AIBU to wish people would stop using flour for play dough

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Just that. Some people, like me, want to cook with it. I have just worked out (correctly I think) from Facebook feeds featuring play dough recipes that this is contributes to there being no flour.

Playdough for example

@soup

Brilliant!

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With the lack of exercise people should probably be watching how much cake they are eating anyway. No idea why anyone would care how people are using their own supplies of flour. Pouring it in the bin would be wasteful. Making a multi use products is not. This whole situation has brought out some funny traits in people 😆

I agree people shouldn't be wasting flour, but making playdough that can be used over and over isn't really a waste.

No need for some of the nasty sneery comments though. Can people not just make their point or explain their thinking without behaving like bitchy schoolgirls.

Do you know what also smells lovely? Homemade play dough that you've put a couple of tablespoons of cocoa in.*

Or some rosemary, or mint leaves, herby play doh is lovely - although may be another covid crime. (I'm not sticking up for the playdoh makers because I am one by the way - I'm certainly not, playdoh is banned in my house along with slime and other products that I got tired of scraping from the carpet my flour will get used for acceptable tasks)

Can people not just make their point or explain their thinking without behaving like bitchy schoolgirls.

What a charmingly gendered insult Maybe look to your own behaviour if you dislike people being nasty and sneery.

Honestly after reading some of the threads on here the last few weeks it really seems like a lot of people in the UK resent kids existing. Threads complaining about kids laughing or playing in their own gardens, playing with play dough in their own houses, making cakes in their own kitchens, putting pictures up in their own home etc...

Mind your own business. What people decide to do in their own homes, with their own food that they bought with their own money is nothing to do with you. Even if every one of those parents only used flour for 'approved' activities you still wouldn't have any. As for people wanting the make cakes for birthdays etc have a look online for some flour less cake recipes... There really are some fabulous options out there.

@cohle if I was on a forum called dadsnet I would compare bitchy posters to schoolboys. The point being that adults are expected to have grown out of that kind of behaviour.

Agreed. Some people cant find flour at all. Good for you if your shops are always fully stocked, I haven't seen some stuff in our shops since February.

The point being that adults are expected to have grown out of that kind of behaviour.

You mean like calling people they disagree with bitches, rather than engaging in civil discussion?

My local CO OP had bags and bags of plain flour yesterday which is a first in a while. No eggs though.

Agreed. Some people cant find flour at all.

Which has nothing to do with playdough.

Can you pint out where I called anyone a bitch?

If the Queen had been on MN she wouldn't have held that speach 🤣.

Mind your own businesses instead of policing others. It doesn't make you better pointing out other's faults.

Can you pint out where I called anyone a bitch?

"Can people not just make their point or explain their thinking without behaving like bitchy schoolgirls."

HTH.

Still interested to see where flour is such an essential ingredient that not being able to find it means people will be going hungry.

A white sauce uses maybe two ounces of flour at most. And assuming you’re not cooking one every day is going to deplete your flour pretty slowly.

Chicken coated in whatever is going to use a sprinkling of flour.

Pasta, while nice is not essential. In fact it’s only fairly recently that we started eating pasta as such a regular occurrence. And even then, very few people actually make their own pasta vs those who buy it.

But in the absence of pasta make different dishes. Something with potatoes, rice, you can even make your own oven chips if you don’t have any.

Home made cake/bread/pizza is nice enough but there are plenty of the above in the shops.

And while there are some saying they can only eat certain types of bread, these are few and far between when compared to the people calling flour an essential for their bread making abilities.

Some of us are making bread as our staple food as we are in total isolation ( family members have it) and we have no freezer that can accommodate bulky bread. We always bake our bread.

We are not making cakes or ‘dicking around’ baking because we are bored.

I understand the broken supply chain, but given that there is now a shortage in the shops is it responsible to buy up what there is to make play dough?

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Home made cake/bread/pizza is nice enough but there are plenty of the above in the shops

Which is fine if you can go shopping. We are in quarantine so cannot.

God it is so depressing seeing how many people want to make a miserable situation a million times worse. 'Competitive misery' in relation to the lockdown is fucking awful and I am so sick of it.

There are enough rules to follow, which we should and I do, without making up more to have a bad environment intolerable.

People can do what they fuck they like with ingredients they have purchased in their own homes.

And no, I don't care that I have 'sunk' to bad language. These daily threads are making mn such a depressing place to be.

is it responsible to buy up what there is to make play dough?

It’s no more or less responsible than using it to bake treats.

And those completely self isolating surely have some means of getting hold of food? Relatives, friends, neighbours, local groups, deliveries.

I didn’t see anywhere that the self isolating were supposed to be living indefinitely off their personal stores. Good job as most people don’t have any.

Which is fine if you can go shopping. We are in quarantine so cannot.

And there’s not a single person or volunteer who can go shopping for you?

How long do you plan to live on personal stores?

God it is so depressing seeing how many people want to make a miserable situation a million times worse. 'Competitive misery' in relation to the lockdown is fucking awful and I am so sick of it.

This, 1000 times over.

The number of people in a lather because kids (who are already losing such an awful lot) are getting some enjoyment of something they would like to get some (different) enjoyment from is saddening.

Disclaimer: have never made play dough and have no desire to do so. I love baking, including bread, and would dearly love some flour. But I’m not going to begrudge kids whose lives have become so small and confined so quickly a bit of fucking play dough because I quite fancy making some buns.

There are other foods, supply chains will normalise, we’ll all be fine.

FGS, it's hard enough entertaining children atm. Let them have their play doh.

There are far more important things to get worked up about than flour.

Why not buy play dough and leave flour for people who want to use it to eat? It’s because ready made play dough is more expensive, I assume?