A few weeks ago, I was being irresponsible at the grocery store and buying things I didn’t need but wanted to try. That’s how I ended up with this guy in my basket.
But then, being irresponsible is how I end up with most guys in my little basket, I suppose. Anyway, at $2.50, it wasn’t the worst impulse buy.
A few weeks later, it was a Friday night and I was starving. We all know it’s hard to cook on Friday nights and it’s hard to cook when we’re starving, and I was pretty exhausted from working on my proposal all day. I totally would have ordered pizza except I was too lazy and hungry to even wait for it. Being too lazy to eat crappy food? I love when my vices battle.
In the end, vanity trumped all, and when I found the DiGiorno in my freezer, I decided to give it a try. Except 200 calories…well, sorry, but in my book, 200 calories is a snack. I was ready for dinner. So I made them both. A girl’s gotta eat!
My advice: if it is Friday night and you are eating diet frozen pizza alone, at least bake it in the oven. This makes it taste better, and it also makes you feel less pathetic.
While it baked, I made a big salad, so by the time it was done, I actually felt like I was having a real meal. And I’m all about taking frozen dinners to a new level with some real veggies. It’s not just what about saving calories — you gotta get some nutrition too! And besides, with the amount of sodium I was about to consume, I needed some greens to balance it out.
The pizza was done in about 10 minutes, which wasn’t too bad. Faster than delivery!
As far as frozen pizzas go, it wasn’t as good as a real Digiorno (which are sooo good, the Cadillac of frozen pizzas); I’m pretty sure it cuts its calories from the crust. As a carb lover, I love crust. It was definitely a thin crust kind of deal.
It wasn’t bad though! It reminded me a bit of French bread pizza or a flatbread or something because it was so thin. But I like thin carbs too! I can’t imagine only eating one and calling it a meal. However, you could eat one and call it a snack, and it might be a good way to get through your 3 PM crash when you’re starving, stressed, and pretty sure you’re about to get fired.
I’ve found that frozen diet pizzas are sort of like the idea of real food…a photocopy, if you will. I don’t eat this stuff very often (a few years ago, I used to eat a Lean Cuisine nearly every day!), but I do kinda look at it as a “Break Glass in Case of Emergency” food. I’ve found that days when I’m super stressed and tired and really want carbs and cheese — and not real, homemade pizza, but a Little Caesar’s $5 pizza like it’s 2006 and I just got my heart broken via mini-feed — then a frozen diet pizza can save my ass. And this did!
Although eating it alone on a Friday night made me think they should change the slogan to, “It’s not delivery. It’s depressing.”
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Well it does look good. But I’m definitely a crust kind of girl. Love my carbs!
I haven’t had frozen pizza in years. Hell, I haven’t had pizza since last September!
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I have been known, when I’m being THAT lazy, to sit on my couch with a bag of tortilla chips, block of cheddar, jar of salsa and can of refried beans. And eat everything out of the can. I won’t even melt the cheese! Depressing, yes. Delicious, YES!
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Looks good. I’d have had to eat both servings too! My favorite naughty girl frozen pizza is California Kitchen chicken bbq. That sounds so good right now! I also love Amy’s 3-cheese cornmeal and margherita pizza.
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I agree it does look good and it was great that you balanced it with a nice big salad. Yummm!
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It has been forever since I last had frozen pizza. At least you paired it with a salad! I don’t even do that.
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