This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Freschetta. All opinions are 100% mine.
I live in Upstate New York, the Italian capital of the United States. We KNOW pizza. You people in the South and West think you know pizza? Bwahahaha!! You don’t know pizza like we KNOW pizza. Mmmm…. We also KNOW expanding waistlines. :-p Fuhgeddaboutit. 
Anyway, I don’t eat frozen pizza all that much. I grew up in an Italian home in an Italian area… and we just *don’t* eat frozen pizza. It does not come close to anything Italian-like, ykwim? It’s more like cardboard with spaghetti sauce and meek confetti for cheese. Frozen pizza is usually loaded with extra spices, because the freezing process tempers the spices, and the pizza manufacturers need to add more or else their pizza tastes like….. like cardboard with spaghetti sauce and meek confetti for cheese…
However, the folks at Freschetta Pizza presented me with a challenge: try out their new Freschetta FlatBread Pizza and see what I thought….
…since I’m a Pizza Connoisseur, and all that jazz.
I actually do like Freschetta Pizza more than any other frozen pizza out there. They do a great job with the crust (actually tastes like real bread!) and they have a very nice sauce that is not too spicy and not TOO thin (egads, I hate sparsely sauced pizza!). When the Hubs buys frozen pizza, the only kind he gets is Freschetta (because that’s the only kind we will eat). So the family and I decided to do a taste test on which Freschetta Pizza we like best (it helped that Freschetta sent us some coupons for free pizza, woooo!). Our favorite so far has been the Naturally Rising Crust, which the kids love. But there’s this new Freschetta FlatBread Pizza, and seeing that I am an adventuresome, let-my-hair-down-while-standing-on-the-Cliffs-of-Dover-while-the-wind-whips-around-my-face-in-the-wild kind of girl, I thought I’d give this a try. And yes, those free coupons were a great motivational tool. ;)
OK OK enough with the blabber! Let’s get down to the nitty-gritty, down to the dough! Here are the contenders: IN THIS CORNER— the Freschetta FlatBread Pizza with pepperoni and sausage… and IN THIS CORNER— the Freschetta Naturally Rising Pepperoni Pizza (oo la la).
Here they are out of their boxes.
Well, I had my doubts about the Flat Bread pizza… looked too thin to be better… but seeing that I was getting a free meal and I didn’t have to cook that night… I reluctantly plodded through the rest of my experiment. ;)
I baked them. Here they are. OH MY, hey! Who tasted the pizza before I could snap the photo?!?
Here’s the verdict:
The kids all liked the Naturally Rising. They liked the chewy crust.
I liked the Flat Bread better! I was surprised, because the pieces looked so thin. But it has less bread (I dislike bread in general), and the toppings were thick and really, really tasty. The sausage was *real* sausage, the tomato sauce was not TOO thin- thick enough for me to slurp it up Italian style. The bread crust wasn’t heavy, either, not like other pizzas that are a lump of glucose in my belly after eating (that’s why I dislike bread). It was thin without being crusty like a cracker (I also hate crackers).
So I give the Flat Bread a hearty thumbs up! It’s not like the greasy, cheese-slathered, congestive-heart-failure inducing pizza from the Italian pizza parlors, but it’s pretty tasty and it was WONDERFUL with a big salad. I think Freshcetta did a good job with it.
ooo and look- those nice people at Freschetta gave me a cool pizza cutter and pizza stone, too! I love these guys! Thanks, Freschetta!!
By the way, Freschetta Pizza is very reasonably priced. These pizzas retail for about $5 apiece. Two pizzas were enough for six of us (all adult eaters here) with a nice salad. It took me 5 minutes to throw this easy dinner together. It’s a nice, quick meal for those nights when you’ve been out in the garden all day, or have been wiring your house all day (hmmm how would I know that?) and do not want to stand at the stove for an hour, cooking a meal. That’s me, all right!
6. May 2010 at 6:05 pm
Of all the frozen pizzas, we like Freschetta the best too. I agree, it’s really pretty good for a frozen pizza. I wouldn’t have even thought of trying the flatbread kind because we like the rising crust one so much, but we’ll have to give it a try next time, based on your trustworthy recommendation. :-)