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Liverpool Echo
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Jess Flaherty

Mum branded 'petty' and 'controlling' over 'ridiculous' packed school lunch demands

A mum has been branded "petty" and "controlling" after feeling "annoyed" her ex partner has decided to send their daughter to school with packed lunches.

The little girl is eligible for free school meals and though her mum insists her child enjoys school dinners and "happily tells [her] what she's had", she started asking for a packed lunch instead. The mum said no as "lunches are free" and she may get a "better variety" of food that way.

Later, she discovered that when the child is staying with her dad, he sends her to school with a packed lunch. The mum was "annoyed" this wasn't discussed with her first and took to Mumsnet's popular Am I Being Unreasonable [AIBU] thread to gauge the opinions of others.

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