to put this in DD's lunchbox

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DD went to Pizza Hut with her Dad last night and came home with a slice of pizza in a box to put in her lunchbox today.

I forgot to put the box in the fridge last night, so it was out on the kitchen table all night.

WIBU to put that slice of pizza in DD's lunchbox for her lunch today - she was really looking forward to, but I don't know if it would make her ill and whether it's risky.

Thanks

It will be fine.

I've left it out for two days before and been fine. It's probably not recommended but so long as everything was cooked properly the first time, you're unikely to get sick from it, unless your kitchen is ridiculously warm.

I don't see an issue with leftover cheese and tomato pizza either. What's the difference between that and a cheese and tomato toastie?

It's not all afternoon - she's going to eat it at lunchtime. Which, in your average school day, happens before the afternoon gets going.

Pizza hut pizza's contain too much sugar and salt, I make my own pizzas which are a lot healthier so I know that a pizza can be healthy. I just don't think pizza hut is a good choice for a kids lunch box.

I just don't think pizza hut is a good choice for a kids lunch box.

I agree, We often have takeaway, I have no problem buying pizza/takeaway on a friday night, leave it on the side and still eat it sunday. but there is no way I would send dc to school with takeaway pizza in their lunch box.

Each to their own but it is not something I would personally do.

I've eaten pizza left out overnight many many times, usually massively hungover and asI lived in Florida, not a cool climate. It's always sorted my sickly feelings out no problem, not the other way round. I'd give it.

Ignore Littlepip and the hygiene police. I would have no qualms whatsoever. They'll really enjoy it.

"Each to their own but it is not something I would personally do."

Why not? If you would eat it for lunch at home why not for lunch at school?

Because "what would people think"?

It will be fine. And tasty. Now I want cold pizza!

I don't care what people think, but I do care about my child's health

Yes, because having pizza hut for dinner occasionally is the reason we have a worldwide obesity crisis on our hands

i've done it with tuna and anchovy pizza (i know, i'm gross, don't hate me!) and i've never been ill,. but if you are going to be watching her like a hawk all weekend for salmonella symptoms, then don't do it..

How do you think those of us who grew up without a fridge managed to survive? Our parents certainly didn't throw left-over food away, especially meat.

If leftover pizza gives you gastro hundreds and thousands of students would be constantly on the loo wouldn't they?

I'd eat it, it's only cheese tomato and dough isn't it. It's the same as eating a sandwich that had been let out and I'd eat that too.

I only worry if it's meat / fish.

I wouldn't eat perishable food that had been left out all night.

You don't think supermarket night workers nip back to the cold store for each box individually! They are loaded on roll pallets by evening staff so some of the stuff will be out all night if it's the last to be put out.

As a student it was pretty normal to eat the remains of a takeaway pizza at lunchtime the next day, after it hadn't been in the fridge. No-one ever seemed to get ill from it.
However, these would be pizzas that don't have meat on them - I'm not sure if it is safe to eat meat that has been sitting around like that.

While I don't think it's a health hazard, I can only go by my own experience in that pizza left out, unwrapped, overnight tends to go a bit dried up and manky looking around the edges. I don't find it appetising, so probably wouldn't give it to ds if it looked like that.

I would have absolutely no qualms at all about giving him leftover pizza that had been wrapped to avoid mankiness. He enjoys a very balanced, nutritious diet otherwise and eats a wide variety of good food. One bit of pizza will not turn him into Augustus Gloop. People get way too wound up about sugar and salt content when their children otherwise have a good, wholesome, healthy diet. I personally could not give a flying fig about other people's perceptions.

Zebbie I was just thinking, anyone who is totally aghast at the idea of this has clearly never been a student! I have clear memories of eating chicken poppets that had been left out all night the next day I was totally fine! I think people on this site are way too cautious and v. weird about food...

"You don't think supermarket night workers nip back to the cold store for each box individually! They are loaded on roll pallets by evening staff so some of the stuff will be out all night if it's the last to be put out."

Actually, chilled stuff isn't kept out for longer than about 20 minutes. That's the law, and when supermarkets have their hygiene checks, it's one of the things they pick up on if it's not followed. The non-chilled/frozen stuff is left overnight, but do you really think chilled meat is left on the shop floor overnight without being refrigerated?!

I want pizza now.

No way would I risk it!

I don't go to pizza hut but I'm tempted to pick up a margherita later and see how long it lasts in my kitchen before it starts to go off

Erm the people saying no to this must have very dainty constitutions!

Stick it in. She'll eat or have eaten worse over the years!

In our house leftover Pizza goes into the top oven (oven off) in the box. None of us have died yet and we've been doing it 20 years, even with meat pizza (insert gasp of horror)