OH! He should do a video with a blind taste test to see what he likes better or knows the difference between TESCO, ASDA, and I guess brand name or what he usually buys.
As an Asda worker the bread was branded as smartprice a couple years back and baked in store but for some reason it was rebranded and delivered into the store instead, but it's still smartprice technically!
EViLxZombie Zz yeah I've seen it in the last few days. The wholemeal is actually decent. They don't get much of it though which is possibly why they don't offer it online. The one they bought they get tonnes in.
This is very good. Nice to know which things are good and to buy because why spend money on things that taste nasty. Don't save money if buy and won't eat it. Thanks for being the guinea pig for us.
I've noticed even though it's smart price you still spend a lot per day. £12 today for the 2 of you which seems very expensive. I guess you've counted the whole pack of cheese for example even though you've not used all of it
Well, considering here in the states, a decent fast food dinner would be at least £16 for two (and we're talking cheap mexican food place down the street) it's really not bad for a whole day. It's not uncommon for me to spend close to £8 per day on lunch alone, being to lazy to make lunch at home and bring it in.
It's quite interesting to see the differences between american stuff and uk stuff. Over here we hardly ever get tin cans with a ring pull, usually we just use a tin opener.
After you get through all the "basic" ranges you should try the "taste the difference" sort of ranges and see if they actually taste better or if its the same stuff just with nicer packaging and higher prices
I've tried beans on toast (I live in the U.S.), and liked it well enough. It's not bad, but I prefer to cook black beans with a bit of oil (bacon drippings are best...just a little) and chili seasonings and serve them with cheese on top of blue corn sopes with a tiny dollop of sour cream and either salsa fresca or salsa verde. Generally, the cheese is either Monterrey Jack, cotija, or sharp cheddar. My recommendation of what to drink with it is either iced green tea with spearmint, tamarind soda, or mineral water with a bit of fresh lime juice. I'm a huge fan of Mexican food, Mexicali food, and Tex-Mex food...and I live in farmville central Cali so that shouldn't be a surprise. I would recommend trying it...though I don''t know how easy it is to get masa (blue is best, yellow is second best, but white is fine) in the U.K. If it is hard to get, I would still recommend the dry stuff online. It's also used to make tamales and can be used for all sorts of good stuff.
Beans looked good.. Usually the cheap ones are more juice than bean. Ive just looked at the Asda website. You can get 200 smart Price products. mainly food and a few house cleaning stuff too.
I find videos like this really interesting because I've been known to try out store brand things out of sheer curiosity. Sometimes they become staples, sometimes they don't. ^_^ I _love_ the Sams choice microwave macaroni and cheese cups. They use a sauce rather than a powder so they're much better tasting than Easy Mac. They're also only $1 per cup, which is surprising.
FYI they still do smart price bread. In white and brown, it's made by Kingsmill, the folk that also made the ones you bought. Maybe it's just not available when you order online.
The butter is one of the least processed items - just pasteurised, churned milk and salt - so there's little the manufacturer can do to lower the basic cost of the product (i.e. by adding water, xantham gum, longer-acting preservatives, sweeteners).
Loving these videos. Regarding the Baked Beans: my own experience is that if you cook them well in a saucepan, almost all can be really good. Added to this, Heinz ain't what it used to be - their Baked Beans and Sausages are pretty much the worst you can get nowadays (aldi better, Lidl better - Branston absolute top) a case of trusting the label regardless of the lowering quality.
Make up the cake mix in regular cups. fill them up half way and microwave for about 2 minutes and they will come out as perfect little cakes (shuffle the cups around half way so that they get equal nuking). Less hassle. Or.. just use self raising flour, egg, milk, sugar and little butter. Do the same thing and make cakes for about 1/2 price of the packet mix.
What you could have did for the sponge cake cream is make buttercream with the Asda smart price butter and if they have icing/ powdered sugar you use that is well to make buttercream
I used to bulk out my shopping with ASDA smart price products but I couldn't live on it just alone as some of it is awful LoL EDIT : I liked the frozen chicken breast portions ! nice baked in the oven as part of a roast not saying they're the best but I have purchased more expensive ones that aren't as nice !
That motorbike in your video coincided with one driving past my window lol. It proper shook me up. Also, I love the fact that Grace does the old-school crochets. That's cool man. I shop at Asda myself. I might have to try some of their SmartPrice stuff. Only the stuff that gets your seal of approval, mind you. Looking forward to the rest of the week, Mike! ☺✌
They definitely used to do smart price bread! It was awful but ridiculously cheap, I used to eat it a lot at uni. I did actually like a lot of the value food though
Cheese spread sandwiches sound delicious in an afternoon tea. What's wrong with it? Come to think of it, just what all does one put in an afternoon tea? It's just whatever pairs well with tea and a short break, right?
20 years ago TESCOs own beans were 0.07p an their own bread was 0.09p, not saying it was fit for human consumption but man was that cheap. Own brands today are practically luxury to what they were back then!
@@drunkenhobo8020 you liked cheese, you liked peas, you loved CheesyPea's, well, you've gone mad for these. New Squeezy CheesyPea's. Tea's a breeze with new Squeezy CheesyPea's!
What I've wondered on this and the tesco value week on is, do you ever end up integrating some of the products you try into your daily life? Like the bean from today, you say they're pretty good and indistinguishable from higher priced items, but after the week on, do you go back and buy more of the same products to save money? if so, what have you continued to buy?
At least the 23p beans have the ridge on the bottom so it stacks with other tins. Some don’t and it’s bloody annoying because then you have to re arrange the tin cupboard.
This might get drowned out by the comments but I'd love to see one on Morrisons savers stuff. I've bought a few of there items in past. Jaffa Cakes / white chocolate and it was decent. I'm not sure how big there selection is though.
You can never go wrong with some baked beans. I’m from Aus and I usually have them twice a week for breakfast. Never added cheese to them but I’ll definitely try that.
one on aldis specially selected range, i work for them and some of the stuff im sure would blow you away and about the price of regular shops own brands but not as cheap as the discounted versions.
The beans on toast with cheese (I never heard of beans on toast until right before I went to London) looks like the open faced grilled cheese with chili over it that I make.
So far so good, especially the sandwiches and cakes. You should try that cheesy spread on toasted crumpets instead of butter (don't think Asda Smartprice does crumpets, but it's something to consider if you buy the spread in the future).
WAIT WHAT, i always cook the beans till they are piping hot, put it on the toast then sprinkle the cheese on top, you mix it in to the cooking beans aswell as put cheese on top, how have i never thought of this, i can no longer call myself an english man, i shall force myself into exile post haste.
I'm trying to find out how many pence is equal to a dollar. Some sites say 1 pence = 1 penny, others say 77 pence is 1 dollar. Either way, your low priced foods beat our Walmart and Kroger's low priced brands by quite a lot.
Asda smart price do have cheaper bread at 39p but its stale compared to the sliced they actualy bought for 55p but why experiment with smart price when you could make some of it up yourself, cheaper.
Do a week on Greggs
David _ NUFC 😂😂😂😂
Isn't that just a normal week for a Geordie?
@@drunkenhobo8020 yeah it is
But on weekends they have a McDonald's as a treat
I've been doing that since I was 6, would reccomend
Then a week with a cardiologist
Do a week on laxatives please.
Omg too funny 😂😂
lol
What Mike says: "Let's make a cake!"
What Grace hears: "Let's make a mess!"
No
Snorlax Was funny when the flour went flying everywhere. 🤣
OH! He should do a video with a blind taste test to see what he likes better or knows the difference between TESCO, ASDA, and I guess brand name or what he usually buys.
Bring him as a guest on barshens, and have the team play this. Spoonfuls of jam for all.
He should go on CheapShow and do Off Brand Brand Off.
_”Roff-Roff-Roff...”_
As an Asda worker the bread was branded as smartprice a couple years back and baked in store but for some reason it was rebranded and delivered into the store instead, but it's still smartprice technically!
EViLxZombie Zz they still do smart price branded bread. It's just delivered by Kingsmill (allied)
@@Matt19matt19 Ah fairs, they don't send that to my store
EViLxZombie Zz yeah I've seen it in the last few days. The wholemeal is actually decent. They don't get much of it though which is possibly why they don't offer it online. The one they bought they get tonnes in.
My Asda doesn't get much of this stuff at all. We end up subbing way more expensive products on the reg
Loving this so much!! Please can you do a week on Waitrose Essentials??
Yes please!
He just did
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This is very good. Nice to know which things are good and to buy because why spend money on things that taste nasty. Don't save money if buy and won't eat it. Thanks for being the guinea pig for us.
I like how you had an afternoon tea, it just shows that you can have cute gatherings with your friends eating food on a budget
sainsbury's do pretty much a basic everything. they. have bread
Shame the slices are so thin
How do you not have scurvy? Pls eat fruit and veg
I think this too!
He always looks quite sallow....Not bodyshaming, just eat some greens.
How fragile are you? It's only a week.
I've noticed even though it's smart price you still spend a lot per day. £12 today for the 2 of you which seems very expensive. I guess you've counted the whole pack of cheese for example even though you've not used all of it
Yeah if you worked it out per portion rather than for the whole product itd be much cheaper
Well, considering here in the states, a decent fast food dinner would be at least £16 for two (and we're talking cheap mexican food place down the street) it's really not bad for a whole day. It's not uncommon for me to spend close to £8 per day on lunch alone, being to lazy to make lunch at home and bring it in.
I absolutely love the Asda smartprice Cheddar and Red Leceister mix. Definitely one of my favourite smartprice things from Asda.
It's quite interesting to see the differences between american stuff and uk stuff. Over here we hardly ever get tin cans with a ring pull, usually we just use a tin opener.
After you get through all the "basic" ranges you should try the "taste the difference" sort of ranges and see if they actually taste better or if its the same stuff just with nicer packaging and higher prices
I've tried beans on toast (I live in the U.S.), and liked it well enough. It's not bad, but I prefer to cook black beans with a bit of oil (bacon drippings are best...just a little) and chili seasonings and serve them with cheese on top of blue corn sopes with a tiny dollop of sour cream and either salsa fresca or salsa verde. Generally, the cheese is either Monterrey Jack, cotija, or sharp cheddar. My recommendation of what to drink with it is either iced green tea with spearmint, tamarind soda, or mineral water with a bit of fresh lime juice. I'm a huge fan of Mexican food, Mexicali food, and Tex-Mex food...and I live in farmville central Cali so that shouldn't be a surprise. I would recommend trying it...though I don''t know how easy it is to get masa (blue is best, yellow is second best, but white is fine) in the U.K. If it is hard to get, I would still recommend the dry stuff online. It's also used to make tamales and can be used for all sorts of good stuff.
This just gave me diabetes just reading it
Mike well done for the origionality of the idea of doing the afternoon tea was a great way to showcase some of the products nice one
Beans looked good.. Usually the cheap ones are more juice than bean. Ive just looked at the Asda website. You can get 200 smart Price products. mainly food and a few house cleaning stuff too.
I buy some asda smart price and actually prefer some of it to the more expensive brands
Grace is the sweetest. #gracegang
I like we're seeing more of her she is so lovely there a great couple xx
Hol Lane love the lay out of the cheese puffs love watching your chanel
I still want a Grace cooking show!
#gracegang #gracegang #gracegang , spread the sponge cake in lil cups, my husband love his teacup oo
Quite a nice meal today. I wonder if there will still be enough variety to go by come day 7.
I used to LIVE on that cheesy spread a few years ago at uni.. back then it was only 50p I'm sure.
Always found that ASDA, Morrisons and Sainsbury's have far better value items than Tesco.
Apart from the cheese
@@sprya7558 they sell loads of cheeses under a pound there for you cant really say bad about it
Just go lidl lol
Tescos are rubbish. overpriced junk
@Umair Tescos are crap. Inedible junk
Buffet day: for when you bought too many yummies and you just want to eat them all at once
I find videos like this really interesting because I've been known to try out store brand things out of sheer curiosity. Sometimes they become staples, sometimes they don't. ^_^ I _love_ the Sams choice microwave macaroni and cheese cups. They use a sauce rather than a powder so they're much better tasting than Easy Mac. They're also only $1 per cup, which is surprising.
FYI they still do smart price bread. In white and brown, it's made by Kingsmill, the folk that also made the ones you bought. Maybe it's just not available when you order online.
I assume that the butter is so expensive compared of the rest, cause of fixed prices...
The butter is one of the least processed items - just pasteurised, churned milk and salt - so there's little the manufacturer can do to lower the basic cost of the product (i.e. by adding water, xantham gum, longer-acting preservatives, sweeteners).
SP cheese spread is nice. Also I rate the peanut butter, chicken chunks, sultanas, cottage cheese and chocolate digestive pack up bars.
Loving these videos. Regarding the Baked Beans: my own experience is that if you cook them well in a saucepan, almost all can be really good. Added to this, Heinz ain't what it used to be - their Baked Beans and Sausages are pretty much the worst you can get nowadays (aldi better, Lidl better - Branston absolute top) a case of trusting the label regardless of the lowering quality.
Make up the cake mix in regular cups. fill them up half way and microwave for about 2 minutes and they will come out as perfect little cakes (shuffle the cups around half way so that they get equal nuking).
Less hassle.
Or.. just use self raising flour, egg, milk, sugar and little butter. Do the same thing and make cakes for about 1/2 price of the packet mix.
What you could have did for the sponge cake cream is make buttercream with the Asda smart price butter and if they have icing/ powdered sugar you use that is well to make buttercream
I used to bulk out my shopping with ASDA smart price products but I couldn't live on it just alone as some of it is awful LoL
EDIT : I liked the frozen chicken breast portions ! nice baked in the oven as part of a roast not saying they're the best but I have purchased more expensive ones that aren't as nice !
They just take so long to cook 😂
Trust thous chicken breasts are nice
A lot of smart price stuff is horrible tbh I much prefer Tesco or Sainsbury's
That motorbike in your video coincided with one driving past my window lol. It proper shook me up. Also, I love the fact that Grace does the old-school crochets. That's cool man. I shop at Asda myself. I might have to try some of their SmartPrice stuff. Only the stuff that gets your seal of approval, mind you. Looking forward to the rest of the week, Mike! ☺✌
They definitely used to do smart price bread! It was awful but ridiculously cheap, I used to eat it a lot at uni. I did actually like a lot of the value food though
You don't need the pound sign £ and the p for pence. It's one or the other.
"Cost? 34:84p" No that makes no sense.
@@Whiskeyklone that would be £34.84 or 3484p
: Is for writing the time.
That was the point, Einstein
Yep thats annoying
*example*
£30.50
55p
There you go
Love the vids I I watch a whole series at a time until about 3:00am keep it up
Cheese spread sandwiches sound delicious in an afternoon tea. What's wrong with it?
Come to think of it, just what all does one put in an afternoon tea? It's just whatever pairs well with tea and a short break, right?
ASDA smart price products make up 99% of my student budget meals.
I love cheesey beans. I put the cheese over the beans after I have put the beans on toast
20 years ago TESCOs own beans were 0.07p an their own bread was 0.09p, not saying it was fit for human consumption but man was that cheap. Own brands today are practically luxury to what they were back then!
Very satisfying watching the beans slide out....well worth the thumbs up 👍
Do you like Peas?
Do you like Cheese?
Then you'll love CheesyPea's!
It's easy peasy with CheesyPea's, Please!
I love the Squeezy Cheezy Peas.
@@drunkenhobo8020 you liked cheese, you liked peas, you loved CheesyPea's, well, you've gone mad for these.
New Squeezy CheesyPea's.
Tea's a breeze with new Squeezy CheesyPea's!
Cheesy Peas were featured in 'Get Stuffed' if anyone else remembers that program from back in the day.
Wow vaguely, wasnt it just random people off the street that burnt toast and put beans on it?
This comment is SCORCHIO!!
You should do a week on Sainsbury's basic xxx
Sainsburys basic is the worst of any shop. Tesco quality is so much nicer and asda etc.
No ooooooooooooooo
you don't put the cheese into the beans. noooo
Lyn F how dare you put a comment on this channel like that 🤬 lol it has to go in and on top like he did 😜
Jay Gallagher ohh I missed thst he put cheese on.top too.
You never let beans bubble, thats cooking 101
mister kickasso oh god the effort to clean off the burned on beans.
I'd let it soak for a week. 😂😂
Cheese in beans is the best, beans overcooked is even better!
It's very precise because it's baking, baking is edible chemistry.
What I've wondered on this and the tesco value week on is, do you ever end up integrating some of the products you try into your daily life? Like the bean from today, you say they're pretty good and indistinguishable from higher priced items, but after the week on, do you go back and buy more of the same products to save money? if so, what have you continued to buy?
I will 100% buy the grated cheese again!
We have Aldi's in America but that stuff is still very cheap by comparison.
I’m jealous. The Walmart US equivalent “great value” costs more and looks worse.
At least the 23p beans have the ridge on the bottom so it stacks with other tins. Some don’t and it’s bloody annoying because then you have to re arrange the tin cupboard.
Must admit I do like the cheap trifles as the custard is lush in them.
The torturous Week Ons are fun... but it's also fun just to have a surprisingly lovely one now and then.
This might get drowned out by the comments but I'd love to see one on Morrisons savers stuff. I've bought a few of there items in past. Jaffa Cakes / white chocolate and it was decent. I'm not sure how big there selection is though.
Random Q. Can I ask what Grace was Crocheting? 😍
I live in Quebec (Canada) and our Walmart Great Value line is squarely double the price!
Hmmm, my local ASDA do have smartprice bread. I've never had it, but I see it every time I get bread from there.
You can never go wrong with some baked beans. I’m from Aus and I usually have them twice a week for breakfast. Never added cheese to them but I’ll definitely try that.
Add a dash of Worcestershire sauce!!
It's also great on cheese on toast under the grill!
one on aldis specially selected range, i work for them and some of the stuff im sure would blow you away and about the price of regular shops own brands but not as cheap as the discounted versions.
Am I the only weird person rewatching all these week ons? Please tell me I'm not 😂
I love your plates with the leaves on them
Honestly it was the cake wrappers I use them all the time and they always get stuck in them paper ones all the way 👌🏽
I'm trying to spend less on food each month as I wanna go aboard next year so these vids are great to see what's good before I buy them
Please don't tell me I'm the only one who got a Sainsbury ad for this video 😂
We don't seem to have the Asda tea assessed yet.
Never been a fan of beans on toast but I love beans beside toast with cheese.
I don't think I've ever heard you swear. Loving this as a week on!
Do a week on Morrisons savers
(Whatever they're called)
Don't boil the baked beans. Just let them simmer!
Calm down Gordon.
DexDark loooool exacly
Sorry mate, cheesy beans looked like cat puke! Loving this week tho! 😁
The beans on toast with cheese (I never heard of beans on toast until right before I went to London) looks like the open faced grilled cheese with chili over it that I make.
So far so good, especially the sandwiches and cakes. You should try that cheesy spread on toasted crumpets instead of butter (don't think Asda Smartprice does crumpets, but it's something to consider if you buy the spread in the future).
Joanne Gray no they don't but there's not much point anyway as the ones up from that are about 9 for 65p
Still not a bad price, considering Warburtons are over a quid for six.
Hi Mike! Greg and PJ here, just really enjoying the content, keep up the good work buddy!
The afternoon tea was adorable 😂
The UK must be magical! The only cans we dont need an opener for is soup and fruit.
WAIT WHAT, i always cook the beans till they are piping hot, put it on the toast then sprinkle the cheese on top, you mix it in to the cooking beans aswell as put cheese on top, how have i never thought of this, i can no longer call myself an english man, i shall force myself into exile post haste.
can you do a week on Chinese food? you know stuff like fried rice, duck in sweet and sour sauce, cat etc.
😂😂
Imagine the constipation problems that would bring. Oh and the acid reflux!
#weekontacobell
That'll keep constipation away.
TheHairyPolak I like the idea of a week of Chinese food!!!!
@@fanofpink i know right? They eat spiders and insects so he doesnt even have to spend money!
I actually went into Asda and bought Asda smart price cheese and ham after watching this video 😂
The afternoon tea was great hahaha
Was just thinking about what a weird concept cheesy beans on toast is, but then again, I had guac & egg on toast for breakfast!
Take the ramakins to the bowl to fill
You literally put no beans on that toast
Could you give a frame of reference for those of us in other countries? How much do two people usually spend on a days worth of food?
Random American Quite difficult to calculate given that you don't buy for just a day at a time, and everyone house will be different
Ahhhhhhh boiled beans 😱 no no no no no! Heat that shit gently!
You'll use non smart price bread so you could've just used the asda smash. The price was the same too.
10:15... the cheese was ‘grate’ was it? ...
I'm trying to find out how many pence is equal to a dollar. Some sites say 1 pence = 1 penny, others say 77 pence is 1 dollar. Either way, your low priced foods beat our Walmart and Kroger's low priced brands by quite a lot.
the butter is expensive, I pay 80p for willow salted butter. what the ****** did you do to the beans??? i like Asda smart price beans.
I loved how you tesselated the wotsits haha cute af
Haha, your wife should do all the "week on's" with you
You know if he did that, we'd eventually get a "week on divorce proceedings".
Smart price beans are actually great, I buy them over all other beans.
A week on food challenges - different challenge each day.
Asda smart price do have cheaper bread at 39p but its stale compared to the sliced they actualy bought for 55p
but why experiment with smart price when you could make some of it up yourself, cheaper.
Cheesy beans are great but... guys how could you put the cheese in the pan?! That made me nervous 😂 just the idea of the washing up afterwards
I hope you have some of their milk chocolate, it's one of the best cheap chocolates.
Did you think the ASDA Smartprice teabags had a wired taste - as if you were drinking cardboard
What can opener do you use? I always wanted something minimalist like that
We love you Grace :) We love Mike too and Basil. We love you all :)
As an American I’ve never had cheesy beans on toast but I kinda want to now. It sounds good.
Do it, do it right this second and do it on toast you will not be disappointed.
Would love to see a week on M Savers, the Morrisons equivalent
5:05 First shot of Basil!
I use to spit in the pork mix for pork pies when I worked for Kerry Foods lol
Where am I?
Potato & Rice & Pancake Podcast 😂😂😂😂😂
if someone wanted to try it would you recommend that ?