I've never eaten a Freschetta pizza before. What more could you ask for? Nutrisystem may not be the first name you think of when frozen pizza is mentioned, but it's certainly a brand expert when it comes to frozen foods for people on a diet. In conducting this frozen pizza challenge, all pizzas were baked per package instruction, direct on the oven rack. So how was it? The sauce amounted to spicy ketchup. No, it's not exclusive to clear plastic wrapped pizzas. The crust was almost too hard to bite into, had no flavor whatsoever and while it did hold up to the adding of extra ingredients - four extra minutes of baking time - it was indeed the stereotypical cardboard frozen pizza crust. Tony's gives you the best bang, for the pizza buck. Sometimes when doctoring a frozen pizza, the crust doesn't hold up. A lot of folks 'doctor' pizzas before placement in the oven and I'm here to assist with that. Number 9 - Great Value:  It's not a great value. Freschetta uses a whole-grain blend for their pizza crusts, which includes whole-wheat flour, brown rice, and oat flour, making them heartier. Nutrition info (per 1/3-pizza serving): 250 calories, 8 g fat (4 g saturated fat), 560 mg sodium, 33 g carbs (2 g fiber, 2 g sugar), 16 g protein, Here’s What Sugar Really Does to Your Brain, This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. In a quick review of the ingredients listed on the box, my expectations are high. I purchased my California Pizza Kitchen pizza for $5.49 and it weighed in at 13.6 ounces, UNDER the typical weight range of 16 - 20 ounces for a bargain priced pizza. Kudos to their marketing department and perhaps their "Rising Crust" versions of pizza, but the original thin crust is NOT a repeat buy. Why trust us? Number 8 - DiGiorno:  This is the #1 frozen pizza maker on the sales chart. The Totino's Party Pizza was friendly on the wallet costing just $1.12, but you get what you pay for, small pizzas - 10.2 ounces - that don't have a lot of flavor and gummy cheese. Cooking time was added as needed due to the add-ons, short of burning the outer crust. For a pizza priced in the bargain range - under $6, this is not normal. We recommend oven-cooking this tasty meat-trio pizza on a thin pizza pan for a perfectly crispy crust. My DiGiorno Original Thin Crust Pepperoni cost me $5.49 and weighed in at 22.1 ounces. Bonus points! The crust, while a tad bland (could have used some garlic butter), held up to the addition of other ingredients. Made with organic ingredients, you cut the processed stuff out. The little cubes of pepperoni (not real pepperoni by the way, not even close) I appreciated as a kid doesn't measure up on adult taste buds. The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Freschetta uses real cheese and I can overlook the fake pepperoni. But too much cheese can also cause you to go overboard on fat in one meal, so be sure to be mindful of serving sizes. This pizza cost me just $2.78, which is on the lower end end of the bargain pizza price scale and it weighed in at 16.35 ounces. It goes without saying that the more veggies you have on your pizza, the healthier it is. I have to admit, based on the reading of the packaging, my expectations were not very high going into this review. About the only saving grace on this pizza was the cheese (and my added ingredients), a generous portion of real cheese. Nutrition info (per 1/3-crust serving): 90 calories, 6 g fat (3 g saturated fat), 180 mg sodium, 2 g carbs (1 g fiber, 1 g sugar, 0 g added sugars), 8 g protein. For just $2.67 and a few added ingredients, this pizza rocks! The crust, usually the deal breaker with these bargain priced frozen pizzas was spot on. Nutrition info (per 1/3 pizza serving): 320 calories, 14 g fat (6 g saturated fat), 830 mg sodium, 38 g carbs (3 g fiber, 6 g sugar, 3 g added sugars), 13 g protein. Whole-grain, cauliflower, and other types of gluten-free crusts have increasingly become popular as a way to get more satiating, hunger-curbing fiber in pizza, but not all store-bought pies that we assume are "healthy" are created equal. - Choose pizzas with veggies as the main topping. For $5.49, I expected far better. It has a cauliflower crust that turns crispy and brown, giving you that thin-crust crunch you'll want to devour. Nutrition info (per 1/2-pizza serving): 340 calories, 22 g fat (10 g saturated fat), 820 mg sodium, 22 g carbs (17 g fiber, 2 g fiber, 2 g sugar), 28 g protein. Your comment could not be posted. This cauliflower curst pizza from Caulipower is made with the actual vegetable and rice flour, and features red, yellow, and green bell peppers, and wine-ripped tomatoes. Now that you know how to look for the healthiest slices, here are the best frozen pizzas to pick up at the grocery store. - Keep an eye on fat intake. While this frozen pizza is made with white flour, its thin crust makes it lower in carbs than other traditional pies. Let's face it: Pizza wouldn't be complete without cheese. | Strike Two. Pies dressed with a variety of veggies, like spinach, kale, sweet potato, broccoli, and mushrooms, will help you get a bigger nutritional bang for your buck. The crust, and here is where Tombstone really fails, is cardboard - the very thing that gives frozen pizza a bad name. - Be wary of sodium content. Plus, it has fiber-rich, lower-calorie toppings, like mushrooms, green onions, and part-skim mozzarella cheese—all of which will fill you up in the absence of meat. The sauce is just water and tomato paste which the company calls 'tomato puree' on the ingredient label. So there you have it, a review of the BARGAIN brand frozen pizzas, from worst, to best. Nutrition info (per 1/3-pizza serving): 280 calories, 9 g fat (1.5 g saturated fat), 540 mg sodium, 42 g carbs (3 g fiber, 5 g sugar), 7 g protein. And never mind the disorientation of the meat as a result of shipping, the portion was as advertised on the box. Freschetta pizza is definitely a repeat buy! That's the middle range of bargain pizza weights, a range between 16 and 20 ounces. Pile on arugula, mushrooms, chopped peppers, and broccoli for a super satisfying meal. That price is on the higher end of 'bargain' pizzas but it's also one of the larger pizzas of the bargain brands. Oprah's frozen food line, O That's Good!, remakes classic comfort foods with a nutritional twist. So how was it? But here's what is wrong with the California Pizza Kitchen approach. The cheese, while supporting Wisconsin Dairy Farmers, uses skim milk to make the mozzarella which means good, but not great. For under $5, not a bad pizza, but doctoring is a must. It's also a good option if you're trying to cut back on saturated fat from cheese. Overall, this was a pretty nicely balanced pizza and for $3.34, Jack's is a repeat buy. I had to add four minutes to the normal baking time and that left the crust a bit too hard on the edges, with the middle underside a bit underdone. Not everybody has a pizza paddle. So how was it? This version from Newman's features a multi-grain crust made with flaxseed. So how was the pizza? Tony's can handle all the doctoring you want to throw at it! The cheese was OK in portion but you could really tell the difference between that and the quality extra mozzarella I put on. YUM! Posted at 06:28 PM in Food and Drink | Permalink Lord knows the bargain basement brands don't exactly get crazy with copious amounts of meat and cheese. Real pepperoni and whole milk mozzarella stand out, this has the makings of an excellent classic pepperoni pizza! Kudos to the pizza companies that include cardboard discs in their packaging. For a boost of fiber, it's topped with mushrooms, fire-roasted onions, red and green peppers, and black olives. The first thing I notice is that DiGiorno uses the same not real pepperoni as the cheaper brands that includes chicken as an ingredient. The sauce was nice, not too sweet and the cheese was of good portion and melted nicely. And before getting into the rankings from worst to best, let me give a brief definition of pepperoni....  Good pepperoni is made with pork as the primary ingredient, sometimes a pork/beef combo, but NEVER is chicken part of a GOOD pepperoni recipe.

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