Top 10 Products You Can't Get in Canada Anymore

It’s a busy Monday and you don’t have time to make yourself a decent meal. You open the freezer and look for a Stouffer’s lasagna to get you through the day. Unable to find one, you head down to your local grocer to snatch one out of the freezer, only to find they have disappeared entirely. Nestle, the parent company of Stouffer’s, announced in early 2023 that it was pulling several of its products off Canadian shelves. Among them were Stouffer’s entrees, and both Lean Cuisine and Life Cuisine. The company cited a need to put more money and effort into products it wishes to prioritize as the reasoning.

There’s nothing like a tasty pastry when you’re hankering for a snack. Little Swiss and Little Debbie have been helping Canadians quench their thirst for a snack for many years. That is until 2022 when they vanished from store shelves. Parent company McKee Foods reported that their sole distributor of the product in Canada had chosen to shut its business down permanently. Although they could have chosen to find a new distributor, McKee opted not to. Until the company changes their mind, Canadians will have to cross over into the US if they get a craving for those beloved mini-cakes.

You might have the strongest constitution in the world, but everyone at some time gets a little queasy. Whether it’s from motion sickness, or the rise and fall of a boat you’re on, no one enjoys feeling like they’re about to lose their lunch. Medications such as Dramamine are commonly used to combat this very type of condition. In Canada, an alternative known as Meclizine, sold under the brand Bonamine, was formerly available as an anti-nausea medication. For reasons not readily known, the manufacturer stopped producing the medication in Canada while it still remains available throughout the US.

It might be a popular brand in other countries like the United States, but in Canada, Kraft Peanut Butter tends to rule the store shelves. Heavily promoted by the company, and adored by many Canadians, there’s no other major brand of peanut butter that stands out in Canada like Kraft. So it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that Skippy Peanut Butter had a hard time finding a place among Canadian consumers. Hormel Foods, the owners of Skippy, cited a lack of profits and tough competitors as its biggest reasons for pulling the brand from stores in 2017.

You walk into a local grocery store, wander down to the pasta aisle, and stare at the endless array of options for sauces. Most stores will carry their own store brand, along with countless other well known variations. With so many options available to consumers, it’s no surprise that famed pasta sauce brand Ragù walked away from Canadian stores. Mizkan America, Inc., the owners of the brand gave a rather vague reason for the departure, citing a desire to amalgamate some of their brands to help drive competition. Thankfully, Canadians still have plenty of options, and can always make a trip down south to pick up more Ragù.

When you think of frozen pizza, you likely think of a 12”-ish sized pie that you throw into the oven for an easy meal. If that’s too much, you might cook a mini-pizza which isn’t much bigger than the palm of your hand. Bagel Bites sought out those who’d want to enjoy the taste of pizza in literally a few bites. Combining pizza toppings on a small bagel, you had a great little snack. So it left many Canadians surprised when Kraft Heinz pulled them out of Canadian stores in 2022. No explanation was ever given, and now we want pizza for supper.

As long as people can remember, shopping stores have provided plastic bags to customers to hold their purchased goods. For items like groceries, having bags to put them in was a necessity to bring them home. Not so much any more in Canada. Single-use plastics are now seeing their end in the Great White North. Many provinces have already instituted bans on plastic bags, utensils, and even straws. And as of December 20th, 2025, the sale, manufacturing, and importing of such plastics will be illegal. The intention is to try to rid Canada of as much disposable plastic as possible, while consumers are steered towards bringing their own reusable bags.

Now here’s a snack that has had several attempts in the Canadian market. The corn chip favorite had been available for years and then was discontinued in Canada back in 2010 due to a lack of demand. Canadians made their love of Bugles known to General Mills and they brought them back in 2011. Canucks must have enjoyed them because they stayed around for more than a decade. But in 2022, the company confirmed via Twitter that they would no longer be available in Canada. Looks like our Canadian friends need to make their voices heard once again.

Here’s another entry from our friends at Nestle. A popular brand of frozen pizzas known as Delissio were also pulled from Canadian shelves in 2023. Although not cited as the official reason, it was reported that Nestle had no factory in Canada for any of its frozen foods. With no local source to produce these goods, it’s reasonable to assume they were importing them into the country. With supply chain issues having become worse due to Covid-19, this may have contributed to the loss of this, and other brands of theirs.

Does anyone ever call them “facial tissues”? They’ve always been known as a Kleenex. You know a brand has power when the brand name literally becomes the name we use to call a product. Yet even with that recognition, Kimberly-Clark decided that 2023 would be the last year their Kleenex tissues would be sold in Canadian stores. The biggest problem was that despite the name recognition, there’s nothing to distinguish their brand from any of the other major ones already in the Canadian market. Both Kruger Products and Irving have a good portion of the country’s market on tissues, making it that much harder for Kleenex to compete.

Which one of these do you think deserves a second chance in Canada? Let us know in the comments.