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Original poster

To think this might be the worst packed lunch ever?

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AttackCat · 14/01/2022 20:06

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?

OP posts:

whymewhyme · 14/01/2022 23:41

I've just finished after life and feeling abit emotionaly drained but your have made me propper belly laugh!!!

Chimley · 14/01/2022 23:43

I've been reading these out loud to DH as he does packed lunches in our house.

He remembered his friend bringing the cheese box to school instead of his lunchbox (very middle class mistake!)

Love the presence of mind your DH had to remove the label from the lid but not check the contents!

longtompot · 14/01/2022 23:44

Once I realised it was ‘just’ fat from a roast I laughed so hard my 4 year old thought I was ill and made me sit down and have a glass of wine.

Haha you have a well brought up 4 year old there!

HunterGatherer · 14/01/2022 23:52

Yep, you win OP.
My DSis came second though when she let her 9year old pack up his own lunch and he added a tin of koppaberg cider.

FrecklesMalone · 14/01/2022 23:52

@Floundery

My son is autistic and has sensory issues around food. I railed at the school to let him take a carbohydrate snack instead of fruit for break time, pleaded reasonable adjustments, wrote letters, the works.

The first day back after they agreed to bend the rules, I sent him in with a Tupperware full of jackfruit korma

That is so funny I woke up DH. Something about it being jackfruit made it worse. 😂

SnipSnipMrBurgess · 14/01/2022 23:55

@AttackCat

I’m glad this has tickled so many people!

I had an initial moment of panic as we’ve not had mashed potato in ages and I feared he’d consumed some months-old toxic leftovers.

Once I realised it was ‘just’ fat from a roast I laughed so hard my 4 year old thought I was ill and made me sit down and have a glass of wine.

🤨🤔

Itsalmostanaccessory · 15/01/2022 00:09

Maybe I'm just very tired but this just isnt funny. Your husband sent his kid to school with a bowl of fat for lunch because he was too stupid/lazy/incompetent to remember which box he has filled up or actually read a label and think to check?

And you laughed when you found out?

Poor kid. And a 4 year old telling you to get a glass of wine? Hmm.

HelloFrostyMorning · 15/01/2022 00:11

@Itsalmostanaccessory

And you laughed when you found out?

Poor kid. And a 4 year old telling you to get a glass of wine? Hmm.

This. ^

Clarissa111 · 15/01/2022 00:17

This is hilarious. I sent my 6 year old with an empty lunch box. The school rang said he had no lunch. I said I remember putting his box in his bag! They said but did you put anything in it? I nearly died! We all make mistakes.

WorraLiberty · 15/01/2022 00:19

I'm more confused than anything, as to why no-one checked exactly how much the child ate afterwards?

And yes, the OP laughing so hard a 4 year old child thought she needed to drink wine because she was ill?

I would've thought the average 4 year old would've been scared in a situation like that.

oviraptor21 · 15/01/2022 00:35

@AttackCat

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

Well that just makes it even funnier 🤣

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AttackCat · 15/01/2022 07:33

OK for the worried souls out there…

DS is 7. Can’t check how much is he ate as he left his lunchbox behind at school but he says he just had a taste. He had an apple and mini cheddars in his lunch, so didn’t starve.

DH apologised profusely to DS, DS couldn’t really see what all the fuss was about.

I had a moment of ‘this is mortifying but also hilarious I’m not sure if I am l laughing or crying bully I can hardly breathe’. No idea where 4yo got the idea I needed wine from, it’s not something he’s ever said before and I don’t even drink regularly - but it just added to the mortification/hilarity.

Can totally see how DH made the mistake - i’d put the bird fat in a tub we normally use for lunches so on auto-pilot in the morning rush he got caught up in confirmation bias (“this is the tub I put the pasta in so that must be an old label I didn’t notice before”).

We are all fine but thanks for the concern, social services intervention not required.

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bedington · 15/01/2022 07:39

I went to work with a block cheddar once.....there was no where to buy lunch..I was very hungry

Exhausteddog · 15/01/2022 08:13

My mum packed a picnic in an tupperware box to take to an outdoor music event. When they got there they opened it to find my first aid kit from guides, triangular bandage and all! They must have been packed in similar boxes and she happened to pick up the wrong one.

🤣🤣🤣

Mindymomo · 15/01/2022 08:21

At one time I was making lunches for 4 people. My DS got my DH lunch of beef paste sandwiches, which he took a bite of and threw them in the bin. It happens quite a lot with DS2 who likes to cook his lunches for a few days and often takes a bit of leftover food that I have put in there, lucky for him, he eats most things. PS we used to have dripping on toast every Sunday evening after the roast dinner.

FlamingoDust · 15/01/2022 10:52

This really did make me laugh so hard! I'm sure if any of his teachers had noticed they would have had a good laugh and got him something to keep him going if he needed it (which he obviously didn't seem to). As it was, no harm done and a great story to recount!

ItRainedForever · 15/01/2022 11:10

Ew, that lunchbox is going to be weapons-grade by the time you get it back!

takingmytimeonmyride · 15/01/2022 11:23

@Stillfunny

I was at a friend's house on a sunny summer day. Gave my 2 year DD what I thought was Ribena which I diluted with water . She reluctantly drank it and I then realised that I had actually used Red Wine Vinegar . Poor child . (She is 25 now , so I guess no longer term effects., )

This reminds me of the time we went to my eldests Scout group celebration evening. He was in Beavers at the time, so around 7 or so.

They had drinks out ready, for adults and children. So I handed him a cup of blackcurrant squash and he went off to play with his friends. A little while later he came back and told me the squash tasted funny. So I had a sip and it was red wine. Good job he didn't like it and ask for more! He's 22 and doesn't drink alcohol, scarred for life!

StrifeOfBath · 15/01/2022 11:24

Years ago a poster somehow managed to send her child to school with period stained pants in a tub. Was it PrettyCandles?

Goldenbear · 15/01/2022 11:39

OP that is very funny especially your dh taking the sticker off!

Similar story to takingmytimeonmyride, on the way home from school we often pick up stuff from the Local Sainsburys and this time I had put a bit in DD's backpack as didn't want to buy a plastic bag. I then carried it so had put some soy sauce, box of Ritz crackers and a pack of chillies, plus my purse. She went to school with all of these the next day as her packed lunch bag is carried separately we didn't notice. She was in year 4 at the time and when she saw the stuff in her bag had remembered that it was from the shopping the night before but the teacher thought a whole box of Ritz crackers was her snack for snack time! I did ring the school as I realised that I had put my purse in her bag and needed it back for my bank cards to pay for petrol to go to work but didn't know about the other food items. When I arrived to collect the purse they returned the soy sauce, etc as well, that was slightly embarrassing as i had forgotten about the food and the receptionist is quite a serious character and handed them over without a smile, she was handing them to me individually as no bag so this did look slightly ridiculous, there was a parent sitting in the waiting area of the reception waiting to see someone so that must have looked bizarre. I tried to laugh the whole scenario off but the receptionist looked more irritated that I was in the office (as out of bounds with Covid) and interrupted the school day I think. The parent behind me smiled under her mask so at least she had a sense of humour about it.

mycatisannoying · 15/01/2022 11:44

@Justkeeppedaling

I had a bit of a rep for sending my kids to school with sandwiches made from mouldy bread.

In my defence, I did try to pick all the bits of mould off before I made the sandwiches. Obviously missed a few. Happened more than once

waterlego · 15/01/2022 11:59

@StrifeOfBath

Years ago a poster somehow managed to send her child to school with period stained pants in a tub. Was it PrettyCandles?

Oh gosh. How excruciating! 😣

timestheyarechanging · 15/01/2022 13:18

I thought I was being a good mum sending my son (reception) to school with a tinned mackerel in tomato sauce salad which he loved. I got a call from the school asking me not to do so again as it stunk!

timestheyarechanging · 15/01/2022 13:18

But yours OP is a much better packed lunch fail!

Opus17 · 15/01/2022 13:57

@AttackCat

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

This made me laugh out loud 🤣

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