Has anything you usually buy recently just disappeared from shops?

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I cannot find 'cook at home' poppadums anywhere. Used to be in most supermarkets. I used to buy them all the time. I go to my local Indian shop for them sometimes but they've usually only got flavours I don't favour. The ready made ones aren't as nice and are usually in a load of plastic non-recylcable packaging which doesn't please me either.

I don't mean products that have been discontinued a long time ago, more so things that still exist but you just can't buy anywhere from recently!

Own brand coffee creamer is another one. Don't use it myself but I've heard people at work saying this often.

Fybogel sachets 😭

Andrews liver salts out of stock for ages now and lots of other items like that and medicated shampoos.

@BrendaMcPherson I am sure I saw Lincoln biscuits in Home Bargains recently

Same for my Tesco's delivery. I've stopped putting them in my order as they kept replacing them with waffles and now I've 5x boxes of 12 waffles to get through.

The packs of 20 own brand chocolate covered digestive biscuits (individually wrapped and shaped like a chocolate biscuit i.e. not round like digestives out of a packet).

Super cheap and handy to throw in a packed lunch - none in either Aldi and Asda for months, possibly years now!

It was on Sky News the other day that there's about to be a tea shortage. Went shopping later that day, to find the shelves ransacked of all tea bags! Just damaged packs left in the middle of the shelf and a few boxes of loose tea

What an interesting thread - if we knew where posters lived (ish) we would hopefully be able to advise better.
My own is the paucity of good Olive Oil, stores seem to be full of the Berio
brand which is the produce of many different countries.

Or Sainsbury’s dishwasher gel, in a tall blue plastic container, other stores
do not have it anymore either.
It was excellent for a glasses wash, or more delicate china.

Items disappear then return smaller, different formula, weaker, more expensive,
often bear no relation to the original item.

We covered the Lurpak reduction here ? leapt on it in Sainsbury, only when
I was gleefully putting it in the fridge did I realise. Damn !

The other smh moment was after shopping online at Sainsbury, delighted seeing Taylors ‘After Dark’ coffee reduced to £2.00 a bag, bought 4, only to notice same, storing it, reduced in weight to 200g., from 250g., there is a lesson there somewhere.

yes! just before Christmas I sent DD2 home with 3! frozen packs,
Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury for her to try, then could not find it anywhere
in order to replace.
M&S and Ocado sell it, Soffritto, tiny packs, mega expensive

Is it a vain hope that Management (I use the term loosely and with
slightly curling lip) will ever read this thread and think, “Hmmm, we
need to shape up, provide the goods loyal customers want to see
on the shelves, soonest?”

‘Savers’ occasionally have mainstream creams, ointments, etc.,
along with their weird old fashioned offerings, like Zambuk.
But although the website for ordering is cumbersome,
delivery 4£ or 2£ spend over 30£ we
never ever had a substitute or ‘not available’ after ordering,
as everything comes from a distribution centre.
We buy dental care, *Astonish cleaning, Stardrops, bin bags etc.,
delivered in a sturdy box to the door

*Astonish products in short supply, even in Boyes

I'm going to keep stocked up on tea then if there's a shortage. Husband loves his earl grey.

sensodyne mint free toothpaste. Am having to use the much more inferior Tesco toothpaste.

Do you have a local Home Bargains?

I use it very often as a base for pasta sauce etc, it’s always available in Sainsbury’s (or at least where we are)

I bought some yesterday in Sainsbury’s!

shaped like a chocolate biscuit i.e. not round like digestives out of a packet
say again?
What shape is a chocolate biscuit ?

Oust sachets

Co op do them.

Supermarkets would have to be ten times larger if they never discontinued certain items that don't sell. New items are being added constantly, hence all the moving around of other items to make way for them. I don't understand this mentality of the UK customers in that nothing ever changes, they have obviously never worked in a store.

Here...

I can’t find pudding rice to make rice pudding.

Use arborio

We've just bought a box of pudding rice in our local large Co op.

Not read all thread, but I haven't been able to get Aldi's salmon wellington for at least a couple of months. It's a great favourite.

Aldis mamia baby moisturiser

Products that still exist but you just can't buy anywhere from recently is literally the point of this thread. Posters have given tips on alternative suppliers.

I expect most people (from any country) are well aware that products come and go. I have seen a fair few threads or comments on MN over the years reminiscing and remembering meals or treats from their childhood that aren't around now or have very limited availability.