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M&S Baked Beans - 400g

Original price $3.99 - Original price $3.99
Original price
$3.99
$3.99 - $3.99
Current price $3.99
Availability:
In stock — ships from Canada

About our best-before dates

We work hard to bring proper British groceries to Canada, but importing food across an ocean is not as tidy as stocking a supermarket shelf down the road.

Some products arrive with long dates. Some arrive with shorter ones. Different products come through the import process with different shelf lives, so the dates are not always as neat or predictable as they would be in a regular Canadian supermarket.

Most online grocery shops do not show best-before dates unless something is getting close. We do it differently.

If you were shopping in our Halifax store, you could pick up the product, turn it over, and check the date before buying. We think our online customers should get that same level of transparency.

That is why we show best-before dates clearly on our products.

What "best before" actually means

A best-before date is about quality — flavour, texture, freshness, and how the product is expected to be at its best.

It is not the same as a "use by" or expiry date, which only appears on certain regulated foods.

For everyday groceries like chocolate, biscuits, crisps, sweets, tea, sauces, jams, and pantry items, the best-before date is a quality marker, not a safety marker.

Why our dates vary so much

British imports are unpredictable. We do not get to choose every date that arrives in Canada, and different products naturally come with different shelf lives.

A jar of sauce may have months or years on it. A bag of crisps might arrive with a much shorter window and still be completely normal for that type of product.

We check dates, show them clearly, and give you the information before you buy — because that is how it should be.

What the colours mean

  • More than 30 days remaining
  • Within 30 days
  • Within 5 days, or past the best-before date

The product page will still show the actual date, so you can decide what works for you.

Why some customers like shorter dates

Many of our regular customers deliberately shop shorter-dated items when the price makes sense.

A chocolate bar with two weeks left is often every bit as good as one with six months left — and if we can pass on a saving instead of letting perfectly good food go to waste, everyone wins.

It is not about cutting corners. It is about being clear, fair, and sensible with stock that has travelled a long way to get here.

Questions about a specific product? Email help@thegreatbritishshop.ca — we read every message.

About our best-before dates

We work hard to bring proper British groceries to Canada, but importing food across an ocean is not as tidy as stocking a supermarket shelf down the road.

Some products arrive with long dates. Some arrive with shorter ones. Different products come through the import process with different shelf lives, so the dates are not always as neat or predictable as they would be in a regular Canadian supermarket.

Most online grocery shops do not show best-before dates unless something is getting close. We do it differently.

If you were shopping in our Halifax store, you could pick up the product, turn it over, and check the date before buying. We think our online customers should get that same level of transparency.

That is why we show best-before dates clearly on our products.

What "best before" actually means

A best-before date is about quality — flavour, texture, freshness, and how the product is expected to be at its best.

It is not the same as a "use by" or expiry date, which only appears on certain regulated foods.

For everyday groceries like chocolate, biscuits, crisps, sweets, tea, sauces, jams, and pantry items, the best-before date is a quality marker, not a safety marker.

Why our dates vary so much

British imports are unpredictable. We do not get to choose every date that arrives in Canada, and different products naturally come with different shelf lives.

A jar of sauce may have months or years on it. A bag of crisps might arrive with a much shorter window and still be completely normal for that type of product.

We check dates, show them clearly, and give you the information before you buy — because that is how it should be.

What the colours mean

  • More than 30 days remaining
  • Within 30 days
  • Within 5 days, or past the best-before date

The product page will still show the actual date, so you can decide what works for you.

Why some customers like shorter dates

Many of our regular customers deliberately shop shorter-dated items when the price makes sense.

A chocolate bar with two weeks left is often every bit as good as one with six months left — and if we can pass on a saving instead of letting perfectly good food go to waste, everyone wins.

It is not about cutting corners. It is about being clear, fair, and sensible with stock that has travelled a long way to get here.

Questions about a specific product? Email help@thegreatbritishshop.ca — we read every message.

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About M&S Baked Beans

About M&S Baked Beans

There is a particular kind of quiet confidence to M&S Baked Beans. No fuss, no bold claims on the tin, just the understanding that if you are going to do baked beans, you might as well do them properly.

This is a 400g tin of classic British baked beans in a tomato sauce, made in the United Kingdom and imported here for anyone who knows exactly what they want on their toast. The beans are lightly seasoned, the sauce is rich without being heavy, and the whole thing lands somewhere between breakfast and comfort in a way that is very hard to argue with.

For British expats in Canada, beans on toast is not really about the toast. It is about the beans being right. The Great British Shop stocks the M&S version specifically because it is the UK product people are actually looking for, not a local approximation, but the real tin imported from Britain.

M&S Baked Beans sit neatly alongside a full cooked breakfast, work perfectly on buttered white toast at any hour of the day, and hold their own as a side without complaint. Simple, reliable, and exactly what they are supposed to be.

Shop more British pantry favourites and keep the cupboard stocked without waiting on a parcel from overseas.

Ingredients, Nutrition & Storage

Ingredients

Haricot Beans (49%), Tomatoes (33%), Water, Sugar, Cornflour, Salt, Vinegar, Dried Onions, Paprika Extract, Paprika, Onion Oil, Chilli Pepper Extract, Garlic Extract

Allergens

May contain: Eggs, Milk.

Storage

Store in a cool, dry place. Once opened, place unused contents in a non-metallic container. Keep refrigerated and eat within 3 days.

More about M&S Baked Beans

Baked beans occupy a specific corner of the British pantry that has no real equivalent elsewhere. They are a breakfast staple, a late-night standby, a jacket potato topping, and a childhood constant, all at once. M&S Baked Beans sit within that tradition as a supermarket own-brand done to a standard that M&S shoppers in the UK would recognise immediately.

For British expats across Canada, finding the right tin of baked beans is genuinely one of the harder grocery problems to solve. The beans available locally are a different product entirely, sweeter and saucier in a way that does not satisfy the same craving. The M&S version is the UK product, imported as-is, which is the whole point.

The tin is 400g, which is the standard British single-serve-to-two size and fits comfortably into a cupboard without taking up much space. Once opened, any leftovers keep in a non-metallic container in the fridge for up to three days, though in practice they rarely last that long.

M&S Baked Beans pair naturally with other tins and jars in the British pantry favourites range, which covers the kind of everyday staples that are easy to underestimate until you cannot find them.

The tin ships from within Canada, so whether it is heading to a flat in Toronto, a kitchen in Halifax, or a household in Charlottetown, it arrives without the delays and duties that come with ordering directly from overseas.

Additional Information

Packaging Accuracy. We keep product information as accurate and up to date as possible. Manufacturers sometimes change packaging, ingredients, nutritional information, allergen advice, pack sizes or branding without notice, so the product you receive may look slightly different from the images shown. If you have a question about ingredients or allergens before ordering, please get in touch and we will gladly check for you.

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