Share your supermarket stories with Squishy McFluff

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Told in comical rhyming verse, Squishy McFluff: Supermarket Sweep is a hilarious tale where Ava and her very naughty, invisible cat take a trip to the local supermarket - but will Squishy be on his best behaviour?

We're giving you the chance to win £200 of Waitrose vouchers courtesy of Faber Children’s books. Inspired by Squishy's supermarket escapades, we want to know your supermarket stories.

Tell us those hilariously embarrassing tales that made you blush - maybe your DC knocked down a shelf of food or made an inappropriate remark about the supermarket attendant looking like an alien?

We're looking forward to hearing your stories. Two runners-up will also win £50 each of Waitrose vouchers and all winners will receive copies of the Squishy McFluff books. We’ve also got 50 copies of Squishy McFluff: The Invisible Cat up for grabs, apply now.

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I remember when my eldest was around 18 months old, they ised to have those trollies up Tesco with the little cars attached. My daughter was sat in there and it wasn't until we went to leave the shop and the alarms wents off that we realised she had been taking things off the lower shops and getting some shopping of her own!!!

My son was 4/5 years old, and I turned around when I heard
'Mum, Mum look what I've found' and there he was having picked up this ginormous watermelon. I saw him struggle under the weight and before I could take it off him, it fell and BURST all over the two of us.
This was one time I couldn't admit he wasn't with me !!!!!!!!!!!
The supermarket was very good, had a lot of clearing up and didn't even charge us for the watermelon !!!!!!!

I remember one of my many traumas as a little girl in a supermarket. I stopped to look at something and got a little engrossed, as I still do now, and the rest of my family went and hid in the next aisle. I thought they'd left without me and went into major panic mode and didn't know what to do :( Luckily at that point my Mum didn't think it was very funny anymore and came and got me. :D Just writing this has made me traumatised all over again, very embarrassing at my age!

My two DCs went through a recent phase of singing "ten green bottles" on the rare occasions we were in the wine section. They both had a real look of glee in their eyes when they sang "and if one green bottle should ACCIDENTALLY fall", and they always sang it at the tops of their - very loud - voices

My then 4yr old decidng it would be funny to walk along the aisle with his arm out, dragging everything off the shelf and when I realised my then 2yr old thinking it was funny and joining in. It ended with members of staff having to lock the checkouts, so they could help me catch them both and put the shop back together. They literally ran off in different directions in the village shop, dragging everything off the shelfs as they went.

Needless to say the whole village got to hear about it, so when my oldest 2 started their new school (we moved to the village in the summer holidays), the other mums and even some of the teachers were greating me with "oh, your the family they had to shut the shop for!".

I nearly made my poor husband die of embarrassment in the middle of Asda once. My eldest was only young at the time, and she was waving various bits of shopping about saying that she had a sword & making swishing noises. Feeling a bit cheeky, I joked that her daddy had a sword but it was made of pork. I did not imagine that she would then run up to her dad asking to see his pork sword. I certainly didn't envisage her then repeatedly shouting, louder & louder to her dad about his pork sword & how she wanted to play with it. ALL THE WAY ROUND ASDA. Whilst I did find it funny at first, I soon felt really guilty.

Moral of the story, don't use innuendos in front of the kids. Even if they are too young to understand, you don't want certain things being said & misconstrued!

Thanks to everyone who sent in their supermarket horror stories. We've really enjoyed reading these, though it wasn't without gasps of and (for me) a sense of relief that as moody as my teens are, their refusal to join me on a trip to the supes does have its up-side. Faber books will be reading through your stories and we'll announce the winners in early October.

Congratulations Hopezibah, you are the winner of our competition. We were incredibly impressed with your lyrical verse chronicling your supermarket tales of woe!

You have won £200 worth of Waitrose vouchers courtesy of Faber Children's books and a copy of Squishy McFluff.

Well done to our runners-up, catwomanga and superbagpuss, your stories had us in stitches. You will each receive £50 worth of Waitrose vouchers and a copy of Squishy McFluff.

We will be in contact on how to claim your prizes.

Thank you to everyone who took part in the competition, we very much enjoyed reading all your supermarket misadventures.

Did anyone else get a copy of Squishy McFluff as I've mysteriously been sent one and can't work out where it's come from?!