Price: $3.50
Serving: 1/4 pizza, 5.44oz.
Calories: 410
Fat: 31%, 20g
Cholesterol: 13%, 40mg
Sodium: 47%, 1120mg
Protein: 19g
Carbohydrates: 13%, 38g
Fiber: 10%, 3g
Sugar: 4g
Weight Watchers Points: 9 Points

Freschetta says: Inspired by traditional family recipes handed down for generations, Freschetta Brick Oven has a classic square shape, a crispy fire-baked crust and is topped with only the finest ingredients.

Abi says: My unending love affair with Freschetta pizza concluded with my consumption of this item. It is 8am the next morning and I can still taste the disappointment.

I looked forward to this pizza. It was on sale at Safeway (I bought it while filming unused shopping card footage for the Kid Cuisine video review), so I purchased this meal with the abandon I usually reserve for known products. When I finally pulled it out for a dinner, I realized that the baking time was considerably shorter than most pizzas. This needed a bake time of just 12 minutes. Score one for the new pizza.

When I pulled the amazingly baked after just 12 minutes pizza from the oven, I placed it on a cutting board and realized the genius of the brick oven pizza.

1. It is a square item in a square box. This means that while the pizza is thinner than other pizzas, it actually fills the box that it comes in.
2. Cutting a square pizza into reasonable slices is easy. Seriously, this is genius. Cutting pizza is a total pain unless you have one of those special cutter guides that they use at Costco (and they do not wash them in between uses - ew). Or, you might be a pizza-cutting pro like the folks who work at Abby’s Pizza, a place my parents used to tell me was named after me - don’t ever do that to your kids, it will totally make them think that they own a pizza parlor.
3. If your oven bakes unevenly (mine does not, the oven is the best-working thing in this apartment) this pizza will be easy to rotate.

With little difficulty, I cut the pizza into eight somewhat even slices, plated up three and took the pizza downstairs to watch the news during dinner. Each of my slices was a lovely amalgam of bright red sauce, melted cheese and pepperoni. I took a bite as was greeted by an uncomfortable burning sensation. I figured that while the crust of the pizza had cooled, perhaps the sauce was piping hot and that’s what did me in.

So I sat back for a minute to let me pizza cool. While watching the news I realized that every commercial was for products that I hope I will never need:

1. Lotion marketed to women with menopause-caused dry skin
2. Cold medicine for people with high blood pressure
3. Fiber Supplements
4. Impotence Drugs

Television news is for old people. And people who eat this pizza and end up with high blood pressure because it is so amazingly salty. You see, the sauce wasn’t hot. The pizza was so freaking salty that it burned my mouth. I like spicy, salty, mouth-burning, vindalooesque foods, so this pizza confused the bejeezus out of me. I couldn’t handle the salt? Could that be true? This pizza was so salty that I couldn’t even taste the sauce or cheese or the I-don’t-want-to-know-what-it-is meatiness of the pepperoni.

I sincerely appreciate the Schwann corporation and their dedication to making Freschetta pizza, but I wonder if I got a bum pie. A salty bum pie. Time for another glass of water.

Price: Free from Lean Cuisine
Serving: 1 melt, 6.5oz.
Calories: 330
Fat: 13%, 8g
Cholesterol: 8%, 25mg
Sodium: 26%, 650mg
Protein: 21g
Carbs: 13%, 41g
Fiber: 18%, 5g
Sugar: 3g
Weight Watchers Points: 6 Points

Lean Cuisine says:Grilled white meat chicken, onions, peppers, pepperocini, cheese and a cheddar cheese sauce in a soft flatbread.

Josh says: I just ate the Chicken Philly Flatbread Melt from Lean Cuisine. The picture makes it look like a pizza, but trust me, you can fold it over like a pita sandwich. I was actually impressed. The cheese tasted like cheese (unlike the Lean Cuisine Mac ‘n Cheese which is utter crap). The bread tastes like and has the texture of bread. And the chicken tastes like…well, like nothing, but two out of three ain’t bad. There’s a nice mild-medium spicy kick that I didn’t expect. All-in-all it was a pretty nice meal and I’d do it again. They only superior food I’ve had this week? Cheez-Its.

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.

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.