A 4chan green text post reads: "Another fucking shitty frozen pizza for dinner. I'm so depressed and hate my life." 

Above is an image of a frozen pizza with a plastic wrapping still on it.

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[–] 103 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I find the frozen pizzas are a lot better if I put them in the oven a bit.

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Especially if you remove the plastic wrapping first

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    You eat pizza without the peel?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm not ALLOWED to eat the peels

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Protip: pimp your pizza.

    Slap on some nice cheeses, some nice cold cuts (if you're into meat), sprinkle some basil and oregano, can even dump a more consistent pizza sauce over it of you're feeling frisky! Turns a 5/10 slab of whatever into a 7/10 slab of whatever with custom rims and a body kit!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Pizza sauce is so easy to make yourself - fry a clove of garlic in a teaspoon of oil, add a can a chopped tomatoes, a pinch of salt, a pinch of sugar, a pinch of oregano - let that simmer on the stove, stirring occasionally, for about 20 minutes or until all the water has boiled off and you have a thick puree then spread that on your chosen base and add some cheese. Voila! If you learn how to make your own dough then a homemade cheese pizza will cost pennies and taste better than anything you will get in the supermarket.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The only real problem with making your own dough is the rise time when you just want to slap it together and eat.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Pre-made pizza bases will save you time, making your own is super cheap but I appreciate it takes time. I'll usually make a big batch on a weekend and then just freeze balls of dough which I can use later.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Frozen pizzas are… quite the range. Some are legitimately a pathetic excuse that barely approximates the concept of a pizza. Some are pretty good, not great but not bad.

    In ether case I can’t imagine eating one multiple nights in a row.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Same, and it’s always worth it adding cheese on top.

    In any case, there are other kinds of cheap, relatively decent foods out there. It shouldn’t be hard to have variation even on a budget. Not ideal, but not nearly as grim as frozen pizza every day.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The crazy thing is, frozen pizzas aren’t that cheap. Like, they’re not super expensive, but hardly eating on a budget.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There are frozen pizzas near me (a relatively expensive food area, for America), that cost $1.25 (~17c an ounce) and have almost 500 calories. I'm not advocating for the frozen pizza diet at all but that level of price/calorie ratio is pretty impressive.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    The cheapest at my local super market is 4 bucks for the same.

    … you wouldn’t happen to be living in the mid west would you? Frozen pizza is notoriously cheap there due to supply chain reasons.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I live in Montana which isn't quite the Midwest, but close. I checked my previous store in coastal California to see if that was what was making the difference, and the pizza is the same price there - Kroger branded $1.25 (Ralph's in CA, Smith's in MT)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I'd say even the pretty good ones can be great not the best pizza but like legitimately quite good if you get a pizza stone I think a large chunk of the problem with frozen pizza is regular ovens just don't cook them that well and the pizza stone largely fixes that

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    Bruh my meals, if I remember to eat anything, are basically just a protein shake and a cheese stick. Every day. Or occasionally just chocolate chips and milk because it’s fast and tastes good enough I can eat it even if my body doesn’t want to eat.

    If I had the motivation to buy and cook a frozen pizza for an actual dinner, I’d feel like I’d been cured of mental illness lol


    Edit: To alleviate any concerns, I’m well aware of the health detriment. This is the worst I’ve been in a while, but I am working on it.

    Also thank you to the comments because just remembering this post made me remember to eat food rn lol. I’m eating some fruit now and am going to make some ramen with carrots and an egg later (totally forgot I had carrots lol)

    In case anyone else reading this is like me this is your reminder to eat food today; do it now before you forget again

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Eat a fuckin vegetable holy shit. You’ll feel so much better.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    You’re 100% right, unfortunately my brain doesn’t connect the feeling better to the eating vegetables and I totally forget I bought them by day 2 and then end up throwing away rotting vegetables a week later.

    But I did just buy a mini fridge so hopefully keeping food nearby will remind me it exists and my brain won’t be able to use the excuses of “it’s so far away” or “you might have to interact with people in the kitchen or on your way”

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    i think one of the best things to do is just stop thinking about it and do it. it works for me, and hopefully works for you too. USE YOUR WILL POWER!

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  • I have ADHD; executive dysfunction is a bitch, but yeah later in the day when my meds are kicked-in, that’s usually when I can do this. My schedule is just bad rn with school and work so I either don’t have the time or am exhausted.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You should try other frozen foods

    Or look up 10 or 15 minute recipes

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Exactly. In the time you get the oven warm and cook the pizza, you can prepare something else. I admit pizza is easier, thou.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    A lot of ovens have convection heating now. You can go from opening the freezer to eating an entire pizza in under 20 minutes, dirty only a cutting board and knife, and the hardest step is remembering to set an alarm

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I have the privilege of cooking a homemade dinner for my partner and I every night. :3

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    1: Buy a roll of pizza dough.
    2: Buy one of those 20 cent cans of tomatopaste.
    3: Buy cheese, not shredded cheese because that's more expensive and less tasty.
    4: Add those items on top of the dough, add vegetables/meat/fish/whatever to taste.
    5: Enjoy vastly superior pizza for roughly the same price.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A bunch of tortillas are cheap and work almost as well as pizza dough, and are less work.

    I say this as somebody who makes their own two day fermented pizza dough. Honestly they're 75% as good.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    3: Cheese... Do you have any tricks for shredding fresh mozzarella? I tried freezing it for a bit but that still just gums up the shredder. Other people say just pick it apart, but man that takes forever.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Get a lump of dried mozzarella, not fresh. Or better yet, try Oaxaca cheese

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've never seen dried mozzarella but I will try this if I do, thank you.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Good luck. Sometimes, I've had a hard time finding the dry aged to mozzarella too. It'll look different from the fresh stuff because there won't be any moisture in the packaging. It'll have a texture like stringcheese.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    You probably don’t want to be using “fresh” motz. Generally that refers to high moisture Mozzarella, which will be too wet to work well unless you use it very sparingly like how Neapolitan is done. You want to use low moisture Mozzarella, IE the bricks, unfortunately most of the bricks are low fat which lacks flavor, so ideally you want to look for full fat, low moisture Mozzarella, the most reliable way to find it is as cheese sticks, but it’s a pain to unwrap a bunch for pizza and the amount of plastic waste is a shame.

    Ether way you shouldn’t need to shred it, jus t break it up a little with a few knife cuts to get it in to slices and lay those across it. It’s fine if they’re not super thin slices as they’ll melt and distribute a bit.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    r/kitchencels community on Lemmy when?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    all you have to do is finely slice some onions on it, add some more cheese, add kalamata olives five mins before taking it out. done. overall probably adds 5 more mins to prep time.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago
    1. Premade thin pizza crust
    2. Layer of fig spread
    3. Layer of pizza sauce
    4. Mozzarella cheese
    5. Prosciutto
    6. Some globs of fig sauce
    7. A little more mozzarella
    8. Bake in oven
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