Some people do get very silly about school lunches, but I think this was just cultural differences at play.

Very different cultures, clearly. The photo of the edible pandas looks very time consuming to create. Unfair.

I would tell this teacher that he is criticising your culture! I would go on to tell him about the essential B vitamins contained in Vegemite. I would personally also home bake the bread (I have a really great seed and vegetable recipe for bread) and tell him all the added nutrients in this sandwich.

No there is nothing wrong with a vegemite sandwich, and the teacher has no right to control or suggest what a parent feeds his/her children.

Are we going to war with the Japanese over Vegemite?I am not sure any of you would know what the first one was about,Cheer’s Krusty.

I would have told the teacher he could start making her lunches!

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 22 May 2019 , 6:43 pm

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  Maybe he could run a class – those pandas look cute! 😉

My daughter refused to eat anything but a vegemite sandwich right up until she was 13 years old. Nothing wrong with it.

I really hate vegamite but what is wrong with a good ol’ vegamite sandwich.

I’m not a Vegemite fan myself at all, but my 5yr old loves Vegemite. When I make sandwiches/wraps/buns with other toppings/fillings they return home uneaten… So yeah, I give her Vegemite sandwiches

Pack something healthy. I get it it’s easy, we need to all learn better, healthier food options and lead by example for our kids

Gosh I cant even imagine doing lunches like that all the time, how tiresome

Glad it wasn’t me! I have never liked Vegemite, but my children went through a phase where they wouldn’t eat anything else. In that case I would definitely have sent a vegemite sandwich and probably told the teacher where to go!

I love my kids but I also love my sleep. Sorry but I’ll not be waking up in the middle of the night just to make some fancy lunchbox to compete with other moms.

Note to self: never move there….I ain’t got time for that!!
Although I must say..they look like pieces of cut up hotdogs…..how is that healthy?

Does anybody know what the food are cut (not what looks like potatoes) is? Doubt any of us would eat the lettuce (if that is what it is). Guessing there is tomato in it too. Tomato is acidic and not all people can digest it properly. Rice is very starchy so it is not as nutritious as we are sometimes led to believe.

She should just politely explain Australians need vegemite.

If the parents are working maybe the lunches are made for them. Who has time to make lunches like this for children each day. Yes sandwiches are the norm for Australia, some do not do them. Culture does come into it too. Maybe a heads up about what is expected. Those stories of migrant children lunches and the children being teased for them. Yes healthy foods are needed, but who is to say the food is not healthy.

it is a cultural thing, their way of eating is very different to ours, that would be perfectly fine here but you are not here and they have different standards

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  • • CupcakeChanny replied
    • 20 May 2019 , 8:14 pm

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  Definitely doesn’t mean she has to follow them. Think about all the people here that come from other countries. They aren’t expected to make their kids Vegemite sandwiches everyday.

Truely! Well that’s not very multicultural of them. Shame, nothing more Aussie than a Vegemite sanga.

There’s nothing wrong with a vegemite sandwich!