Cold Pizza in lunchbox?

[PizzaInLunchbox]

Odd or fine?

My 7yo is saying it’s her favourite (not warm or hot cold) and she wants it for lunch at school.

I’d obviously cook the pizza the night before let it cool right down. Would be just cheese and tomato as she doesn’t like any other kind of pizza.

WIBU to put a cold slice of pizza in her lunchbox instead of sandwiches? I’d also include a small biscuit (like a penguin), cucumber and/or carrot sticks, an apple or banana, and then some cocktail sausages or similar.

Just pondering for next week when shes back.

My dc have pitta pizzas, basica pitta bread with a smear of tomato purée and cheese baked for 5 mins in the oven. They take it for packed lunch all the time with some veg, fruit, maybe rice cakes and a small treat. I probably wouldn't bother with the sausages on top

@gamerchick

Why does hummus always get brought up on these threads? I never met anyone who liked it as a kid. Never mind being given it in a school lunch box.

It's both mine and my daughters (2) fave! Was one of both our first foods, and it's super easy as a lunch item to be fair.

I am surprised that no one has given their DC a pack up of fresh air (very nutritious) from time to time.

(The times you get to school & realised that you've left DC's pack up still in the fridge, on the counter or even worse accidentally taken it to work with you)

I’ve just realised that I sometimes take a whole stunt salad to work

What is a stunt salad? How many tricks can it do?

Thank goodness we are having pizza for dinner as this thread has made me crave it! I love cold pizza. Back in the 90s I used to cook those McCain pizza slices and take them to school cold.
Lol at pizza being an occasional treat. Make it homemade, load with veg if you can get away with it and why the hell not. Occasional treat pfft.

Our school doesn't allow hummus due to all the nut and seed allergies.

I often make my kids muffin pizzas- wholemeal muffin (or white if I can't find wholemeal), tomato puree and melted mozzarella. No different to a cheese sandwich in my opinion.

Sounds fine to me, ignore the diet-police. It is one meal.

He is Autistic and it's kind of the best options out of the things he will willingly eat.

Also having an autistic child, I’m just happy he will eat anything and just have to hope that maybe one day he’ll eat a vegetable. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Not great having pizza sausage and chocolate as a lunch. Very nutritionally poor even with a couple of veg sticks thrown in. How about wholewheat hummus and veg wraps or cream cheese / chicken sandwiches.*

This is one of the daftest posts I've come across on mumsnet yet.

A wrap is unlikely to be home made so is probably a poor quality supermarket product.

Pizza = dough (this could be whole wheat and home made, it is in my house) topped with cheese and tomato.

What on earth is wrong with that, nutritionally, vs a hummus wrap or a chicken sandwich?

Oh and another school that doesnt allow hummus or any nut or sesame products.

@Brieandcamembert

Not great having pizza sausage and chocolate as a lunch. Very nutritionally poor even with a couple of veg sticks thrown in.

How about wholewheat hummus and veg wraps or cream cheese / chicken sandwiches. No sausage chocolate or pizza but maybe a yoghurt and fruit with a wrap or sandwich?

Pizza is an ocassional treat not a school lunch.

Sound the lunchbox klaxon 🔊🔊🔊 alert the village elders. Won't somebody please think of the children.

Just threw up in my mouth at the thought of cream cheese and chicken

If you don't grow your own wheat, olives, chickpeas, sesame, peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, herbs, berries, sugar beet or sugar cane; or keep bees to harvest honey; or milk your own cow or goat or sheep or other female mammal to make the raw ingredient for yoghourt; or grow soya beans or almonds or some other alternative which can be processed to make some substitute for milk; or make your own cheese with milk or an acceptable alternative; or evaporate your own seawater for salt; you should butt out of this debate.

Love the stunt apple! I have yet to work in a school with a lunchbox police. It is beyond ridiculous that schools confiscate food. I have also been guilty of taking a stunt salad and having to pop out to buy some bread and cheese to accompany it!

Stunt apple and stunt salad LOLLLL!

A food is nutritious for children only if they eat it. Hummus and veg sticks is not something many kids would eat for lunch. Occasional cold pizza is fine.

wow - left over pizza - don't understand

@ThinWomansBrain

wow - left over pizza - don't understand

What, that there IS any left over? I deliberately order too much so there will be some for breakfast.

@HereWeGoAgains

I couldn’t think of anything less of a treat than cucumber. Maybe celery.

cucumber is great in gin and tonic

maybe not one for the school luchbox

I have always loved cucumber. Used to have a big chunk as part of the little supper I'd make myself as a kid.

I mean, I love pizza and crisps and chocolate too, obviously!

What would the food police make of the Mr whippy ice cream van outside the school gates every afternoon ?kids could actually have an ice cream before tea!😀

@KarmaStar

What would the food police make of the Mr whippy ice cream van outside the school gates every afternoon ?kids could actually have an ice cream before tea!😀

45 per cent air.

Used to operate one of the machines at a part time job and had far too much time to waste, so read the ingredients on the box mix. Works out at about the same sugar content as two thirds of a banana those tricksy Mars Bars in yellow jackets that they are with added calcium and fat to slow any blood sugar rush.

All that air should suit them nicely.

A small Mr Whippy is only 100 calories. Same as a large apple!

Definitely ok Hummus is only good for wallpaper glu.

I say do it.