Amy’s Kitchen Single Serving Spinach Pizza

February 19, 2008 | Reviewer: Nicole

Amy’s Kitchen Single Serving Spinach Pizza Serving Size: 1 pizza, 7.18oz.
Calories: 440
Total Fat: 28%, 18g
Saturated Fat: 30%, 6g
Cholesterol: 7%, 20mg
Sodium: 33%, 780mg
Total Carbs: 18%, 54g
Dietary Fiber: 12%, 3g
Sugars: 5g
Protein: 19g
Weight Watchers Points: 10 Points

Amy’s Kitchen says: Even if you don’t ordinarily eat spinach, you’ll like this pizza. The light, tender crust made from organic wheat flour and extra virgin olive oil is first topped with our savory italian sauce made from organic tomatoes. Then we add organic spinach blended with feta and sprinkle mozzarella on top. Delicious and satisfying.

Nicole says: It’s rare that I review two meals in a day. Rarer still that I eat organic, vegetarian fare. But see, I’m hungry, and just about all the meals in the fridge are too-be-reviewed. And I like spinach. I’m just not in the mood for Pineapple Black Bean Chicken. And not just because it comes with raisins.

Amy’s pizza has “No GMOs”, or biologically engineered ingredients.

The preparation of Amy’s pizza is onerous and does not allow for the use of a microwave, so you’d better have a conventional or toaster oven. Preheat your toaster oven - okay!… remove the pizza from it’s outer wrapping - this doesn’t look too bad… and let it thaw on the counter for 15-20 minutes. Are you kidding me? I suppose if you love this thing, you’d know about the thaw time, and would plan ahead for your hunger. But being an Amy’s pizza newbie, I was disappointed, and my tummy was growling. I waited, and waited… 15 minutes. Toaster oven bake time is seven to nine minutes - my cheese browned just a bit after 7.5 minutes in - but the meal was cold again fifteen minutes later.

I should probably mention that this pizza was a tad bit freezer burnt out of the work freezer - it’s been in there at least five months [It has been there for at least 10 months - Ed]. This may have affected the quality. But that happens to all of us - you keep pushing back the toaster oven meals in favor of microwave meals so you don’t need to get your security key and enter the other side of your office and wait in a strange, small kitchen for seven to nine minutes rather than returning to your desk to work.

Amy’s pizza crust looks quite lovely, but you can see an awful lot of it - the cheese on this pizza is a hair skimpy. It did crisp up well on the edges, but was a bit soggy towards the middle of the pizza. Back to the cheese, there are two kinds - feta mixed into the spinach and mozzarella to cover. I love feta, but I couldn’t taste it at all. The spinach is about the only flavor you really get out of this pizza. When I hit a tomato, it was juicy and had great texture but it tasted of spinach. This pie is lacking a complexity of flavors that we’ve come to expect from . . . pizza with more than one topping. The spinach, feta, and tomato were concentrated in certain areas, and I liked those bites, but other bites were flat-out bland.

I’m still hungry. It’s just a hungry day. But my stomach stopped growling at me, so I suppose I’m full. I would recommend a side or snack if you wish to make a meal out of this 7.2 ounce pizza. Although it’s like the healthy, vegetarian equivalent of a Celeste pizza. Still, I wouldn’t push this one on anybody unless they had a strong spinach craving.

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7 Responses to “Amy’s Kitchen Single Serving Spinach Pizza”

rob on February 19th, 2008

It looks like Amy’s has a problem with their single serve pizzas. I have eaten their regular-sized spinach pizza about 50 times, and it NEVER came out looking like THAT!

I cooked them in a regular oven. I don’t pre-heat or anything, just cook them until they look done.
Red Icculus on February 19th, 2008

@Rob

I like mine crispy. What’s it to ya?

I love Amys. You can see by the pic that the cheese is excellent and not greasy. Yum!
Abi Jones on February 19th, 2008

This pizza was cooked in a toaster over, I suspect that’s a relatively rare occurrence.

It does irk me that the photo on the box is obviously a regular pizza - not a single serving one. The single-serving ones have a poor toppings-to-crust ration compared to the full-size ones.
Anna on February 21st, 2008

I absolutely love Amy’s pizzas. Sorry yours was freezer burnt :(.
Anna on February 23rd, 2008

…or freezer burned. ;).
Rose on February 28th, 2008

Back in the day when I could stomach pizza, I used to eat it with spinach, tomatos, mushrooms, and onions. these days pizza makes me sick. but if I still ate it I might give this one a try.

for the record, I am a little surprised Nicole eats green food.
and ten months in the freezer? pfft. that’s nothing. I made blueberry pancakes from blueberries that had been in there since 98.
Nicole wasn’t pleased :: Jones. Abi Jones. on April 14th, 2008

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