In case you were worried that this blog was turning into a smartphones-only destination, here’s something a bit different…

Since my birthday last April I’ve lost about 20 lbs. Yay me. Anyhoo, the way I’ve been doing it is to find healthier substitutes for the crap I usually eat, like replacing a side of fries with a salad, a tub of chocolate almonds with a small handful — that kind of thing.

Stepping in for my summer milkshake fetish have been these awesome low calorie fruit smoothies from Danone. And for someone who lives dangerously close to both a McDonald’s and a Baskin-Robbins they’ve been an absolute godsend!

So imagine my dismay when the product started disappearing from local supermarkets. My first reaction was that they were flying off the shelves due to their popularity — I often had to settle for the wild berries flavour (blech!) because the vastly superior strawberry-orange-banana combo was nowhere to be found.

But my worst fears were confirmed when an email query sent to Danone was promptly answered with this:

Unfortunately, Silhouette Smoothie is no longer available because the sales volume no longer justified production.

I would have thought that my eight bucks a week would have been enough to keep the product line in the black, but apparently not. And the problem is that there’s really nothing comparable. I could drink Yop but their TV ads terrify me:

In desperation I even tried Danone’s smoothie for kids, but the damn portions are too small — what’s that about?!

If anyone knows of a comparable product available in Canada please let me know. In the meantime I guess I’ll have to make do with regular yogurt like the rest of you philistines…