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Original poster

To be angry that DP fed the DC pizza for breakfast?

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LyraSilvertongue · 14/10/2009 17:57

This morning. We'd run out of milk and bread (my fault, didn't get round to shopping yesterday) so he put a pizza in the oven for them instead.
He sees nothing terribly wrong with it ("it's just bread and tomato and cheese" says he) but my point it it's essentially junk food, laden with salt and fat. Not what a child needs to keep them going through a morning at school.
And we did have bread rolls in the freezer, which can be defrosted in a couple of minutes, and eggs in the fridge.
AIBU or is he?

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FlamingoBingo · 14/10/2009 18:21

That's my point, Lyra. It's not cereal or toast or eggs or anything else unconventional for breakfast. Same as pizza - carbs, proteins, vitamins. In many ways, pizza is better!

TheHeadlessWombat · 14/10/2009 18:22

No I suspect we'd probably still think that you're being a bit of a loon.

FlamingoBingo · 14/10/2009 18:23

No it wouldn't Lyra receive a different response elsewhere - pizza is one of those things that is universally thought to be bad, just because it's easy, when actually it's a very healthy balanced meal. Like beans on toast, and fish fingers and oven chips.

Alibooobaandthe40phantoms · 14/10/2009 18:23

I honestly can't see the problem. It's only convention that makes you view the pizza as an unacceptable breakfast food.
If he had given them a bag of crisps and a biscuit each then you would have had a point because they would have been on a sugar comedown by 10am and starving.

It was a one off, relax. And make sure you have a pint of milk in the freezer!

Original poster
LyraSilvertongue · 14/10/2009 18:23

That's a bit harsh headlesswombat. there's no need to resort to personal insults because I care what my children eat for breakfast.

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TheHeadlessWombat · 14/10/2009 18:24

The cheese in the pizza and your eggs will be broken down into the same thing in the end. As the base would be broken down into the same molecules as your rolls would be.

colditz · 14/10/2009 18:24

I'm not saying it's perfec tand optimal. It's just no worse at all than many other perfectly acceptable foods, such as peanut butter on toast, bacon sandwiches, cheese on toast etc

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LyraSilvertongue · 14/10/2009 18:24

Actually there was a pint of milk in the freezer but expecting DP to think of defrosting it is expecting too much.

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TheHeadlessWombat · 14/10/2009 18:24

Well I do think that you're being a bit of a loon about this. Is uptight better?

Besides I'm sure that the parents who are disagreeing with you also care about what their children eat.

halfcut · 14/10/2009 18:25

My ds often has pizza for breakfast at the weekends..but he is 17 and doesn't get up till lunch time

TheFallenMadonna · 14/10/2009 18:26

It's one day. Seriously. You are quite right to care about what your children eat for breakfast, but perhaps not quite so much...

TheHeadlessWombat · 14/10/2009 18:26

And how is milk better than cheese?

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LyraSilvertongue · 14/10/2009 18:26

There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with me. But there's no need to be so aggressive about it. Are you like this in real life too?

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Ivykaty44 · 14/10/2009 18:27

Where did the pizza come from? How did it get in the house?

In other parts of the world they have assortments of foods for breakfast - curry or soup type dishes - breaking the fast is eating food, whatever that might be

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LyraSilvertongue · 14/10/2009 18:27

halfcut, mine are only 5 and 7.

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TheHeadlessWombat · 14/10/2009 18:27

You post on MN and you think that's aggressive? That's nothing believe me.

I'm quite mild mannered actually.

ramonaquimby · 14/10/2009 18:27

the other day my kids had porridge for their tea

honestly

scottishmummy · 14/10/2009 18:28

jesus wept she gave them pizza not crack cocaine

they wont die
no biggie
needs must in an emergency

TheHeadlessWombat · 14/10/2009 18:29

I bet it was the instant stuff too Ramona. Not the real thing that takes at least half an hour to make. You should be ashamed of yourself.

FfreckleFface · 14/10/2009 18:29

It's a one off, and will probably become a great memory for them, 'remember the day Dad made us pizza for breakfast?'.

YA even more U for planting the seed of thought in my head though...seriously contemplating cooking pizza now so it is there to eat cold in the morning.

slimeoncrazydemon · 14/10/2009 18:29

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FlamingoBingo · 14/10/2009 18:29

Ok, now you've pissed me off, lyra! I care what my children eat for breakfast. I care that they eat something balanced, and that they enjoy it so they eat plenty of it. That's why I don't insist on cultural norms for breakfast and why I think pizza is fine.

I do think you're a loon, but not because you care what your children eat for breakfast, but because you think pizza is bad when it blatantly isn't, and because you think it so strongly that you are angry with your DH who has done nothing wrong.

FABIsInTraining · 14/10/2009 18:31

I wouldn't have been happy either but
then I would have looked at the bigger picture and felt what was so wrong with it afterall, so YAB a bit U.

Morloth · 14/10/2009 18:31

I am eating pizza right now. It is the greasy Dominos variety and because of this thread I did remember to order some extra for brekkie tomorrow.

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LyraSilvertongue · 14/10/2009 18:31

Er, when did i suggest you don't care what your children eat?

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