A mum was left in hysterics after she accidentally sent her son to school with the wrong packed lunch.
The woman's funny blunder was exposed on Mumsnet where she admitted the error after attempting to pack pasta salad for her son's packed lunch.
Instead the mother had actually packed a tub of fat she had in the fridge that she had been planing to put out for the birds.
The mum said she didn't even realise until her son asked why he had been given "funny mashed potato" for his lunch, reports The Mirror.
Writing on Mumsnet, she said: "I told DS [darling son] he had pasta salad for lunch," she said. "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 are we officially the worst parents on Mumsnet?"
One person said: "No, but this made me laugh out loud after a busy day! How much of it did he eat?!"
The post amused other parents who answered in their droves.
On said: "I'm surprised you didn't get a confused call from the school receptionist!!"
Someone else added: "Crying with laughter here - you definitely win the award for the worst packed lunch ever."
Others shared their own hilarious mishaps.
One woman said: "We sent our son to school with a tub of margarine once."
Another added: "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."
Another added: "I had a bit of a rep for sending my kids to school with sandwiches made from mouldy bread."
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