Comments on: Who Says Healthy Foods Are Yuck http://www.parentingideas.org/articles/eating/who-says-healthy-food-are-yuck/ To Inspire with Ideas and Practical Tips on Parenting Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:22:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Rafael http://www.parentingideas.org/articles/eating/who-says-healthy-food-are-yuck/#comment-4086 Rafael Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:40:44 +0000 http://www.parentingideas.org/articles/eating/who-says-healthy-food-are-yuck/#comment-4086 Banquet Pepperoni Pizza Meal Yep, it’s back. The Banquet Frozen Meal review parade rolls on, this time with an interesting looking Pepperoni Pizza Meal. It’s been about an even number of standouts and duds so far with reviewing the Banquet line, but remember that these are all only ONE dollar so beggars can’t be gourmet eaters . Anyhow, this Pepperoni Pizza was a bit of a bummer. I couldn’t get the cheese to “stretch” like on the box picture and the actual pizza rectangle certainly seemed a bit smaller, maybe the size of one of those squares. More disappointing was the taste. I made this in the oven so I was expecting the crust to be excellent but it had only minor crunch and the pizza sauce was pretty much ketchup. The cheese was OK, but the pepperoni “crumbs” might have been left off in favor of just more pizza. At this point, I’m getting a bit tired of corn as the side dish. But I expect it’s the cheapest most reliable vegetable to put in, and they certainly can’t call it a meal without vegetables according to the food pyramid. So, I don’t begrudge them the overuse of corn. I do begrudge them the glue-like chocolate sludge that they call a brownie. First of all, it’s way to sweet. I don’t like sweets anyhow, but this thing was REALLY sugary. I don’t know how they got their brownie out of the pan and onto the plate because I couldn’t get it to lift out. I had to spoon it out like baby food. Yuck. This was thoroughly disappointing on nearly all counts. The pizza, even if it tasted better, was less than satisfying; I finished it in 3 bites. If you really want a pepperoni pizza meal, you can probably make a fitter, happier one out of just bread, ketchup or tomato sauce, some dried herbs and some cheese on top. Or, they probably have standalone mini pizzas that probably taste better, though I can’t vouch for low prices on those since I’ve never bought them. Banquet Pepperoni Pizza Meal
Yep, it’s back. The Banquet Frozen Meal review parade rolls on, this time with an interesting looking Pepperoni Pizza Meal. It’s been about an even number of standouts and duds so far with reviewing the Banquet line, but remember that these are all only ONE dollar so beggars can’t be gourmet eaters .

Anyhow, this Pepperoni Pizza was a bit of a bummer. I couldn’t get the cheese to “stretch” like on the box picture and the actual pizza rectangle certainly seemed a bit smaller, maybe the size of one of those squares. More disappointing was the taste. I made this in the oven so I was expecting the crust to be excellent but it had only minor crunch and the pizza sauce was pretty much ketchup. The cheese was OK, but the pepperoni “crumbs” might have been left off in favor of just more pizza.

At this point, I’m getting a bit tired of corn as the side dish. But I expect it’s the cheapest most reliable vegetable to put in, and they certainly can’t call it a meal without vegetables according to the food pyramid. So, I don’t begrudge them the overuse of corn. I do begrudge them the glue-like chocolate sludge that they call a brownie. First of all, it’s way to sweet. I don’t like sweets anyhow, but this thing was REALLY sugary. I don’t know how they got their brownie out of the pan and onto the plate because I couldn’t get it to lift out. I had to spoon it out like baby food. Yuck.

This was thoroughly disappointing on nearly all counts. The pizza, even if it tasted better, was less than satisfying; I finished it in 3 bites. If you really want a pepperoni pizza meal, you can probably make a fitter, happier one out of just bread, ketchup or tomato sauce, some dried herbs and some cheese on top. Or, they probably have standalone mini pizzas that probably taste better, though I can’t vouch for low prices on those since I’ve never bought them.

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