To think this might be the worst packed lunch ever?

[AttackCat]

I told DS he had pasta salad for lunch. This evening he asked why we’d given him “funny mashed potato” instead.

Turns out the pasta salad was still in the fridge and he’d been eating a tub full of fat I’d saved for the birds

Has anyone sent their child to school with anything worse or our we officially the worst parents on Mumsnet?

Quick! Get him to have some string for dessert and he’ll be producing his own artisan candles out his rear end very soon

Oh dear, the poor boy is going to have a greasy bum tomorrow isn't he?
Make sure DH deals with it....

Oh no a mix up like this is easily done. Just as long as he's not chirping tonight.

I used to love dripping on toast but not the white fat, but the brown bit at the bottom with the meat juices.
Your not awful parents at all you sound pretty normal to me.

If it makes you feel better, mines had warm water once.

They use to have a warm lunch in a flask. We ot hot water to warm them up and forgot to put the food in

@Bitterbean thank me later...

He has eaten a fat ball www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2017083-He-has-eaten-a-fat-ball

Yep beats mine!

Late last year - sent in a block of paneer cheese instead of his cheddar cheese sandwiches (in a hurry, very similar Tupperware).

Walking home he said his cheese was too big, but he’d given it a go with bite marks along one edge!

OP that's a uniquely awful packed lunch..Congratulations, I can't beat it.

@exhausteddog if it's any consolation I once had some friends to dinner and thought I'd just do meringues, berries and cream for pudding.. I pulled what loomed like the berries out to defrost and a few hours later found myself about to serve up meringues, cream and.....

red cabbage casserole!!

Luckily I had a tub of chocolate ice cream

I had been on a coarse all day and taken some snacks for the journey. Got home late ,tired and had an awful headache but thought I better sort the childrens lunch bits before I went to bed. When I realised I was short one cereal bar I grabbed the one out of my bag from earlier .Only to notice the next morning as I was putting a sandwich in that what I had thought was a cereal bar was a tampax !!! Lucky escape for my 10 year old 😄

My scatty mum was notorious for her 'unusual' packed lunches. I've had the hard boiled egg that wasn't, the pâté that was actually cat food and finally the foil wrapped scotch egg that turned out to be a lump of uncooked pastry.

@houselikeashed

I once set DD to school with raw bacon, thinking it was a slice of parma ham

So middle class

Howling! Thank you! Loving the brave way these wee souls at least try to eat things...especially the watery risotto - poor unquestioning husband!

that is pretty bad, OP. Yuck! I can only imagine his wee face eating that.

My DF, left for an hour with 4 or 5 year old DD and DN, lovingly made them ice cream sodas. They told us, upon our return, that it was disgusting. DM chided him, and asked him how it could be so awful? What did he put in it? He showed her. Not ice cream. Margarine. He literraly did not know the fridge from the freezer. BLEURGH.

@shinynewapple22

That's funny though ! I was expecting to see you'd given your child jam sandwiches on white bread and a chocolate bar !!

Fine dining in comparison

This thread has cheered me up no end. I'm laughing my socks off.
Your DH sounds just like my boyfriend and it's giving me a whole other opportunity to rib him about the time he ate
the whole of my vegetarian pizza when he ordered a pepperoni. So thank you!

My DH was in a hurry to leave for work and collect a few work colleagues on the way, before travelling the hour and a half journey up the motorway and onto a remote building site.
They always took it in turns to contribute something each towards the site cabins food for the Day, to be shared on breaks.
DH was supposed to have provided Bread, Cheese, and Cakes for the Day, but in his hurry to leave, he picked up a kilo of Bacon out of our Fridge, instead of the bag of ready grated cheese, a bag full of stale Bread and Baps put ready to feed to the Ducks later that Day, and DDs School baked Cakes, that were as hard as Rocks and over baked that were sitting in a Tupperware box on the kitchen work surface!
It turned out to be an expensive mistake, as he had to fund a trip into the local town to find a Chippy, or face a cabin full of mutant starving hungry Workers!
So memorable was the event, it also got a mention at his Retirement Dinner!

I was expecting a judgy post critiquing another child's lunch box!

Same! I came on here fully expecting to roll my eyes and say “yes, a slice of cold pizza and a mini roll isn’t exactly health food, but if that’s what the child fancied then so what?”. But OP - you definitely win the “worst ever packed lunch” award hands down….

@AudTheDeepAndCrispAndEven

DS2 once took tub of cold rice pudding in instead of the tub of grapes I'd put in the fridge the night before for snack time. He ate it with his fingers. Teachers must have been bemused at that one.

I am crying laughing at this one. With his fingers . I’m a teacher, I’d have quietly pissed myself but kindly fetched him a spoon.

I used to work as a Lunchtime Supervisor.

One little boy said to me with the most bewildered look on his face...

"Miss, there's no ham in this sandwich!"

His little face, he was perplexed opening the bread and butter again and again. Lol.

I went to the kitchen and asked the cook for something.

He ended up with some cheese to put in it.

He came to tell me the next day that his mummy felt really silly.

So funny.

“Funny mashed potato” is defo a winner. Eugh. Does he have taste buds?!

@naughty40me

I used to work as a Lunchtime Supervisor.

One little boy said to me with the most bewildered look on his face...

"Miss, there's no ham in this sandwich!"

His little face, he was perplexed opening the bread and butter again and again. Lol.

I went to the kitchen and asked the cook for something.

He ended up with some cheese to put in it.

He came to tell me the next day that his mummy felt really silly.

So funny.

Actually pissing myself now. So funny. Why is this so funny? I think it’s the bemused innocence.

@5foot5

You do know this will be one of those things your DS will remind you of for ever!

Not quite a packed lunch story but my sister once took her young DC to a cafe. She was having a salad but one of the DC only wanted ice cream. They were all playing up a bit and she was getting stressed so when DC complained his ice cream tasted funny she insisted he ate up and stop whinging. Eventually she realised he was eating the dish of salad cream intended to go with her salad

This reminds me of the time as a child at one of those cheap buffet places where I put gravy on my ice cream instead of chocolate sauce...

Lol just what I needed! Sat in hosp. Awaiting op first thing!!

Oh no 🤢

@AttackCat

He removed the label because he thought it would be embarrassing to send DS to school with pasta salad labelled “Fat for Birds”

I think he must be related to my DH….🤣