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.

Apparently it's because the people who supply flour don't have enough packaging. Obviously they ordered enough bags to supply supermarkets etc for "normal use". Due to CV people have bought more. The mills that make the flour have more than enough- in fact they have too much as they aren't supplying eg McDonald's etc. They simply don't have enough 500g bags. Presume they've ordered more bags so hopefully this temporary "shortage" will be sorted out soon

@Outtedagain what are you using it for?

At least the flour is being used. What annoys me the most is people that have hoarded it and will probably never have use for it or bother giving it to someone who will.

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I have absolutely no problem with people using flour to make playdoh. I would much rather save my annoyance for those who aren't / have no intention of using it

Oh good grief. Not content with attempting to police what people buy and when they buy it, this thread hits a new low of deciding how they can use their purchases.

Honestly OP, please give it a rest. Try reading a book or starting a MOOC - find something constructive that doesn't involve having a moan at/being annoyed at/getting obsessed with the minute details that make up the lives of other people.

Proper play-doh smells lovely

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

Most people in the Uk could do with eating far fewer carbs.

If you are one of the few who is dangerously thin @Outtedagain then you would be better to eat foods with more nutrition than the cakes, biscuits or bread that you were going to bake.

Well this thread has shown who the selfish fuckers are hasn't it.

There's no shortage of flour, otherwise we wouldn't be able to buy any bread, cakes etc.

If someone already has a bag of flour in their house, then it makes no difference what they use if for. Your cake is no more worthy than their playdough.

I don’t see why baking a cake to pass the time is any more morally valuable than making play dough to pass the time.

I never used flour for playdough - playdough is playdough surely?

Some people on here just want to stop anything that might bring a little fun to someone's life.

How is a cake more worthy than playdough? How does your desire to bake a cake trump someone else's desire to entertain and educate their child/ren?

Well this thread has shown who the selfish fuckers are hasn't it.

Has it? Who are they then?

It will be back on the shelves soon, I actually got hand wash, Dettol and toilet paper in Sainsbury’s today. I didn’t notice anything missing other than hand sanitiser and we won’t be seeing that for many months.

There’s no flour because some people selfishly took far too much and left none for other people.

I have no issue with flour being used to make play dough- the recipe I used to make my son his used 1 cup. Using all the rest for cooking and trying to be careful with it.

It's not just cakes though is it, it's making bread, pasta etc. so we don't have to keep going to the shops to buy it! My partner tried 8 different shops in the first week to get flour, there was none in major supermarkets or the corner shops

But you can but pre made bread and cakes ect so the logic is the same.

If I want my children to have play dough it's no different to me making a cake with them.

some people selfishly took far too much and left none for other people.

We don't live in a communist utopia - people can buy whatever they bloody well want.

I agree op. I can’t get flour at all. Dcs school have decided to do a boiled egg painting competition ffs. It’s hard enough to get basics as it is

Your post has annoyed me enough to go and make playdough. YABVU.

People can buy whatever they want but they shouldn't be wasting it making play stuff when it can be used to make food that we couldn't find on the shelves for weeks.

My partner tried 8 different shops in the first week to get flour, there was none in major supermarkets or the corner shops

First week of when? It's currently a bit trickier than usual to get bread, flour and pasta, and you might not be able to get the one you usually buy, but it's out there.

People can use their flour for whatever they want. I have loads, always do. If the kids want to spend a couple of hours making playdouugh while I try and wfh, I'd be delighted.

Having bought flour people can do what ever they like with it, even without your permission. And how do you know what people are using it for?

Let’s be honest here though. How many people have decided to make pasta, bread, cakes, biscuits because they genuinely make their own and it’s just what they do or because they have more time and can get the kids involved and it breaks up the day and it’s gratifying because it tastes nice ?

Because you can do buy pasta, or bread or whatever, as most people normally do when they’re leading their usual busy lives. Fair enough if you crack out the pasta machine and bang out a loaf on a Tuesday after you’ve picked youngest up from swimming and before you take them to jujutsu, whilst DH goes out for his triathlon training sesh and your eldest needs picking up from coding club. Or whatever your life’s normally like. But if you’re doing it now to scratch an itch, ‘cool mindfully’ or whatever then you can’t slag someone off for using two cups of flour to make salt dough handprints with their hyper toddler who is driving them to gin.

I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with it, but just because you can eat Pasta you’ve made, and not play dough, doesn’t mean the intentions behind it weren’t the same.

lol at soup dragon last comment “has it?”
Well it appears oh wise ones, that’s me told.
—won’t change my mind though—