How usual is it to have Dominos once a week?

At first I was going to say yes that’s fine once a week, particularly as it obviously isn’t your child.
Once I read your updates, and that it’s the child of your boyfriend, with no mother on the scene and a boy who is concerned about his weight it feels different.
Can you easily influence this by following the advice of other posters such as purchasing decent shop bought or making it together?
For us I changed things around a bit by saying only pizza if a side salad is also part of the deal. There will usually only be 3 of us eating and we then share 2 homemade thin crust pizzas, but they are really loaded with homemade tomatoe sauce and toppings to get in the protein and vegetables. I often add spelt or rye to the bases and we will only have one salami type with the other being say chicken and veggies or salmon and rocket.
The ritual feel to it sounds lovely though.

My 20 yo dsis and her bf eat 2/3 dominos per week and they are both skinny rakes. They also get starters,deserts and coca cola on top of it. He plays sport but she doesn't. Obviously it's unhealthy but it can't be that bad 💁‍♀️

Isn't!

Of course. Some people have this as their normal. But we know as a society this going well

Personally, I think that buying Dominoes for a fat kid even once a month is too much. At that age, it’s the parents responsibility to help him maintain a healthy weight. If he’s overweight now, he’ll likely be enormous by the time he’s 20.

I think the message that junk food isn’t healthy food is fine actually And before you say pizza isn’t junk I’m sure the homemade Italian version isn’t.

Here Dominos list their ingredients. I got as far as the crust which should be just flour, water, yeast and salt. https://dominos.a.bigcontent.io/v1/static/ingredients-and-allergens.

I agree that good or bad food depends on context. The starving kids in Gaza don’t need broccoli they need calorie dense food.

However normalising crap as some sort of weekly “treat” is the unhealthy bit.

If he's worried about his weight, it still doesn't have to be all or nothing. A dominoes pizza is what £20 and 2000 calories? A fancy supermarket sour dough with posh toppings would be a fiver and less than half the calories.

It’s better than a vegan fish and chips!

She hasnt suggested this to them has she. She hasnt said that.

She specifically even said she wasnt going to give an opinion

She is talking about it on here, getting a range of views.

Thats the nature and purpose of a chat forum, to ask things of people that you might get a range of views on, particularly for sensitive things you might not want to voice outloud to friends or family.

And if you think thats rude in any case, someone having an opinion on how a child is fed or bought up, its fairly standard in most other countries that the wider network around you have a view about your or your childrens' lifestyles. Only in this country do we keep our gobs shut for fear of 'judgement'/

God forbid anyone have an opinion on something

Imagine, just imagine you having a pizza with your kid and your new girlfriend told you they should have a smaller one with salad. Not only terribly rude but a very socially awkward and weird thing to do.

Pizza once a week is fine. Same as burger or fried chicken is Ok once a week. But if you were to have all three regularly and barely any veg/loads of UPF then it's not great.

It depends on the person's weight and activity levels too.

Ideally have salad with the pizza or a veg heavy meal earlier on. But life is too short to deny yourself a treat sometimes. It's just food after all. Not crack, not heroin, not whisky!

The OP suggests having a slightly smaller one or having it less frequently

In what world is that a food restriction or calorie counting

No wonder we have an obesity epidemic.

Pizza is a great food but this child is overweight already and low about it. He is eating too many calories and the regularity of such a calorie dense item every week wont help.

Dominos is not nice pizza.

We regularly have pizza, sometimes once a week but homemade as it’s easy and tasty.

As others have said, depends on the rest of their diet.

Ahaha I did that as a Friday treat for a few months then got gored. Surely boredom will happen too? Just wait it out…

How can something you eat once a week be addictive? 🤨

We used to regularly get family dominos (probably weekly) and it was so addictive, presumably the fat and the salt. I stopped it when my BP was off the charts, so many complaints from kids, but since then the missus and I have both lost a load of weight. Obv it wasn't just the dominos, but it was emblematic of that high fat, high cal, low nutrition takeaway that should be eaten very sparingly. So my point is maybe don't get into bad habits that will bite you on the (probably ample sized) bum!

What a horrible post.
Stop wasting your money and cook a decent meal.
Pizza is expensive, crap, and fisent fill you up.

My kids did this for maybe 6 months when they were in Year 12/13 - they moved on and outgrew Dominoes, it wasn’t the healthiest thing but sometimes it best to just say nothing.

Meh? Being 'fat' causes all sorts of health issues!

Judgy much.

families tend to have takeaways once a week, and 15 year old boys, eat a lot!

It all depends on context. For a healthy weight, active child who eats well the rest of the week it's fine. For the situation you describe, you aren't wrong in thinking it might be an easy change to make towards a healthier lifestyle and it's not ideal for that particular child

Could it be every other week? Could they make their own? Even branching out to other takeaways could be a good way of introducing different foods? Domino's is so expensive for what it is and a child of that age can understand that. Could they look at the finance/ not good value for money element rather than diet and swap the dominoes routine for something else the kid would rather have/ do?

I don’t see an issue at all once a week if eating healthy the rest of the week , completely normal 🤷🏻‍♀️

I have dominoes once a week, I would share one with my partner, but he doesn't ever want to, so I always end up eating 3/4 of a medium pizza. I guess this post has shown me that I eat to much pizza

I know this isn’t answering the question but it sounds like it’s a part of a special ‘ritual’ for them both and in that respect it’s to be celebrated.
maybe the food itself could be varied but sounds like they both enjoy it and not just because of the pizza.

If he is overweight and unhappy about it as you have stated why don’t you suggest making your own pizza together as an alternative. Could alternate between the dominoes and doing that.