to fear discontinuation of my favourite foods?

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It all started with Ramen from Waitrose. It was delicious, DH & I loved it. Then it was discontinued. Then the chili and kidney bean soup (which admittedly sounds foul but did taste divine) - GONE. Tesco, what happened to chewable Rennie?! Then the Thai fishcakes. Tasty dishes, tragically abandoned by the heartless grocers.

The last straw was 2014's horrific re-formulation of M&S's tzatziki. Anyway, I am now living in dread regarding the M&S Hot and Spicy Chicken Noodle Soup. It is oh so good. Medicine in a food carton but in a delicious, whole-tub-to-myself, chilli-tingle way. They're gonna pull it, aren't they?

I lived on chewable Rennies during my second pregnancy and was gutted that I couldn't them for my third. They were like shows age Pacers.

I used to love a tiny smoked salmon and dill side salad that Boots, of all places, used to keep in the chiller cabinet. That was about 25 years ago, now I think about it. And in a different city. So yes. I expected a small chilled salad to never change in bloody hell I'm old a quarter of a century. Not unreasonable.

I cook everything I can myself. Cuts downs on the very emotional upheaval you're experiencing now nods wisely

I've tried the from-scratch heartache buffer, but some prepped yumminess always gets through.

M&S used to do a scrummy vegetable flan with cheese sauce, I've tried to recreate but failed

Best stock up on the Russian Herring (Google it, I dare yah )

Tesco used to do a lovely really thin base rectangular pizza with mascarpone on it... years ago... still think of it wistfully, never found a similar one!

Kebab pot noddles just vanished

Tesco used to do cauliflower cheese veggie burgers.... They were amazing.

Never to be seen again

I still mourn the original M&S cheese and celery sandwich. The current version is a very poor substitute.

Waitrose fajitas...no one else does them the same

Oh the Cauliflower cheese burgers! I remember them, they were lush.

Sainsburys veggie chilli with bulgar wheat - long gone but never forgotten.
Costco frozen prawns coated in garlicky sauce - favourite 5 minute meal with pasta - gone
Costco fish pie - also gone
Cook toffee & chocolate twirly cheesecake :( gone

Blimey, the M&S cheese and celery sandwich was good, now you come to mention it.

M&S chicken lasagne, sounds wrong but it was amazing!

Cauldron veggie sausages were ruined a few years ago too. They used to be the only veggie sausages with a decent flavour and texture that held together in a sausage casserole, but then they 'improved' them, and now they taste of foam.

Waitrose Tennessee toffee milkshake circa early 1990s. It tasted of honeycomb with a slightly burnt aftertaste, it was the most amazing drink ever and I still mourn its demise.

And from around the same time a porridge with tiny freeze dried berries, i can't even remember what it was called but nothing has ever come close.

M&S used to do little pitta sized pizzas with feta and veg on them - perfect with salad for a home alone tea. Gone. Also M&S, minted vegetable cake things, like fishcakes, but not. Gone. I am, however, delighted they changed the cottage pie with cheesy mash topping back to the original recipe.

I still check Tesco shelves for the Raisin Bran Muffin. Last seen in 1988.

Abel and Cole do something similar, but not quite the same.

Have you tried remegel instead of rennies?

Not food I know, but, Robert Dyas is the only place that still sells proper Vim and Windowlene. I have to send my mother six month parcels of the stuff.

There used to be a butter called Shirgar (?) that I loved. Can't find it anymore :(

Sainsbury's mushroom pate. It was just mushrooms so veggie rather than animal and mushroom and it was bloody lovely with hunks of warm baguette dipped into it

M&S used to stock goats cheese in caramelised onion balsamic vinegar dressing. I still look forlornly at the cheese shelf and hope to see it reappear.

Marmite mini cheddars - gone but never forgotten.

BitterBoy
I loved the M&S cheese & celery. A match made in sandwich heaven. I want one NOW!

Cheese and celery Dairylea triangles.

Skinny Cow Mint Choc ice creams - they were great, now new formulation is like licking a synthetic wet pillow.