A mother was left in stitches after she realized that she accidentally sent her son to school with the ‘worst packed lunch ever’.

Sharing the mishap on Mumsnet, the mother wrote: “I told DS (darling son) he had pasta salad for lunch.

“This evening he asked why we’d given him ‘funny mashed potato’ instead.”

When her son asked why she had prepared him a funny meal, she immediately realized the hilarious mistake.

She checked the fridge and discovered that the pasta salad was still in there.

“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,” the mother continued.

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

Parents found the funny side of her story, with one commenting: “Crying with laughter here – you definitely win the award for the worst packed lunch ever.”

Another wrote: “I’m surprised you didn’t get a confused call from the school receptionist!!”

A third shared: “We sent our son to school with a tub of margarine once.”

Someone else added: “I had a bit of a rep for sending my kids to school with sandwiches made from mouldy bread.”

Another commented: “My brother once opened his lunchbox at school to find therein a banana that was past its best covered in biscuit crumbs. Brother was only very little at the time so a banana and a few biscuits might have (just about) been an adequate lunch as a one-off.

“But the biscuits didn’t survive the journey being swung about by a 5-year-old, so a crumb-coated banana was lunch that day.”

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