Lean Cuisine Roasted Garlic Chicken Pizza

November 22, 2006 | Reviewer: Abi

Lean Cuisine White Chicken Pizza

Price: $2.59
Serving: 1 package, 6 oz.
Calories: 290
Fat: 10%, 7g
Sodium: 28%, 670mg
Protein: 20g
Carbs: 13%, 38g
Fiber: 8%, 2g

Lean Cuisine says: Grilled white meat chicken in a creamy garlic sauce topped with chunks of roasted garlic, caramelized onions and mozzarella cheese.

Abi says: Lean Cuisine makes decent and not horribly fattening pizzas. This pizza was better than decent. It was even better than most Lean Cuisine pizzas (including the BBQ Chicken one). The garlic aroma seriously impressed fellow employees who were using the kitchen at the time of heating. It also confused our newest full time employee, Sarah, who came back to the cube area wondering why the women’s restroom smelled like baked garlic. There is a direct vent from our office kitchen to the women’s restroom. The other day I managed to immolate a bagel in the toaster oven and the women’s restroom reeked of burnt cinnamon. But that doesn’t have a whole lot to do with this pizza.

Lean Cuisine desperately needs to deal with sauce application issues; there was a marked lopsidedness to the sauce distribution on this pizza, confusing considering that it is a square item. I can see difficulty with saucing a circular pizza, but this was a square! Fortunately, they didn’t go wrong with the sheer lusciousness of the toppings. I never thought I’d use ‘luscious’ to describe anything made by Lean Cuisine and here I am doing just that. It is probably because at one point I noticed that there were faily large chunks of roasted garlic in the sauce. At that moment I was whisked away on a cloud of allium-induced giddiness.

If you don’t mind having garlic breath for the rest of the day, or if you keep a toothbrush at your desk, I recommend trying this pizza. It is definitely worth the sale price of $2.00.

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12 Responses to “Lean Cuisine Roasted Garlic Chicken Pizza”

foleydog on November 22nd, 2006

After spending my teenage years eating frozen Stouffer’s french bread pizza’s, I’ve stayed away from the LC pizzas. They’re on sale less often than the entrees — but you’ve convinced me to give a try . . .
Jackie on January 17th, 2007

lean cuisine Grilled Chicken Pizza is by far the best they have come out with! It is hard for me to believe that this pizza is good for my diet bacuase it tastes just as good as it smells! I give this pizza an 2 enthusiatic thumbs up! I reccomend this delicious diet Pizza to anyone who is trying to watch what they eat!
Brittney on February 6th, 2007

This pizza is better then any of the other microwave pizzas out there! I highly recommend it to anyone who love great tasting pizza with low calories.
EH on April 5th, 2007

Be warned, the calorie count on this pizza magically changed from 290 to 340 on since I started eating it. No wonder it taste good.
Dawn on May 8th, 2007

The crust was very good…but, don’t eat this unless you want to taste garlic for 3 days.
Lauren on May 16th, 2007

I tried this a few weeks ago and definitely enjoyed it. I didn’t notice all the excessive garlicy-ness that everyone’s talking about, which was a plus for me. It tasted really good and different.
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katie on February 3rd, 2008

oh!
this pizza is so good!
it really helps your craving for pizzza!
and its very fulfilling
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Smash on February 9th, 2009

I found this pizza to be filling for a Lean Cuisine meal — in fact possibly the most filling I have had to date. I have noticed, however, the jump in calories to 340.