Yes, their American Hot Pizzas from the deli counter are lush.

supermkt pizzas suck big time, I can't believe anyone eats them.

That's interesting actually. If I look at the prices of the stuff, dough mix 80p, mozzarella £1.10, Pasata £1.50, pepperoni £1.20, that's a minimim of £4.60 but, that would make at least 2 pizzas & the pasata would last for at least four if you bought a jar, so you're probably right. It would taste better too lol

It works both ways and depends on the pizza you make and how many you make.

Ingredients for base
Flour - no problems as it will last in the cupboard
Dried Yeast - As above
Sugar - As above
Salt - As above
Olive Oil

Will take about 10-15 to mix the dough then around an hour to proof.


Ingredients for sauce
Tinned tomatoes - Store cupboard ingredient
Tomato Puree - same but need to use the full tin of use the remainder within a week
* Or passata

Onions - most will probably have an onion or two knocking about
Garlic - I have fresh garlic
Salt, sugar, dried hebs and even onion and garlic powder.

You could make a quick cold tomato sauce with is pretty much instant but more likely you would want to slowly cook it to bind the flavours and reduce it to the right consistency. This could to 30 mins to a hour and then you need to let it cool.


Cheese
You can buy a block of pizza mozzerella and section it out and freeze it. I got four portions out of the last block I bought.

Toppings
Pepperoni - Will last in the fridge for a good couple of weeks after being opened.
Peppers, mushrooms, pineapple, ham, bacon, chicken, spiced beef??? You may have some of these things in the cupboard, fridge, freezer.





So the initial cost will be high. Portioning the cost out depends on the ingredients you buy, the amount you use to make your pizzas or how you use up the ingredients that you don't use fully.

Most will have some or maybe a majority of the ingredients in the house already. Salt, sugar, flour, oil, spices and possibly onions in the cupboard and tinned tomatoes in the cupboard.


I made a pizza last week and made far to much sauce and so used it up in a Moussaka later in the week. Half a pack of pepperoni is still in the fridge. I'll probably make another pizza next week to use up the rest I will also remember to cut down the ingredients on the sauce so I don't have half a saucepan of it left over

Out of curiosity, how do you get the ingredients for the dough?

I realise flour, yeast etc are common items to already have in your cupboards, but they would still need to be bought at some point, in which case, you could just pick up a supermarket one :P

However, that said, my fella makes the best homemade pizzas ever!!

Pizza express from chilled are very good although expensive. Chicago town deep dish very nice too and cheap.

Where the hell can we buy the Freschetta ones though? They are amazing.

Dominos>all.

Sainsburys' counter-made ones are excellent value - a 14" deep pan is £3.29 - and usually jam-packed with toppings, sometimes a little less so than others and I guess that depends on the prep-rota as to how half-arsedly it's done. In any case, a couple of slices of peppers from the fridge and bob's your uncle. No complaints from me, and I'm very particular about food.

Fruit on a pizza should be against the law.

Yeah no Tomatoes

or those pesky peppers

Another +1 for the Asda ones they make at the counter.

Seconded.

#2 son will only eat my home made pizza but it is a faff. I sometimes buy Create Your Own pizzas from Asda if I need a quick meal (ie kids need to get out to sport training/BB etc). My favourite is cajun chicken, jalapenos, sweetcorn and red onion, with chilli oil on a deep pan base.

I don't have them very often though!

I really dislike the bases of Asda Create Your Own, I prefer a softer base.

I don't mind some pizzas from supermarkets as long as they are not frozen. Sainsbury's ones are pretty nice and I had from Asda once that was lovely...never seem em since.

Anybody making there own dough, add milk,honey and sugar to your normal ingredients...trust me your love it. I cant remember the amounts as I use to make 100+ bases at a time. Be generous with the milk...makes it taste really nice, and also add the sugar and honey in the milk stir and add.

Experiment and enjoy...I've used a bit of powdered cheese sauce as well in my base from time to time, it's what a lot of pizza places use as well.

For the sauce. chopped tomatoes, oregano, salt and some tomato puree.

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I know I'll sound mad for this but try a Christmas Dinner Pizza. I was bored at work once and created it...using condensed chicken soup as the base then it's parsnip, stuffing, sausage, cranberry jelly here and there, onion, turkey etc and whatever you pick. It sounds wrong but was very nice and we had to keep selling it throughout the year from then on.

Over the years I have found it very difficult to find a decent shop bought Pizza, I suppose it depends what you like, I hate the Pizza's with hard bases that taste like rich tea biscuits, The only ones that remotely come close to a Pizzeria for me are the Chicago Town take away Pizza's or the Freschetta Pizza's, The rest I just wont entertain now.

Goodfellas Pepperoni pizzas are lovely.

no way. apple, cinnamon and sultana pizzas are amazing.

i've a good dough recipe if anyone cares - i get rave reviews very easy to make, the secret is simply an extremely hot oven.

I'd be interested, although I have almost perfected my home recipe for 1 10" base

It may be best to start a new thread or search for another on Pizza Dough Recipies.

I think the thing is everyone likes their pizza differently - some like thick, some thin etc.

Personally, I've tried lots of different ones, I don't now eat shop bought ones but I used to love the heinz baked bean and sausage one!

What we have tried before is using pitta breads as pizza bases, makes a nice crispy pizza, and very simple.

Or what we do now is buy the cheese and tomato pizzas from Lidl, you get three in a pack for a small amount - I can't remember quite how much they are, then add your own toppings. I usually smear bits of pesto on, then stuff like fresh chopped tomatoes, mushrooms etc, whatever you have in your fridge. Then just a little extra cheese on top - mature cheddar is nice, then lots of pepper Really simple and done in about 15 mins from start to finish.

You can be a bit creative - the other day (whilst craving the aforementioned bean pizza ) I put beans, cheese, mushrooms and parma ham on top. Very yummy

Of course though if your feeling really lazy I still find a dominoes can do the trick - love their chicken strips and garlic and herb dip YUM.

Gosh talking about all this food makes me hungry

Morrisons Pizzas are good, the toppings are very fresh, unlike Asda's which look mouldy whilst in the fridges.

I would occassionally get a stonebaked pizza made in Asda, but only if it was made in front of me, and I'd look right over the counter to make pick the toppings I thought looked freshest and pretend I just couldn't read the board with the toppings list lol. I never touch anything they have with Onions or Mushrooms on them. They are a revolting colour.

disgusting. dominoes is the pizza place for me.

Asda pizza's are terrible, the bases break apart like digestive biscuits.

I would buy supermarket pizza more often but they are so bad for you.

Iceland's are fine and only £1. Dr Oetker's also good, and we had one from Aldi recently that was astonishing - some Italian range, rectangular and very expensive for them. Pizza Express are good too.

I'm a Domino's convert, though. Had a veggie one a few weeks ago and it was reeking of garlic and onion and simply lush.

I am wondering can anyone recommend the Chicago Town Takeaway pizzas?

There are some ones with BBQ sauce too? How does this sauce compare to domino's texas bbq sauce?

Asda pizzas are alright, 3.18 for a 14" one. I tried making one at home, a lot of time and effort for a horrible, dry, misshapen base and horrible toppings.