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Cold Pizza in lunchbox?

302 replies

PizzaInLunchbox · 26/10/2021 13:31

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.

OP posts:
themadcatparade · 27/10/2021 12:59

@melonhead

This will sound odd but I think it depends on how you cut it as to how the lunch box police will view it!!

Triangles = lazy mum leftovers

Squares = Italian lunch!

GrinI love this!

Give her the cold pizza, im sure she's earned it for all the school work she does. Her friends will be very jealous Grin

Strangevipers · 27/10/2021 13:00

OP didn't ask about nutritional value

OP asked if it's ok for her child to eat cold pizza for lunch

The answer is of course YES

CallMeRisley · 27/10/2021 13:11

@Silvercatowner

wholewheat hummus

What on earth is wholewheat hummus??

It’s but the hummus that’s wholewheat, it’s the wrap. It says “wholewheat hummus and veg wrap” ie a wholewheat wrap filled with hummus and veg.
Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 27/10/2021 13:15

@PumpkinsandTea, I'm sorry to hear about your daughter's diagnosis, but most of us don't have that condition. A tiny drop of vinegar in a little square of pizza is not going to ruin the OP's daughter's teeth.

SevenZebrasDancing · 27/10/2021 13:26

@PumpkinsandTea

*ALL
Bloody hell @PumpkinsandTea how do you handle things like that day to day? (Not to derail the trhead mind). That sounds really complicated. My DS1 has a condition that is relatively rare so I am genuinely interested how others cope. (He has allergic reactions to the cold. A cold glass of water or an ice cream could literally trigger an anaphylactic reaction.)
Draggondragon · 27/10/2021 13:52

I'm life threateningly allergic to nuts
That doesn't mean they aren't lovely and non dangerous to other people.

Strangevipers · 27/10/2021 13:55

Allergies aside.

Remember when we were all children and you had some squash a ham sandwich and a packet of crisps and nobody died

Ahh the good ole days

BeyondMyWits · 27/10/2021 14:09

Remember when we were all children and you had some squash a ham sandwich and a packet of crisps and nobody died

I do remember... and I had a heart attack at 53.

Strangevipers · 27/10/2021 14:13

@BeyondMyWits

Remember when we were all children and you had some squash a ham sandwich and a packet of crisps and nobody died

I do remember... and I had a heart attack at 53.

How awful I hope you have made a full recovery.

On the upside luckily that can't be said for the majority. Especially those who had home cooked healthy meals for tea time

TwoMountains · 27/10/2021 14:24

My DC had school pack lunches for a few days last term - school kitchens weren’t operating normally for some reason, but they provided pack lunches for kids who normally had the school dinners.

DC brought home the leftover lunch in a paper bag at hometime.

The leftovers included a slice of cold pizza.
No idea how normal that is in pack lunches made by schools, but clearly whoever’s in charge of the kitchens at my DC’s school thinks that cold pizza is perfectly acceptable in pack lunches. (Even if my DC disagreed!)

ODFOgrinch · 27/10/2021 14:39

@BeyondMyWits

Remember when we were all children and you had some squash a ham sandwich and a packet of crisps and nobody died

I do remember... and I had a heart attack at 53.

I am really sorry to hear that and hope that you recovered fully. I'm not sure that 40 odd years later you can blame a ham sandwich a day for that though. My DM was way ahead of her time and I had lovely healthy lunches throughout primary and made good choices through secondary. Unfortunately developed a pie habit during my student years and by 50 was the size of a house. My school diet had no impact on my adult food habits.
Yellowmellow2 · 27/10/2021 15:02

@Strangevipers

Allergies aside.

Remember when we were all children and you had some squash a ham sandwich and a packet of crisps and nobody died

Ahh the good ole days

Absolutely. A diet of Findus pancakes, food from Bejam and a ham sandwich, packet of Salt ‘n Shake crisps and a oiled egg in my lunch box. It was all fine.
Yellowmellow2 · 27/10/2021 15:02

*boiled

Original poster
PizzaInLunchbox · 27/10/2021 16:38

DDs school are pretty relaxed with lunchboxes from what I can tell, only time I heard of anything being confiscated was a peanut butter sandwich.

I usually send Ham Sandwich, Babybel/Cheesestring, cucumber and/or carrots cut up, penguin like biscuit, apple or banana and a carton of squash.

Only time it's been a problem was when DD opened her drink at playtime and it squirted everywhere and got everything wet. She got a hot lunch that day - she does like the school dinners (apart from pizza day and she doesn't like the pasta bolognese but eats both with me, pizza has to be cold though) but doesn't have them all the time as I do like cooking occasionally.

OP posts:
funinthesun19 · 27/10/2021 17:09

Yanbu. What’s the difference between a cheese sandwich and a cold slice of pizza?

ODFOgrinch · 27/10/2021 17:40

@PizzaInLunchbox

DDs school are pretty relaxed with lunchboxes from what I can tell, only time I heard of anything being confiscated was a peanut butter sandwich.

I usually send Ham Sandwich, Babybel/Cheesestring, cucumber and/or carrots cut up, penguin like biscuit, apple or banana and a carton of squash.

Only time it's been a problem was when DD opened her drink at playtime and it squirted everywhere and got everything wet. She got a hot lunch that day - she does like the school dinners (apart from pizza day and she doesn't like the pasta bolognese but eats both with me, pizza has to be cold though) but doesn't have them all the time as I do like cooking occasionally.

You monster! Ham! Ham! What about the salt, the pork, the fat, the calories, the sulphites, the pinkness? The fact that eating ham as a child gave a pp a heart attack 40 years later. I bet you put butter on the bread too, and the bread has gluten in rather than being a chickpea flatbread. No wonder the poor poppet begs for cheese and tomato: addicted to salt!!!!!
Snoopsnoggysnog · 27/10/2021 20:57

@PumpkinsandTea you don’t need to buy ready made pizza sauce though - tomato purée or passata works fine

PumpkinsandTea · 28/10/2021 02:23

@SevenZebrasDancing I haven't properly so far! It's been two weeks and we've managed to drop a few sugary snack items but honestly I'm in out of my depth. She has sensory-related ARFID already! There's about 5/6 items of food that she will eat and that's quite literally it. One thing she is currently going through a phase of ONLY eating for dinner in the evening, is canned Heinz flipping macaroni!!!!! I have no idea where she's tried it but that is the only thing she will eat for her evening meal and yep, you guessed it - there's sugar in it. Due to her learning difficulties, If I don't give her it she WILL go hungry. Not without screeching the entire street down for 4/5/6/7+ hours first.

Thankfully she will sometimes eat mashed potato, broccoli, green beans, carrots (& also has cheese sandwiches for lunch EVERY SINGLE GOD DAMNED DAY!!! but even the bread has to have zero sugar! Which I know she won't eat!), however she will ONLY eat these things when SHE asks for them. Any attempt at influence is futile & frankly, foolish.
I'm waiting for a referral to a specialist nutritionist for children with SEN as I'm genuinely scared as to how to navigate this. There's a very real chance she's going to lose all her teeth.

Draggondragon · 29/10/2021 12:23

I can't think of anything more depressing than being a MN child. No joy, educational or nutritional values in everything. We are sitting on the beach with our phones and a pizza hut. Coke for kids, beers for adults. Nobody died yet

vajingleberry · 29/10/2021 14:59

I can't think of anything more depressing than being a MN child

@Draggondragon - agree completely, but at least you would have a very detailed record of your daily food intake (including exact weights, specific number of blueberries given and calorific value) to look back on when you are an adult Grin

Yellowmellow2 · 30/10/2021 08:10

@Draggondragon

I can't think of anything more depressing than being a MN child. No joy, educational or nutritional values in everything. We are sitting on the beach with our phones and a pizza hut. Coke for kids, beers for adults. Nobody died yet
Good for you! Perfect day.
ISpyCobraKai · 30/10/2021 21:20

Yes because all MN children have an identical diet Hmm

PumpkinsandTea · 31/10/2021 01:27

@Draggondragon

I can't think of anything more depressing than being a MN child. No joy, educational or nutritional values in everything. We are sitting on the beach with our phones and a pizza hut. Coke for kids, beers for adults. Nobody died yet
If you & @vajingleberry actually read my previous posts you'd see why I'm hyper analyzing my child's diet. She has a genetic dental aplasia and has been told if we don't remove sugar from her diet completely, she will lose every single tooth she has & ever wi have Hmm
Draggondragon · 31/10/2021 06:37

Not talking about you, talking about one of the first responses from a food nutter. As u said, I have to plan because of a fatal allergy, doesn't make me a sanctimonious twat, just unlucky. Ditto, your situation, I sympathise and would never judge anyone for that. Jumping in to say something PA earlier like that weirdo did, fair game

HailAdrian · 31/10/2021 07:20

'Pizza is an occasional treat' but a sandwich every day is fine? How stupid.

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