Can you buy MACARONI?

[Lonelymum]

I am not asking much, I think. I do not seem able to buy macaroni anywhere now. First the little quick cook macaroni I grew up with disappeared off the shelves of Sainsburys and now all macaroni seems to have disappeared from any supermarket. I don't want all those fancy pastas. Just macaroni. Anyone else buy it and if so, where from?

i can get macaroni in sainsburys..... but i know what you mean about the little quick cook stuff - loved that stuff - me and dad most annoyed you cant get it.

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Tescos have it

what do you make with it, if you make pudding I shall be amazed

just stick a feather in your cap

and call it macaroni

(... yankee doodle doodle day ... cackle )

Macaroni cheese is ds2's favourite meal. At the moment, I am using any other shape pasta I can get but I just want plain old, boring macaroni thank you, not all those fancy pastas. I haven't seen it in ages and I have tried several Tescos and a huge Asda. No Sainsburys near me now, but up to last February I was near a Sainsburys and they didn't have it for years.

It's in Tesco's near me, and Morrison's. I live in the Midlands where there is less call for fancy-schmancy poncey pasta with organic fairy lights attached though. If you are in the SE you might ben out of luck.

Was in the SE, now in the SW. It is really annoying me.

Oooh you're so deliciously retro lm....{wink}

If I don't get satisfaction from one supermarket soon, I shall be forced to buy those bigger cousins of macaroni and cut them all up by hand!

lol at thought of macaroni's large extended family....

! I agree. My waitrose has stopped stocking it and they told me to use penne instead

I have seen it in my Tescos but very rarely.

It must be a class thing then that's why it's not availabe in the South East like tripe and pork scratchings

i dont live in the South East

you get it pretty much everywhere here

omg! i have just been cursing tesco as they didn't have macaroni and they did a week ago. DP joked that there must be a national macaroni shortage! macaroni and cheese is DD's favourite meal atm.

You'll be jealous - we have two enormous packets in the larder. Our sainsburys sell it.

Trusty old Co-Op, bags of it in there

I have a Somerfield still to try and if I can't get it there, I am thinking of setting up an action group to protest about it. Perhaps I could start with a petition signed by fellow Mners!

Macraroni says shetland pony

ooh yes I think my local Scummerfield does still do it

i regularly buy it from tesco / waitrose!

You're right LM, I've had trouble getting plain old macaroni too.

"DP joked that there must be a national macaroni shortage!"

He may not be far wrong. It's amazing what you get shortages of if one factory's production goes tits up. (I used to work in Demand Management for a certain well known food company who's name shall not be mentioned and you'd be amazed at what went out of stock for weeks at a time due to production problems).

Tesco here has it, we bought some just a couple of weeks ago.

And the Co-Op.

Maybe we have the whole supply right here.

I will pass it on to you all for a small fee!