Eating Right Thin Crust Lean Pepperoni Pizza

June 5, 2008 | Reviewer: Guest Reviewers

Picture of Eating Right Thin Crust Lean Pepperoni Pizza Price: $2.00
Serving: 6 oz.
Calories: 360 per serving
Fat: 15%, 10g
Cholesterol: 5%, 5mg
Sodium: 28%, 680mg
Protein: 20g
Carbohydrates: 16%, 48g
Fiber: 4%, 1g
Sugar: 4g
Weight Watchers Points: 8 Points

Eating Right says: Reduced fat pepperoni and reduced fat cheese on a brick oven crust.

Denise says: Oh, Eating Right. I keep trusting you, I keep thinking maybe this time you’ll not disappoint. ‘Why!’ I ask myself ‘Why do you keep falling for this?’ And the answer, as it has been before, is that Safeway consistently offers me frozen lunch on sale for two bucks. I’m a sucker for cheap.

Let’s deconstruct this loser of a lunch.

The Crust: The box promised me a brick oven crust. The box even came with a shiny surfaced cooking platform to achieve such a crust. What I got instead was a very chewy superbland piece of flatbread. If I was eating some awesome folded sandwich I might be sorta okay with it, but I’m not so I’m not.

The Sauce: My school used to serve pizza a good 8 times per week. I may be exaggerating here, but they served it for breakfast too. A lot of the kids LOVED that crap. I don’t know what kind of cave their parents had them living in, but if they had been exposed to carry-out with the same frequency as my family they would know that 1 parts tomato paste and 1 parts ketchup water (this would not be actual ketchup, but the watery stuff that collects on top when you haven’t used it in a while) do not a passable pizza sauce make. Eating Right didn’t get this memo either.

The Cheese: When I placed the frozen pizza atop its little platform I was a little concerned about the cheese ration I was given. The sauce was clearly visible on any square centimeter of the pizza that I chose to inspect. However, once I sent it dancing through the microwave for two and a half minutes, I was surprised to see my cheese cascading down the side of the box, taking an ill-fated pepperoni slice with it. The cheese I peeled off the side of the box was pretty tasty (I have no shame, a fact I’m sure to prove over time) for reduced fat cheese which I generally regard as the enemy.

The Pepperoni: The pepperoni is the only thing making this worthy of two whole stars. I’ve had better low-fat pepperonis in my life, but these were pretty flavorful and surprisingly meaty. I mean - I expected them to be meat, of course, but only little shavings of meat. This were on the thicker side for a meal trying to keep things lean and that was okay by me.

The…Green Goobers Blobbed All Over The Pizza: I’m really not sure what these were. I assume they were intended as seasonings of some sort, but as I couldn’t get a real flavor from them at all, I’ll further assume that they were actually green tinted pencil shavings. Stick with me here. See, I imagine last time the folks at Eating Right got together with the lunch ladies from my elementary school they traded ingredients as well as techniques. No? Well whatever they were, they weren’t flavor, that’s for certain.

Next time Safeway puts these and their Eating Right brethren on sale I’m sure the the siren song of a two dollar lunch will call to me. When that happens I’ll be sure to torture myself with something less reminiscent of public elementary school breakfasts.

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6 Responses to “Eating Right Thin Crust Lean Pepperoni Pizza”

Chavi on June 5th, 2008

Tiny pizza and 8 points? That’s not eating right. That’s eating WRONG. You can get a Lean Cuisine for 6-7 points and it’ll probably taste just as goopy.
rob on June 5th, 2008

For any Floridians in the crowd Publix has Amy’s full size pizzas on sale 2 for $10, I stocked up on the pesto pizzas.
MaryAnne on June 5th, 2008

We should have a frozen food sale announcement section by region. The other day I saw Healthy Choice panini’s on sale for $3.99. Since when is that a sale? Subway sells a fresh foot long for only $1 more. Craziness.
Becky on June 6th, 2008

MaryAnne - that’s a REALLY good point - and a footlong is actually FILLING…as well as healthy, if you order the right things… I’m going to remember that next week when I drive carpool to work! Hooray!
Denise on June 7th, 2008

Yeah, but footlongs from subway can’t be purchased in bulk and saved in the freezer. The price increase on this stuff is really cramping my lowbudget lifestyle. How am I supposed to afford 50% of clearance deals at the fat girl stores when I gotta pay 4 bucks for a non-sale freezer lunch?
Shaun on August 1st, 2008

this review made me laugh. funniest thing i read in a while. gj!