To be cross with my husband over this

[Inmy40]

Youngest dc has a club on a Monday night so goes off to school with a packed lunch to eat after school before club. Ham sandwich, carrot sticks, juice etc and 2 ice packs. DH just collected dc at 8 pm and they hadn’t eaten packed lunch after school so he insisted they eat it in the car at 8 pm. Admittedly dc was hungry. That ham sandwich has been in the sandwich bag for 12 hours. Ice packs no longer cold. Aibu to be cross that he made dc eat it or should he have waited until he got home and I would have made something fresh? Please tell me food poisoning is not on the cards for tonight as I have such a busy day in work tomorrow which would cause chaos if I have to miss .

It matters not a bit whether DS ate it or it went in the bin, it no more/less waste either way.

@WinterMusings To be fair, of course it is, it means the child doesn't need that meal/snack remade and it's gone to fueling their growth etc rather than to nothing.

I think divorce is the only option here

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@OldFan I had read the whole thread, but can't scroll back once I start writing it my phone deletes it all. But I had thought she said he wasn't hungry. But she had said that about after school not after pick up!

so yes, if he'd asked for something different when he got home it would have been wasted, unless someone else ate it.

but I really don't think 1 sandwich is the be all & end all of the food waste problem we have in the U.K.

I used to have to eat fish paste sandwiches after they’d sweltered for five hours in my Bluebird lunchbox on a sunny windowsill.

but I really don't think 1 sandwich is the be all & end all of the food waste problem we have in the U.K.

No individual incident of food waste is "the be all and end all", but a culture where people will often throw out perfectly good food because it wasn't eaten in a bizarrely limited timeframe is a massive problem.

But I had thought she said he wasn't hungry. But she had said that about after school not after pick up! So yes, if he'd asked for something different when he got home it would have been wasted, unless someone else ate it. But I really don't think 1 sandwich is the be all & end all of the food waste problem we have in the U.K.

Food is food, it might've stopped him being hungry later as it would've had some food value. And we don't just eat based on hunger. I wouldn't want a ham sandwich tho.

I don't know if I find it morally wrong to waste food. It's just a shame to waste money/time gone in to food and its preparation. But I suppose if someone's not completely on the breadline it wouldn't be a big deal to waste the 50p or less a ham sandwich costs to make.

It's Lent and in theory, I'm trying to eat all the stuff I don't bother with, dried pulses and starches out of the back of the cupboard.