Teachers On Facebook Share Kids' Heartbreaking Stories of Worst Packed Lunches

#1 Some teachers are sharing the worst lunches that the students bring to school and it makes us sad

One teacher told how one of her students brought for lunch a pork pie and a can of shandy. 

Upon asking, the kid told his teacher, “that’s all there was in the fridge.” 

One other student brought in a can of Red Bull with a bag of Monster Munch corn snacks which is so not nutritious and not a proper meal.

When the teacher asked the kid's mom, she told: “He’d had a late night on his Xbox and seemed like he needed a pick-me-up.”

#2 This kid's mother had been too tired to go shopping

Another teacher in Leeds said a child arrived with a packet of ginger biscuits and told the teacher his mum had been “too tired” to go to the shops.

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#3 The grandma didn't want the 'happy meal' to go to waste

A student from a school in Birmingham brought cold McDonald’s burger and fries as his lunch. The kid's grandma told that the Happy Meal box was brought a day before but the kid didn't eat it so she gave that in lunch. She told it was a “shame for it to go to waste.”

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#4 This kid ate his cereal with water on it and left the milk for his mother's coffee

One teacher told her 8-year-old student grabbed a can of dark fruits cider thinking it was a soft drink.

One student, who had not brought lunch either had money, told the teacher that he’d had cereal with water on it for breakfast because “mum needed the milk for her coffee.”

The teacher wrote; “I’m not ashamed to say I cried when he told me that.”

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#5 Staff in primary school monitor lunches

So many teachers shared heartbreaking stories on Facebook.

There is this rule in primary school where staff monitor packed lunches.

#6 The unhealthy lunches are handed over to the parents and kids get a free meal

If they find unhealthy items in kids' lunchboxes, they keep it and hand it to the parents at the end of the class while the kids get a free school meal worth around £2.20.