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.

@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.

Although my kid does love hummus!

Sounds good to me!

I see the condescending hummus crowd are out

Surely there's no difference between a slice of pizza and a sandwich?

Whatever the child will eat is all that matters.

It's fine if the child likes it that way. I would not even query this. If I had ever put carrots in a school lunch box years ago, my children would have given them to the school rabbits,!

There's nothing wrong with this, school lunches offer pizza as one of their options (among other things obviously). The sausages might not be needed alongside the pizza and vegetable sticks though especially if she's got fruit and biscuit too. Alot of children tend to rush their lunches to get out to play faster.

@WellLarDeDar

I don't think there's anything wrong with it but would the teachers/school staff be iffy about it? Maybe switch the chocolate bar for a yogurt or cereal bar?

This drives me absolutely potty. You're right schools will approve of the yogurt or cereal bar more than a chocolate biscuit but the only real difference between them is the cost! Cereal bars and commercial flavoured yogurts are no better (or worse) than a chocolate biscuit IMO, but they are a lot more expensive per portion. A fantastic marketing job done on, it seems, the whole country, including those who should know better.

we do pizza bagels. tom puree and cheese on bagel, pop in oven then cool then in lunchbox next day. My kids school doesn't allow chocolate biscuits

“Hey mum, can I have pizza for lunch?”
“How about something which is sort of, but not exactly, the absolutely opposite, of the thing that you haven’t expressly not asked for, not. Hummous on a brown wrap!”

Classic MN.

Leftover cold pizza & coffee - food of the gods

How is this even something someone would worry about ?! Pizza at least can have all the food groups if you want it to,

My kids take a sandwich. Either chicken, tuna or cheese. Occasionally left over oven pizza but only because they rarely leave any left over. A penguin or similar. A clementine and a banana and sometimes a packet of crisps. Sometimes they take houmous but relarely because of the mess left on the lunch box! No ots not the healthiest...but I know they will eat it! Plus I cook every evening from scratch. We are a Mediterranean mixed family so we eat of this style at home. However they want to fit in at school and don't like the comments when they do have left overs. Don't worry op. If you know they are going to eat it and not be hungry then do what works for you.

Some people are a bit OTT. I will get flamed but my kids are all a healthy weight and size and have no health issues

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...

Love cold Pizza

Re teachers being iffy about a choc bar - My Dcs go to a school that has provision from year 4 to year 13. School lunches are completely mandatory, and until Yr 7 the snackboxes must contain only fruit or vegetables. No fruit rollups either.

Fine and good. But for the senior school they have a school canteen on site and it sells doritos and oreos and chips and dairy milk. Fucks me right off that my DS got his fruit rollup confiscated and yet a year later they are selling him that shit every day.

[rant over]

@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.

The kids getting a school meal will have pizza as a choice once a week or so. Just go away.

I.mean irs not that different to a cheese and tomato toasty is it and no one would nat an eye lid at that

Except the MN packed lunch patrol

@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!

That made me laugh, it’s so true!

@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.

That's nutritionally very poor, even with a few bits of veg thrown in the wrap.

How about raw kale with chia seeds and a dressing of pureed spinach?

We made pizza at home once or twice a week and freeze the leftovers. I often take in a slice to have for lunch at work. It's no different from a sandwich.

At my kids’ school, other kids would complain about the smell of hummus and tell each other not to bring it in.
This was not a class issue, as Quavers were similarly informally banned by peers!

Don't give her cold pizza for goodness sake. It's just junk.

Can I suggest an open cheese and tomato toastie? Perhaps on a more robust slice of bread such as focaccia or similar.

It's very simple, just layer your cheese and tomato on top of the bread (it's extra tasty if you cook the tomatoes down first and add some flavouring, such as oregano). Then toast the whole lot under the grill or in the oven.

Leave it to cool and it makes a much helthier subsitutute for cold pizza in a lunchbox!

Not enough protein.
You need the proooooooooteeeeeeeeeeiiiin.
It's absolutely fine

We do this for DC1 once a week. It's usually a few slices of Pizza Express cheese and tomato but occasionally it's been Domino's

He is an excruciatingly fussy eater so tends to have the same (ham roll) every other day of the week. I do give him a cheese, yoghurt and an Ella's Kitchen pouch as well.

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.

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

classic!

@FudgeOff

What you've just described is pizza.