This is the right thing to do. If Carol genuinely wanted to help Lou she could have a healthy food shop delivered to her instead of buying expensive things that Lou can sell for drugs. It’s such a weird set up for a grown woman to be buying expensive gifts for her.
I'd feel very awkward, and a bit uncomfortable if a close friend of mine spent and bought that amount of stuff for me. I'd be full fing creeped out if some random was in my inbox buying this for me. Like, my first thoughts to some stranger making that type of offer would be: what do they want? Are they going to make me feel I owe them? What if they're a bit obsessed with me and my family?
It seems Carol isn't trying to turn Lou into a skin suit, but she wouldn't have known that in the early months.
But this a person who prioritised drugs over her kids, red bull over child support and desks over things that may actually benefit her recovery. Putting her kids up for a beg is nothing to this shameful leech.