Trader Joe’s Goat Cheese Pizza

February 14, 2008 | Reviewer: Guest Reviewers

Trader Joe’s Goat Cheese Pizza Price: $3.69
Serving: 1/2 pizza, 4.5oz.
Calories: 280 per serving
Fat: 16%, 11g
Cholesterol: 35%, 11mg
Sodium: 33%, 800mg
Protein: 15g
Carbohydrates: 11%, 33g
Fiber: 5%, 1g
Sugar: 5g
Weight Watchers Points: 6 Points

Trader Joe says: Goat cheese pizza with mozzarella, asiago, smoked provolone and romano cheeses, garlic and basil.

Kelly says: My apologies to all of you without a Trader Joe’s nearby. I keep finding wonderful things there and you’ll just have to deal with it. I found this pizza in the refrigerated section, so don’t go confusing it with frozen food. It is not frozen, it is fresh, fresh, fresh! It is also sublime with garlicky goodness and savory goat cheese.

I know that there are also a lot of people in this world who find goat cheese intolerable. In some ways I am sorry about that because you won’t like this pizza. I also have to admit that your weird taste buds make me happy because I don’t have to worry about this item being out of stock. Vive la difference!

Because it comes from the fridge section, this pizza cooks up faster than your standard frozen fare. The small size also helps with that speedy cooking, but it means that you’ve got to watch the oven really closely. There’s no catching up on Tivoed episodes of Lost. No, you can just wait for the hotness that is Sawyer until after this thing is done cooking (please, no spoilers in the comments).

This pizza isn’t health food, but it does cook up brilliantly, with a fantastic cheese variety (five types!) and lots o’seasoning all on a chewy, fresh crust. If you’re counting calories, half of this plus lots of vegetables will be satisfying. Unfortunately, unless you have someone else around to eat the other half right away you’ll probably find yourself sneaking a little slice out of the fridge come midnight.

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10 Responses to “Trader Joe’s Goat Cheese Pizza”

MaryAnne on February 14th, 2008

Trader Joe’s pizza never fail to be delicious. Amazingness!
Red Icculus on February 14th, 2008

I usually associate TJ’s with being spendy (except for the $3 chuck). At $1.69 this is pretty reasonable!
Abi Jones on February 14th, 2008

Sorry Red, I failed to update the price info from a different review. It is actually a few bucks for this pizza. I saw it on Tuesday, along with a couple of new! ones: Fig and Carmelized Onion and Something else delicious with Blue Cheese.

Trader Joe’s swings widely between being expensive and cheap. They have the best prices for nuts, hands-down. They beat EVERYONE on price for Morningstar “sausage” patties (including Target - I checked it out yesterday). Things that are ‘expensive’ there? Gummi Vites.
Michelle on February 14th, 2008

This pizza sounds AWESOME and it will be going in my shopping cart next time I visit TJ’s. I’m curious…what would have made it a 5 star?
Chaviva on February 14th, 2008

Half a pizza for six points!? HELL yes! I’m going to have to pick one of these up
Rocketgirl on February 14th, 2008

Cute review!!!
Jessica on February 14th, 2008

Damn Trader Joe’s!!!! Olympia, WA is not in their “two year plan” (as per recent newspaper article). Come on, we have hippies and Greeners. Perfect TJ’s fodder!! I could drive 45 minutes to find one but that seems like a damn lot of effort. Especially with gas at $3.29 per gallon. Sigh.
Kelly on February 15th, 2008

Hi, everybody! This pizza was really good, but I think that almost all pizza is really good and I was unsure about whether it measured up to other five star items because I am pretty much a whore for pizza.

Jessica, if you have a spare freezer, then the trip to Trader Joe’s is worth the drive! If you don’t have tons of freezer pantry space, I can’t make that sort of recommendation.
danakscully64 on March 22nd, 2008

I’m not a huge pizza fan, but this is absolutely amazing! I was hesistant to try goat cheese for the first time, but SO glad I did. It’s much sweeter than cow cheese. Easy to heat pizza, good flavor, and fresh!! Inexpensive too, that’s always a plus.
For the well-traveled and under-paid :: Jones. Abi Jones. on April 14th, 2008

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