How pizza took over our freezers...

[Dr. Who]

I buy a local brand that also has certain varieties frozen and are great imo.

Not sure if any of these ingredients will kill you lol, but really what the hell doesnt today?

Cheese Pizza Ingredients: Flour (Unbleached Spring Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Cheddar Cheese (Pasteurized Milk, Cultured Pasteurized Milk, Cheese Cultures, Salt, Enzymes), Water, Ground Tomatoes In Heavy Puree (Peeled And Ground Tomatoes, Salt
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Yes ordering a fresh pie form a pizza shop is always a better option, but these are on sale at times for 6.99 per which imo is a great deal and are good for when you don't want to go out for something.

That one is fairly natural although for some reason they felt the need to add vitamins or perhaps it's just the flour that's enriched.

Check out the ingredients in a Totino's cheese pizza:
Enriched Flour (wheat flour, niacin, ferrous sulfate, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), Water, Imitation Mozzarella Cheese (water, palm oil, rennet casein, modified potato starch, soybean oil, potato starch, vital wheat gluten, sodium aluminum phosphate, potassium chloride, salt, citric acid, potassium sorbate [preservative], sodium phosphate, sodium citrate, titanium dioxide [artificial color], maltodextrin, magnesium oxide, canola oil, zinc oxide, riboflavin, Vitamin A palmitate, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12), Tomato Puree (water, tomato paste), Vegetable Oil (soybean and/or canola oil), Rehydrated Fat Free Mozzarella Cheese (water, skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, citric acid, Vitamin A palmitate, Vitamin BD. Contains less than 2% of: Modified Corn Starch, Sugar, Salt, Dry Yeast, Defatted Soy Flour, Dextrose, Spice, Monocalcium Phosphate, Baking Soda, Beet Powder, Rehydrated Enzyme Modified Cheese (water, milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes), Citric Acid, Malic Acid, Xanthan Gum, Sorbitan Monostearate, TBHQ (preservative), Ascorbic Acid, Natural Flavor.


Wow.

[Mister D]

That one is fairly natural although for some reason they felt the need to add vitamins - perhaps they are otherwise lost through freezing.

The vitamins are in the wheat. Refined flour has virtually no micronutrients so they usually add some B Vitamins. I think they have to in US but not sure about that.

[Dr. Who]

I have never had a frozen pizza that lived up to the real thing.

I don't think it can. Freezing alone alters the ingredients.

[Dr. Who]

The vitamins are in the wheat. Refined flour has virtually no micronutrients so they usually add some B Vitamins. I think they have to in US but not sure about that.

Yeah, I suddenly realized that the vitamins had been added to the flour and noted on edit. The list for the Totino's pizza is frightening and it's only a cheese pizza.

[Mister D]

I don't think it can. Freezing alone alters the ingredients.

I once wasted $7 or $8 on a Mystic Pizza. I was thinking it must be good because it was made famous in the movie. lol meh

[Mister D]

Yeah, I suddenly realized that the vitamins had been added to the flour and noted on edit. The list for the Totino's pizza is frightening and it's only a cheese pizza.

Totino's is junk food for kids. They make pizza rolls and crap like that.

[Standing Wolf]

If you are going to go frozen,DiGiorno's is the best by far. Of course there is nothing like a first generation Italian family restaurant pie.

DiGiorno's isn't too bad, served hot - although I prefer a thin-crust pizza, and I don't think DiGiorno's makes one - but my personal standard for a good pizza is how it tastes coming out of the fridge the next morning and eaten cold. In terms of that, I've never found one better than Pizza Hut. Leftover DiGiorno's usually just gets tossed.

Aside from DiGiorno's, which is what the wife always buys, I think the only other frozen pizzas I've ever eaten were Tombstone and Red Baron. Those were my go-to choices in my bachelor days, but I've tried them both in recent years and either they're not making them like they used to, or (more likely) it's a combination of my tastes having developed somewhat and the fact that I don't drink like I used to.

[Collateral Damage]

Have you ever looked at the ingredients list on a box of frozen pizza? You can't pronounce the list of chemicals that they add. Often the cheese isn't really cheese at all, but chemically altered milk solids and whey protein. I don't think it's food snobbery to want to eat home made or at least naturally made food. If I make my own pizza from scratch, I know exactly what I'm eating and frankly it tastes a lot better.

I don't think Countryboy was saying it in a bad sense, maybe more along the lines of teasing.

[Cotton1]

If I'm hungry enough frozen is fine by me. It's quick, simple and no clean up

[countryboy]

I don't think Countryboy was saying it in a bad sense, maybe more along the lines of teasing.

Of course I was teasing. @Dr. Who's hot salami and other Italian meats sounds really good.