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.

Indeed and it's around 16% fat.

Sainsbury's Organic Houmous is 23.8g of fat per 100g!

That's fine. Same as a cheese and tomato sandwich. Mine often had cold pizza cut into fingers for packed lunch. They also give them pretty much the same meal as an actual school lunch made by the caterers. Obviously, not every single day, but I wouldn't give a tuna sandwich every single day either.

@raffle

Not much different to a cheese and tomato sandwich in most respects

I was going to write this but you beat me to it!

@HereWeGoAgains

Crudités is something else that always get brought up on MN as the solution to all dietary dilemmas.

Although in real life I never hear them called that and my kids don’t eat them anyway.

I think it's the cucumber. A lot of Mumsnetters must see it as some sort of unhealthy food antidote the amount of times you see it being served alongside all manner of foods whether it goes or not.

We cook Turkish pizza wrap and DD loves eating it cold in her lunch box.

At home, I try to do a healthy version of things that she loves. So instead of chicken nuggets I make Chicken shashlik with a big salad. Then a yoghurt. She doesn't need anything else then. Of course we have treats at the weekend but she prefers a salad to anything else and considers cucumber to be a treat!

I love pizza cold, too. Some types of pizza really taste best the day after, right from the fridge!

I would, but would lose the chocolate and sausages to balance it out

@WheekestLink

We cook Turkish pizza wrap and DD loves eating it cold in her lunch box.

At home, I try to do a healthy version of things that she loves. So instead of chicken nuggets I make Chicken shashlik with a big salad. Then a yoghurt. She doesn't need anything else then. Of course we have treats at the weekend but she prefers a salad to anything else and considers cucumber to be a treat!

A big salad? Not a massive salad?

It’s fine and a regular thing in school lunches

Some of these replies are absolutely hilarious by the way

Food threads on MN are a wild read aren't they!

@HereWeGoAgains

Crudités is something else that always get brought up on MN as the solution to all dietary dilemmas.

Although in real life I never hear them called that and my kids don’t eat them anyway.

I've heard it, but only adults puzzling over a menu and one saying "What are crew-dites?"

Pizza sounds nice, I think it tastes better cold too! Cocktail sausages always get mentioned on lunch box threads though, ew.

I make pizza from scratch & regularly make extra mini ones for next day lunch for my adult son and myself. Can't understand people who say it's unhealthy, no worse than a sandwich (and my dough made with olive oil & fresh mozzarella) I'm sure Italians have it regularly for lunch! 🍕😋

I have done this! But then I'd send carrot sticks and hummus, blueberries and a yoghurt along with some chicken bites to balance it out a bit.

Just here for the food battled

Battles!

I bet the hummous is left untouched in most lunchboxes! I dislike it as an adult so can't imagine many kids enjoying it.

@Honeyroar

Come pizza is really common picnic food in Italy.

I'll pass 🤣🤣

Of course we have treats at the weekend but she prefers a salad to anything else and considers cucumber to be a treat!

Are you really, really sure that this is true?

If she considers cucumber to be a treat then what in Gods name are you feeding her the rest of the time?

Totally fine! My kids have had cold pizza for lunch a few times and if we've taken a pack lunch somewhere I've took cold pizza. Quite common at birthday parties too!

I’m all for pizza whatever time of the day it’s fancied! But I also don’t see the MN jokes/sarcasm about hummus- in loss of cultures it a staple food, like in Greek countries, Israel etc. One of my parents is Israeli so my kids wouldn’t think twice about eating hummus- it’s not even that healthy really!!!

Homemade pizza, where you control the ingredients... great. Shop bought, watch out for the salt content. Some of them are very high indeed.

Pizza is fine

@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.