£48 worth of petit filous

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I saw a man buying £48 worth of petit filous. Nothing else. And I thought the supermarkets were banning this kind of buying.

What is the craziest thing you have seen?

There are so many messages going round asking people to pick up stuff for the elderly and vulnerable - and then so many people complaining that customers are buying multiples of items...,

I dont understand this either. Various neighbours around here who are still able to get out have been picking up extras for our elderly next door neighbour and dropping them off each evening. Each night as I have sat in the front room with the windows open (I'm stuck indoors) and heard as they have recounted stories of how they are being harrassed in shops, shouted at and called selfish all for buying extra bits.

I would put money on those very same people harassing them for doing this being the ones who are saying be kind and sharing the image of the elderly man who cannot get his shopping thats been doing the rounds on social media.

Surely the only reason to by that much petit filous is because you have someone in the household who eats a very restricted diet? They’re not a good food to keep people full and well nourished and they require chilling or freezing so they take up precious fridge/freezer space.

I’m slightly concerned about the people buying kitchen roll because the loo roll has all gone. There’s going to be a lot of blocked toilets if people wipe their bums on Bounty.

The fresh sliced meat is empty here. Only stays fresh for about 5 days.. And can't be frozen..
My adult ds called in for a loo roll last night. Met him at the door with hand gel...

I've nearly run out of washing powder. For no reason other than normal washing of our clothes. I tried to go to aldi this morning but couldn't even get in the car park so came home. I'm sure my mum/ sister/ friend will lend me some and we actually have loads of clothes so it doesnt matter but it's weird that if you run out of something you cant replace it

The man I saw buying 96 rolls of bog roll and nothing else probably has a relative with a bowel condition.

My daughter is also autistic her whole life consists of going to the shops twice a day and buying 'coke' (anything fizzy) and her other treats. And going out for walks. Yes I will be looking for cans of coke and the other things I need to be able to manage her behaviour.
Her diet is restricted and she's already underweight so I'm hoping I can carry on buying the things she likes.

Countdown to a reply saying maybe that's all his child eats and you can't possibly judge in 3, 2, 1...

The fact that this was the first response really pisses me off. Do you have autistic kids? Kids with ARFID? Loved ones with dementia?

It’s not fucking funny when you worry about whether your child will be able to eat. It’s especially not funny when you have a child with a medical condition where not eating even for a few hours could land them in hospital.

Great to see such an astonishing lack of empathy, as per usual.

We did get some looks yesterday as I’m sure it appeared that we were panic buying breadsticks - nope, that’s just now many we buy every week as our twins will definitely eat them.

Also had to hand over some oat milk to the cashier because we were only allowed 3, which is 3 days worth for our dairy-allergic twins. We buy 8 a week anyway! Luckily we have a few back ups but will need to go back.

There are certainly some unusual shopping trolleys when you walk round the supermarkets at the. moment.

The man I saw buying 96 rolls of bog roll and nothing else probably has a relative with a bowel condition.

I think its obvious that theres a world of difference between bulk buying loo roll in a time where it is scarce and bulk buying kids yoghurts. I sincerely doubt there is some underground black market for them.

I’m getting so sick of threads policing other people’s shopping. Did you want Petit Filou OP? No, you just thought you’d come on here and shit stir, like every other nosey bore on here and FB.

It doesn’t affect you one iota what other people buy. If you wanted what they had, you should have got there first. Supermarkets are still having deliveries every day so if those fromage frais are so important to you, get up early tomorrow 🙄.

I saw an older man in the supermarket. His basket made me feel sad - 7 tins of soup and 7 (large) bars of chocolate.

But he also had 72 toilet rolls!..?? The shop assistant made him put some back.

That's his whole fridge taken up the blasted things.

How long do they last anyway? they are quite processed, so maybe a long time?

Last week I bought 8 x 2 l of diet pepsi. The idea of being isolated with DH unable to get his pepsi fix is scary. I'm not sure who would commit murder first.

I know someone who is a cook at a nursery. They are required by Ofsted to publish their menus weeks in advance. A lot of their food is supplied by Tesco, and suffice it so say that things they were relying on to produce their menus for dozens of kids have not always been delivered. The first, obvious, solution is to send someone out to a shop on the day. I imagine it looks something like this.

The yogurts I would assume were for someone making up packed lunches for those on free school meals or similar I thought that could be a reason. I'm going out to try and get some bread, I will stop and ask my neighbour, in her 70s with heart condition, if she needs anything so people might think what is that old bag doing with two loaves of bread but they don't know why. I'll also call DIL to ask if there is anything she needs me to get if I can, she is working in local hospital and needs food for 2 teenage boys who can eat vast amounts. Again might mean I look greedy but people don't know the reasons.

DH and I worked out the other day that we spend the equivalent of 140 pounds a month of Petit Filous.

I wish I was joking.

(Disclaimer: We are expats and have to pay ridiculously inflated prices in the supermarket. Also have two young DC who are obsessed by the things)

My sister has colitis and is waiting for her pouchectomy........ In the meantime she constantly leaks faeces. She's been verbally attacked for buying loo roll.

I'm off out today to do 3 separate shops for people, in all honesty I'm dreading it.

And for what it's worth petit filous, custard etc is all a lot of people who have swallowing problems can manage. I don't blame him for stocking them. I bet the very upset lady who popped up on my local fb group begging for help finding asda brand weetabix wishes she'd done the same.

I saw an older man in the supermarket. His basket made me feel sad - 7 tins of soup and 7 (large) bars of chocolate.

That sounds like the sort of shopping would do if the other people in the house wouldn't complain...

SMA Infant formula (we REALLY needed) and a rather older lady was buying 6 of them to put in her coffee, husband explained we had a baby and she said "we all had babies once"

It doesn’t affect you one iota what other people buy

Of course it does - what an ignorant comment.

If everyone just bought what they needed, we wouldn't run out. Instead, people are panic buying and shops have nothing. Our local Tesco has had no toilet paper, kitchen roll, bleach, pasta, rice, tinned tomatoes or baked beans for a week now. Go at 7am or 7pm, it makes no difference.

No chance of online shopping either, there are no available slots until April 7th and if you try and add toilet paper or pasta to your basket, they're saying it's unavailable.

I do actually remember seeing a headline about a child that only ate pink petit filous a few years back. Dude might be her dad.

My husband saw a man trying to buy 3x24 packs of toilet roll. He was sent to put 2 packs back.

Our local spar and corner shop still have most things (except pasta, tinned tomatoes and beans) I didnt go panic shopping over the weekend like most people did in my area. I just went Tuesday to do my weekly shop as normal after work and there was nothing and I felt like crying walking round thinking what will I feed my kids. So I can actually understand why soemoen would stockpile certain things if they have an autistic child or family member with dementia etc who like certain things and how worrying that would be. We did manage to get dinner made up of freezer junk but it's not the best. I'm glad I did as now self isolating for 14 days as I'm ill.

I'd imagine that many yogurts would be for a care home possibly or a school even.