Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Comfort food at it's best........

Such a comforting meal and super cheap to make.

Baked potatoes topped with a knob of butter, baked beans and grated cheese.  I bought the potatoes on clearance, a 10 lb bag for $1.99.  Bought the Heinz baked beans when they were $1 a can at Metro the other week, a price which I haven't seen in a long time.  The cheese we bought as a splurge at Costco.  I would reckon all in all this meal would cost under $2 per person and was yummy.

As I said we bought the cheese at Costco.  It's called Leerdammer and is Dutch cheese and is a cross between Gouda and Edam.  It's pretty tasty.
I love a sharp cheese, and other than blue cheeses which I dislike, I could eat cheese each and every day.

Do you make baked potatoes?  If so what do you put on them?



7 comments:

NELLIEGRACE said...

We stopped buying anything with modified maize starch and glucose fructose syrup.
M&S has started a UPF-free range, Only…Ingredients, so I bought baked beans to try. 75p is reasonable, between standard at 45p, and £1.10 for organic.
I like it that the ingredients are clearly printed on the front of the label.
Haricot Beans (49%) • Tomatoes (34%) • Water • Agave Syrup • Cornflour •
Salt • Ground Paprika.
The alternative is a homemade tomato sauce, frozen in portions.

My Piece of Earth said...

Living on my own I find it so much easer to bake a potato than prepare them any other way. Usually I have only butter, I can't use up a container of sour cream fast enough before it goes off. I agree cheese goes with everything, apples, apple pie and fruit cake.

Magpie's Mumblings said...

mmmm - that looks so good! I love potatoes and baked with butter and sour cream is the way to go. My favourite is scalloped potatoes though - yum.

Jeanie said...

We used to have baked potatoes before Rick got carb crazy. But he will eat sweet potatoes, which I've never baked but I might try this, especially with chili, which I think would be good on the sweet potato. Thanks for the idea.

Lowcarb team member said...

That looks very tasty ...

All the best Jan

Jackie said...

I wonder if I could convince Harvey to give a baked potato with lots of toppings a try.

God bless.

Sharon said...

Yum. My jacket potatoes have cheese and beans on them.

A good day all round, I'd say..........

Tuesday, woke up to the sun shining, so a big 👍from me! Painted some more trim and the door in the laundry room twice, so another 👍from me...