Enter a brave new world of Chef Laziness. The Poorhouse is no cook; to suggest otherwise would denigrate what for many is an honourable profession. However, come Sunday afternoon, one of the world's finest delicacies - Beans on Toast - is often successfully created. Annoyingly though it takes around 2 minutes to prepare and there is the consequential washing-up of between 1 and 2 dishes (depending on methodology used).

Fear no more! The beanmasters at Heinz have come up with a genius alternative methodology for the cookery process. They already innovated with a 20 second time-saving device - the ring-pull can - and now have gone a step further to reduce the total recipe time to just a single minute. Think of a Pop Tart (not if you're eating - it could lead to bad results), but instead of random green alien goo, you have the world's finest mass produced beans lodged within the folds of bready-stuff. Yes, it is the intellectual masterstroke of, as the Guardian put it, "a wodge of beans sealed in their frozen sauce between two slices of bread". Throw it in the toaster, wait a literal minute, and out comes nice hot ready to consume beans on toast.

If the science is right, you can expect to see the frozen foil-packed delight at a freezer near you within the next 12 months - RRP unknown. Britain is apparently already the "world's biggest bean eating nation", purchasing a cool 1.5 million cans of the aforementioned pulses every single day.