Mum divides with photo of her son’s packed lunch

A woman has been ridiculed for giving her son too much food after she shared a snap of his lunch box to a popular Facebook page.

An Aussie mum has been ridiculed for giving her son too much food in his lunch box.

Her post went viral on the Aldi Mums page where she revealed that she would normally pack two sandwiches, three snack bars, two bananas, three peaches, grapes, a cucumber, two carrots, cherry tomatoes, biscuits, cheese and a nutty trail mix for her teenage son.

Sharing a picture of his mega lunch, she wrote: “If I could fit more I would as he never stops eating.”

Other parents commented on the snap, saying that the lunch offering was “too much” and that she was “going overboard”, The Sun reports.

“How many children is this for?” one woman asked.

“Healthy choices, sure, but that is still a lot of food” another added.

A lunch fit for a 17-year-old. Picture: Facebook

The mum had to remind her followers that her son is a very active 17-year-old who plays sports and goes to the gym often which means: “He needs a lot of fuel food.”

Fellow mums with ravenous teenage sons supported the mum’s woes over whether she was over feeding her growing son and showed their allegiance with her.

“As a mum of three teenage boys I don’t see anything wrong with this,” added another.

“I am impressed, you have taught your son some great eating habits,” said another.

“This is what active, healthy boys his age eat – you are a great mum, well done,” one woman supportively commented.

Teens need more food to fuel their active days. Picture: iStock

Fellow mums on the post suggested she add some high protein snacks to the lunch box like jerky or eggs.

While others had shown the picture to their husbands to gauge how much they ate as a teenager.

They said they would often get through up to eight sandwiches in one sitting, so this mother’s lunch box was far healthier than their adolescent meals.

Many agreed the amount of food teenagers get through makes them expensive and questioned, “How does ANYONE afford teenagers?”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission

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