Do you dress it up or not?

pizzas definetly.they never have enough toppings,or garlic to make me happy. even if i spend some on fixings,it's still cheaper than the local domino's. plus i can get a cheese and make a chicken/broccoli pizza,they usually don't sell those.

Yes I do! I love using ham a lot. Bacons too. I do buy cheap frozen pizza. Most of the time I dress them up with eggs (sunny side up) and spinach or bacons. I have to have garlic powder or crushed garlic with extra virgin olive oil while eating pizza. Its very interesting as u mentioned little things, cheap unmeaningful things, they really turns out to be a big surprise if you know where exactly to use them.

We have found some really good frozen pizzas here in Canada, so we don't need to add anything extra to them. Occasionally I'll find a good one at the little store next to the coffee shop that I go to every day, and I'll bring it home for dinner. I've found some really good ones in that little store.

Yep. We used to do the very same thing to those kinds of pizzas. WE used to add more mozarella cheese to ours. We have started dieting though so we have not had pizza in quite a while.

As far pizza.. we have a "little Ceasers" here and they are always $5.00 and they are pretty good for an inexpensive dinner..I have added a few things to other cheaper cuts of meat to make them a lot more tasterer though....

Yup I sure do! I figure this, buying a package of ham and what ever else to put on the pizza, it won't take the whole package so you'll have more to use on other things which keeps the cost down. I make mexican dishes and always have a lot of left overs so I'll freeze it to use another time.

We are very frugal in our home. We DO buy cheap pizza and dress them up; I purchased a pizza cooker for hubby last Xmas and it's been the best thing. We can also broil/bake other foods as well. If you think about it, even though you used the last of your packaged ham and garlic salt, when you do purchase them again they'll last you through quite a few dressed up pizzas, etc., so you're really saving money in the long run. That's what we look at. We recently purchased a small deep freeze so that we could buy meats, etc. when on sale and stock up. I was tired of cramming foods into the small freezer section of our refrigerator. You're not suppose to block the fan in the freezer or it has to work much too hard to keep things frozen and then it costs more in electricity. Everytime we'd go grocery shopping I'd have to remind my hubby that we had to eat-up most of what was in freezer before we could buy anything else frozen; that's why the decision to purchase the deep freeze. We are both so, so glad that we did; and the one we got will only cost on average $26 a year in electricity.

When I get frozen pizzas whether cheap or expensive I always have a habit of "dressing" them up. I love cheese and most pizzas in my mind never have enough--I'll also sprinkle some garlic powder as I love a more garlicky taste

I do the pizza thing too....just add a little american cheese though..I like it on top when it gets golden brown...and there are a few other things I dress up...if I don't get bushes baked beans I take the cheaper ones and add a bit of brown sugar to it....same with sloppy joe canned sauce.

Yes, I do! I think it is a good way to get cheap stuff but make them pretty/tasty/better! I havebought frozen pizza and can soup recently, I just ate the frozen pizza because it tastes not bad and I made the can vegetables soup with lost of ingredients - all the fresh veggies, made it like the fresh mixed vegetables soup, it was good!

Things such as those cheap frozen pizzas, I do dress it up like you described.

Does the 'cheap' food feed you any less than the 'expensive' food? There is nothing wrong with trying to hunt for bargains when shopping for food. Now its how you prepare the food you bought or what you combine it with that makes the difference. Dressing up the cheap food as you call it should not be an issue. That's just the way you want it and you are only pleasing your cravings. Cheap things can be 'dressed up' to look and taste like its expensive counterpart. It's even like that in decorating a room. You don't have to go out and buy the most expensive things to make your room look sophisticated. Simplicity sometimes has more finesse.

We used to make our own cheap pizzas. A can of biscuits, tomato sauce spices and cheeses. Now, cheese is so expensive that you might as well just buy a nice pizza. I used to have a really good rcipe for home made pizzas that was better then any restaurant I ever tasted. Unfortunately, I can't remember it and lost it somewhere between moves.

Frozen pizzas taste nasty by themselves in my opinion. My partner and I always dress them up with herbs, REAL cheese, and various other toppings such as pepperoni. I swear that these tiny touches make a world of difference. Take two minutes to dress up your frozen pizzas and I guarantee you'll never have one by itself again.