One food I love is pizza. Pizza is fun, good, and if you do it right you may be able to get at least three food groups on it. Anyway, at my favorite pizza place, the pizzas start at $20. That's a lot of money for bread and sauce. So we decided to do something about it.
Saturday is officially our pizza day. My husband shops on Saturday, so he picks up a large french bread loaf. That is our crust. Okay, so one way I make my pizza is to:
- cut the french bread in half
- put both halves on a large cookie sheet
- spread spaghetti sauce on the bread (as thick or thin as you like)
- sprinkle some cheese
- sprinkle ground turkey
- slice tomatoes (thin) and spread over pizza
- cut thin sliced onions and spread over pizza
- sprinkle more cheese on top
- bake on 350 degrees or so, and leave in for about 15 minutes (maybe 20)
We experiment with other types of pizzas with french bread too. A nice salad on the side is icing on the cake. Yummy, yum, yum!!! We figure we save at least $13-$15 making our own homemade pizza. The plus, we know our hands and kitchen is clean, and our food is fresh.
So have you come up with any creative ways to save on pizza?
I love PIZZA but Geez is it worth the price?
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Round Table is my favorite, and with the economy they have been offering a lot of "buy one get one free" lunch buffets. We try to hit it once a month - $10 or so and we can stuff ourselves silly (with salad bar, soda and dessert as well). Love it. We had pretty much dropped them as too expensive/rare treat in recent years. Can't say we are helping them stay in business though.
Your headline caught my eye - of course we can not live without pizza!
My dh has a couple of good pizza recipes. BUT I have to say I am partial to the grease personally. So why I still scope out the premade greasy stuff.
August 13th, 2008 at 06:02 pm 1218650567
We have a pizza place here locally that sells a large pepperoni pizza for $5.00 every day. Take out only. It's pretty good.
I make homemade pizza quite often. I invite my children and grandkids over. The grands love to make their own pizza.
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I've done the french bread trick before. I've also used the 'pop open' cans of pre-made biscuit dough and spread that out on the pan to make the crusts. That tastes good!