Can you spot what's wrong with this child's lunchbox?
Despite being in the business of healthy living, dietician Kate Save is not immune from parent’s criticising the choice of food she chooses to feed her children.
The Victorian mum of two daughters, Chloe, five, and Mia, three, was recently shamed for her eldest child’s lunchboxes.
It contained a sandwich with only butter and mayonnaise and nothing else because her daughter doesn't like Vegemite or jam, cereal, baked beans and fruit.
With fussy eaters, Save says she packs food that she knows her children will actually eat.
But it’s the plain sandwiches that have particularly earnt the ire of fellow parents.
“Once people know you're a dietitian people will ask "what does your kid have for lunch?"' she said.
“I tell them I give them what they'll eat.
“To them it might have looked as if I wasn't making an effort as a parent.”
Parents have also questioned Save’s decision to include a small can of baked beans for Chloe's teacher to warm up at school.
“That's when the questions about how high they [baked beans] are in sugar start,” she said.
“I tell people they're a legume, and super high in fibre and super high in vitamins.”
The nutritional expert was also criticised for feeding her daughters breakfast cereals and although the mum admits that Cheerios aren’t the healthiest choice, they aren’t the unhealthiest choice either, especially when paired with Greek yoghurt.
“Parents have said 'Are Cheerios ok? I thought they were full of sugar?”
“They're a breakfast cereal and they have a little bit of added sugar – a maximum of one teaspoon of sugar per serve which is less than what you'd normally add to cereal.
“I find that with kids, it's a way to get extra vitamins in plus dietary fibre, plus when it's served with Greek yoghurt they are getting calcium and protein and overall it's actually a low GI meal,” she explained.
“You get judged by parents who don't see that, they just see the Cheerios and they think they're similar to Fruit Loops or Nutrigrain.”
Although Save has encountered her fair share of judgement, she understands that people are suffering from “nutritional anxiety” because there's such a glut of dietary information.
“It's not so much that every single meal needs to balance, it's just at the end of week that they've had that nutritional variety.
“Every meal doesn't need to look perfect,” she continued.
To the 'lunchbox shamers' Saves urges parents not to immediately judge especially as they might not have the full picture in terms of what a child might be eating over the course of a day.
“If a child doesn't eat and they're a fussy eater, then you just need to make sure they're getting something because their energy becomes the most important thing.
“At the end of the day it's not about individual meals or individual foods but it's about balance,” she concluded.