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

[Summerwillbesoshortthisyear]

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?!

Once the poster explained it was the pizza base in a roll, I knew what she meant…okay? 😊

This is the ready made pizza dough I buy:

Nothing in it I wouldn’t use if I made it myself.

no phosphates and nitrates.

Some people are obsessed with protein

Yes

I don't actually know

but same as you, by 3pm on a Saturday, I already planned what I would do for diner and bought food accordingly. I am not food shopping on a Saturday afternoon for a start.

I can't see what the outrage is of wanting your child to come home for diner for whatever reason.

Being outraged and offended by a reply translated by a 7 year old.. bit much!

Apparently there’s evidence that the protein obsession could be increasing colon issues such as colon cancer, because people aren’t getting enough fibre because it’s all about the protein.

every dietary fad so far it all seems to come back to a balanced diet. Cutting foods out and labelling normal foods as “healthy” and “unhealthy” never seems to work.

Nope - I called a woman who declined a nice invitation for her child by stating "it wasn’t healthy and that she’d make a proper dinner" a rude arsehole.

Do tell us how you know that she had already planned dinner and that they invitation was last minute when OP has already said that is not that case? Are you, perhaps, the rude arsehole next door?

Probably not. I think you are just a rude arsehole who is after a squabble with internet strangers. 😂😂😂or is it just the word 'arsehole' which causes you to be triggered and to overreact. Do you need us all to switch to 'kinder' words? 😘

@Summerwillbesoshortthisyear your pizza sounds divine and its so lovely the children get involved in making it as well. You sound like a brilliant Mum - don’t give what the neighbour said a second thought and tuck into your pizza with an incredibly unhealthy glass of wine 🍷🍕❤️

but you don't know what the mother even said!

You take what a 7yo came back with. It's a bit thin to be offended about.

Imagine if teachers were taking everything said by their 7yo class to the letter. They'd be sending social services round all the time 😂

I don’t have the slightest problem with home made pizza for dinner. But I don’t delude myself it’s full of vege- goodness. There is barely a forkful of vege on a slice of pizza unless you pile it high which I’ve never seen in the uk.

Ok, totally ignore the list of assumptions you made. 😂 do you have memory issues? Just FYI, You can re-read your posts

I didn’t mention how I thought the child asked his Mum, only how I thought the likely reply from the Mum was, and I would guarantee she said the word ‘unhealthy’.

wow

I can't believe I ever suggested you over-reacted. How could I have possibly thought such a thing.

Ahh I see its kind words you need.

Bless you. 😂😂😂 Sending hugs.

Isn't it strange just how much highly processed stuff supermarkets sell that never ever gets eaten by anyone?

I mean, as everyone absolutely cooks 100% healthy foods "from scratch", and wouldn't dream of giving their precious little angels a biscuit, how are all these food manufacturers even still in business.

I find the competitive healthfulfulness online nauseating.

Lies and/or hypocrisy run rampant.

Labelling freshly made pizza as unhealthy is merely another example of performative healthiness.

Not every meal, nor morsel to pass one's lips, needs to nutritional perfection.

Come to think of it, how do fast food outlets also remain open if nobody ever eats junk food.

Everybody is perfect where it comes to food apart from me it seems.

Children this age are too young to be ferrying messages forth and back. Why not just call or text his mum yourself?

i agree

Side salad or vegetables on the side of a slice or two of pizza? I do this if we have homemade pizza.

Not everyone is gorging to Dominoesque proportions.

If you are feeding a growing son you will think this is a win once he is a teen - they literally inhale calories

But why on earth would you worry about the veg when your kid has an invitation. I wouldn't care whatever food it was, it's just a nice gesture, so would never say anything like that.

And homemade pizza is definitely not unhealthy in the same way.

Generally speaking when I notice people worrying to much about food and nutrition it's either that they (a) are anxious people generally (which is a bigger killer than eating a few nuggets) or (b) the parent has had food issue when they grew up and it spills over to their kids.

Very weird, OP @Summerwillbesoshortthisyear . I'm with you on this!

OP I think you’re overreacting.

You didn’t see the need to tell this child that you plan to make artisan pizzas, home made dough, with yoghurt, topped with spinach etc. Fair enough. But then you feel insulted when the kid comes back and says his Mum wants him to have something healthy. I guarantee he’ll have gone to his Mum and said “can I have pizza at my friend’s house”, and she’ll have imagined Dominoes crap, which is basically flour and oil. Are you really pretending you don’t know what “pizza” means to most people? If you’re going to be offended that your pizza is being harshly judged, then you should have described the pizza beforehand!