The Campbell's Canned Seafood Soup That Was Sadly Discontinued In 2025

Canned soups are definitely hit or miss, including some of the classics produced by Campbell's. While Cream of Shrimp Soup has never been one of Campbell's most popular soup flavors, it still holds a very important place in the hearts of many home cooks. But, unfortunately for fans of this soup, Campbell's discontinued this option in 2025. According to a Campbell's spokesperson in an email to Chowhound, "We discontinued Campbell's Cream of Shrimp last year. We found that consumers prefer our other 'Cream Of' products, which are excellent soups for our variety of easy recipes. Consumers can continue to find a variety of soups across our portfolio."

While this spokesperson indicated consumers still have plenty of creamy soup options that should fill the gap where Cream of Shrimp used to sit, there still seem to be a lot of disappointed customers online who used the soup as the base in a number of seafood dishes. One Redditor said, "Omg!!! I'm so sad. This was a staple in our Shrimp Dip for the past 50 years, a recipe passed down from my mother." Another Redditor commented, "Literally so depressed because my favorite recipe from my late grandmother, Shrimp Casserole, has this soup in it and now I'll never be able to recreate it again." And one Facebook user's generic seafood stew depended on Cream of Shrimp as its base. Thankfully, if you're one of the people already missing this soup, you have options.

There is a bright side among the outcries. Some commenters say they have found Campbell's Cream of Shrimp soup on Amazon or eBay (at a very high price), but we're guessing those options won't last long since Campbell's is no longer distributing it. If you are willing to pay private sellers, we suggest being quick, as many of the cans' best by dates are coming up soon as of this writing.

If you'd like to recreate this classic Campbell's soup, one Redditor offers some great tips. They combined two cans of Campbell's Cream of Onion soup with two cans of half and half. They cooked it to a simmer then added 12 ounces of deveined, tailless shrimp and continued cooking for 30 minutes. The shrimp mixture cooled in the fridge overnight and let the flavors meld. Then, the next day they used a food processor to chop up all that goodness, reheated, and served warm. This is much easier than following a full homemade cream of shrimp recipe, which usually involves making a stock from the shrimp shells — though tasty, it's a much more laborious process. 

We never would have thought so many people would miss a can of seafood soup, but we've learned that a lot of people used Campbell's Cream of Shrimp as a base for other recipes — some of which had been passed down through their family. Old-school family favorites like shrimp dip, shrimp casserole, seafood chowder, and shrimp étouffée are just a few examples (though hopefully the copycat recipe from Reddit can make a decent ingredient substitute in some of these). For those people's sake, here's hoping Campbell's reconsiders the discontinuation of the soup. We're sure many customers would be thankful.