All very trivial I know but...
Was a bit 
by ds1's homework (Y1) - to buy 6 slices of chicken and bring in on a given day of the week. The class is apparently doing healthy eating and they are going to make healthy sandwiches so everybody has been given something to bring in.
This just makes me on so many different levels. What if I couldn't have afforded it (OK, so I can but they don't necessarily know that) or couldn't get to the shop on the right day? And given that they have specified it is for healthy eating lessons, I'm hardly going to want to buy some pre-processed dodgy chicken slices that I wouldn't usually touch with a bargepole. Which means hunting out some in somewhere like M&S or Waitrose and even then they charge a fortune for bits of 'real' chicken and they still don't taste very nice albeit a bit better than the pre-processed stuff.
which also means going to the shop on mon or tues to buy it, both really busy week nights when ds has his activities and is really pooped and hates going to the shop whereas he's not too bad other nights.
which also means the night before I have to cook a chicken breast and slice it into 6 - and chances are that if they are expecting a pre-processed slice what I send will be all wrong size/shape for the sandwiches. Tuesday nights are always really busy so a bad night for doing extra things like this; I usually get organised and have a simple supper from the freezer or leftovers from day before but don't want to send in defrosted or 2 day old chicken.
DS barely eats chicken as it is; wondering how wrong it would be to send in a pot of hummus instead as ds will eat this by the pot if he can dip it so would be good to get him to eat in sarnies too, which if he tried them at school he just might start to do whereas I can just see that chicken might be a step too far.
would obviously run this past the teacher first but just wondered if I was unreasonable in asking her if it was OK to bring something different in or, if she wants a packet of processed sliced chicken, asking if ds can have the veggie option as I don't like the packet stuff?
Plus the last time they asked for Caribbean fruit to be sent in (all ready prepared and pre-chopped) they didn't actually eat it until a couple of days later by which time I would have thought it was potentially somewhat past it - not so bad with fruit but would be worried about the chicken (especially as when I went to get my box from the pile on the day the fruit was sent in, it was still sitting there and they hadn't got around to putting it in the fridge).
I know, it's trivial, but for some reason it seems to be the straw that has snapped this camel's back and I'm just venting.