I've always been a "foodie"; either making my own meals from scratch, or willing to try out new product ranges. In both cases I've found that in recent years various ingredients that were once common in Tesco are no longer available, and that the product ranges have remained stagnant over a period of a few years (St.Neots store). I'm sickened by the overwhelming range of pasta, curry and Mexican sauce's which are bye and large non-authentic and mass produced, often leaving a bitter taste. I realise Tesco is a business and needs to make a profit, however the likes of Lidl are able to offer something different on a regular basis ( authentic?; I doubt it, but at least it's a different taste and different choice). Not all of us shopping in the St.Neots branch are impoverished, and would welcome more choice ( BarHill, albeit a larger store, seems to cater for a wider and more diverse range of ethnicity groups). This criticism should not be solely directed to my local Tesco store but also to the other smaller presence of a rival store in the town centre, which also down-sized, and similarly down graded it's products to affordable by people presumably affected by the credit crunch or similar woes.