Homemade pizza is not healthy, we’re having a proper dinner.

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Dc playing with a neighbour friend, I asked if they wanted to help make homemade pizzas and stay for dinner and to check with the mum.
He came back and said that he wasn’t allowed, my Dc asked ‘Aww, why not?’ and he said that his mum said it wasn’t healthy and that she’d make a proper dinner.

We do this sometimes on Friday/Saturday, Dc enjoy the activity and choosing toppings-passata, mozzarella, mushrooms, peppers, spinach and so on to make funny pizza faces, is this massively unhealthy?!

People are completely obsessed with healthy eating. It can't be good for them to be so intense and anxious about food all the time. I realise that living on McDonalds, haribo and red bull is not a good idea but an occasional pizza or similar is harmless and dare I say it, enjoyable.

You dont see Italians mithering like this.

'Highly processed cheese'

And the need to 'throw healthy things on top'

Mamma Mia!!

My Italian Aunt would not eat more than one slice of pizza and it would be served with an inordinate amount of dressed green leaves (and a couple of large glasses of red wine...)

When I was a kid, a fully vegetarian diet (no meat, no fish) would have considered super-healthy, but nowadays, it would attract wagging fingers about the evil of the dairy industry, and the lethal effects of butter and cheese on diets.

Also, I can't see how you make a pizza 'healthier' by bunging loads of 'veggies' on it? Pizzas should be mostly just tomatoes and cheese, as the Italians know.

Here is a recipe for a 'poor man's pizza' for children.

Depending on numbers, cut up tomatoes with a little sugar (it neutralises the acid in fresh tomatoes) and put in microwave for a minute or amount needed.

When suitably soft, shake on grated cheddar cheese, put back into the microwave until well melted, then mix together and spread on toast.

Cut the toast diagonally. You have a healthy tasty nourishing meal or snack for the kids which takes minutes.

Few people realise just how many calories are in a slice of pizza.

Home made pizza is great!
flour, yeast, water, pinch of salt and sugar. Whatever toppings you enjoy: tomatoes, cheese, etc. what’s wrong with that?

It’s made with white flour so it isn’t healthy. That says, we cook it sometimes.

Why can’t you make it with whole meal ?

That’s why home made is better l think - you can control what goes into it.

You know it isn't unhealthy she was making an excuse for whatever reason

So the pizza express marguerita I posted earlier- 600 cal for whole thing?

I do realise how many calories are in a slice of pizza. And tbh it’s quite often my go to low calorie quick but tasty and filling meal.

It's possible he didn't mention homemade and she thought you were ordering a big old greasy deep pan from a takeaway.
It's possible that she doesn't know you put veggies on your pizza.
It's possible that the quantity of veg required on a pizza to make up a cute smiley face is nothing like the quantity that she would consider suitable for the main meal of the day.
It's possible he had something unhealthy this week and she was planning on giving him loads of veg tonight to make up.
I would not waste your time getting stressed about it.

It doesnt matter op. You have your home your rules, her home her rules. And more importantly, its 7 year olds. Who knows what was actually said (I agree with poster who said kid unlikely said "homemade" but even if he did, you do you)

How does a thread about pizza manage to get so many posts deleted !!

So many deleted posts. I'd love to know what they said. x

Rude. Homemade pizza can be healthy! And making pizza is fun. I'd love to come and do that with you!

Said by a disappointed child?

Assuming that is what she said, she could do with unclenching. It's not like you were going to make it with five kinds of high-fat high-salt cheese, processed meats and nothing else; it may well have more veg in than her 'healthy' dinner!
And making pizza is so much fun. I feel for her kid missing out.

The proportion of veg you can get on a pizza is pretty minimal!

@itcouldhavebeenme no problem with Dominoes, but it's not very healthy, obviously. And OP was offended that neighbour implied her pizza wasn't healthy.

I think its fine, its something tasty and fun to make. But to be fair my opinion is probably mute as I ate haribo for my lunch twice last week!

Since when was pizza healthy? I used to get pizzas after a night on the piss. Never felt like i was being healthy.

That said, life would be very boring if we didnt allow ourselves to enjoy our food. Surely having fun with friends is absolutely the kind of time to not care if its healthy or not.

I don't see why people are saying it's so unhealthy. There's protein, carbs (and even white carbs aren't the devil's work), and whatever nutrients are in the veg. Cheese has nutrients other than protein as well. Diet is not about individual meal, it's about what you eat overtime, and I doubt the OP feeds her children pizza every day. She obviously includes veg in it. I really don't know what people are clutching their pearls about.

Pizza is a pretty ill defined class.

It can be anything from a few limp vegetables on a thin flour base to a full fat dripping with cheese, assorted meats, fat, lard, crispy fried stuff and addition cheese stuffed in the crust just in case your arteries aren't clogged by the first bit of cheese.

Plus come home for a proper meal can mean anything from come home to eat this ready meal I stuffed in the oven and took 20 mins to come home to eat this stuff I spend a whole day preparing and planning carefully for a family meal.

Plus no one knows what someone has eaten for the rest of the week. Maybe they had takeaway for the rest of the week and this was the "healthy food" day.

So I wouldn't sweat it or take it as a slur.