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What's the most embarrassing thing you've ever included in your DC's lunch bag?

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Ena23 · 01/09/2023 16:34

A few years ago, all stressed about finding something allergen-free for DD to take to school on her birthday, I went to the school's office to discuss the options with the staff just before pickup. At the time I was very sleep-deprived because of 2nd DC who didn't sleep well at night. When I went a few minutes later to pick her up, the teacher asked to talk to me for a second. While being all fussy about allergens, etc. with the staff because I honestly was worried about DDs classmates (DD doesn't have allergies), I had included in her lunch bag walnuts as a snack!!!

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GrazingSheep · 01/09/2023 16:36

A live caterpillar 🐛

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Ena23 · 01/09/2023 16:39

GrazingSheep · 01/09/2023 16:36

A live caterpillar 🐛

Sorry but you need to expand on that!

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GrazingSheep · 01/09/2023 16:45

It was on a lettuce leaf. I washed the lettuce, patted it dry and left it on a chopping board. Caterpillar must have crawled back onto it and I didn’t see. Made the sandwich, into lunchbox and off to school.

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Bananas1350 · 01/09/2023 17:44

I used to work in a school. Someone sent in a steak in a flask. Was cold when we opened it. Nothin else. Just a large steak. Needless to say mum never let dad pack lunch again.

NumberFortyNorhamGardens · 01/09/2023 17:52

A friend of mine was once told off by her DC’s class teacher for sending in yogurts that were a week out of date. Fair enough you might think (if a bit micromanaging) - except that my friend is partially sighted, registered blind, and it was her (now ex)H doing the lunchboxes!

AlexandraPeppernose · 01/09/2023 17:59

Houmous and carrot sticks - too posh which is soo embarrassing apparently.

Also a boiled egg in shell for a school trip. Nowhere to put the shell and stunk the coach out

Jan2468 · 01/09/2023 18:04

Reverse answer- when I was about 15 I went to the beach with a group of friends for the day. We all took a packed lunch, I opened a small bag to find my mum had packed me a damp flannel to wipe my hands. Very embarrassing!!

CorvusPurpureus · 01/09/2023 18:04

Bread covered in mould.

We used to save the bags the loaves of bread came in to wrap sarnies. Shake

Except one day the bags had gone mouldy inside (can only assume they'd been slightly damp inside when put into the drawer where they were kept). The mould transferred on to both dds' sandwiches, which had been made with perfectly fresh bread.

Teacher phoned me next day & didn't even pretend she believed a word of this...I wouldn't mind, but it was xh who'd failed to spot the mouldy bags. I was 200 miles away with 150 teenagers on a PGL residential that week!

We bought Sistema sandwich boxes after that...😬

DontCallMeBaby · 01/09/2023 18:10

The previous day’s rubbish. She should have had a school dinner, but instead picked up the un-emptied lunch bag from the previous day, including a sandwich wrap with crusts in. I still feel more of a pang over her little face seeing those crusts than I would if the wrap had been empty … despite it being her fault there were crusts in there, fussy wotnot!

(she got the school dinner btw just not what she would have chosen)

Sandysandwich · 01/09/2023 18:16

I have put the wrong lunch boxes in my childrens lunch bags.
Son at primary school was very embarrassed by his kitten lunch tin and fairy water bottle and not a fan of his sisters tuna and sweetcorn pitta pocket (he hates tuna and it made the lunch hall stink apparently) and the peeled satsuma was obviously so babyish.
She was not bothered at nursery with the pokemon lunch tin and was quite happy that she got a carton of fruit juice rather than water.

1992H · 01/09/2023 18:24

Not a lunch bag but I accidentally sent my almost two year old at the time to nursery with a front pocket on his bag full of half a dozen baileys miniatures after Christmas.

i’d just had his brother & the last place the bag went before nursery was a Santa train which included the minis for adults. Didn’t think to check the pocket on his first day back. Oops!

Pourmeanotherwine · 01/09/2023 18:28

That would be the time DD2 got her lunch out of the fridge and picked up the wrong lunchbox. She ended up with a box of radishes from the allotment. I think one of the staff found her something more suitable to eat.

Greensleeves · 01/09/2023 18:34

Well, I didn't think it was that bad, but I once sent 5yo DS1 in with a large orange for fruit snack. We'd run out of bananas and I was running late. He came out at the end of the day bearing the orange with a post it note attached reproving me for sending in fruit that needed to be cut up. The teacher even followed me out to admonish me in person.

KissyMissy · 01/09/2023 18:48

Loving these

Aworldofmyown · 01/09/2023 18:49

Yesterday's lunchbox - complete with wrappers and leftover sandwich crusts 😆

Crunchymum · 01/09/2023 19:16

Half a block of cheese (wrapped in foil) and I put the foil wrapped sandwich back in the fridge.

Isthisexpected · 01/09/2023 19:18

A tampon. Had "help" packing lunch that morning.

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Ena23 · 01/09/2023 19:20

Loving these!

@GrazingSheep ewww, who discovered it? Was it still inside the sandwich?
@Jan2468 how nice; that's something my mum would do and that I'd do too!

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AllOfThemWitches · 01/09/2023 19:21

These are really tickling me. I wrote nice messages on a couple of bananas that went to school.

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Ena23 · 01/09/2023 19:23

@AllOfThemWitches was it embarrassing for your DC? I did this once on DDs banana and she wasn't impressed, though not embarrassed.

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PonyPatter44 · 01/09/2023 19:23

I wrote a little note once saying I loved her, love from Mummy. Apparently it was THE MOST HUMILIATING THING any parent could do, ever. She was in Y8....

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Ena23 · 01/09/2023 19:24

@PonyPatter44 😅

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Tara24 · 01/09/2023 19:29

I used to take a piece of foil to Gregg's and wrap DS's sausage roll in it instead of the Gregg's bag. It was a once a week treat , but I didn't want the posh parents at the leafy primary school knowing.

AllOfThemWitches · 01/09/2023 19:30

Ena23 · 01/09/2023 19:23

@AllOfThemWitches was it embarrassing for your DC? I did this once on DDs banana and she wasn't impressed, though not embarrassed.

Faintly embarrassing for my son, my daughter was far less embarrassed about stuff like that. They're the same now at 12 and 18 respectively.

BlindyPeakers · 01/09/2023 19:32

An entire block of butter once went in the lunch bag rather than back in the fridge. I don't think the teacher was aware of it though.