Eating Right Thin Crust Garlic Chicken Pizza

June 18, 2008 | Reviewer: Abi

Photo of Eating Right Thin Crust Garlic Chicken Pizza Price: $2.00 on sale
Serving: 1 package, 6oz.
Servings per package 1
Calories: 330
Fat: 11%, 7g
Cholesterol: 15%, 5mg
Sodium: 21%, 510mg
Protein: 20g
Carbohydrates: 16%, 47g
Fiber: 4%, 1g
Sugar: 4g
Weight Watchers Points: 7 Points

Eating Right says: Tender diced chicken, creamy garlic sauce, reduced fat cheese, diced garlic and onions on a brick oven crust.

Abi says: What does brick oven crust mean? Does it mean ‘in the style of a brick oven crust’? Does it mean ‘Partially cooked in a brick oven so that you can later finish cooking it in your home?” Does it mean “The words ‘brick oven’ sound cool and remind us of the Rick James song ‘Brick House’ so we use the phrase with the hope that you’ll get it stuck in your head every time you think of pizza.”

I’m going with the middle idea, which equates ‘Brick ~~House~~ Oven’ pizza to ‘chocolatey’ coating on Baby Ruth candy bars. It simply is in the style of chocolate, but it not chocolate itself.

This item is in the style of pizza. It has crust and sauce and cheese and toppings (maybe on the toppings), but it is not something I would actually call pizza. No, this item from Eating Right is an approximation of pizza.

First, the brick oven crust offered no hint of flavor. It was just a bread base made to hold the toppings. And the toppings? They’re awful. The picture on the box shows a moderate-to-skimpy amount of cheese, some herbs and an estimated 17 pieces of diced chicken. Reality reveals a different story: lots of cheese, tons of what I assume are herbs, 9 pieces of chicken and one cube of a completely unidentifiable substance that was probably a chunk of chicken fat.

Considering how generally accepting I am of mediocre microwavable pizzas (evidence: Stouffer’s Corner Bistro Steak Fajita Flatbread, which I should have detested and Lean Cuisine Roasted Garlic Chicken Pizza, which is multiple degrees better than this lame imitation), this pizza combined with the time of day and conditions in which I ate it (2pm lunch after having no breakfast and just 15 minutes to eat before yet another meeting) should have made it instantly accepted.

Instead I ate a third of the pizza and tossed the rest, resolving to get to 4pm with only the assistance of a Diet Coke and a granola bar. Yes, that’s all I ate until 4pm: a freaking granola bar. Okay, and a third of this pizza, which is a grand total of 110 calories.

I really wish that I could describe the taste of this pizza for you, but the problem is that it was so bland that there was only one flavor: light garlic. Now, if Eating Right has somehow managed a new method for imparting a light garlic flavor to foods, they should get on the horn with Kashi and help them rescue their Garlic Chicken Pizza. The garlic was so much in the ‘hint’ category that I didn’t worry about heading into 2 hours of meetings after such a lunch.

On the other hand, this pizza also included chicken, imaginary onions, herbs, cheese and crust and I can’t tell you a single memorable thing about any of them.

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8 Responses to “Eating Right Thin Crust Garlic Chicken Pizza”

Tracy on June 24th, 2008

Hate to break it to you, but “Brickhouse” was by the Commodores, not Rick James.
Rob on June 24th, 2008

Damn I was going to mention that. Rick James is

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give it to me
Abi Jones on June 24th, 2008

@Tracy - You’re right, but I imagine Rick James singing it, not The Commodores. That’s why it is Rick James’ Brick House. I’m not even sure he ever sang it, but that’s who I picture singing it.
Tracy on June 24th, 2008

If that makes you happy, more power to you!
Denise on June 24th, 2008

What you assumed were “herbs” were, in fact, dyed green pencil shavings :p

Eating Right fails at pizza.
Renee Maciejewski on June 24th, 2008

Every time I see that “Eating Right” logo come up on HeatEatReview.com, I know I’m going to feel bad that you had to eat something nasty to educate and entertain us. I hope you finish these up soon so you can go onto something else…they seem to fail at everything!
Leesh on February 13th, 2009

This pizza was a huge disappointment. Not only was it just a slab of really bad pizza crust, there was not enough cheese and/or garlic to even cover the top and I counted only five small cubes of chicken. I added more fresh garlic and some chopped sun dried tomatoes, but the crust was so bad that I ate my delicious toppings and through it out. Lean Cuisine Roasted Garlic Pizza has it in spades over this. Won’t purchase again.
Jules1 on June 25th, 2009

I am sorry none of you liked it even one bit - I can’t say I am jazzed about it, but it was okay. My pizza had too many onions, and yes, skimpy on the chicken *urgh* but overall it was okay. Lean Cuisine’s pizza is way better thant his one, I must agree. And sometime you can find Lean Cuisines at a much reasonable price (3/$5 @ F4L).