From Camp Pie and sauce sangas to sushi rolls: how Australian school lunches have changed

“I look at their lunches and salivate,” one teacher said of students’ meals. Photograph: werxj/Getty Images

My daughter has just started prep and, in addition to the herculean task of getting her out the door five mornings a week, we have to pack a lunch.

It’s a complex business. Nuts are out and if there’s too much sugar, processed food or excessive use of cling wrap, your mugshot could be all over social media with the headline: “Distraught mum lunch-shamed over THIS”.