Frozen pizzas are dire these days

[PeterWetherspoons]

Supermarket frozen pizzas have shrunk in size. There's bugger all cheese on them and bugger all tomatoe sauce.

Aibu.. things didn't used to be like this, I'm sure .. maybe I'm going stir crazy.

Yanbu but it's not just pizza. Food manufacturers are using poorer quality ingredients and charging us more money. Eg mature cheddar - half the time that stuff isn't mature and it's barely fucking cheddar, just strange oily wax with cheese flavour stirred into it. And for the pp recommending that Crosta kit - £2.50 for a ball of dough and some tomato relish is not a pizza, it is a pisstake. It's not even shrinkflation any more - I mean yes packets are smaller but also food is poor quality. It is shitflation.

Abso-fucking-lutely. The quality of supermarket food is in the toilet and heading for the sewer. Even the flour and butter aren't up to par. Pre-grated "cheese" that is basically suet coated in potato starch. It's scary.

frozen Pizza has always been vile

Mlano (Pizza Express) used to be the best value “fresh” pizza. Not anymore. They’re like cardboard now…

M&S had the best frozen one, decent price. Gone now, replaced with “Woodfire” whatnot, triple the cost.

Crosta and Mollica or Lidl.

I love making homemade pizza dough but I absolutely reject the “it’s barely any effort” claims. Frozen pizza is what you need for a quick emergency tea, not the days when I have time to start kneading dough.:

I absolutely love the Asda stuffed crust ones. I don't think Goodfellas or Dr Oetker have got any worse since I was a teen. I don't like the Sainsbury's ones. They're all v expensive now but that's true of literally all food!

This is definitely true. I've had ice-cream that I'm sure had very little cow's milk in it, it tastes of coconut and cheap starch.

Is that fact?

I stopped making cheese on toast a few years ago because it goes all greasy and oily on top

Fish pies are getting more and more like mash with a bit of fish under it.

My Sainsbury's local, and my local Co-op both feature as their only special British (non-blue) cheese:- Wensleydale cheese with cranberries in - urgh! Why? A decent Double Gloucester instead of their generic orange stuff would surely sell better? I'd buy it, for one!

Sorry, slight fish pie/cheese derail there!

Re pizza: I used to make my own very successfully with scone dough, which I can make in a matter of minutes with a food processor, even a small one.

The thick crust pepperoni one from Lidl is actually my favourite.

I have gone back to cooking far more from scratch and freezing extras as the quality of pre-made foods/ready meals is definitely declining.
From grated cheese that does not melt, pizzas that are more dough than topping and lack of meat in ready meals replaced with more fake cheese.

We prefer to make our own pizza nowadays . Get the bases , sauce and cheese . The toppings we do at home tend to be simple veggie and ham type toppings but we like it and the price for four people's pizza works out ok and they're all fresh oh and we get plenty cheese on them .

Dr Oetker ones are great. We always add a bit more cheese but otherwise they taste great.

Aldi's new stone baked sourdough pizzas are really nice

Frozen Pizza has always been horrible. It was a comparative absence and availability of decent fresh pizza that once fooled us into thinking otherwise.

Chicago town ones are ok , but generally frozen pizzas are a let down I think

We just make our own now. Much nicer.

Dd likes my cheat 'pizza' as she prefers a thin base so I just use a wrap for the base. It isn't really pizza, but it does actually taste pretty good.

Every so often Waitrose has them on offer, so I stock up. DH prefers plain food and their mozzarella is the only pizza he likes.

Buy the fresh ones in the fridge section at the supermarket and freeze them at home.

Sainsburys 4 cheese stuffed crust takeaway is the best. Think it's about £2.75

I know what you mean. Bought a cheese feast a while back and I'm looking at it and thinking, it's just a bloody Margherita.

We always get these, they're so nice! Especially the chicken chilli one. I want pizza for dinner now!

Yes. Also own brand Morrisons and Alfie's have gone from 69p to £1 in 2 years...and like you said less cheese, and less sauce, we used to stock them for a quick dinner, and just make a quick salad, not anymore, we barely buy them..