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Frozen Pizza: A College Staple

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of FRESCHETTA® for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

I love pizza. Fresh pizza, thin crust pizza, thick crust pizza, frozen pizza, pizza bagel bites, pizza bagels — I’m getting hungry just thinking about all of it. I had the pleasure of getting to try FRESCHETTA® Simply…Inspired™ Pizza recently and wanted to share my thoughts on the pizza with a group of people who know pizza extremely well: collegiettes™!

Unlike most frozen pizzas, the Freschetta Simply Inspired pizzas have super unique topping combinations. I tried the Rustic Pepperoni Pomodoro which has pepperoni, shiitake mushrooms and roasted red peppers along with red sauce, mozzarella and gouda cheese. It was the perfect kind of pizza! They had a lot of other flavor varieties to choose from including Southern BBQ, Tuscan Farmhouse, Farmers Market Veggie, Chicken Bianco, Hawaiian, Classic Bruschetta, and Harvest Supreme. Quite a change from standard freezer staples of pepperoni and sausage.

 

I was super pleased with how the pizza tasted. The mushrooms and peppers tasted more fresh (clearly that flavor was locked in with the Fresch-Taste seal!) than I’d expect from frozen food and the pepperoni, which is a favorite food of mine, was tasty! Plus, unlike a lot of frozen pizzas that I’ve tried, it wasn’t too doughy. I really prefer thin and crispy pizza like this Freschetta brand to super doughy ones which frankly have a rep for having a bad dough to topping ratio (high on dough, low on toppings — argh!).

Are you craving this pizza yet? Or is it just me who is writing this and thinking about the leftovers in my fridge…? Either way, to try this new food for less than full price we’ve got two options. You can visit their Facebook page where they offer these weekly giveaways and soon, a $2 off coupon. Or you can send me an email telling me which flavor you want to try best. I’ll be randomly selecting one winner to receive a coupon for a free pizza and a Freschetta bamboo cutting board that handily comes with 3 knives. Super useful for not only cutting your pizza but for doing any vegetable, meat or fruit cutting.

To learn more about their varieties (and find out which is “simply…you”) visit Freschetta Simply Inspired.

On a “green” note, Freschetta is now using 30% less packaging. I always like to applaud companies for cutting down on unnecessary packaging so I wanted to point that out!

Tweet @HerCampus and @FreschettaSI to let us both know what you think of the pizza!


Cara Sprunk has been the Managing Editor of Her Campus since fall 2009. She is a 2010 graduate of Cornell University where she majored in American Studies with a concentration in cultural studies. At Cornell Cara served as the Assistant Editor of Red Letter Daze, the weekend supplement to the Cornell Daily Sun where she also wrote for the news and arts section and blogged about pop culture. In her free time Cara enjoys reading, shopping, going to the movies, exploring and writing.