Kid Cuisine Dip and Dunk Cheese Pizza Strips

September 8, 2006 | Reviewer: Abi

Price: $1.86 (on sale)
Serving: 1 meal, 8.8 oz.
Calories: 510
Fat: 22%, 14g
Sodium: 42%, 980mg
Protein: 38%, 19g

Kid Cuisine says: Dip and Dunk these cheesy pizza strips in tasty pizza sauce! Our dippin’ strips give cheese pizza a fun-tastic makeover.

Abi says: I was so thoroughly disgusted by this meal that I’m not sure where I should begin in grossing out readers. Wait, I take back the ‘thoroughly’. Once again, Kid Cuisine delivered excellent corn. Corn must be the most awesome microwavable vegetable ever. Nicole occassionally pines over corn. I understand this as it is a pretty terrific food item, but let’s go back to the disturbing nature of this meal.

Why the heck did I choose to eat a Kid Cuisine Pizza Strips meal? A long time ago they went on sale and every few weeks I have to choke one down to make more room in the freezer. I am studiously avoiding the Deep Sea Fish Sticks and the Fiesta Beef Taco Dippers. I don’t know what I was thinking when I bought them. Ok, I know what I was thinking ‘I finally have the chance to eat a meal that I’ve wanted since I was 10 years old!’. Apparently my mom is infinitely wise in not allowing these meals inside of the house.

Napkin holding the pizza I spit out

While I could go on to regale you with the repugnance of this meal, I will simply implore you take a good long look at the photo to the right. That is a tissue full of pizza strip mush. Why would I be showing this to you? Well, I feel that images are sometimes the best warnings. The first photo in this review is far too innocent.

I had to spit that out because I could no longer stand the taste of “fun-tastic” pizza. The consumption of non-candy “fun-tastic” foods is just asking for trouble.

Check out other Kid Cuisine meals I’ve subjected myself to so that you won’t have to spit food into a Kleenex:

All Star Chicken Breast Nuggets
Carnival Corn Dog

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7 Responses to “Kid Cuisine Dip and Dunk Cheese Pizza Strips”

Colleen on September 9th, 2006

Man, I remember the days when I so, so wanted to eat those meals, but my mom said they were too expensive. Instead I got stuck with soggy pb&j (where the jelly has actually soaked into the bread giving it a moldy bread taste and texture and is no longer able to blend in anyway with the peanutbutter) and a too-small juice box for lunch almost every day. No wonder I was such a skinny kid, I hated everything my mom would make me.
I wonder if I tried a box of lunchables today if it would still taste as gourmet as it used too.
Heather on September 9th, 2006

Abi, you’re a girl after my own heart. This is just like something I would do. Except of course that my single working mother did actually buy these things for me in years past (many many years past), and even now that I’m in my twenties, I remember how not satisfying they were. Except for the brownie. There’s just something about microwave brownies…ooh, sweet ectasy. Do any of tho ones you have left include brownies? I’d recommend heating that one, eating the brownie, and dumping the rest.
Abi Jones on September 11th, 2006

I have two of these meals left, Fiesta Beef Taco Dippers and Deap Sea Adventure Fish Sticks. Neither of these inspire me to hunger. The desserts are cinnamon apple sauce and gummy fish. I already had a gummy encounter with the pizza meal. Ew.
Nicole on September 13th, 2006

Lunchables rock, but you have to get the two meat-two cheese-cracker combo that comes with the dijon mustard and Andes mint. These crazy new lunchables such as “pizza” don’t make much sense too me, unless kids are trying to gross out their friends at lunch. Kind of like Abi does with meals such as this and I do with meals such as Banquet Salisbury Steak.

Do kids really like Andes mints?

Make your own lunchable character: http://www.kraftbrands.com/lunchables/index.aspx?area=MY
Ali on September 14th, 2006

I like your candid opinion about these meals. My daughter came and asked if we could buy some of these meals. I have never heard of them nor have i seen them in my grocery store…Likely cuz we do not live in the USA…..but, seriously, we shouldn’t be feeding our children these processed, heat and serve meals. Do our children a favour and prepare them some real food!
Jessica on April 14th, 2007

You’re amazing.
Megan on April 18th, 2008

I always thought that the Kid Cuisine meals were not given the credit they deserved. I love the chicken nugget and corn dog KC meals and they only got two stars. I was excited to find this one at my store because I remember reading it on here and it had no stars. I think this is the one meal that deserved having no stars. The corn was good with added butter.