They had a yellow tomato pasta sauce at one time that was simply wonderful. I still miss it.

They had a salad dressing years ago that I used to buy regularly, then suddenly it was gone forever. Oh, bummer.

curry flavored cus cus ..haven't seen it in months!
boo-hoo!

This is a serious old skool TJ's thing, but I miss the bags of unsweetened carob chips.

And the unsweetened coconut flakes they were carrying more recently.

I'm still missing Lindeman's Lambic. At least BevMo is carrying the big bottles which are more economical.

Italian yogurt in glass jars, loved the decaf coffee flavor.

The seafood stew in white sause (freezer).

All they ever have anymore is tomato sause version.

--S

where's the wasabi mayo?

Naturade Vegetable Protein is great for vegetarians who want a powder that tastes good and has a good amino acid profile.

I have to go to another store to buy the stuff now.

Say it ain't so, Joe.

Crunchy coated peanuts!

A friend found something close at Cost Plus, but it was loaded with MSG.

Yes. They replaced one of the few salad dressings I can eat:
Annie's Seasame/Shittake
with the inferior Joe label type. Trust me. It is more than a label swap. Give us our Annie's back!

Where's my Low-Fat Pumpkin Cranberry Tea Loaf?

the tandoori marinade! it's gone (at least here in conn.)! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

Jumping Cow Ale Green T-Shirt with pocket.

Had mine for over 10 years before the collar gave up the ghost. The beer wasn't so good, but that was a great shirt.

Has Trader Joe's stopped carrying the Mario Batali pasta sauces? I haven't seen them in my local stores for weeks and weeks now.

Mario's Sugo di Pomodoro was the best, most versatile quick base sauce around. I'll be crushed if I can't find it anymore! :-(

Cilantro Walnut Pesto and "Manitropita" which was like Spanokopita but with mushrooms. snif.

sheesh, maybe all of your TJ's has been gettin those canned dolmas from Greece for years (which I do like, most of the time--sometimes though, I will get a can where the dolmas ain't so good), but like 6 months ago TJ's came out with a TJ's brand in a jar, and they were awesome--but they are no more.

Hubby devastated when I reported no more chipotle sauce.

It seems they're not carrying the Van Houten cocoa this season.

Wild Salmon Chowder, suddenly dissapeared from all stores, they said it was a seasonal item, I sure hope it comes back, I do have some cans left to try and make my own recipe from though...

Another thing that hasn't been back was the Bouillabaisse, wish I knew where else it is being sold.

their multi bean soup, which my whole family is now addicted to. it was a great superlazy way of having a quick, healthy meal with almost all of our daily fiber. and tasty too. so much easier than making vat of bean soup from scratch.

Sun-dried tomato flavored pasta. I used to get a package of that (in some shape or another), and mix with a package of the pesto pasta. The pesto pasta is still there, but it seems different.

Way back in the old days, I got hooked on Trader Joe's for having Lindt bars for 99c. If you could find them elsewhere, they were $1.89.

This stuff was great! I loved it, and I couldn't believe how much fiber and protein was crammed into a single serving of pasta! I try not to eat anything with less than 3 grams of fiber per serving as a rule, regardless of total carbs.

Anyway, went in one day and they decided to stop selling the spaghetti. They still sell the rotini, just not spaghetti. :-(

Green Tea Gelato Classico for 2.79 has been gone for a little while, but I did find it at Whole Foods for 4.69, ouch!

Berwyn, PA store: Uncle Lee's green tea chai, unscented castile soap.

For a while, they were selling pints of Ben & Jerry's ice cream for $2.50. They only carried a few flavors, but they were some of the most popular ones. But now nothing, for months!

At least I can buy it elsewhere, but not for that price.

After moving to Maryland from California, I was disturbed to find no cheap liquor department in the TJ's here!!! Stupid weird liquor laws... they don't sell it in grocery stores here.

TJ's rootbeer

there are other tings what are they?

But espeically terra nostra choclate bars....you can buy them other places for 4$..the tj's bar just aren't as nice.

cayenne pepper. Oh how I miss this underrated spice of the gods

I'm soooooooo terribly depressed. sigh. My Trader Joe's said they've discontinued
WASABI MAYONAISE!!!

They said it's not bought often enough... but I say... COME ON! People don't buy mayo every month!

Hi everyone! I just joined! This is a fun thread. Ok, my resurrection wish list:

-Hanson's strawberry-yogurt cereal, circa 2002 (Yum yum yum. The BEST, and I don't even like cereal.)
-Vegetarian parmesan cheese, circa 2003 (Made with vegetable rennet -- do you know how hard it is to find veggie-friendly PARM cheese?!? One of the managers told me years ago they were having issues with the rights or something having to do with the packaging, but that it was supposed to be cleared up "soon." Hasn't happened yet...)
-Green tea hard candies, circa 2001
-Chocolate chai (powder), circa 2003

This is my main beef with TJ's. I fall in love with something and then they stop carrying it. Guh. Story of my life. : /

Trader Joe's Fat-Free Soy Milk is now gone.

It was the only brand of fat-free soy milk that I've been able to find.

Ginger Jo-Jos. They appeared fleetingly and were
gone. I swear these things were addictive! MMMMM!

We need to collect the recipes for some of these
lost items and have a TJ Graveyard pot luck party.

How will I feed my children? and their eighty million friends? How can TJ's do this? Does anyone have any idea where else to get this stuff?

A couple of years ago- the long loved Mint Meringue cookies went away.... never to be seen again. *sigh*

So sad when I get hooked, then -poof- gone. I still miss them.

I wrote TJ's but the salesbot said they weren't carrying Evenus Zinfandel Port anymore. So snap it up if you see it. And if you see it in the SF Bay area center (berkeley, oakland, sf, etc.) please PM me!

OMG ! I think I am going to die !

I went in today, filling up through the aisles, and I get to one of the cold cases, to see no Mediterranean Hummus on the shelf --- uhhhhh! ok. So I go and ask someone in the back, "Hi,...you got any Medi Hummus?"

"...It appears to be a gone item. It was not in our buying guide."

"You mean, ...it ain't coming back."

"As of the moment, it doesn't look like it."

[long pause]

"I think I am going to die."

"You are about the sixth customer today who has said pretty much the same thing."

They use to sell these bags of very thin pretzel sticks from Israel for $.99. I loved them and bought them for years. When they stopped selling them TJ's brought in a replacement pretzel and the manager tried to tell me was the same brand in a new package. Hey you can't fool a pretzel afficienado. That and the fact that Whole Foods Market started selling that same bag of pretzels for $.50 more.

Then I started eating their oganic pretzel twists. Awhile later they are gone too and being sold at Whole Foods in a smaller bag same price.

Hey TJ's some times it isn't about the money we just want what we like.

Now they stopped selling the frozen potsickers that I grew to love too.

Gone damnit :-<

First the Spicy Taos Blue Corn chips many years ago and now the Black Bean chips, gone, gone, gone...

Damnit another favorite Burning Man and backpacking item is gone, gone, gone...

Please bring back the black bean jalapeno chips and tuna curry boil bags.

Yes I fill out the form @ TJ's every visit.

No canned trout last week!

Seems like the soy-ginger broth is gone >:-(

This store is driving me nuts with discontinuing all my favorite items. I am like an addict and then I have to cut off cold turkey. The latest victim is this Red Pepper Spread that was my low-fat solution to put on my wrap sandwiches. I cannot find anything suitable to replace it. A couple of years ago I was hooked on some portabello mushrooms in a jar and they disappeared overnight. Then they yanked away the Soy Vay Chinese Marinade. I did discover Soy Vay changed the name to Hoisin Garlic Asian Glaze, but TJ does not carry it. I can get it at the local grocer for a premium. There are others, but I cannot recall. I guess I should start stocking up on my favorites so that I can hang on to my favorites a bit longer.

Chicken Masala, frozen meal.
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I suspect it was Ethnic Gourmet camouflaged as TJ's brand. But they are gone, gone gone. And I'm sad, sad, sad. They were so good, low in calories...a great work-week lunch when leftovers are nowhere in sight. Waaahhh!

i used to love going to Trader Joe's, I really did, i looked forward to it, was always so happy when i was in the store. bit by bit, they've discontinued many of the things i used to go in for, and now when i shop there i just feel like i'm in another corporate machine, all that great feeling is gone. I wish someone could explain to their pissant bean-counters the value of customer goodwill? maybe you don't make that extra 3¢ margin on this or that product, but guess what, I don't drag TJ virgins to the store anymore, i don't talk it up at parties, and if the subject does come up i am sure to be a prick about it.

but seeing this list of people saying how crushed they were makes me feel a *little* less insane about missing the veggie gyoza. i ate them at least 3x a week. no, not those inedible horrible thai ones in the pretty package filled with plastic-tasting daikon crap, just the plain old store brand, discontinued over a year ago when the vendor bailed. they've had the chicken and pork versions back for months now, massive piles of them, but next to them are just the crappy thai ones.

today's bitchfest is sponsored by the discontinued India Relish, which was an essential part of my tofu sauce, and now I'm wondering if that amazing Olive Tapnade in the jar will come back? those two, plus salsa (arriba fire roasted, from Safeway, great stuff), soy sauce, and...wait for it....chunky peanut butter, what a wonderful combo. no more.

what else do i miss? the garlicky tomato stuff from the cooler, the great flatbread pizzas we can't get on the east coast, the "mostly-unsplit" pea soup (way better than the current stuff), the frozen peaches...and other things I'm just too bitter about to remember.

I am still devastated that they stopped carry all three flavors of the Curry Thai Tuna. I mean who knew vacuum-packed tuna could be so damn tasty? As you can see I am still bitter about that.

What happen to the Spicy Thai Peanuts....OMG! Another snacking favorite bits the dust at TJ's

Smucker's Diet Grapefruit Juice