Tofutti Pizza Pizzaz

[rabid_child]

I bought a box of Tofutti Pizza Pizzaz vegan pizzas one day sort of on a whim, then tried their cheese slices, hated them, and feared the pizzas in my freezer. I finally got brave today and it was actually really good, in an Elios Pizza sort of way! I cooked it according to package direction, but it heated way faster than the package said it would (started to get brown and it was hot so I turned it off) and the 'cheese' didn't bubble, but it was still quite tasty. It reminds me of when my friends and I would snack on Elio's Pizza after school. Its not exactly like real pizza, but it has a charm all its own.

[missleigh]

Those pizzas are so good! In a hydrogenated oil sort of way, ha ha.
I like to cut up the Tofurkey italian sausage and put it on the Tofutti pizzas.

[kpickell]

How expensive are they? I would so love to find a good frozen vegan pizza. I wish someone around here would carry them.

The Boca and Morningstar meatless pizzas are really good, but they use dairy cheese instead of soy cheese.

[MezzoEmi]

The Boca and Morningstar eatless pizzas are really good, but they use dairy cheese instead of soy cheese.

Eatless pizzas? :P
:D

[kpickell]

haha.
not after I'm done with em

[rabid_child]

I'm thinkin it was something like $4 for 3 of them in a box. I don't remember exactly as I bought them a long time ago.

[Cissy]

I was going to ask where you can buy them... and then remembered that pizza has wheat :(

[rabid_child]

hmmm.. yes it does.
I got mine at the HFS tho.. in case anyone else wondered. (I had a gift certificate, so I bought a bunch of weird things to try!!)

I was just thinking one could probably make pizza out of rice flour, then though probably not since you need the gluten to make it chewy... hummmm...

[Cissy]

r_c - Eh, it's okay. I was just not thinking at the moment :p

[MollyGoat]

Yeah, there are rice flour pizzas. Every HFS I've been to has gluten-free pizza crust in the frozen section.

I don't think Cissy is gluten-free, though. Cissy, I make pizza crust out of spelt flour all the time and it's really good. And if you have a Whole Foods near you, some of them have this yummy frozen spelt-cornmeal crust.

[MezzoEmi]

Are there vegan OR vegetarian pizzas that are like...personal one serving sized?

[CharityAJO]

Oh man, I love em! Hehe. A coworker remarked, "It's like generic brand Ellio's." It reminds me of the pizza we used to get in the school lunch line.

[CharityAJO]

They're vegan - and they have three "slices" - but really it's a personal pizza. I eat the whole thing comfortably.

[rabid_child]

lol. I could see myself doing that if I didn't have a vegan chocolate chip scone looking at me. I had 2 of them today. I guess at 175 cals/piece, 3 isn't that bad for a meal! (Just gotta throw some veggies in there to round it out)
So yea, its single serving size... whether your serving is one piece, or three pieces! I'd say they're about the size (but not depth) of a small paperback book.

[MezzoEmi]

Now I want one. ;_;

[shagginabit]

A friend of mine said they rocked. I'll probably get a couple of them soon

[MezzoEmi]

A friend of mine said they rocked. I'll probably get a couple of them soon

I'm going to harass you for it. :drool:

[lijahbaby]

They are so good! A bit expensive though. I have always wondered why Tofutti doesn't sell the cheese that they use on the pizza. It is so much better than most vegan cheeses out there.

[Bunny Hugger]

Mmmm :lick:

Thanks for sharing!!

I'm gonna have to try and find that at my health food store.

[sheshops2much]

does anyone know if they plan to remove those hydrogenated oils in like every product??

That is beyond annoying. I would kill for a readymade vegan pizza, but I don't do the hydrogenated oils thing. Besides that, our grocerey stoe just started carrying the sour cream and cream cheese, and, once again, I would really not mind being able to eat this stuff. I know it's SO possible to take those oils out of there. I don't understand why Tofutti doesn't remove them. I bet they would have a lot more new customers than they realize!!

[CharityAJO]

IMO - don't go bonkers over it. If you eat a slight bit of hydrogenated oils in tofutti, and banish them in the rest of your foods... I don't know. Would that be so terrible?

Smack me if I've made an intrusive/offensive comment. :)

[sheshops2much]

Nah, it wouldn't kill me, and your comment definitely didn't offend me. It's just one of those things. I think that, knowing myself, if I let it slide, then I would let it slide some more, and some more...you get the picture. I look and feel so much more healthy since I eliminated all the crap from my diet (as in, refind starches, refined sugar, too much fried foods, artificial flavors, and hydrogenated oils) that I wouldn't want to go back. I don't really want to eat a Tofutti pizza with hydrogenated oil just because I'm personally too much of a lazy ass to make one (I'm not saying that those of you who eat them are, just saying that I'm perfectly capable of making a vegan pizza myself and even have the time on one random day of the week, usually). I mean, hell, I'll even admit that about three weeks ago I ate half a bag of swedish fish before realizing that the little chewy candies I used to love now taste really flavorless and otherwise gross to me. Truly. not just saying that, it's like chewing a chewy chunk of sugar with some wanna-be fruit juice in it.

But I just don't really get why Tofutti wouldn't replace those hydrogenated oils. I mean, it's so easy, no matter how hard they say it is. Just look at all the awesome foods that don't use them. I hope you get what I'm saying...

[veggirlie]

But I just don't really get why Tofutti wouldn't replace those hydrogenated oils. I mean, it's so easy, no matter how hard they say it is. Just look at all the awesome foods that don't use them. I hope you get what I'm saying...

I think they actually have replaced the hydrogenated oils in at least some of their products. :yes: 'Better than Cream Cheese' and 'Better than Sour Cream' both have non-hydrogenated counterparts now.

http://www.veggieboards.com/boards/showthread.php?t=23058

:)

[veggirlie]

I bought a box of Tofutti Pizza Pizzaz vegan pizzas one day sort of on a whim, then tried their cheese slices, hated them, and feared the pizzas in my freezer.

The Tofutti American slices are just disgusting. Ewww. But their roasted garlic slices are actually really good. They taste kind of like goat cheese, and I liked them in grilled "cheese" sandwiches even when I was still eating dairy cheese. The mozzarella slices are also quite yummy, especially melted on toast with salt and pepper.

[CarbLover]

I don't know why Toffutti doesn't take the hydrogenated oils out. Their products are geared to a specialized market mostly served by health food stores, yet the health food stores around me won't sell their products that have hydrogenated oils, since trans fats are known to be very unhealthy.