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.

‘Cook mindfully’

You can’t beat the smell of play doh....cocoa is cocoa.

Goes off to get a good whiff

And as to people selfishly buying 'too much' stuff, analysis suggests that most people, facing imminent lock down, bought on average 5 days additional food. But to many, their own purchases arereasonable if not even honourable, while everyone else is a panic-buying selfish scumbag. Hey ho.

Surely the selfish fuckers are the ones who are insisting that what they are doing is the only right way to be doing things. The ones who think people can use their ingredients to make whatever they wish are not selfish at all.

@HoneysuckIejasmine Aldi seeded/ multi grain loaves don't contain soya flour. Fortunately it seems to be lasting on the shelves too as the majority buy cheaper loaves first.

Why is a cake, which is a low nutritional value treat, more important than play dough, which is educational and good for imaginative play and fine motor skills?

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

There's none because the supply chain has been disrupted. YABU

So long as they're not using it to make bread as that's definitely not on the list of MN 'essentials'.

I was so glad to be able to get some flour, DD will have been home for 28 days this week and baking/cooking is keeping her mind occupied. She has always done this when anxious.

I think making play dough to keep little ones occupied is fine. Especially those without a garden, those poor parents deserve every bit of support through this, and if it comes in the form of a bag of flour thats all good with me!

Why is everyone assuming that OP wants to make cake, she's not said?

I'm sorry, people with small children need to entertain them more than you need a cake.

There's a flour shortage because everyone and his dog is wanting to do extra baking during lockdown.

We have quite a few bags and I have made playdoh...that's what I bought it for (in January!)

There's plenty of bread and cakes available in the shops, so I can only assume you wanted it because cooking is enjoyable for you. Much like making play dough is enjoyable for others.

Play dough will be full of germs and snot within 10 minutes flat.

True. But they will be the germs and snot of that one child so it doesn’t really matter.

@Heffalumps.
I didn't know you put salt and cream of tartar in it. Please send recipe.

Is that why there is no flour in the shops?? I had no idea you could make play dough from it?!

I bought the last four packets of flour at Aldi this morning to make play dough for myself to take my mind off things, it’s not just for kids

YANBU. It's disgusting to waste food products in this way. Eating is vital, kids making a mess is not - and I'm sure they have plenty of other things to play with.

I brought mine in January when there was a ton of it. Il use it how I want

Eating is vital

Eating things made with flour is not vital.

They have plenty of other things to eat, too.

Is that why there is no flour in the shops??

No. HTH

I don't think kids making play dough is any less worthy a use of flour than me and my teenagers dicking around making bread because we're bored.

No one is realistically going to starve without flour in the UK, so really you just think your desires are more important than other people's.

Oh Christ. Another one's escaped from their purgatory cupboard.

If it gets used and a bored child finds it entertaining then it's not wasted, even though it's not being used as food it's still being of use.

Would you feel motivated to start a thread about it if you already had flour? Or does it only irk you now you've run out ?

Not being able to get hold of basic staples is infuriating, but people doing a bit of art and craft are not the problem.