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.

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

Really? All you’ve doing there with that spinach purée is indoctrinating a child that they can’t enjoy whole foods with adding “something”. That is exactly why they end up having ketchup on everything and can’t enjoy a McFlurry without sauce on it. Your puréed spinach is a gateway drug.

[quote ImUninsultable]@FudgeOff

What you've just described is pizza.[/quote]
You don't say

I never understand why pizza is bad but a cheese sandwich is fine?

@FudgeOff

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!

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So many ridiculous comments on this thread! Of course cold pizza if fine and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Do children seriously engage with brown hummus wraps?! How dull!

@FudgeOff

Sorry! I hadnt scrolled all the way down to see your grin emoji. I've seen it now!

You never can tell with food threads on mumsnet whether someone is actually being serious. Especially when you dont scroll down to see the grin!

@OnceuponaRainbow18

I wouldn’t give cold pizza for lunch because in our house it’s eaten for breakfast!!

Well quite!

How is there any left by lunchtime??!!

@FudgeOff

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!

@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.

Personally I think it is unhealthy to give my children conventional 'food' at all. They are now sustained via a series of sterile protein shakes, and a twice-weekly intravenous infusion that gives them all the nutrition they need, not just for school but also their music and languages lessons.

And yes, I do judge you.

[quote ImUninsultable]@FudgeOff

Sorry! I hadnt scrolled all the way down to see your grin emoji. I've seen it now!

You never can tell with food threads on mumsnet whether someone is actually being serious. Especially when you dont scroll down to see the grin![/quote]
You really can never tell. But 'pureed spinach is a gateway drug' is definately going to be the name of my autobiography

ha!

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

You've just described a fucking pizza.

@FudgeOff cold pizza is exactly what you have described except with a pizza base rather than bread. Not all pizzas are frozen supermarket crap believe it or not! This might be a revelation to some but many people….wait for it….make their own pizza!!!!

Both my kids are away to their holiday club with pizza in their lunch boxes today. DD with the wee round ones from Tesco and DS with the sub style ones.
They are pretty picky about sandwich fillers, sometimes they like ham sometimes they dont, but pizza is always a win and I know they wont come home famished!

@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.

I'd rather starve then eat hummus

[quote ImUninsultable]@FudgeOff

What you've just described is pizza.[/quote]
ermmmm joke?

It's not exactly a packet of morphine and a Red Bull

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A grilled open mozzarella and tomato puree sandwich is NOT a pizza.

A pizza is round (normally). An open sandwich is probably a bit oblong. It's the oblong that makes it healthy.

@FudgeOff - apologies, and great work

I can't think of many more depressing things to find in your lunchbox when you're starving than a hummus wrap. Cold pizza sounds good, OP!

@thedancingbear

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

You've just described a fucking pizza.

Wasn't that the point?

@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.

Perhaps the OP knows what her child likes and will eat?

My DC take a fag each into school for their lunch and are bloody grateful for it

DD (11) doesn't like sandwiches and loves cold pizza in her lunchbox. I buy little mini party ones from Sainsbury's and she takes 3. I just cook them in the morning.

@bettyfloormop

My DC take a fag each into school for their lunch and are bloody grateful for it

There goes my cup of tea, all over my desk in a spray....

@bettyfloormop

My DC take a fag each into school for their lunch and are bloody grateful for it

This actually made me laugh out loud

@FudgeOff

A grilled open mozzarella and tomato puree sandwich is NOT a pizza.

A pizza is round (normally). An open sandwich is probably a bit oblong. It's the oblong that makes it healthy.

This is bollocks. Most unhealthy food is quadrilateral - chocolate, sausage sandwiches, steak bakes. Fish fingers.

Healthy food - apples, potatos, hummuses, advocado, is usually round.

You're not a nutritionist, are you? Your poor kids.