Tombstone Light Vegetable Pizza

December 17, 2007 | Reviewer: Andrew

Tombstone Light Vegetable Pizza Price: $3.00 on sale
Serving: 1/5 Pizza, 4.6oz.
Calories: 230 per serving
Fat: 9%, 6g
Cholesterol: 3%, 10mg
Sodium: 21%, 510mg
Protein: 13g
Carbohydrates: 10%, 31g
Fiber: 16%, 4g
Weight Watchers Points: 4 Points

Tombstone says: Nothing, really, but it makes a point of pointing out that this pizza has half the fat of other meatless frozen pizzas. And apparently it’s a good source of calcium (20% DV, not shabby).

Andrew says: The only pizzas this site has reviewed before, I believe, are Kashi pizzas and Amy’s Kitchen pizzas, so rather than shock the system with some cheese bomb pizza, I thought I’d give Tombstone’s light pizza option a try. Also, it was on sale.

When I was a tot, I abhored Tombstone and other frozen pizzas. Back in my day (the late 80s), Pizza Hut had yet to become crap pizza with far too much oil, and thus was a wonderful dining experience. Compared to the old hand-tossed or pan pizzas at Pizza Hut, frozen pizzas had no flavor and no body.

But then, in the last several years (read: college), I acquired a taste for frozen pizzas. Thin-crust, rising crust, stuffed crust, it was all good, and it was relatively cheap. Among the “cheap” brands, Tombstone took the top spot in my heart for its wide variety of toppings and crust styles. To this day, the Tombstone BBQ Chicken is one of my favorite frozen foods of all time.

I’d never bothered to try the light ones because I’m already pretty svelte, but the toppings on this vegetable pizza (including broccoli! green onions! red bell peppers! black olives!) struck me as a potentially interesting and different pizza experience.

And it was! I’m not exactly sure what they did to the traditional Tombstone pizza to make it qualify as Light, but I did notice the crust was a bit more crackery, which is no big deal to me. Other than that, the onions and olives played nicely with the peppers and mushrooms and … whatever else was in there. I especially liked the fresh onion flavor of the green onions. It wasn’t an overpowering onion flavor like some other onions I’ve had on pizza. And the cheese was plentiful enough to cover the pizza and didn’t peel off in one sheet like some cheap pizzas.

My main complaint with the pizza is that, other than the onions, it is a bit light on the flavor. I generally sprinkle my frozen pizzas with crushed red pepper stuff to spice it up, and this pizza benefited greatly from that. You can get pizza-style spices at any grocery store for cheap, so if you’re not already augmenting your frozen pizzas with sprinkled spices, you should be soon. And if you’re counting calories, you can start with this pizza.

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6 Responses to “Tombstone Light Vegetable Pizza”

Janette on December 17th, 2007

I love this pizza. I’ve been eating it for the past three years whenever I feel like frozen pizza. My one suggestion is that every time that I’ve made it, it has come out of the oven with a layer of water that needs to be blotted off. I’m assuming that this comes from using low fat cheese or something of that sort
Abi Jones on December 17th, 2007

I get the same water issue with any pizza that is heavy on the vegetables. I think this is because the vegetables are frozen from fresh rather than being sauteed first. When I make a pizza at home or top a plain pizza with my own toppings, I sautee the vegetables before I put them on the pizza for baking. I know that this adds another step and extra clean-up, but it seems to help in avoiding the watery pizza problem.
Crow on December 18th, 2007

I want gold leaf on my Tombstone.
Joel on December 20th, 2007

I’m with ya on the Tombstone, living alone makes HeatEatReview style food a constant. What I’d like to hear is your take on Totino’s pizza. They have their drawbacks but it’s hard to knock a $1 tasty pizza.
Andrew on December 20th, 2007

Joel: Totino’s are pretty OK. When I was young I couldn’t stand them because I abhorred thin-crust pizzas, but now that I actually prefer thin-crust pies, Totino’s cracker-style foundation is fine with me. I don’t generally get them because there’s almost always a good sale on Tombstone, Jack’s, Tony’s or other pizzas that makes them the better choice from value/flavor standpoint.
Paul Logston on February 23rd, 2008

I have been going to FRYS grocries store,trying to buy your tombstone pizza and they keep telling me that they are sold out.I wish you could tell me when your delivery person.Will be at this store. FRYS GROCRIES REEMS & BELL ROAD,SURPRISE,AZ 85387. thank you. Paul Logston