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.

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Wow. Thank goodness you tried it

Wonder what it could be

Wonder if rest of pizza tastes the same

Def contact Asda and goodfella

And wow at responses that cm should give frozen pizza

I thought a cm chosen to be like a home environment

I give my dd pizza

Wouldn't have any issues in a cm nanny or school giving pizza either

A lot of strange comments on here. Who knew frozen pizza could be so controversial. School cooks serve them up all the time. Surely people would rather their CM was actually watching their kids rather than spending hours in the kitchen rustling up some highly nutritious meal that loads of kids won't eat anyway.

I used to childmind. All of my children had a hot homemade lunch (including the ones at school)
Tea was exactly like they'd serve in a nursery (and I've worked in numerous)
Things like cheese on toast, crumpets, pizza with crudités and hummus, pitta bread and dips, fresh fruit on the side.
So I can absolutely understand why the OP would be serving pizza for tea.
I've had around 30 parents in the past and not a single one has complained about frozen pizza.

Yep, heard it and used it many a time! However in this context everything before the word ‘but’ wasn’t bullshit. I am a lax parent, I’m not a lax childminder

That's what I was thinking, a Goodfellows pizza wouldn't be something I'd be happy to hear my kids had at a childminder I paid for.

Actually @Fromwetome it’s everything before the word “but” is bullshit as the saying goes

That's all well and good buts eriousky, the frozen pizza surely IS the rubbish quick meal? What did you give as a LESSER option?

I can only think of toast? Maybe toast and ketchup!? Dd ate this for about a year and a half so it’s a thing 😂

The saying is "everything BEFORE the word "but" is horse shit".

Otherwise it doesn't make sense.

And here were have the British "Right to do Things Badly" - because no-one can tell you how to do it better. So continue to feed kids crap, (v little nutrition, highly processed, lots of salt), but don't care. As long as no-one is telling you what to do.

Bloody hell , its an occasional pizza. This week school dinners have included pizza and fishfingers and chips

Pass me the smelling salts

Hahaha, only on Mumsnet would a thread go this way.
Frozen pizza is fine really. I mean it's not great but it's not the end of the world.

My DDs infant school lunch menu is full of what I think of as cheat meals. Pizza once a week, fish and chips once a week, sausages and wedges, chicken nuggets. I look at the menu and think whatever was Jamie Oliver doing as we're almost back to turkey twizzlers. So an occasional pizza at the CM wouldn't bother me, would prepare them for school meals!

I hope you’re ok now OP?

I’d have thought the most likely answer would be that the manufacturer had put chilli sauce on the pizza by mistake? Or you’d bought something other than a margarita but hadn’t realised?

This thread has reminded me (as if I needed it) why I stopped being a childminder. Made to feel like a thief for charging £6 per hour, when a large proportion of it was spent on decent food and fun resources for the kids. Profit?? You’ve got to be joking. Never again.

Definitely go to the gp and check any allergy testing etc. as it sounds like an allergy , but better to be safe rather than sorry so good call

I thought the same 🤣

some people are obsessed with food on mumsnet

every evening there has to be a hot home cooked organic meal with PROTEIN!! Usually meat. And “veggies” - cringe. This has to happen every night. You can’t do anything like go to the gym or see friends and then just have a quick tea. Oh no.

Only after ascertaining where the life insurance policy is held.

It's not obsessive to have a protein and a veg, literally chucking frozen mixed veg in pasta and adding cheese saw takes less time than a frozen pizza in the oven.

Pizza actually contains all three main food groups for a meal: carbs in the base, veg in the sauce and protein in the cheese. You can certainly improve it by adding some veg on the side as well, which OP said she does.

In terms of whatever additions there are in processed food, I don't see why it's so much worse than fish fingers.

So while your childminder is glued to the stove rustling up Michelin star worthy meals, who is actually looking after your children?

So do you think CM’ers should always serve processed crap? As presumably if you accept this is a one off/once in a while sort of tea you acknowledge the rest of the time something more nutritious is served - which will require some preparation. So I’m not clear what point you’re making. Or should they always serve processed food?

Pizza isn’t processed crap. It’s bread, tomato sauce and cheese FFS.

Bloody hell, I bet you give them Pom Bears and Fruit Shoots as well.

Seriously, get a grip, people.

It’s not great is it? High levels of saturated fat and salt. It’s not a nutritious, balanced meal for a child, especially not a 2 year old. My point was that if a CM can’t be expected to prepare food as in your post, because they are looking after the kids - then the alternative is to serve processed food, so are you saying that’s to be expected? Processed food for each meal?

Whats hard about reheating a bolognese you’ve cooked before or slung in the slow cooker? I manage to supervise my kids AND feed them decent meals. Just requires some forethought. Yes I serve pizza too, but not whilst I’m providing a service.