The cost of home made pizza

MRSMCAWBER

Instead of using tomatoes or tomato puree...use philladelphia, or the cheaper variety on the base yummmm - its great for using up opened tubs..and you can get away without much cheese on top as the philli has sooo much taste...especially the garlic and herb one:T ...i cant remember the last time i used tomato base...and it doesnt go soggy:j ......and for me, it has to be homemade bread dough for the base:D

LOUBOB

I know you cant beat homemade food, the benefits of knowing exactly what goes in, and no funny ingreadients, but with a money saving head on has anyone any idea how much a basic cheese hm pizza costs???? I had a slice of pizza @ a friends that was £1 from Iceland (for a dinner plate size one) and it tasted really quite nice!!
I havent made my own pizzas for a while but surely £1 shop brought is pretty good in comparasion- ignoring the goodness/fun etc of HM.

Any ideas of the exact(ish) cost-of a home made?
thanks

VfM4meplse

The basic pizza dough is cheap enough to make, it's a bit difficult to quantify because of the varying quantities / permutations of toppings available. Having said that if you don't have a great deal of time I think a margherita from Iceland plus additonal toppings of your choice can make a filling and (potentially) healthy meal.

DitaBombita

Cheaper that a pound I reckon. Dough costs pennies - yeast, flour & water. Lidl sell mozzarella for 49p and Tom puree is about 40p in Asda. You could use the cheese and puree on a number of pizzas too. Not too sure how muc the oven would cost to cook it, if you put it in with something else you were cooking it would be free I guess!

PasturesNew

Yeah, however you try to justify it, size for size, toppings matched ... HM will be ¼ of the cost - and actually for that ¼ you'll probably end up with double the pizzas in reality. So 1/8th of the cost.

Skint_Catt

The Mediteranean vegetable pizza from Iceland is exceptional (my one weakness!)

LOUBOB

thanks for that, didnt realise I could get mozzarella so cheaply, that definetely pushed me over to making my own, although with such cheap prizes a thousand times better than ordering take away!! I havent had take away pizza for ages...personally couldnt justify the £8-£9 what a rip off!!!

jcr16

as for mozerella i always buy sainsbury basic's grated £1.10 for 200g as i find it a nightmare for grating. but i've seen it for about 40p but it comes in a bag with what appears fluid ? what is this ? can this be used, does it taste same as the harder stuff which has no fluid , does it still go nice and stringy ( which i love )

as for pizza. i do enjoying making a home made and we all enjoy them, kids won't eat shop bought. having said that i do have a weekness for the sweet chilli iceland pizza. i keep a couple in freezer for nights when i want a takeaway treat night. yummy.

DitaBombita

The mozzarella is fine, its in fluid to keep it moist. I just open the packet, drain off the moisure and cut it in slices and put it on pizza. Its very nice, good sliced with tomatoes and drizzled in olive oil for a salad too.

Plum_Pie

This thread has inspired me to cost the pizza I made for myself last night:

100g flour* - 3p
100ml olive oil (for base and sauce) - 30p
Third of a tin of tomatos - 10p
2 cloves of garlic for sauce (I love garlic!) - 6p
50g cheddar (not Italian but I love salty pizza toppings!) - 35p
1 small onion - 3p

So the basic pizza came to 87p, it would have been 10p less if I had used the same quantity of mozarella, as I did cheddar, based on the prices above.

This wasn't the pizza I ate however - I added some whole black olives (I hate stoned, sliced olives that you get on pizza chain pizzas - they're so bland!) and some chorizo (told you I liked them salty!) which bumped up the cost of the pizza to a shocking.... £1.54!

I've just looked up the ingredients in a supermarket premium range pizza and they seem fine - and cost twice as much as mine even though they are currently on offer. The ingredients in a 99p cheese and tomato economy pizza are less reassuring:

"Wheat Flour, Tomato Puree (31%), Mozzarella Medium Fat Soft Cheese (12%), Cheddar Cheese (8%), Vegetable Oil, Yeast, Modified Maize Starch, Salt, Sugar, Wheat Starch, Malt Flour, Dried Basil, Black Pepper, Preservative (calcium Propionate), Emulsifiers (mono-and Di Glycerides Of Fatty Acids, Sodium Stearoyl-2-lactylate), Flour Treatment Agent (ascorbic Acid)."

I'm not obsessive about additives but I really don't think I need to eat the highlighted items on the list above.

*There's no yeast in my recipe as I used the 'ready steady cook' method of making a thin, crisp base - you make the dough with 100g flour and a little oil and water, roll it out very thin, dry fry it for 2-3mins on both sides, then top and bake in a hot oven for 5-10 mins, depending on your toppings.