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.

🤣 quite. All this pearl clutching over what is basically cheese and tomato on toast!! I am sure OP was serving it with some veggies etc.

Good Grief.. the judging on this thread over a pizza, which is completely not the fucking point of the thread...

i wouldn't have batted an eyelid at my kids being served a frozen pizza occasionally... but then i used to work in a nursery and remember some of the shit they used to serve the kids from tins/packets.

I had this it was the cleaning chemicals I'd cleaned the oven with and hadn't rinsed off properly.

I've had to give the poor kids a lesser meal

Oh the irony

Jesus it's one of those 'only on MN' threads - ffs frozen pizza is FINE (unless poison obviously).

If the OP was spending time in the kitchen cooking a three course hand made meal including making the pizza dough herself, with spinach from her own garden and imported mozzarella then they'd be moaning that their childminder spent too much time in the kitchen and not enough 'quality' time with their toddlers!

There's a lot of posters with low expectations of childcare.

We pay some of the highest rates for childcare. My childminder regularly has 3 toddlers, that's £65x3 she earns a day. £195! And people are happy that she shoves a cheap, nutritionally poor dinner in for the kids? And when she can't serve that, she hasn't got a good back up?

No frozen jackets. No pasta. Nothing better than a single frozen pizza?

That's crap.

In any other profession, you expect good service every single day. OP - raise your standards.

I’m laughing reading this as my daughters cm used to take McDonald’s drive thru on Friday on the way home from school and let them eat it in the car! Unclench you lot.

Nope, my childminder batch cooks on a Sunday and tops up in the week.

I love that my childminder serves varied and healthy food. It takes the pressure off me and gives my child good exposure to varied foods. That's part of what I'm paying for. It's not a free service.

If the op hadn't named the brand and supermarket I would wonder if it was a journalist making a goady post to get reaction tbh.

Op who cleans the oven in your house? Did you cook the pizza on a baking tray or on the oven shelf? Sorry the reason I ask is I houseshared with someone who sprayed cleaner all over the oven and its shelves but just removed it with a dry cloth.

that's £65x3 she earns a day. £195! you are so right - childminding should not be for profit - no one should make any money from the job they should do it for free and spend every penny on food

Or after insurance, heating, water, petrol, food, activities, play equipment, training, there should be enough left to pay a childminder a decent living wage

or hire a fucking nanny and pay for that - supplying everything yourself

Good for you, would you like a medal to go with your humblebrag that has nothing to do with the point of the thread?

Nope, my childminder batch cooks on a Sunday and tops up in the week and those hours are included in what YOU pay - or do you expect her to give up her Sundays for free?

Quite.

We pay some of the highest rates for childcare.

No one cares.

Wtf I don’t pay for the gas man to read the meter at nursery but it’s included in the overheads.

You might not.

Oh fuck off with your £195. With this statement alone you have NO IDEA about a CM, their income and their expenses!

You are exactly the type of parent that CM’s dread!!

Lucky you tasted it, but seriously..a frozen pizza for lunch for that young kids..? Pretty crap.

Frozen pizza for an 8 year old as a once off…fine. But not for a 2 year old. I’m Plenty of easy quick meals you could make instead.

You should definitely feed your kids yourself 😄

Jesus. Most of the time our childminder served healthy home made food, often with the kids helping her to prep.

And then some days they had frozen pizza and salad. And even, shock horrid, McDonalds on a Friday if it was a just a few of them, for a treat!

What is the world coming to…

There's not much that could go wrong with a cheese and tomato pizza, surely?

It did remind me though of when my daughter was tucking in to spag bol (homemade 😉 ). I had a taste as I usually eat later and was OMG, how can you eat this? It tastes disgusting - so salty! She was 12, shrugged her shoulders and said it doesn't. I was confused as simple to make, have been for years.

Next day the more usual COVID symptoms started!

Yep, changes to your sense of taste or smell often happen before you feel like you've been run over.

Sounds like an allergic reaction, never mind calling Asda, you might want to get yourself checked out asap!!

This. And op even ate half the pizza herself before even feeding the children. 😂

Batch cooking on a Sunday, you know when she’s not being paid, significantly reduces that £195 a day you say she’s getting doesn’t it.

Have you thought everything else she does outside of those hours she’s being paid for? You have ZERO clue!