Learner Dad: He started crying, big tears, and told the class that his Daddy doesn’t love him

"We had a problem last week - because the kind of chorizo slices he likes aren’t in Aldi any more."

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I’m on lunch-making duty now that the kids are back at school. It’s a tricky business because our two like different things for lunch. The problem is our six-year-old son. It’s not that he won’t eat anything we give him. It’s more that he only likes three kinds of packed lunch, and if you deviate even slightly, there is hell to pay.

His favourite lunch is chorizo wraps, along with two crackers and an easy-peeler orange. That’s my favourite too because wraps take about 10 seconds to make and you don’t have to melt some butter in the microwave to make it spreadable for bread. (Soft butter in the mornings is a sign that summer isn’t far away – we’re not there yet, or anywhere near it.)