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?!

It’s not unhealthy if you’re making it yourself. But what probably happened was he went home to his mum and said can he have pizza round yours and omitted the home made bit, and maybe he already had pizza that week so his mum wanted him to have something healthy tonight.

Not saying it’s healthy, but it’s not really massively unhealthy is it? Even so, on a Saturday night as a fun thing? I feel like some people are so uptight

You called a mother who had already planned diner for her kid and declined a very last minute invitation a rude arsehole.

If that's your standard basic reply, what do you say when you actually over-react 😂

@PassingStranger

what do you find filling?

Individual foods aren't unhealthy, it depends what goes into the overall diet.

Even if you had a spinach and avocado omelette for breakfast, vegetable and lentil soup with a small wholegrain roll for lunch and chicken or salmon with salad for dinner you're probably going to end up deficient in something.

who said it would?

But it won't harm the kid to have a proper diner at home, people being so busy these days, it could be the first time this week the family is actually sitting together.

Mmmmm.. maybe he had pizza last night, with leftovers for lunch (we do that with ours)... and so it is not just tonight. Wouldn't judge someone as uptight for wanting their child to eat a healthy meal.

For one person maybe, but it's unlikely just to be for one, isn't it?!

So strained chopped tomatoes, and various veg, cheese as protein, with a yogurt base.

Or read your average jar of sauce.

I know what I’d eat every time.

Very uptight
Whenever I went to a friends house for a play date I would expect to get some ( chips etc) unhealthy fun food as that was part of the overall play date, I got healthy food at home ( as I’m sure my friend did when I wasn’t there) but these were play dates and I didn’t want to ( or expect) eat sensible healthy meal at that, my parents didn’t mind as mainly I was eating healthily

Maybe he had toast for breakfast and sandwiches for lunch, so another bready meal wasn't a healthy balance.

Maybe he had doughnuts for breakfast and fresh air for lunch. No one knows.

Depends what the calories come from.

in the chilled dough it’s all phosphates and nitrates food knows what pretty sure not good calories

Do you think the ‘home made’ part didn’t make it back to the mum. The kid probably just said we’re having pizza.

How do you know she’d already planned it? Plus it wasn’t very last minute, I asked after lunch..around 3

jesus Christ all the chest beating about a pizza!

a food item itself isn’t “unhealthy”. It’s bread, tomatoes and cheese. No different to a cheese and tomato sandwich.

as part of a normal diet it’s perfectly acceptable.

healthy is an overall diet which includes the nutrition, vitamins and minerals a body needs.

The Mum will be posting on here in a few years asking why her child doesn’t have any friends.

Even if it was an unhealthy pizza, once in a blue moon isn't going to harm and you don't say something like that to your child because you know it could get back to the other parent.

I have never seen it

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

You've never seen it, and yet you use it?

We've just had homemade pizzas (but using shop brought bases). My 3yo loves adding the toppings, and I serve it with chopped up veg and houmous. Today I also added also a few other bits from the Asda deli range to pad it out a bit. Probably not the healthiest meal we'll eat all week but it's good to have a Saturday afternoon treat and she's been running around all afternoon so 🤷‍♀️

Declining isn't what's rude though, is it? It's the reason behind declining. Even if you're thinking it, you don't say it and especially not to a child, who's likely to report back 'my mum said...'.

It was arsey and judgemental. A simple, 'not tonight, I've already got dinner sorted' would have sufficed.

Well she was daft to say that knowing he might repeat it!

Maybe "no, I've already started dinner" didn't cut it?