Cheap and absolutely delicious. I always bought several packs whenever in Walmart. Now…gone. Been gone since the pandemic. I MISS them.
Also, Fiber One Original cereal may be gone. There are conflicting reports. Some say discontinued, others say unavailable do to supply chain issues. Either way, unavailable. It was by fr my favorite high fiber cereal.
For decades I used something call Red River cereal. I used it mainly for the multi-grain bread I make once a week, but also occasionally cooked it and ate it. About five years ago, they abruptly stopped. Presumably out of business. I now use Rob’s Red Mill multi-grain cereal which seems an adequate substitute.
The second, there is no adequate substitute. Ever since I was a kid, I enjoyed munching on Trenton crackers. Hard balls about an inch in diameter and, IMHO, delicious. Sea food restaurants in Philly always put them on the table and supermarkets carried them in bags. I once bought a whole case. Then the bakery in Trenton went out of business (maybe 20 years ago and sold their ovens to a company on Lawn Gisland (you know, that long narrow strip of land east of NYC) which made them for a number of years. Then stopped. Maybe 10 years ago. They claimed their special oven stopped working and could not be replaced. So no more OTCs (O = original). In Wegman’s one day, I saw what looked like the package, but what was inside didn’t look anythink like the original. Sad.
I had to google Trenton crackers, and they appear to be oyster crackers. Were they a special kind of oyster cracker? Or are oyster crackers in general gone?
Chocolate Cream of Wheat. You can still get the instant variety, but the original one is no longer made (as far as I can tell).
Chocolate Malt O Meal is not nearly as good. Instant Chocolate Quaker Oats, which is obviously not a farina cereal, tastes like they put the chips from Chips Ahoy in plain oatmeal.
I haven’t seen Stewards Diet Orange Creamsicle in the stores since the beginning of covid. They have 6 packs on Amazon for $33, but I suspect they are old stock. Meijer has them on thier website, but they are out of stock for over a year now.
Trader Joe’s had the best blue cheese dressing/dip that disappeared about a year ago. I’ve tried all the others (refrigerated) available around here but none are as creamy or richly studded with cheese chunks.
Caffeine Free Diet Dr. Pepper. I know drinking diet soda is supposed to be evil, but Diet DP is the closest in taste to the original formulation of just about any soda, and the absence of caffeine makes it perfect for an apres le diner libation for those of us who don’t drink alcohol.
I love those, any off-brand. They’re a little cardboardy, though with coffee, they’re tasty. But I’ve had to stop cold turkey, because if I buy a package, I eat the package.
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Red River! I spent a decade going to a camp on a bay of Lake Huron, where breakfast didn’t include Red River, it was Red River.
Harris-Teeter had their own brand ( HT Traders ) of red slaw which they called ‘Carolina Slaw’ that was fantastic. Cayenne spiced crunchy, coarsely cut cabbage, tomatoes, some onions I think, a thin tomato-ey broth slaw. Almost Pico like maybe. One of the few store bought condiments I had any use for.
Alas I haven’t seen it available for about a year.
The only Triscuits that were worth buying and eating were the ones originally labeled “Deli-style Rye” and in later incarnations “Rye with Caraway Seeds”. They killed them a couple years ago.
Not only will I never buy any more Triscuits, I will never buy another Nabisco product unless they resume those.
CoCo Wheats are better than Chocolate Malt O Meal, but still not at the level of Chocolate Cream of Wheat.
A client of mine heard me rave about Chocolate Cream of Wheat at a restaurant one morning. We had just finished a successful project, so he ordered two boxes of it to be delivered to my house. Problem #1: He misremembered and ordered Malt O Meal. Problem #2: He didn’t order two boxes…he ordered two cases. I’m up to my armpits in chocolate hot cereal.
I haven’t been able to find Stouffer’s products in the supermarket freezer. They were there a few months ago, but no more. Not that they were anything special, but they were just so easy to prepare, and required no thought. An easy meal that you had because you didn’t know what else to have.
I used to buy the Healthy Choice frozen dinners a lot (the ones with actual mains, sides, and desert) but they seem to have gone extinct. At the very least, I don’t see them around anymore. Their website still lists them, though.
There are lots of brands of oyster crackers available.
You might also try Vermont Country Store’s Common Crackers which are oyster crackers writ large. I can’t keep them in the house because I’ll just eat the whole bag.