Taste Test Tuesday: Smart Ones Vegetable Pizza Minis

They're new. They're cute and convenient (and a little high in sodium). They're Weight Watchers Smart Ones mini pizzas. There are a few different flavor options (cheese, vegetable, and pepperoni) but of course, I tried the vegetable option. I would prefer to make my own mini pizzas using mini whole-wheat bagels or whole-wheat pita bread as the crust, but this type of product can come in handy when hungry teens are afoot and you have literally only a few minutes to make a snack.

So How Do They Taste?
They look like mini deep-dish pizzas and there seemed to be enough cheese and toppings to make it appealing. I think they must have looked better than they actually tasted because my taste buds were a little disappointed. What I think was missing the most was a flavorful pizza sauce.

Hunger wise they were fairly satisfying; that might have been the 6 grams of fiber and 11 grams of protein kicking in. It makes a nice snack or lunch entrée at 270 calories. The 3.5 grams of saturated fat is mainly coming from the cheese.

1 tray (4 pieces) =

270 calories
11 g protein
41 g carbohydrate
7 g fat
3.5 g saturated fat
1.5 g polyunsaturated fat
1.5 g monounsaturated fat
10 mg cholesterol
6 g fiber
470 mg sodium

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Taste Test Tuesday: Kashi Five Cheese Tomato Pizza

The makers of Kashi cereal have moved onto frozen pizza. When I saw this new product in the grocery store I was drawn to a few nutritional declarations on the front of the box:

• 14 grams of protein
• 4 grams of fiber
• 260 mg plant omega-3s

And since I have a couple of teenagers in my house, having a frozen pizza or two in the freezer is a necessity. When my teen daughter and her friends warmed this up in the oven they gave me their honest assessment and it was a resounding, unanimous..."OKAY"

My daughter said she would bake it and eat it if it was in the freezer but she wouldn't necessarily go out of her way to buy it. The crust was just a little too tough and the sauce was just a little too bland.

The omega-3s come from the flaxseed in the crust, in case you were wondering.

1/3 of the pizza is a serving and each serving contains:

290 calories
9 g fat
3.5 g saturated fat
14 g protein
37 g carbohydrate
4 g fiber
570 mg sodium

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