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Homemade pizza is not healthy, we’re having a proper dinner.

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Summerwillbesoshortthisyear · 03/05/2025 16:36

Dc playing with a neighbour friend, I asked if they wanted to help make homemade pizzas and stay for dinner and to check with the mum.
He came back and said that he wasn’t allowed, my Dc asked ‘Aww, why not?’ and he said that his mum said it wasn’t healthy and that she’d make a proper dinner.

We do this sometimes on Friday/Saturday, Dc enjoy the activity and choosing toppings-passata, mozzarella, mushrooms, peppers, spinach and so on to make funny pizza faces, is this massively unhealthy?!

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LittleBitofBread · 08/05/2025 13:56

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 08/05/2025 13:41

@LittleBitofBread yiu should sell them, given how rare they are!

Well, I don’t think they are that rare, that’s the point

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 08/05/2025 13:41

@LittleBitofBread yiu should sell them, given how rare they are!

LittleBitofBread · 08/05/2025 11:31

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 06/05/2025 22:29

@pam290358 you could, but nobody does.

Nobody?!? I must be imagining my own wholemeal pizza bases I've done in the past then.
There's quite a lot of imaginary wholemeal pizza bases in my memory.

DraigCymraeg · 08/05/2025 10:39

OneBadKitty · 06/05/2025 16:20

The proportion of veg you can get on a pizza is pretty minimal!

This discussion is about HOMEMADE - not shop bought.
Big difference.

BeNiceWhenItsFinished · 07/05/2025 14:21

EmmaJane2025 · 07/05/2025 09:33

@BeNiceWhenItsFinished”cutted” is not a word! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yes it is. It is in common usage on Mumsnet, and all new words have to start somewhere.

Okay, maybe it has not entered the exalted realms of the OED yet, but it is most definitely now an actual word.

raspberrieswithchocolate · 07/05/2025 10:47

TheShiningHostess · 07/05/2025 09:43

@EmmaJane2025

There is a thread (possibly in Classics) which is about a "cutted up pear".

It's very funny.

Yes, it's in classics called "If my 3yo had access to AIBU"
A very funny thread😁

TheShiningHostess · 07/05/2025 09:43

@EmmaJane2025

There is a thread (possibly in Classics) which is about a "cutted up pear".

It's very funny.

EmmaJane2025 · 07/05/2025 09:33

@BeNiceWhenItsFinished”cutted” is not a word! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

LittleBitofBread · 07/05/2025 08:51

llizzie · 06/05/2025 22:09

Too much money is wasted buying pizzas and that is unhealthy for families.

Would that life were as simple as it seems to be in your world

marmaladeandpeanutbutter · 06/05/2025 22:29

@pam290358 you could, but nobody does.

llizzie · 06/05/2025 22:09

Too much money is wasted buying pizzas and that is unhealthy for families.

DrPrunesqualer · 06/05/2025 20:06

If it’s all homemade what’s so unhealthy

Flour, yeast, smidge of salt = dough
Toppings + cheese
= Pizza

Delicious

ladyofshertonabbas · 06/05/2025 18:54

Yanbu

Ponoka7 · 06/05/2025 18:53

Summerwillbesoshortthisyear · 03/05/2025 22:43

What’s wrong with cereal…you mean any cereal?

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I'm from an immigrant background, it wasn't in our family range of foods/recipes. I was born in the 60's. There's nothing wrong with it, but it doesn't seem to be approved of, on here.

Cherrytree86 · 06/05/2025 18:51

What about M&S individual pizzas? Under 400 cals 👍

GasPanic · 06/05/2025 17:40

BeNiceWhenItsFinished · 06/05/2025 17:15

Cutted-up cheeseburger, chocolate buttons and a dash of Southern Comfort.

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That would be healthy if you added mushrooms and onions.

Motheroffive999 · 06/05/2025 17:34

Possibly the mum just wanted to sit in front of the TV in her pyjamas, eat a pizza and drink gin and have an early night and you can't do that if your child is at a friend's and you have to collect them and interact with other mum .

Motheroffive999 · 06/05/2025 17:25

I would love to know what the neighbour is having.
Homemade pizza is great 😃

BeNiceWhenItsFinished · 06/05/2025 17:15

GiveDogBone · 04/05/2025 19:52

A homemade pizza can be perfectly healthy. Just depends on what you put on it.

Cutted-up cheeseburger, chocolate buttons and a dash of Southern Comfort.

godmum56 · 06/05/2025 17:06

doodleschnoodle · 05/05/2025 09:59

Off topic but the Crosta and Mollica frozen pizzas are the nicest I’ve ever had and very normal ingredients list. The Stromboli one is so tasty.

try Doughboys too. normal ingredients and delicious.

Groot18 · 06/05/2025 17:05

If my daughter came home and said can they go to a friend's to make pizza, I would ask if I could have some. 😂

GasPanic · 06/05/2025 16:59

Pizza is a pretty ill defined class.

It can be anything from a few limp vegetables on a thin flour base to a full fat dripping with cheese, assorted meats, fat, lard, crispy fried stuff and addition cheese stuffed in the crust just in case your arteries aren't clogged by the first bit of cheese.

Plus come home for a proper meal can mean anything from come home to eat this ready meal I stuffed in the oven and took 20 mins to come home to eat this stuff I spend a whole day preparing and planning carefully for a family meal.

Plus no one knows what someone has eaten for the rest of the week. Maybe they had takeaway for the rest of the week and this was the "healthy food" day.

So I wouldn't sweat it or take it as a slur.

LittleBitofBread · 06/05/2025 16:49

Tessasanderson · 06/05/2025 16:39

Since when was pizza healthy? I used to get pizzas after a night on the piss. Never felt like i was being healthy.

That said, life would be very boring if we didnt allow ourselves to enjoy our food. Surely having fun with friends is absolutely the kind of time to not care if its healthy or not.

I don't see why people are saying it's so unhealthy. There's protein, carbs (and even white carbs aren't the devil's work), and whatever nutrients are in the veg. Cheese has nutrients other than protein as well. Diet is not about individual meal, it's about what you eat overtime, and I doubt the OP feeds her children pizza every day. She obviously includes veg in it. I really don't know what people are clutching their pearls about.

Tessasanderson · 06/05/2025 16:39

Since when was pizza healthy? I used to get pizzas after a night on the piss. Never felt like i was being healthy.

That said, life would be very boring if we didnt allow ourselves to enjoy our food. Surely having fun with friends is absolutely the kind of time to not care if its healthy or not.

mickandrorty · 06/05/2025 16:28

I think its fine, its something tasty and fun to make. But to be fair my opinion is probably mute as I ate haribo for my lunch twice last week!