Like most families, we have a fun meal once a week. For my kids, it’s nearly always pizza because it’s as much fun to eat as it is to create! Of course, any meal that I can turn into a fun evening with the kids, I’m always in, and this is one meal everyone eats without complaints.
Since switching my son’s diet to gluten-free a few years ago, I’ve had to be on the quest to find gluten-free substitutes that he’ll enjoy eating and not feel like he’s missing out. In the case of pizza, we recently discovered Freschetta’s Gluten-Free Pizzas, and I’m happy this is one gluten-free pizza the entire family loves to eat!
The thinner, crispy crust is one that’s irresistible and most nights, we make it a game to pile on the toppings and customize them. Since the baking temperatures are different for regular and gluten-free crusts, it’s much easier for me to purchase Freshetta’s Gluten-Free pizzas and make one kind for everyone.
The fun begins just before baking, where each of my kids selects the toppings they want to customize their pizzas with! When we start with the gluten-free cheese, piling on the toppings is quite easy. And, because it’s a Friday night, this is a great way for me to add veggies that need to be eaten from the week!
My youngest, the meat lover, likes to add black olives to his pizza, and since my daughter is also a big fan of the black olive and pepperoni combination, they work together to customize their pizzas. For these two, I buy the gluten-free pepperoni and start there. It’s always about who gets more sliced olives on “their half of the pizza” Ha!
Because Freschetta’s Gluten-Free pizzas are available nationwide, enjoying pizza night is quite easy no matter where you live. We were able to enjoy a family pizza night on a recent vacation trip to the beach, and it made for a really fun pizza and movie night in our condo when the kids were tired from a few days in the sun and just wanted to relax and watch a movie.
While it’s only my son and I that eat gluten-free at our house, it’s nice to have found one great-tasting gluten-free pizza everyone else enjoys eating.
Tell me, do you customize your pizzas at home? What are your favorite toppings?
Cristina says
We love this pizza, too! We never customize, but we should!
Cindy says
After being diagnosed with Celiac 16 years ago, I resigned myself to making pizza from scratch in order to get a good GF pizza. None of the prepared pizzas were good enough to enjoy until I tried Freschetta a little over a year ago. Man is this pizza good! Even my boys and my husband agree it tastes like gluten filled pizza. I like to have one in the freezer in the event I do not have time to make pizza from scratch. I usually add olives and roasted vegetables to my pizza; however a nice assorted mushroom pizza is excellent too with portabello, domestic and shitake mushrooms. Saturday night is pizza night for us every week so we mix it up a bit each time.
Laura Fuentes says
I totally get having to make your own gluten-free items in order to find a recipe the whole family can enjoy… but man, oh man isn’t it nice when you find a product everyone loves that saves us time? Your mushroom pizza sounds amazing!!
Sylvia Baker says
We would add bacon and probably more cheese!
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Lynn Wittner-Chaidez says
We make little checklists and each person marks what they want for their pizza and then I put together dishes containing each person’s requested toppings and they put them on top of their pizza. It makes it fun, plus everyone loves their meal and there is no picking things off and wrinkled noses!
julie says
I love putting tons of veggies on my pizza!