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Beans on Toast

Saucy tomato beans poured over buttered toast. The cheapest hot breakfast on this list and still a good one.

Beans on Toast, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
17 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$7.56

Ingredients

  • 30 oz canned cannellini beans
  • 15 oz canned tomato sauce
  • 2 oz tomato paste
  • 1/8 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tbsp worcestershire sauce
  • 1 tbsp yellow mustard
  • 8 white sandwich bread
  • 4 tbsp salted butter
  • 1/2 tsp ground black pepper

Method

  1. Drain and rinse the beans.

  2. Warm the tomato sauce and tomato paste in a saucepan with the brown sugar, Worcestershire, and mustard, stirring until smooth.

  3. Add the beans and simmer gently for 8 minutes, until the sauce clings and no longer tastes of raw tomato.

  4. Toast the bread and butter it right away so the butter soaks in.

  5. Spoon the beans over the toast and grind black pepper on top.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 9 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United States$30.22$7.569 of 9 ingredients
United Kingdom£22.61£5.659 of 9 ingredients
Australia$46.36$11.599 of 9 ingredients
Greece44,19 €11,05 €9 of 9 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٣٦٤٫٧٣ ج.م.‏‏٣٤١٫١٨ ج.م.‏9 of 9 ingredients
Canada$77.39$19.359 of 9 ingredients
Germany38,09 €9,52 €9 of 9 ingredients
Mexico$592.75$148.199 of 9 ingredients
Austria€ 38,83€ 9,719 of 9 ingredients
New Zealand$62.97$15.748 of 9 ingredients
Spain19,33 €4,83 €8 of 9 ingredients

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