EXPENSIVE BRAND RIP OFF! New Cheese & Beanz Toastie Review
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- New. Iceland Supermarket. Food review. Cathedral City and Heinz Beanz Our Cheese & Beanz Toastie review. For more Iceland and Vegetarian food reviews click on these links • Iceland food • Vegetarian food
Mate your spot on to talk about the price when you can clearly buy a big 550g block of cathedral cheese for £3.50 with a tesco club card, a loaf of bread anywhere from 75p and £1.50 depending on the bread, and then a pack of 4 415g tins of heinze beans for £3.75. £8.50 for the lot to make dozens of them toasties or buy 1 ready made for nearly half the price at £3.50. Complete gimmick/scam and a waste of money.🤦♂️😡
You're paying for convenience once again for stuff like this, still overpriced to hell though lol
lol I wouldn’t even buy the Heinz beans Tescos beans are good enough for me
@@MrGreenYeti You could probably go to a local cafe and pay the same price (or less) for similar, and you'd be paying for their leccy bill as part of that price, so it would be cheaper even if it was the same price.
@@andyhawkins9541 the only beans that come close to Heinz beans are Branston. All others don't even come close. That's just my opinion tho, each to their own.🤙
@@callumshaw902for me the Heinz beans are very very expensive and watery but definitely each to their own 👍
Omg £3.50 for that! You can go to Aldi to pick up the essentials beans for 28p essentials bread for 37p & a packet of mature cheese for £1.99. Why would anyone want to pay £3.50 for two brands that are already expensive as it is.
Brand snobbery?
@@davidspear9790I think there are a lot of people out there who really cannot eat anything else. I wonder if it's a form of low-level autism at play because I know that this is one of the reasons people express why they buy Heinz - because their children's condition means they can't bring themselves to eat anything else. Makes me wonder if a lot of adults have undiagnosed disorders that stop them being able to switch brands or change diets, because think of all the people who will only ever buy a certain brand of food, only buy a certain brand of clothes or only go on holiday to the same place every year.
I might be overthinking but either way Heinz and other big brands are certainly exploiting people's loyalty at the very least.
Rather make me own as a nation today we are getting very lazy and for the price no way homemade is going to be tastier and alot frigging cheaper
@@neilthorley359 very true, it's kind of incredible that people could be so lazy that such a mundane item would need to be purchased ready-made
Daylight robbery. Making some profit on that crap 😂
You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. You can however charge people £3.50 for something that costs about 10p to produce. Designer toastie I suppose just like the overpriced clothes and trainers people are mind-washed into buying 😂
Greed. Pure greed.
It weighs around 170 grams. Overpriced crap. If only we could slice bread,open a can and grate cheese 😥
Oh my! All that extra *work!*😵
All cathedral products are well overpriced... stay clear of them
tastless beans and tastless cheese ,heinz must be the most overpriced crap ever. Branston for me .
I refuse to pay the extortionate price for anything Heinz, and I don't think Cathedral City is that great either.
So you have probably guessed that I won't be buying it.
Excellent review as always, cheers.
Cheers Sly
The only product that Cathedral City/Iceland did that I really liked was the mini pizzas. They were only available for a few weeks, then discontinued.
Another good review Gareth and you are quite right to talk about the price. You can justify buying some of these gimmick products because if you were to buy all the individual ingredients and not use them all then financially it can make sense. In this instance though who doesn't have bread cheese and beans in their cupboard? And when you factor in that the taste isn't that brilliant then it becomes a no brainer. These companies are just trading on their names and to be quite honest now if I saw Heinz or Cathedral City on a product I would avoid it big time. Thanks again for the review Gareth I hope you have a good weekend.
Just will not buy Heinz
Home bargains do a brilliant mature cheddar for £1.99 g for 350g. It’s one of the nicest I’ve tasted. Strong too 👌🏼
Soon as you roll your eyes mate we know it's a bummer no need to say a word, keep up the great work 👍
As u so rightly said. Its a rip off , no way would i pay that for what i could make myself & cheaper xxx
Thanks - you’ve saved me £3.50. Just taken it off my shopping list 😂
£3.50 for that! They must think we was born yesterday!! Thanks for taking one for the team!
I can make 12 of these:
1 x Block 400g of Supermarket Own Brand Cheddar Cheese = £3
4 x Cans of Tesco Baked Beans = £2
1 x Jar Tesco White Sauce = £1
2 x Loaves of White Farmhouse Bread = £3
TOTAL = £9 divided by 12 = 75p each and have plenty left over to make more sandwiches
COMPLETE RIP OFF THAT SANDWICH
I reckon anything with Cathedral City written on the packaging is going to be an absolute rip off. Cheesy beans on toast is so easy to make and really rather cheap, you would have to be either desperate or have more money than sense to purchase this product. Good review Gaz.
Never rated Cathedral City. Aldi extra mature fine. Why do people think Heinz baked beans are best?
Because for many years they *were* the best. It's the kind of brand loyalty which is passed down from parents to children - similar to how it was with Cadbury's, another case in point. All Heinz need to do, apparently, is top up that loyalty with marketing campaigns.
This rip off is so blatant though, I sincerely hope sales will be very poor.
I don't like Heinz beans or ketchup...it's too sweet...loads of sugar.
With Aldi beans you get a tin of beans - not sauce!
Around 6 years ago I was in Spain on holiday and In a local supermarket called Mercadona and they had peeled oranges on sale in a plastic box. I thought I'd seen it all but this is on a different level. The white sauce is a replacement for the lack of cheese on this thing. The mind boggles.
I thank you again, yet another £3.50 saved, at this rate I will be able to get the bus into the town and back...
What an absolute joke you could make your own for 30p still there will be some mug punters willing to pay the price.
Cathedral City cheese is awful, Bland and tasteless compared to seriously strong Cheese from iceland still doing 3 500g blocks for a tenner. Gaz it's my Bday tomorow 21 again 😆 Could you please do an actual cheese comparison, that would be epic, oh i forgot to add the other 33 years ion top lol, yeah bloody sad i get phissed the day before and sleep alday tomorrow on my bday
I like to go the local farm shop or butchers yes you get less for your £ but atleast your guaranteed quality
Not everyone likes strong tasting cheese (me for one). Cathedral is fine.
Good for you mate forget the shit in our country for a couple of days
Farmfoods do a nice block of cheese as well Collier's Celtic Mature. Have a happy birthday when it arrives, nah you are still young :)
@@louiseed1321Thank you 🍻
When I worked in a café 20 years ago we made and sold these (without white sauce) so Iceland are a bit slow getting on the band waggon 😄
That could be the laziest product idea since liquid Weetabix...for those that can't be bothered to chew anything.
In the U.S. This toastie with Heinz baked beans and American cheese is $1.99 - about £1.50!
Iceland used to be my supermarket of choice, no any more, they have turned into rip off merchants
My mum and me stopped shopping there 9 months ago. Ever since they got on the shrinkflation bandwagon we said no that's enough. It's a shame because Iceland used to be a decent supermarket for those on a tight budget. Not anymore it seems!
Friday poker night.
I’ve just had my first poker night since leaving hospital.
For the snack break I went cheap and cheerful.
I bought some Lidl tortilla wraps. Spread them with a cheesy bean mix and some Worcestershire sauce.
Folded over and crimped. Grilled in the Sage cooker. A few chips and home made potato salad.
They went down well with my mates. When one asked for seconds ? I knew I’d cracked it. I couldn’t really taste it because my taste buds are still missing from my visit to ICU. But they smelled delicious.
Not your traditional toasty, but quick, easy and cheap to make. And 6 big portions came in at under a few quid.
To make ?
Take a tortilla wrap, fill half with beans, cheese with a dash of sauce. Fold over, wet the edges with water. Crimp down with a fork, add some cheese sauce, ( cheddar and mozzarella, milk ) put into grill or oven bake and Bobs your Uncle a tasty toasty.
Sounds delicious can i have one yummy 😋 great to meet up with the lads I bet mate.
Have you noticed that mature cheddar lately doesn’t taste as strong as it used to. It’s more medium flavour now. We’ve had to start buying the extra mature cheddar to get the flavour right.
"Vintage", ffs.
Thanks Gaz for a honest review 👍 I'm glad you mention the the price each time you review items, it helps me budget when I shop or have a treat 👍 I'd be putting a dollip of B. pickle on that toastie🤤😋
Lol 🗣️180😂
Have a lovely weekend Gaz ❤
You're welcome 😊
Price may be unimportant to some but it's crucial when evaluating the product. I appreciate you including all relevant information in your reviews, particularly nutritional label.
Great point!
£3.50!!!! Now you’ve given us the ‘heads up’ anyone buying these needs their bumps read, only joking, No, Seriously, they do. But thousands will buy it.
Great video, I forgot the recipe for cheese and beans toasties, now I can start enjoying them again, what a time to be alive
A up G Iceland sometimes sell rubbish food great vid as usual mate 🇬🇧👍
easy pass for me, cathedral city cheese is not the best and I cant stand heinze beans, cheap loaf and massive block of strong cheddar and a couple of tins of Branston beans and you can make a dozen of these better than this over prized product
Hi Gaz.I've got a Breville Sandwich Toaster knocking about somewhere but tend to just use the Air Fryer these Day's when i fancy a Toastie.Chilli Cheese and Chorizo on Tiger Bread is my Special Toastie 😋
Cheers mate
Start off mate mate by saying watching you makes me smile. Honest and truthful.
A good genuine guy by the looks.
2nd off where did you get your plates they're awesome, especially for someone who like gravy. It's a bowl plate 😄
Thanks for that, cheers
Thanks for trying this, so that I don't have to.
Any time!
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY!
G'day Mate, I was just figuring out the conversion rate on that toasty.. turns out to be $7.04 🇦🇺 .
Thanks for your review and keeping it real.🍻
Cheers Matt thank you.
You're a top man Gaz. There's ALWAYS a bit of your posts that makes me laugh out loud. This time it was the 180. But you always make me smile.
Haha glad you like it
I was doing my weekly food shopping yesterday and saw cathedral city cheese in the cheese section.
I live in Sweden and didn't know that their products are available here.
I note from the display of the packaging that was shown during the video the salt content is 2g per whole serving, I think that's quite a lot of salt, given the max RDA is 6g, in the UK. Its 33% as a percentage if it were displaying the traffic lights style labling, i assume it would be rec?
Iceland are getting too big for their boots. They must be stopped. 😤
Ow much??? Bloody hell G 😮 lol the inside of that looked grim. What a rip!!
Hi Gareth, good tip I'll just walk past it in Iceland, I could not believe only a spoon full off beans I bet it's a quarter of a half tin of beans on there, I suppose it taste nice but for £3.50 like you say it cheaper to buy cheese ,bread and beans. Thanks for trying this out, Take care
Cheers Shaun
We all have bread, cheese and beans already in our fridges and cupboards, could knock up a MUCH better version in about 5 mins, will probably have a go for breakfast tomorrow! thanks for the review!
No worries yes make your own. Cheers pal.
Been making my own version for years alot cheaper. Xx
Hi gaz . Good vids , sorry not been on lately , im so busy! More than when at work!. Make sure you try from aldi the winning food that was on tv, its the jamacian beef flake bake patty, for99p its fantastic, wot a snack 10 out of 10. Have a go. All the best- il be looking over your shoulder!. Steve.👍
Cheers Steve, I wondered where you bean lol see what I did there 😀
Cheaper to get the Greggs 2 Sausage & Bean Melts for £2.50 and put then in a couple of slices of bread, you get 2 and mini sausages.
no wonder when u go into icleand there are about 3 people in there next door in Aldis 100s
I never buy anything with the Cathedral City brand name out of principle. I used to get it but extra mature or mature cheddar was nowhere near that and blooming pricey. I switched to Asda and that's much stronger and cheaper. I just tried Lidl and the extra mature takes the roof off my mouth just how I like it. Anyway, that one you just tried is good convenience food but should be half the price.
You could have weighed it on Dave Winfields scales Gareth 🤣🤣
Haha 👍
You say it would serve its purpose for convenience for some people but what’s to stop you from preparing several of these and freezing them yourself? Just put some greaseproof sheets between them. I’ve learned a lot during this cost of living age ☺️ Take care Gaz X
Was going to ask you to review this I spotted it on Instagram with them saying this is not an April Fool’s joke available now in Iceland
Cathedral City's parent company is in Canada, maybe the price was supposed to be 3.50 Canadian dollars which is just over two quid but somebody forgot to do the conversion.
But thanks Garth😊😊😊your amazing and always spot on 💞
You are so welcome Kerry
Though £3.50 does seem a bit on the steep side, it’s not that much more than you pay for any pre-made sandwich. The fact that you’re not finding it particularly tasty is more of an issue I think. The only reason for getting them would either be for having something for a quick, easy and filling snack or meal or because you have someone that you couldn’t expect to make it themselves, either due to age or disability but are able to safely use the microwave.
As it is a cook from frozen item and it’d be getting knocked about in your lunch container for hours, it wouldn’t really be THAT suitable to take to work for lunch and as it has to be cooked, it’s not really an out and about kind of thing either.
If they halved the price and/or sold them in multipacks, they’d probably sell far more than they will at that price point.
Two slices bread out cupboard small tin beans 50p. asda grated cheese out fridge. Everyones got cheese and bread in. I like bean juice and that was dry
I counted 45 beans on there but some might be split in two so could be around 40 beans. So they're charging about 4 pence per baked bean if we say the cheese and bread is about £2 of the total price.
If I only lived on beans at that price it would probably be a £300 a week habit. Probably be cheaper to start smoking crack instead.
Haha cheers
So I bought a tin of beans (own label) for 40p. A loaf of bread for 75p and some cheese for a couple of quid. Why would anybody want to spend so much on a sandwich? Since all the prices went up shops and manufacturer think they can charge silly money for nothing.
Costa charge over £5 for theirs. Profiteering is endemic in this country.
I know you buy this stuff to review it so we don’t have to waste are money. Cant number the amount of food I’ve bought from watching your channel. But even if you said it was the best thing since sliced bread. I wouldn’t buy it. £3.50 for that is ridiculous. Ps I love that you talk about the price. People like you might one day make supermarkets listen.
As well as the brand names sticking 'NEW!' on every single product seems another marketing trick to lure people in to trying the latest ripoff
That’s a skinny Cumberland ring. I used to work around Cumbria out of Carlisle, there was a food van nearby we used to stop at that used to do a ring of sausage in a bun, it was proper butchers sausage and was thick as an average toddlers arm. I don’t understand why most supermarket sausage tastes so strongly of mace these days, probably to cover up the dextrose, sugar syrup and bamboo fibre! Sausage used to have rusk in it, not stuff they make toilet paper and underwear out of….
Also, it's interesting to note how many new items these big companies are pumping out to tempt us into spending loads of money. They must have massive marketing teams coming up with new ideas nobody asked for, just so they can charge the earth.
Good post WHAT A rip off for cheese on toast and beans
I was trying to think of an argument as too why they are so expensive..camping etc but still it's a waste😂😂
I think the price is so important, especially these days so I think it's definitely worth mentioning.. It's completely relevant. £3.50 for that is an absolute joke. How can they get away with that, must be about 80% profit for them in that. Didn't look like there were many beans on it either. It's convenience yeah but how lazy are we becoming that we have to buy this instead of making cheese on toast.
Whatever next, pre buttered bread that you put in the oven for 25 mins for the perfect toast!? They're having a laugh... they need to work on their excessive wasted packaging instead of making us do all the recycling. Rant over. Great video, again.
Cheers Steven, rant away 👍
Of course you should mention the price.! The so-called food industry rips the hell out of us. Thank god incan cook from scratch.!
They’re only ripping off the people that are willing to buy it!
Use everyday essentials from Aldi cheese beans and bread,whole lot under three pounds,love the darts too xx
Cheers Nicola x yes love darts
I spat my tea out when you said £3.50. I wouldn't even buy that if money was no object. It looked so pitiful when you showed the contents.
Crazy times we live in when people think this is a product that is commercially ok to purchase 😮
Do you mean finically?
We being ripped off but it's our fault because we keep buying at the inflated price's instead of just saying no.
If I do cheese and beans on toast I make a standard cheese butty, plaster the outsides of it with Utterly Butterly and throw it in a frying pan on medium heat, fry both sides so they're golden brown and the cheese bubbling out of the sides trying to escape - then onto a plate and pour hot beans from a saucepan on top of that. Sometimes thinly sliced onions also inside the cheese butty before frying. Absolute dynamite!
I wonder how much it would cost to make a batch of these and freeze them yourself, using the exact ingredients.
Good quality bloomer
Block of Cathedral city
Tins of Heinz
And spices to choice
I reckon about 40p tops!
So fourteen quid for a family of four to each have, what, half a frozen lunch? They should call it "the Dick Turpin sarnie", because that really is highway robbery. PS: I thought they had to put the weight on the package, legally.
You should try the M&S pizza meal deal for 4! It's £12, but compared to Dominoes it's much cheaper and I think it's much, much nicer!
Nice review. I wondering if it would be much better and cheaper to make this yourself? It would not take that long, just small can of baked beans, some cheese and 2 slices of bread.
Great point!
Gareth you need to try the cathedral city cheesy potato gratin, you get 4 in a box and they taste really nice and cook well in the air fryer !
I've reviewed it. Video in Iceland playlist I think
The whole range of Cathedral City frozen products are all expensive and not particularly all that fantastic.
That range has always been overpriced. £3.50 should be for 2. I tell everybody you can buy steak at Home Bargains for £2.69. They also do a cheese & ham toasties for £1.50…..
Probably be better in the microwave as I find the oven/air fryer will dry these toasties out too much. This would take about 15 mins in the air fryer I reckon so not sure where they are getting 30 mins.
The cheese and pickle one is OK but at £3.50 a pop they are a pretty expensive snack and that's the major problem for me.
Oh Gareth, the words off, total and rip come to mind.
Vale for money is what we seek, I do anyway. Thant means we need the price. I have Lidl Simply beans and they are fine as is their cheese. Their bread is less that a £1 a loaf. There are clearly many out there with oodles of cash to splash on gimmicks. . Well good for them but you are right to point this stuff out.
I tried the ham and cheese one, it was ridiculously salty
Why do folks constantly miss the point of these items. Any item that is prepared is grossly overpriced when comparing it to purchasing the raw ingredients on their own. Yep, it’s very expensive but if you’re not prepared to pay the price then move along as you clearly aren’t the target audience. On a side note my local Iceland was selling off the cathedral city mac and cheese toasties half price at £1.75 a pop…bought 4 and whacked them in the freezer for a rainy day.
For £3.50 you could buy the ingredients and make multiple toasties and cook them quicker than 20 bloody minutes 😂 Iceland thinking they're on par with Waitrose 🤣
I would suggest pitta pockets with cheesy beans added, cheaper and much better.
Exactly, I have a tin of beans and a wee bit of cheese in some bread and some hendos..My Yorkshire half came out "Ow much?!" Yes thank you for trying and exposing this con Gareth, it's madness, I think sometimes the marketing folk think we are buttoned up the back, to be fair I was eyeing up Itsu Korean style chicken bites £4.50 for like 8 wee bits I could imagine, I had to resist as I am on long term sick leave, it is tempting if one is feeling depressed and it looks the part and seems tasty, then you stick it in the fryer and its a let down x
Thank you
This is why people like Tesco for example have made billions in profits, but of course every little helps. The answer, treat it with the contempt it deserves and move on. Great informative video with good humour thrown in, love it 😊👍
Cheers
Glad I was sitting down when you announced the price Gareth, and the Government has the cheek to state the economy is improving.
What does it cost? 3.50? And I thought Heinz Beans are expensive here in Germany ...
I have no words, this shouldn’t even exist, the price and cooking time ain’t even justifiable, that’s easy 300% profit 🤯
If these were in Iceland's £1 range they'd fly out of the freezers but for £3.50 they'll not sell well and will end up being discontinued in a few months
The toasties have been a stalwart of the cathedral city range in Iceland since they started well over 2 years ago. They started at 2.50 and have remained a seller even with the price rises. What they did discontinue was the cathedral city sausage rolls which were absolutely phenomenal and worth every penny.
Haha Gareth! Iceland deserved that review lol. Watching from Massachusetts and it was your last can of beans review that had me subscribe because you gave them hell about it as you should do. All I could think is you bought a beautiful strip steak from Aldi for that price…. Iceland must think their customers are nuts to offer that! Love your channel Gareth from the good to the bad! Cheers mate! 🍻
Cheers Rob, all the best mate.
Hi Gareth, they seen you coming on that one😅 awful plastic food, beans look sprinkled on, paying for the packaging there. well done again, we trust your taste🙂
I get the convenience idea behind these type of products but at the end of the day unless they are sensibly priced they won't ever get any traction in the market. If this was say £1.50 or maybe up to £2 they might make a bit more sense. Anyway toasted sandwiches in the old Breville are far superior to this kind of thing.
Cheers pal
Mediocre cheese and bland beans. What's not to like for £3.50? LOL Thanks Gaz for saving me from this scam.
You're welcome 😊
Hi Gareth. Hope you and your clan are all doing well and all is good, bud. What a scam. Absolutely taking the piss they are. There should be laws against this kind of attempted robbery.
All well thank you 😊
Maybe the King and Camilla have these when the chef is on holiday?😃🇬🇧
Gareth I think it's essential that you always mention the price, there are a lot of people our there struggling and looking for good value, keep up the good work mate.
Cheers will do.
You can get 350 g of mild cheeder for £1.49 in farmfoods
You do have lovely tips .. must be all these snacks
Works out at least £4 when you put the electric to cook it into consideration, I would rather pay and extra £1 and get a Donner kebab on nann from the local takeaway.