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.

Pizza is an occasional treat not a school lunch

Gold.

It's bread, tomato sauce and cheese.

I picture these types of posters, many years from now, upon their deathbed surrounded by teary-eyed children in a sunlight dappled room. "What's that grandma, I can't hear you" - everyone leans closer, with baited breath, tissues dabbing at wet eyes, "I'm so glad I only had pizza as an occasional treat" - last breath, expires.

My friend has very fussy ds, absolute nightmare. During lockdown she made her own pizza bases, using half brown and half white flour. If you use a square or oblong tin you can cut it into fingers and freeze for her lunch boxes.

@bellabasset

My friend has very fussy ds, absolute nightmare. During lockdown she made her own pizza bases, using half brown and half white flour. If you use a square or oblong tin you can cut it into fingers and freeze for her lunch boxes.

Mmm sounds yummy, I'll try this thank you

I make mini pizzas in a fairy cake tin specially so DD who is 5 can take them for her lunch. She'll have a tiny sandwich and two mini pizzas along with some grapes and sometimes a yoghurt.
I think so long as it's filling then lunch box contents is a battle not worth the fight.

I've done it before - generally when they had pizza for tea and it was the leftovers (Wednesday due to kickboxing was generally pizza night because it was quick) so Thursday they would often have some left over pizza in their lunch box (if they ate it all on Wednesday they didn't)

I love cold pizza!

DS had this today. I don't see how it's different to a cheese sandwich or cheese pita to be honest.

2 slices of pizza, apple, orange, 1 babybel, cucumber, pepper sticks, carrott sticks, yogurt, biscuit and crackers. That 2 X snacks and lunch at an outdoors holiday club today.

@QueenofKattegat

Pizza is an occasional treat not a school lunch

Gold.

It's bread, tomato sauce and cheese.

I picture these types of posters, many years from now, upon their deathbed surrounded by teary-eyed children in a sunlight dappled room. "What's that grandma, I can't hear you" - everyone leans closer, with baited breath, tissues dabbing at wet eyes, "I'm so glad I only had pizza as an occasional treat" - last breath, expires.

Gold🤣

DD loves cold pizza for lunch - we make our own so it isnt that unhealthy. We make one each, and she takes any leftovers to school the next day. She also cant eat a whole pizza if we go to pizza express so asks for a box to take the leftovers home. She takes some fruit as well I think.

@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.

Mumsnet bingo only a couple of posts in!

Incidentally I think pizza is absolutely fine but cocktail sausages really are junk and I would class those as an occasional treat. I know that wasn’t the OP question but people mention them for lunch boxes so often on here and I can’t understand it.

My son has ASD and eats the exact same packed lunch every day (unfortunately). I heat a small individual pizza in the morning and wrap it well in foil. I put it in a separate compartment of his lunch box so other items remain cool.

I have noticed a few very judgemental posts here. If you have a child with ARFID or spectrum related eating issues, getting anything into them is bloody hard work. I have a varied healthy diet, my son's is pretty awful. It is a very common problem. Ultimately I need him to eat. I am constantly trying to introduce new foods but rarely have success. I have only just managed to get him to try pasta. He's 10. Please don't judge, you have no idea what's going on behind closed doors

@QueenofKattegat

Pizza is an occasional treat not a school lunch

Gold.

It's bread, tomato sauce and cheese.

I picture these types of posters, many years from now, upon their deathbed surrounded by teary-eyed children in a sunlight dappled room. "What's that grandma, I can't hear you" - everyone leans closer, with baited breath, tissues dabbing at wet eyes, "I'm so glad I only had pizza as an occasional treat" - last breath, expires.

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Why not replace the 'occasional treat' pizza with the following
Dough base - whole wheat artisan crafted flatbread
Tomato sauce - sugar-free organic cold-pressed beetroot puree
Cheese - thin air
I would also definitely replace the biscuit with a nice dry rice cake and under no circumstances should a cocktail sausage even exist .

Seriously though, if your child likes cold pizza, go for it! My now 6'3", marathon running DS ate the same packed lunch every day for years and the contents were absolute MN anathema....he did OK on it (although he doesn't like pizza, more's the pity )

@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.

Joy of joy. King of Kings. Somebody said the most predictable thing 😂😂😂

The funny thing is, many schools would confiscate this for being "greasy, processed food" Yet are ok with sandwiches with big chunks of cheese in - put a cheese sandwich in the microwave for ten seconds and watch how much grease literally POURS out...!!!!

My DD's school make me laugh. They confiscated a slice of homemade pizza and a pot of Ambrosia from a kid in my DD's class's lunchbox last year, citing it as processed junk.
My DD has school dinners and what is on the menu for wednesdays this year? Pizza & wedges with sponge pudding & custard for after

@LaurieFairyCake

Pizza is EXACTLY the same constituent parts as a cheese and tomato sandwich

I can't believe I've had to literally post this about 8 times in the last 16 years

People are so fucking weird about pizza...

I agree for the most part. However the sauce on pizza has sugar, salt, flavorings and in many cases vinegar. Some even contain msg

@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.

This is such utter bollocks. Such judgemental nonsense. Also patronising 🙄

I work in a school and don't think the midday supervisors have ever confiscated anything! It has been noted if a child had something really unhealthy every day and followed up as a safeguarding incident, and in this case they might be offered something from the kitchen (we did have to replace a mouldy jam sandwich once and we had a child who brought in a large tube of Pringles and a packet of 6 jam doughnuts one day...they stand out as beyond the pale NOT a slice of homemade pizza and a rice pudding!)

@NeverDropYourMooncup

Pizza: Bread made with olive oil, tomato in a form that concentrates lycopene (so is healthier), fresh tomato, cheese (thus containing calcium)

Cheese and tomato sandwich: industrialised bread, tomato, cheese.

Wrap: Wheat Flour, Water, Stabiliser (Glycerol), Sunflower Oil, Emulsifier (Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Dextrose, Raising Agents (Sodium Bicarbonate, Diphosphates), Salt.

Hummus: not allowed due to the risk of killing somebody else's child.

It's not exactly a packet of morphine and a Red Bull; it's a cheese and tomato sandwich made awesome (and it contains a vegetable portion and a small amount of olive oil, a source of omega-9 fats, which is more than a Chicken and Philadelphia sandwich does).

If you make pizza in a rectangular dish, OP, it'll be much easier to portion up for the lunchbox. She might like trying sliced sausage on it as well if she already eats them separately.

Again, whilst I don't see the issue with pizza for lunch for a child, what you've stated here isn't factually correct. Pizza sauce contains sugar, salt, sometimes vinegar as a preservative, flavorings and in really cheap junkie pizzas, they often even have MSG

What's wrong with vinegar?

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

What's wrong with vinegar?

You mean besides the high levels of acid which amongst many things, rips enamel off teeth! My child has a genetic aplasia meaning her enamel is especially fragile. I've spent the last two weeks since diagnosis, researching the info given by the dentist on what to avoid. She cannot have ANY sugar AT. AT.

Help me

*ALL

Again, whilst I don't see the issue with pizza for lunch for a child, what you've stated here isn't factually correct. Pizza sauce contains sugar, salt, sometimes vinegar as a preservative, flavorings and in really cheap junkie pizzas, they often even have MSG

You don't make pizza sauce or just brush on a thin layer of tomato puree/tinned tomato/Passata? Even when you've gone to the effort (not much, but still some) of making pizza dough?

I'd never have thought of myself as anything particularly virtuous, but when I'd make pizza, there was no way on earth I'd ruin it by slopping on something like that. Even now when it's GF premade bases (as life is too short to try and come up with an acceptable dough), I'm not spending out extra on stuff like that.