers Chris
I live in the United States and I buy the Bonne Maman jam. It's very expensive over here but you know you're getting a good product. They did sell Wilkins jams in Walmart but it didn't sell very well.
Cheers, yes it's the best one isn't it.
You gotta do butter type spreads too. Including Lurpack and Country Life etc v real butter v spreads
I must admit that although I love Strawberry jam, I make my own sugar free jam as I'm a diabetic. I use Strawberries and Stevia. I miss buying it in a jar and would get the French one even though it's the most expensive.
Bonne Maman is definitely the one I go for.
Toast with jam is my regular breakfast 👍🏻 raspberry and blackcurrant are my favs , love marmalade too ❤
Like flavour but blackcurrant jam too gritty , prefer blackcurrant jelly .
We buy the expensive jam from Costco, in a big jar. The Bonne Mama is a conserve not a jam. It’s horses for courses, I use the mid range when cooking the expensive one on toast or scones.
Nice one thank you
I buy the cheapest one purely because I only ever put it on toast! Great to see a good comparison though, thanks for uploading 😁😁
Thanks you're very welcome
just tried the Bonne Maman......now thats proper jam really tasty
Yes it's tasty isn't it
Hello Gareth, get the Scones out, that's amazing how different they are,
I make my own jams coulis, sauces etc but low carb and with xylitol or Erythritol... No sugar.... Tastes brilliant and way better for you 👍
The French jam is one of my favorites
Very tasty isn't it 😋👍
Although it us the most expensive, Bonne Maman is the one I choose (I was spoilt by my Grandmother's jam and jelly making). I make sure I keep it in the fridge, so that lovely flavour stays fresh to taste on the tongue. It is also the most easily available in different supermarkets or on=line.
I agree. I always buy Bonne Maman
Always keep jam and sauces in the fridge once opened
Yes it was the best, and yes keep them in the fridge 👍
I hope you like Jammin too.
Actually very interested in this video as I snob it with the posh brand, so lets see...........
St Dalfour Fruit Spread when I want to treat myself.
Cheers Paul 👍👍😊
In America, we distinguish between jam (containing pureed fruit) and preserves (containing small pieces of fruit).
Oh nice one Howard cheers 👍👍
Bonne Maman strawberry is my fav in Germany (though we have very similar copycats at Lidl etc. ☺️)
Cheers Katrin
Checking out Bon Maman jam price on 28 Feb 2023, actually a little cheaper, and on offer in various supermarkets. But still expensive - better off supporting local home-made jams with honesty boxes in country villages - some cracking jams often there. Or make your own (hassle, I know...) Thanks again for a brilliant comparison ☺️
Bonne Maman is the nicest but I buy Sainsbury's Strawberry Conserve, Taste the Difference 340g which has even more fruit but is 2 quid a jar. I find the others including the Hartley are so similar so buy the cheapest one. Conserve is for scones the cheapy one i either have for a sponge pudding or in Greek Yogurt. I dont bake cakes or have jam in sandwiches or on toast.
Cheers Steve
Love Bonne Maman jam, defo the highest quality and taste! Thanks for the test.
Our pleasure!
I once read about a court case , but the most interesting thing was one of the ladies made plastic seeds for jam ..it was about 20 years ago .
Apparently back in Victorian times they made raspberry jam with tiny wooden seeds. What I wanna know was this accepted by people back then or were they being faked?
Bob Marley would be proud…all this Jammin 🤣🤣
Haha yes
@@BaldFoodieGuy lols 🤣🤣
Waitrose sell Duchy Organic jam. Blackcurrant or Strawberry. It used to be £2 but has gone up to £2.45 It’s full of fruit. I used to buy it every week.
I get Aldi selected jam £1.25 the best spot on
I'm a weirdo when it comes to jam..the cheap ones with no bits in I like..that's just me.
That's not a knife, this is a knife........ Brilliant, Gareth!!!
crocodile dundee classic haha
I love bonne maman think called lol so rich tried most jams but thats my favorite.great video gareth x
Thank you!!
There is absolutely no way I'd ever buy anything but the very cheapest jam, because my husband uses a jar a week,( at least) either that or half a jar plus half a jar of marmalde ( again, the very cheapest) He doesn't spread it but just dumps a load on top of the toast. It would cost a fortune to get the more expensive ones. A jar of either would last me a year or more, as I rarely use it. We actually buy an Aldi one (jam), essentials or something, but they stopped doing the very basic marmalade so we get Morrisons or Asda basic stuff. When I was a kid we only ever had a very small jar of blackcurrant (Robertsons.....the golly one, whatever it's called) but it had bits of skin in, so I didn't like it. We very occasionally had the jelly version, which was much better for me. Bonne Maman is more like home made jam, I seem to remember. I used to live in France many years ago and people there always made their own....always much nicer but I always wondered if it would actually work out much different in price / cheaper, because it cost a fortune for all the strawberries, and an absolute load of sugar....I used to squirm watching all that sugar being tipped into a massive pot 😂
cheers Amanda, great comment thanks.
My husband prefers Aldi Jam
Hi Gareth, I did mention a while back about doing some sweet foods, you just went mental with these jams haha, your right once its on toast or sarnie, it, ll do, but if I was baking tarts the French one would be a good choice, nice one Gareth
You're welcome Stephen
Here in South Africa the Bonne Maman Strawberry jam (Conserve) sets a shopper back 3.92 (R79.99 )but the superior Strawberry Preserve costs 4.37 - (R89.00) Considering we are so far from UK and France I suppose that;s not too bad. I would go for the PRESERVE if I saw it on the supermarket shelf. I was told some yellow or mixed fruit jams have a bulk ingredient of pumpkin - maybe just here in my country. I love your channel - I love your accent - Lancashire?
Cheers Dot, much appreciated
Tried to find price of jam it is €1,39 in Ireland, love jam and cheese spread yummy xx
So good!
I’m a Bonne Maman devotee. It’s runnier and more glossy than other jams - tastes delicious. A real depth of flavour. Their bitter orange marmalade is one of only two brands I’ll buy, the other being Wilkin and Son ‘Tiptree’ orange. Leagues ahead of any other marmalade.
Thank you
Dalfour jam is the best. Sweet but naturally so and not like a fake tasting sugar bowl like most jam.
While I like a good home make strawberry jam, I much prefer a spread called apple butter. but it needs to be made with the right spices not just thick applesauce.
Great comparison..has anyone tried strawberry jam and cheese sandwiches.?. 🤔
Oh yes they are so good
“Hope you like jammin’ too we’re jammin” I used to get BM for free and I can’t complain though no surprise I haven’t had it since I left that company. Third jam 75p. They have not stopped making it.
Jam treats ..... oh yes. Take a large couple spoonfulls of strawberry jam, some strawberry topping, half to full punnet of real strawberries, up to a small container of thickened cream, a few to several large spoonfulls of vanilla ice cream and Strawberry Liquer ..... Marie Brizzard or Continental Brand are great along with lots of ice ...... mix all that in a blender. It's a decadent thickshake but delicious. Will need a lot of ice cream and experiment with amount of liquer but at least 50 mil gives it the correct kick..
thanks kindly
Complain as you will about the cost of Bonne Maman, but its flavour in incomparable. I've compared it with a host of store and national name brands and it's superior to all of them. I don't enjoy paying a fortune for a jam, but I will pay gladly in the case of Bonne Maman because it's worth it. The Aldi jam has a metallic flavour that I just can't get past. The others are lacking as well.
I like Aldi Specially Selected Classic Strawberry Jam its has full Strawberrys in it not all jelly like must other jams are at £1.25
good to know
I love his in depth descriptions " yeah they are all jammy"🤣🤣
i always spend that bit more on jams and honey the taste better or if you can get it from a farm shop
Cheers Kevin
Hi Gareth, thanks for the review, I think I would of preferred the dearer jam, but I buy sainsburys, or aldi 's as pretty good and much cheaper, thanks alot, you had a hard job as you had more than usual to choose from, maybe a few too many, 😊 All the best 👌
Thanks for the tip!
Your welcome, keep up the spot on reviews, thankyou 👍
You have totally disconbobulated my mind on jam im sticking to marmalade .
Haha
Apparently the Grandessa jam is 1300 Sri Lankan Rupees.
Hi, they are all conserves ie sugar cooked fruits, the only variable really is pectin content and fruit volume you obviously tasted the extra fruit content of the most expensive brand and quite rightly, favoured its overall taste, like you though i feel over 3 quid for a pot of jam is a rip off, unless your name is percy money bags, any of the others will do, after all we are looking at a jelly piece here as we say in scotland. refrigerating jam tends to pull more flavour out of jams i have found, i love your videos and fully support your efforts in enlightening everyone to the difference between products, i love it. iIhave subscribed as i think you are a genuine chap showing the vagaries of food types and making clear and precise real world appraisals on the food we all eat, more power to you. Thank you so much for sharing all these different products and telling it how it is. Your channel can only go from strength to strength. Cheers. Andy. Scotland. 👍
cheers Andy thanks
The most expensive is by far the best but yes it's pricey but you don't need so much...
I like strawberry jam on bread as a diabetic hypo remedy, but like it as a treat though xx
jam butties yum
Didn’t ALDI recall there strawberry jam a week or so ago probably why it’s out of stock love the channel
yes cheers Nike think it is
I prefer bonne maman if buying jam but my preference is homemade raspberry.
I picked up a jar of the Bonne Maman from Asda the other day. It was on the knock down shelf for £2.30.
It is a nice conserve.
The jam in Lidl is spot on too.
Sounds great!
Cheap jam for baking a better jam for toast. Never would I ever spend nearly 3quid for jam. Would prefer to look for reduced price strawberries a bag of sugar and make it misen lol. Thanks Gareth for the show.
Yes good point that thank you.