Not the most tasty pizza around. (Tesco Value Cheese & Tomato Pizza)

Member Name: ninacolada86

Product:	Tesco Value Cheese & Tomato Pizza
Date:	16/05/09 (29 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Very cheap.

Disadvantages: Tastes cheap too.

I needed a cheap meal and I needed it fast, I was making a meal for my relatives who were coming over and was minding my two younger sisters, at the last minute I realized that the kids couldn't eat the spicy Indian meal I was making as all they eat is Pizza and chips of course!
So off I rushed to Tesco and cringing at the Pizza prices, I grabbed two Tesco value Pizzas and figured I could dress them up at home with some extra cheese and sausage.

So I got back home flipped on the oven and waited for it to heat up.

This pizza does not come in a box, but rather on a Styrofoam base, wrapped in plastic with the Tesco Value logo in the center. It weighs 480g, and costs about 1 pound at Tesco.
The topping is simply cheese and tomato and is evenly spread.
The crust does not look very appetizing though and looks a lot like the Styrofoam base that it sits on.

I careful slid the pizzas unto a pan, and added some slices of sausage, then popped them both in at waited for the required 15 minutes which the instructions specified.
After that time the smell from the oven was similar to that of Pizza but of course nothing like the real home baked deal.

I took the pizza out and it did look pretty good, the cheese had melted evenly and the sausage was a nice golden brown, the dough still didn't look like much to me, but I hoped the kids wouldn't be too fussy about that.

Now on to the taste, the kids ate about half each so I figured I would steal a slice from the remainder, The topping was pretty good, but I have to admit the crust just really blew it for me, while hot it was decent but when slightly cooled off it tasted just downright awful, a bland rubbery crust. Now anyone who has made pizza at home, can testify that a good pizza tastes good cold as well, without the crust going stale and rubbery after only 30 minutes.
So while the kids didn't seem to mind too much, it isn't something that I would buy.


Nutritional information per 100 grams:

258 calories
9.3g protein,
38.2g carbohydrate
7.7g sugar
7.5g fat (of which 3.2g saturates, 2.9g mono-unsaturates, 1.0g polyunsaturates)
2.4g fibre
0.3g sodium.

Summary: Ok for a quick fix, but otherwise not worth the flavor.