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Frozen Boxed store bought PIZZA

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  1. Unclefish

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    Well during this hole pandemic our Friday night date has been frozen pizza. Think we have tried every brand on the shelf. We stocked up freezer back in March.
    I think I have found my 2 favorite's
    Red Baron Supreme
    Digiorno rising crust supreme.
    Hate to say this but it is better than some of our local pizza places here.

    Still can't beat a brick oven wood fired pizza but it will do for now!!!

    Told my wife we need to just buy those for our date night
    And I will wear my best pair of shoes
     
  2. Midwinter

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  3. Jack Straw

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    Have you tried the pizzas that aren’t frozen? Walmart has a pretty good “fresh” pizza.
     
  4. Unclefish

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    Yes about 3 years ago. Saw it and wanted to try. Was pretty good
     
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    We live so far out in the country we can’t get pizza delivered here. It’s nice to have a good frozen pizza on hand. They really improved them about 20 years ago.When I was a kid frozen pizza was cardboard with awful cheese and a drop of sauce, they were almost inedible!

    Our local pizza shop has pizza you can take home and bake or freeze for later. That’s pretty good as well.
     
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    Most frozen pizza can be improved just by adding a few things to it. Added to Unclefish's list I'd add Tombstone's pizza. The Digiorno have some good ones but certainly not all.
     
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    I think the great value pizzas (rising crust) are pretty dang good and about the best bang for buck for me at least. Being a bachelor I definitely think I got a pony in this show..
     
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  8. Chaz

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    Like Jack Straw no delivery to this part of the world, so we like to keep a couple on hand as well.

    Digiorno stuffed crust 3 meat generally gets our vote.
     
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    We like the Digiorno self rising all meat stuffed crust.
     
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    Tombstone has a good crust and flavor.
    Jacks is cheap and has good flavor but very thin crust.
     
  11. MikeInMa

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    We're lucky to have 2 very good local pizzerias.

    I may be spoiled, but have yet to find a frozen pizza that comes close to local. But then again, I haven't really tried. Perhaps I'll give some of the suggestions a shot,
     
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    Everybody should have a couple frozen pizzas stashed in the icebox for an emergency.
     
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    The 7/11 across the street has excellent frozen pizza, they'll even cook it for the same price
     
  14. Horkn

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    For frozen boxed pizza, the digiorno and the red Baron are really good. Some of these other brands that were so we'll touted as being great, really aren't. Home run inn. Not good, and expensive to boot. All of the screamin' Sicilian pizzas, not impressed.
     
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    Yes. You can't go wrong having a couple in the freezer for an easy relatively quick meal.
     
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    There's a Jack's self rising that is very good.
     
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    Yep, Digorno rising crust is our mail it in dinner in a pinch. Throw a pizza and some frozen chicken tenders in and we're good.
     
  18. Eckie

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    We think the walmart "fresh" type pizzas are pretty good, especially for the price compared to the amount of toppings on them. We don't do a lot of frozen pizzas, no real particular reason.

    Want to send any pizza into special territory though...?? Try sprinkling some jarred chopped garlic on it. We order garlic as a topping when we get a pizza from our local place, and throw some on when we're doing pre-made ones at home too. It was a game changer when we decided to try it years ago. Really miss it when we "have to" eat one without it...
     
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    Palermo's or Pasquale's for frozen options or better yet we prefer to buy the pre-made crust and add all our own toppings. Our homemade canned pizza sauce from the garden is really good. A light coating of Olive oil on the crust results in a nice crispy crunch. Good stuff.
     
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    My dad and his wife had a Costco where they lived, sometimes on visits they would make the Costco fresh ones, delicious!
     
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