Where can I buy creamed mushrooms?

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I'm having nostalgic memories of my mum making vol au vents at Christmas (70s childhood) and would love to have a go at making them. I can do one filling with prawns and a Marie rose sauce but also remember the mushroom filling. I've tried Sainsbury's, Tesco and M&S but no luck. Do they still exist?
I used to love them on toast as wel!.

They definitely still exist, I have a tin in my Brexit stash I bought a few months ago! I got them in Sainsbury's and I've just looked and they have them online. They're Batchelors ones in a tin.

Maybe try B&M or Home Bargains if your Sainsbury's doesn't stock them?

M&S did last time I looked.

Try Batchelor's condensed mushroom soup (Home Bargains/ B & M 49p a tin!) They also do a condensed chicken soup if you fancy chicken vol au vents 👍🏼

Yep, batchelors condensed soup in a vol sux vent case is the food of my childhood memories ‘mum’s posh Christmas buffet’. That and raisins, peanuts and choc chips in little bowls. I used to get in trouble for carefully eating all the choc chips lol

Hmm I'm sure I saw some on morrisons website recently?

My DM used to make lovely mushroom vol au vents, but she would have made the filling. No idea how - she’s been RIP for years now.

A very thick, creamy white sauce, put in the blender with plenty of lightly sautéed mushrooms, and more chopped sautéed mushrooms added afterwards?
That’s how I’d try it.

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Any good?

Does Campbell's condensed mushroom soup still exist? That's what we always used to use.
I'm going to be planning our Christmas food over the next few days and I think I'll do some vol au vents too. Thank you for the idea! 😋

It most definitely does still exist 👍🏼 I use it for lazy pasta sauces and also as a casserole base for slow cooking 😋 I just add about half the recommended amount of liquid to get a lovely, thick, rich sauce 😋 It's a really good pantry fallback...happy vol au venting everyone!

I would finely chop mushrooms and onions and and fry in butter. Add some double cream and salt and pepper. Maybe add some porcini paste for extra mushroom flavour

Oh yes Campbell's Condensed Mushroom Soup, my mum used it in Vol Au Vents, I use it with leftover roast chicken to make a casserole, or with tuna to make casseroles. Lovely versatile stuff.

M&S do fresh creamed mushrooms! They are lovely on toast. Or you could buy their creamed chicken in a tin and add some lightly sauteed chopped mushrooms to that?

Okay I'm not a parent myself but I do a lot of cooking for my Nephews, Nieces and Godkids so I'm always checking various Websites for foodie stuff.

For those that are interested, the lowdown on Chesswood Creamed Mushrooms is yes they are still available but in a new form.

A few years ago Malton Foods (not surprisingly based in Malton, Yorkshire) moved out of the canned goods market and at that time ceased production of Chesswood Creamed Mushrooms.

However, due to popular demand, they relaunched them in microwaveable pots.

The tinned versions by then had disappeared from the high-street shelves of the likes of Tesco's and Sainsbury's and sadly these stores to my knowledge have not picked up the new microwaveable line.

I have seen them available in Nisa stores (which are quite prevalent near me in the North West) but not sure about stores in other parts of the country.

The RRP of Chesswood Creamed Mushrooms in the microwaveable pots is about £1.29 per 200g pot which is a bit more expensive that what we used to pay for the 230g tin (plus you get a little bit less).

I find them just as tasty as the original (although they don't look as appetising in the pot before you microwave it).

You can also buy them from Amazon (a box of 6 pots is the cheapest) but at a premium price of around £14 for six which is over £2 per pot.

Hope this helps.