Tesco potato alphabets

passey89 · 29 Mar 2017 at 17:33

Just to start this isnt a joke thread.

My daughter has autism and its really bad around food time.

She geneally only eats for evening meals
McDonald's
Dominoes
Chicken dippers
Turkey dinosaurs
Tesco potato letters.

Ive tried asda and mccains letters but she wont touch them.

Anyone have any idea who makes them for tesco or any tescos that still have stock (i'll go buy every bag they have doesnt matter how far away).

phonemonkey · 29 Mar 2017 at 17:41

Have you tried calling Tesco? Or even better, approaching them publically on their social media accounts?

passey89 · 29 Mar 2017 at 17:43

phonemonkey said:
Have you tried calling Tesco? Or even better, approaching them publically on their social media accounts?

Yeh just said they no longer did then

dowie · 29 Mar 2017 at 17:45

you might be out of luck unfortunately

maybe try some other gimmicky food along the same lines that she's not seen before?

jsmoke · 29 Mar 2017 at 17:46

Looks like they no longer do them after quick google, maybe try http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/iceland-alphabet-potato-shapes-with-a-golden-crunch-700g/p/52616, worth a shot.

passey89 · 29 Mar 2017 at 17:51

jsmoke said:
Looks like they no longer do them after quick google, maybe try http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/iceland-alphabet-potato-shapes-with-a-golden-crunch-700g/p/52616, worth a shot.

Icelands are discontinued as well. They only stock mccains now.

Maximum Triceratops · 29 Mar 2017 at 17:57

I made some for the kids the other day and I was able to spell "big boobs" with the letters.

Swifty55 · 29 Mar 2017 at 18:02

Is she associating the product by the packaging?

If so, why not try and 'trick' her and put the others into the Tesco packaging?

passey89 · 29 Mar 2017 at 18:04

Swifty55 said:
Is she associating the product by the packaging?

If so, why not try and 'trick' her and put the others into the Tesco packaging?

No never let her see that. She tried a mccains and new straight away and they look very very slightly sifferent and wont touch them at all now.

Doogles · 29 Mar 2017 at 18:08

If she went hungry enough wouldn't the walls cave?

passey89 · 29 Mar 2017 at 18:24

Doogles said:
If she went hungry enough wouldn't the walls cave?

Nope not with autism. She will end up in hopsital

khrall · 29 Mar 2017 at 18:31

I've messaged a friend of mine that works at Tesco - he is going to email the buyer and try to find out.

I'll let you know if I get anywhere.

passey89 · 29 Mar 2017 at 18:42

khrall said:
I've messaged a friend of mine that works at Tesco - he is going to email the buyer and try to find out.

I'll let you know if I get anywhere.

Thanks.

MeatLoaf · 29 Mar 2017 at 18:44

Longton still has them

Doogles · 29 Mar 2017 at 18:55

passey89 said:
Nope not with autism. She will end up in hopsital

Okay didn't know if she was that severe on the spectrum.

Avenged7Fold · 29 Mar 2017 at 18:57

Even something as simple as food sounds like major hard work.

What have you done in the past when you cant get hold of her preferred foods?

khrall · 29 Mar 2017 at 19:01

No update on manufacturer yet, but I've been informed that 2 of the Milton Keynes stores (Bletchley and Kingston) are reporting a large amount on their ordering system.

It's not a guarantee, but it might be worth you ringing them.

EDIT:

"The only thing is if the store searches for them on the system, they won't find them as they are discontinued. They might say they haven't got them"

Viafok · 29 Mar 2017 at 19:31

Op sent you a trust message with what you can possibly do to restock them

passey89 · 29 Mar 2017 at 20:08

Avenged7Fold said:
Even something as simple as food sounds like major hard work.

What have you done in the past when you cant get hold of her preferred foods?

I have a nephew that had a very hard early childhood where he had guardian after guardian for a time. At that time he pretty much only ate what he wanted which was nuggets and chips, mainly from McDonalds. After he was adopted by my family he refused to eat anything else and claimed to dislike everything. Skip forward 14/15 years and he isn't fat or anything but i do wonder about his health with such a limited diet that contains a considerable amount of salt and he never grew out of it. Obviously now he is an adult but its a bit weird when everyone has roast dinner or proper food at a party/occasion and he doesn't like any of it.

I've always had about 5 bags in the freezer so generally never happened. Worst case was treat of mcdonalds or pizza hut / dominoes (she can tell frozen pizza from take away as well and wont eat the cheap ones).

Diddums · 29 Mar 2017 at 20:24

How long ago were these discontinued? We have a massive Tesco half a mile from here, I'll pop in tomorrow and see if they have any. I'm assuming they're in the frozen section?