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To think this might be the worst packed lunch ever?

198 replies

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 ShockBlush

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

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TheWeeDonkeyFella · 15/01/2022 15:54

now now @BrightYellowDaffodil, dont be ruffling his feathers! Grin

Nomoreporridge872 · 15/01/2022 17:41

@AttackCat

He removed the label because he thought it would be embarrassing to send DS to school with pasta salad labelled “Fat for Birds” Hmm
This is te point at which I actually did laugh out loud 😆
NippySweetie16 · 15/01/2022 17:44

Many years ago sent DS to nursery with lunchbox containing empty yogurt carton, plastic bag with only crumbs in and a banana skin. Neither of us had remembered to pack his box! Thankfully nursery had some food for him. Definitely worst parents in the world.

2022IamHavingYa · 15/01/2022 17:57

Not read the full thread but when I was at primary school, my dad put the box with the block of cheese in my lunchbox. Apparently I sat and dutifully tried to eat it at school 😂

FayKnights · 15/01/2022 17:57

😂 a few years ago now I packed raw sausages into my son’s packed lunch, they were in foil and a similar shape to sarnies!

Benjispruce5 · 15/01/2022 17:59

Oh my god that’s so funny! Your poor son.Grin

trickyex · 15/01/2022 18:02

Oh thats brilliant!

Mumdiva99 · 15/01/2022 18:15

@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 Blush

Haven't we all done this? Usually it's by Friday when thr bread is on the turn and I didn't notice till the morning!! No harm done.

Although once after DS1 had toddled up to school with a treat of a sausage roll I'm his lunch box I went to eat another out the pack and found mould (no doubt I'd bought them reduced a few days before because they were going out of date). I did think mouldy meat in a luke warm lunch box a step too far and had to make an embarrassing call to the school to ask them to throw it away......he had other food so didn't starve.

IDidntKnowItWasAParty · 15/01/2022 18:19

When I was about 7, I asked my mum if I could replace all my lunch-box with all my Halloween loot - she had a tendency to absentmindedly agree to things, and she said "sure!" So, I removed the normal lunch and loaded it to the brim with my Halloween sweets.
I was the envy of the class that lunch-hour, I can tell you! (This was way before teachers/schools cared what was in your lunch.)

CottonSock · 15/01/2022 18:19

In Greece I asked for some yoghurt for my baby in a restaurant and after a while I realised it was mayonnaise. Still makes me feel yuky to think I fed it to her on a spoon. She wasn't that fussed!

GrandTheftWalrus · 15/01/2022 18:21

I'm so glad my dd get school lunches!

LesLavandes · 15/01/2022 18:23

Awh. Yikes. Disgusting. Go and sit on the naughty step 😂

Baxterbear · 15/01/2022 18:29

My moment to shine......

I once lovingly prepared my fella a packed lunch but mistakenly used gourmet cat food for the sandwich filler 🤣🤣

maddiemookins16mum · 15/01/2022 18:32

DD went to school once with a tub of Tomato puree.

FunWithFlagz · 15/01/2022 18:34

When DD was little she forgot her packed lunch box at school. I didn’t have anything to send her lunch in the next day so I said to have a school dinner instead. She obviously forgot to say schools dinners at registration because at lunch time they got out her day old, mostly eaten packed lunch. When it was opened and the dinner lady saw the contents, instead of saying that she was supposed to have a school dinner, DD told them that I’d said she had to bring the same lunch again because she hadn’t finished it! I got a phone call from the bloody headteacher saying that, although she could see what I was trying to teach her, maybe her learning would suffer if she was hungry in the afternoon, so they had given her a school dinner instead. I was mortified! Bloody kids.

Moorethemerrier · 15/01/2022 18:37

Oh Jesus that’s hilarious!
Yesterday I sent my two boys with half a banana each, I sliced in it half and left the skin on, by lunchtime it had gone completely black around the exposed edges and both came home saying they had the whole table screaming in horror at the demon fruits in their lunches!

bettyboo40 · 15/01/2022 18:46

@gothsnotmoths

When I was at school, someone I know opened the tinfoil expecting to find a sandwich and it turned out to be a block of cheese Grin
Ha I have done this to my poor son on 2 occasions!
mathanxiety · 15/01/2022 18:47

I strongly suspect the story has gained many details in the years since it first happened, but all of the DCs reminded me over Christmas of sandwiches I sent with them to school that had nothing in them. I'm not denying it happened, but I doubt I did it that many times.

@CottonSock, I have one DC who used to ask for mayonnaise sandwiches and then lick the mayo off the bread.

Carebear69943 · 15/01/2022 18:54

My Dsis forgot to empty the previous nights lunchbox or re pack it and sent my nephew to school with some crusts, an empty packet crisps, an apple core and an empty frube packet. The school rang up and she was mortified!!

fetchacloth · 15/01/2022 19:02

OMG 😱hope he's ok and doesn't need any tweetment.

Lunar2020 · 15/01/2022 19:03

This story reminds me of a funny little anecdote I wrote a few years back:

His diary: Busy day at work, came home starving. Delicious pâté snack wife left plated up in the fridge for me went down a treat. Bless her.

Her diary: Had one of 'those' mornings, cat food wrapper split again, too much food for puss in one go, had to squeeze rest onto plate and leave in fridge. On the plus side hubby remembered to feed the cat when he got home.

Cats diary: I hate them.

Maddiemoosmum0203 · 15/01/2022 19:05

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Greenandcabbagelooking · 15/01/2022 19:10

My dad is a very good cook, but it was my mum who always made my packed lunches, until I was old enough. My mum was in hospital for a week or so when I was 8, so my dad was making my lunches. He made me egg mayo sandwiches. I was allergic to egg then, I don't like mayonnaise, and the bread was moldy.

It was not his finest moment, and I still like to remind him off it on occasion.

SunshineOnKeith · 15/01/2022 19:14

@Lunar2020

This story reminds me of a funny little anecdote I wrote a few years back:

His diary: Busy day at work, came home starving. Delicious pâté snack wife left plated up in the fridge for me went down a treat. Bless her.

Her diary: Had one of 'those' mornings, cat food wrapper split again, too much food for puss in one go, had to squeeze rest onto plate and leave in fridge. On the plus side hubby remembered to feed the cat when he got home.

Cats diary: I hate them.

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NuckingFightmare · 15/01/2022 19:18

Back in the early 90's when a lot more people smoked, my friends Mam would empty her ashtray into an old crisp packet, seal it with cellotape before binning it (to stop the bin stinking)
Guess what my friend opened for lunch? It wasn't the spicy Nik Naks advertised on the front of the packet!

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