Banquet Pepperoni Pizza Meal: A Good Snack

Looking for a good snack to pop into your microwave or oven? Does a price tag of less than a dollar in some cities sweeten the deal? Try Banquet's pepperoni pizza meal. Banquet's pepperoni pizza meal will satisfy the kids and take care of your snack craving!

About Banquet's Pepperoni Pizza Meal

Banquet's pepperoni pizza meal is a good buy. Available in my neck of the woods (Central Florida) for 88 cents at Sweetbay Supermarket, I am getting a slice of pizza about 6 inches long by 4 inches wide (more or less). It contains small bits of pepperoni with what tastes like mozzarella cheese.

The entree is billed as "reduced-fat pepperoni pizza." The crust and dough is crunchy and soft, but none too moist or chewy, which is nice -- in my opinion. The pizza is certainly not the best of any frozen pizza, let me make that clear. But I have certainly had far worse pizzas than this from a box straight out of the grocer's freezer.

To make the deal even sweeter, Banquet's pepperoni pizza meal also includes a side of chocolate pudding. It cooks up as a rather thick pudding, and one has to watch out for getting a bit of skin on the pudding during the heating process.

Cooking Banquet's pepperoni pizza meal is not time consuming. It takes a short 5 minutes (including standing time) in the microwave. Even cooking the meal in a conventional oven is a breeze. The meal is in and out of a conventional oven in 17 minutes, with a 2-minute standing time.

What About the Food Label?

Curious what Banquet's pepperoni pizza meal looks like nutrition-wise? Consider these numbers below for the meal, which weighs 5.75 ounces.

350 calories

120 calories from fat

13 grams of total fat

3.5 grams of saturated fat

0 grams of trans fat

10 mg of cholesterol

810 mg of sodium

320 mg of potassium

46 grams of total carbohydrates

5 grams of dietary fiber

18 grams of sugar

11 grams of protein

Overall Look at Banquet's Pepperoni Pizza Meal

Banquet's pepperoni pizza meal is a good choice for an inexpensive snack. It even could make a fine plate for a young child. It is not the best-tasting meal in the world, but at about a dollar, it is hard to beat.

Don't overlook the fact that Banquet's pepperoni pizza meal contains 20% of the average adult's daily intake of dietary fiber -- not bad for a 5.75 ounce frozen dinner.

On the down side, though, is that at only 5.75 ounces, the average adult is consuming more than a third of the daily allowance for sodium (34%) and a full fifth (20%) of total fat intake. Otherwise, though, the numbers are not bad, including only 350 calories and 15% of the average adult's daily allowance of total carbohydrates.

All in all, Banquet's pepperoni pizza meal makes a decent choice for a quick snack. Children will enjoy the chocolate pudding dessert. The food label reflects a few numbers which may put some dieters a little over the top for the day, but a typical person's diet certainly includes room for a snack like this Banquet offering.

Along with a soft-on-the-budget price, Banquet's pepperoni pizza meal makes a satisfactory choice for budget-minded consumers.

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Banquet's Pepperoni Pizza Meal carton