AIBU to pay for school dinners because I am too lazy to make packed lunches and the price is a small one for the convenience.

[swanriver]

There is enough to remember every morning with three kids.
Violins, homework, clean uniform, waterbottles.
There is enough cooking of healthy meals and washing up every evening.
A packed lunch would cost me 80p per child anyway if it is good quality ingredients. I have to shop for those extra ingredients. There is natural wastage on having extra bread, ham, cream cheese etc in the house.
When I pay for a school dinner, I support the school dinner service which benefits those who take free school dinners.
My children eat salad, cooked veg and try new things as a result of school dinners.
Their school dinners are very good quality and cost £2.
I would rather spend that time helping with homework, and chatting to them or my husband, not screaming at everyone because I can't make packed lunches to everyone's individual specs..
I can save that money elsewhere by cooking/shopping frugally, and consider the dinner money well spent.

School dinners come straight from heaven. (I heart them. So do both dds.)

Fact.

ive been kinda worrying a bit about this myself so nice to see im not on my own!!
DD was having 2 school dinners a week cos those days are set menus and she knows what shes having and looked forward to it.
i was making DH and DD a pack-up EVERY night before bed so no rushin about it the morning.
DD announced she wanted school dinners every day but cant afford that, so we compromised and now she does 3 days and the 3rd day varies every week so she still gets to try something new.
cant get away with just a snack in the evening though....

I always seem to spend miles more on packed lunch than the £1.45 a day our school dinners cost.

However, I do let DD have packed lunch in the summer term and up until October half term. While she doesn't mind the school dinner food, all her friends are packed lunch so in school dinners she has to sit with the boys.

However, if I get more than a couple of days of half the packed lunch coming back uneaten, she goes back on school dinners the next week. I'm buggered if I'm going to get up early to make a sandwich that she doesn't even eat.

YADNU. And the school dinner menu looks so yummy. DS is having veggie biriani today.