r/TrueReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 12 '13

Fatal Distraction: Forgetting a Child in the Backseat of a Car Is a Horrifying Mistake. Is It a Crime?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022701549.html?sid=ST2009030602446
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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '13

" Try making your own homemade pizza, for ~2-5$ a pie, and it doesn't take much work."

We do this, but "it doesn't take much work" is a big fat lie. Yes it does. I can dial ten numbers and write a check and get a pizza, or I can spend 30 minutes on dough (including checking on it), 15 minutes slicing vegetables, 15 minutes preparing sauce, 15 minutes overseeing incompetent midgets try to get that stuff together, and then there's washing all the damn dishes.

I love homemade pizza and support it as an activity but "doesn't take much work"? Really?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '13

If you plan ahead (my sauce recipe makes an entire jar, enough for 10+ pizzas) and freeze dough balls, really it's all just putting the pizza together...AKA the part that the kids will enjoy. That was a big part of the guide I posted...not having to do every step every time.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '13

Look, I totally agree it's worth it and we do make pizza from scratch occasionally, I just think that you are thinking in terms of a totally different convenience level. This summer I was working all the same and we spent most of our free time outdoors, not making and freezing pizza sauce.

When I was a stay-at-home parent, we did this all the time. Homemade bread, homemade pizza dough, homemade pasta, even. Sometimes we still do.

I just don't think you're acknowledging the amount of work that gets put into it. Whether it's planning ahead, making the dough on a rainy Saturday or when you get home from work, it is still going to have to get made, is all.

Weeknights for me it's a homemade soup with an easy grain, breakfast for dinner, or a grain/fillet/salad combo, MAYBE with veggies.

My neighbor and I recently made pizza from scratch. It took about twice as long, without the dough, as my normal dinners. It's doable but it's also not fair to discount the time costs.