12 May, 2009
Digiorno’s Tuscan Style Chicken Crispy Flatbread Pizza
Posted by: Meg Ewen
USER SUBMITTED REVIEW
Tonight I decided to deviate from my normal “healthy” weekly pizza (Amy’s-Kashi) routine to try a new pie, Digiorno’s Tuscan Style Chicken Crispy Flatbread Pizza. Cooking instructions are easy, 400 degree oven 10-13 min if directly on the oven rack or 15-18 if on a pizza tin. I opted for the tin, since I don’t like to clean up spills. When done, take out, let sit 5 mins.
The pizza looked good, lots of toppings. Chicken, tomatoes and spinach. However, needed more cheese. The smell was dominated by spinach, which is fine by me. My first bite was puzzling, though. I thought, “well this is strange cheese”, not stringy but creamy. Then I took off my glasses and looked more closely. It wasn’t cheese, but what looked like ranch dressing…humm. I don’t like ranch dressing, so that’s doesn’t bode well. I went and looked at the box. It described a white-red sauce. Didn’t taste any tomato sauce at all. So I took another bite and sure enough, I then detected the red part of the white-red sauce. Seemed to be concentrated towards the outer edge. The white sauce was supposed to be garlicky, but it tasted almost like garlic salt, not REAL garlic. The crust, however, was awesome! The outer part was like a crescent roll in taste – yum!
So overall, I was disappointed, but I ate the whole thing. Don’t want to waste food, but I would never buy this again. If you like ranch dressing, you’ll love it. If not, don’t get it, you can’t scrape off the sauce.
Nutritional Info:
Serving size 1/3 pizza -
280 cals
14g fat (6g saturated, 1g trans fat)
680 mg sodium
fiber 2g
Protein 14g
Price: $3.75
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View Comments to "Digiorno’s Tuscan Style Chicken Crispy Flatbread Pizza"
1 | Bear Silber
May 12th, 2009 at 7:16 am
I LOVE Ranch dressing with my pizza….although I prefer to dip it. Sounds pretty yummy.
2 | Jim
May 12th, 2009 at 8:33 am
@ Bear Sibler : I saw your cooking vids…Good stuff, funny too.
Your pizza place looks like a joint I would frequent if I lived there. I thought listing the “Bellybuster” as feeding 1-10 people was hilarious!
3 | Bear Silber
May 12th, 2009 at 11:39 am
@Jim – Haha, few people catch that nuance (the servings per Belly Buster)
Thanks. I’d love to have you in if you’re ever in the area!
4 | Meg
May 13th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Bear, I just took a look at your pizzas. The tandori chicken looks pretty darn good, as well as the buffalo chicken. I didn’t see a “belly buster” is it just a gigantic version of any pizza?
5 | Bear Silber
May 13th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
@Meg – It’s awesome! (both are actually), I’ve partial to The Bear though
http://pizzapartyonline.com/menu.html#thebear
Here’s the Belly Buster:
http://www.pizzapartyonline.com/bellybuster.html
Where do you live? Ever come to the Bay Area? Stop in!
6 | Meg
May 14th, 2009 at 3:36 am
Bear, I’m in Chicago (and no, I don’t like deep dish), but Corp HQ is in Cupertino and I have a customer that has a location in Sacramento…I think we fly into San Fran for that one. Anyway, if I do find myself in your neck of the woods, I’ll try to pop in. Probably won’t be trying the Belly Buster though, it would be like the Monty Python movie, where the guy eats too much and explodes….which one was that? Meaning of Life?
7 | Bear Silber
May 14th, 2009 at 8:53 am
@Meg – HAHAHAHAH. I’m like two exits from Cupertino!!! What company? (I feel bad….I feel like Greg’s comment section has become a discussion board, sorry Greg).
8 | Meg
May 14th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Ok, last non food related comment. I work for HP as a Industry Standard Server Specialist (ie Intel/AMD). Oh wait I can turn this comment into food related. I work from home, so I am always on the look out for a good microwavable lunch…there
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June 21st, 2009 at 11:52 am
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10 | Millie
November 13th, 2009 at 8:38 am
This is our favorite pizza and it’s low in calories too. A win, win for our pizza cravings! I only wish someone would sell a frozen New York City pizza like the one I had when I visited there some years ago. It was made of broccoli and white cheese with a yellow cheese topping. Yummy!
11 | RP
June 3rd, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Yesterday, I tried the Tuscan Style Chicken Crispy Flatbread Pizza. It was absolutely delicious and will definitely be a regular for me. My favorite frozen pizza by far is Digiorno’s Spicy Chicken.
12 | SAM
June 22nd, 2010 at 5:57 pm
I thought it was absolutely delicious! Being a WWatchers member, and a pizza addict, I've found a pizza that tastes great (I do love the ranch dressing!), and has a reasonable number of points for the diet. I can plan to have this once a week and not feel guilty or go off plan! WOO HOO!
13 | Weimj396
June 30th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
I… LOVE… THIS…PIZZA !! I don't think it tastes ranch-y.
I can't stand things that are too ranch-y.
Only thing is it's getting harder and harder to find this kind of pizza in supermarkets.
I'm a picky eater and this pie is tops !!
Haters hate elsewhere !!
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