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?!

I have never seen it

Making my own pizza right now too.. I consider it healthy when added vegetables and passata. Don't know what they are missing!

My favourite dinner ever 😆

😮 Yes I use this if not making dough! Had no idea

She misunderstood and thought you were serving oven pizza from the supermarket rather than fresh with vegetables.

We do it with flour & greek yoghurt, so nice!

Pizza is a high proportion of carbs compared to protein and vegetables - higher than most other dinners. Some people might say cheese is unhealthy in the amount on pizza.

Not at all unlikely. There are plenty of MNers who would say similar.

She sounds fun.

Even if homemade pizza was unhealthy, it would still be crap of her not to let her child have it on this one night of his life

Yeah, like…. 2 full portions of veg? More protein?

lots of people would see it as a low nutrition meal. Whether they care or not is a different matter.

Even if it was a store bought one, as a one off she could have let it slide so that her child could have fun with their friends, but okay.

Some might say no to their children a lot when they’re younger and then find directly thise children have access to all sort of ‘forbidden’ things they say yes a lot. Variety and moderation is the cornerstone to most things.

I CBA to make my own but only eat freshly made pizza cooked in wood fired ovens from independent restaurants or street food vendors, only ever have the Mediterranean veg variety and I rarely eat more than half of a standard 11 inch pizza.

Is that still healthy enough for MN? What about when I have the rest for brunch the next day?

No it wasn't, it was a normal 7 year old expressing disappointment that their friend couldn't stay.

I make the dough and roll it super thin, 230 degree fan over and lots of veggies. So what if it has carbs, they’re not poison.

You do know high calorie does not equal unhealthy?

True, my cousins weren’t really allowed anything and whenever they had the chance (ie birthday parties) they’d chug down all the soda, snacks and candy on site.

She sounds like a complete bore, homemade pizza can be healthy

Not much veg goes on a homemade pizza in my experience- even when I'm making it.
Bread, tomato, cheese and a half portion of veg. Not sure if it is "healthy".

Ooh not tried yoghurt in my dough before. One for the future! We just got a pizza oven after too long trying to juggle multiple pizzas in the normal oven and them all cooking at different times, it’s so good!

How would the neighbour possibly know if OP blends up a thousand organic veggies and lovingly hand presses them into the tomato sauce. She was basically just rude.

Don't ask again 😭 feel for the kid

Not much veg goes on a homemade pizza in my experience- even when I'm making it.
Bread, tomato, cheese and a half portion of veg. Not sure if it is "healthy".

You've not had one of my veggie pizzas then! They are fabulous 👌

Absolutely this. My son asked me last week if he could go to his friends house for, what I thought, a takeaway dinner. I let him go and when I spoke to the mother after I realised she had made it herself and it's a "fakeaway" she makes a lot for kids at the weekends.