A mum has jokingly asked if she is the "worst parent" after making a mistake with her son's packed lunch.
Taking to popular parenting site Mumsnet, the woman revealed the food error and left fellow users in hysterics.
She explained she had intended to to give her son pasta salad for his packed lunch but accidentally packed something else, reports the Mirror.
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Her blunder came to light when her son asked why she'd given him "funny mashed potato" instead.
On the hit parenting site, she penned: "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."
Concluding her post, she added: "Has anyone sent their child to school with anything worse or are we officially the worst parents on Mumsnet?"
Mumsnet users shared their thoughts in the comments section. One person said: "No, but this made me laugh out loud after a busy day! How much of it did he eat?!"
"Ahahahahahaha!!!! Oh dear," said another.
A third laughed: "I'm surprised you didn't get a confused call from the school receptionist!!"
Someone else said: "Crying with laughter here - you definitely win the award for the worst packed lunch ever."
Others shared funny stories of their own.
"We sent our son to school with a tub of margarine once," said one woman.
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."
A third then said: "I had a bit of a rep for sending my kids to school with sandwiches made from mouldy bread."
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