Just nearly poisoned the kids! Wwyd?

[TropicalSun72]

I'm a childminder and today was quick tea day for mindees aged 2 - 6. Had a frozen Goodfellas pizza from Asda. Was cutting it up for the little ones and being greedy I ate a few pieces too. Good job I did. It immediately tasted weird and chemical like. I ate 3 mouthfuls in total then my throat and tongue started burning. Not horrendous but not pleasant! I've still got a sore throat now. I've obviously not served it and will contact Asda but suspect they'll just refund. I've had to give the poor kids a lesser meal and what if i hadn't have eaten it? Definitely hasn't come from my oven or worktop.

Why all the posts criticising the OP's choice of frozen pizza, when she wants advice/support for the symptoms it caused? It's between her and her minded children's parents what she feeds them. She says it's 'quick tea day' which suggests on other days, a more elaborate meal is served.

Have you checked your freezer to make sure it's not defrosted and refrozen?

Because it’s the internet which give those in their perfect ivory towers a platform to preach from!

Oh please get over yourself!

You will be better contacting goodfellas pizza directly asda is just the middle man

Omg @TropicalSun72 how scary! I hope you are okay and your symptoms don’t last long. Definitely keep the packaging and double check your oven and the rest of the pizza for any plastic or anything else suspicious. Then report to Asda or goodfellas and environmental health.

Check there was nothing in the oven that could have contaminated it.
Check there was no packaging left on it.

Make sure its not that you're allergic to something in it.
I'd also get yourself checked by a dr to make sure you've come to no harm.

Contact Asda, Environmental Health, and Goodfellas customer service to report it.

Keep the food/packaging so they can test it.

I sometimes have something like this for apparently no good reason at all - as in eating something I've made freshly, like scrambled eggs with tomatoes. It's happened a couple of times and was quite scary the first time - the roof of my mouth swelled and became bright red, as did the back of my tongue. Yet I'm not allergic to eggs or tomatoes AFAIK and it has only happened a handful of times, with no particular pattern.
Just saying that there wasn't necessarily anything wrong with the pizza per se - but of course it needs to be checked.

But otherwise I'm with the poster who said they'd be disappointed if their professional childminder served frozen pizza. And I'm curious as to what the "lesser meal" was - spaghetti hoops?

Those frozen pizzas are full of salt, wouldn't give them to an under 3, though I'm far from a model mum, I do give my primary aged kids ready made pizza when you need to get them fed quickly.

Have you got someone else to check this pizza with you? Can you or they smell anything? If you dab the pizza and dab your arm do you get a reaction? Do they?

Because your description of the effects on you could also be an allergic reaction you're having, rather than any chemical on the pizza.

The likelihood of a premade pizza being coated in chemicals is vanishingly unlikely (albeit not impossible - it could have been tampered with at the supermarket).

Still contact EHO, but have an open mind about allergies

Because it’s a forum where discussion takes place. The discussion has evolved. It would be pretty dull if nobody ever veered off path.

It hasn’t evolved at all!! She just outright called out the OP for daring to serve pizza 🙄

It could be a sudden allergy to one of the ingredients OP?

But you'd be right to contact the makers.

Nope! Just have an excellent childminder who doesn't make oven meals for my kid.

"Quick tea day" must come at a discount to the parent?

It's just shoddy. Would you be ok for a cafe, that you pay for, to have a quick lunch day and they serve a shitty lunch? Doubt it. If you're paying, you want quality food.

That doesn't mean I'm in a perfect ivory tower, it means I'd want a decent meal for my toddler when I pay over £60 a day.

Contact goodfellas customer service - keep packet with all batch number etc.
They would want to know.
Asda will probs just chuck it and refund.

I’m a pretty lax parent, but I too would be a bit 🤨 about serving goodfellas frozen pizza’s. It’s not much more hassle to grab a pizza base/pitta/wrap, Passata, mozzarella and some veggie toppings- way more healthy for the kids, all that salt too! What about reduced salt/sugar beans on toast? Much better nutritionally!

OP next time don't tell the witches of Mumsnet that you served the children a cheese and tomato pizza, if you want sympathy and advice you should have served the children a home made full roast dinner with locally sourced organic meat and vegetables.

Definitely contact the manufacturer and environmental health.

FWIW I wouldn't be upset if you gave my child frozen pizza.

Well, quite. That op has said the "poor" kids had to make do with a lesser meal speaks volumes.

@TheGirlWhoLived

it is a lot more hassle, don’t be silly

Sounds like an allergy. Might be worth taking an antihistamine. Or could it be covid affecting your taste?

With a lamb that you slaughtered yourself in the shed, caught straight from its mothers teat from your own fully organic field.

We do pitta/naan bread pizzas, the kids put the toppings of their choice on which is a great learning experience in its self. It’s a great way to practise chopping skills too.

However, maybe frozen pizza was just a treat for the kids. Perhaps the childminder had been out all day and got back late so had to grab something quick and easy.

@TheGirlWhoLived ever heard the saying 'everything after the word but is bull shit'

You're a lax parent BUT!!!! BUT!! You're judgmental

And it would probably have been best if you'd hand reared the cow / sheep yourself, grown the veg with your own fair hand and home made the gravy. Pizza indeed what sort of person are you?

As long as you're not serving it up three times a day every day I reckon the odd pizza can integrate into a balanced diet - and I wouldn't be surprised if the kids regarded ANY other meal as lesser