Fantastic Frozen Foods (Part 1)

Hi everyone,

I am SO embarrassed that my last blog post was in March!  Sometimes life gets too busy and honestly, I wasn't inspired enough by a topic to write about...until now!

I am seriously obsessed with Target- for clothing, storage, school supplies, and now food (most Targets around here have been expanding into grocery stores too).  I usually stop in the food section because Target is one of the few stores that sells Coffee Mate Natural Bliss (natural coffee creamer with no artificial flavors, like they all should be!).  But during my last trip to Target I found that they now have a huge organic and natural foods section, especially frozen foods!  This led me to discover two new brands:  American Flatbread and Evol (I'll review them in part 2).

American Flatbread is a New England company that makes hand-crafted frozen pizzas.  Their pizzas have 100% organically grown wheat crusts and cheese with no rBST growth hormone.  They're all-natural with no preservatives, artificial colors or flavors, and NO GMOs!  I've tried the Cheese and Herb pizza and the Revolution pizza (with mushrooms and caramelized onions).  Both were delicious and easy to make!  And even better, you can pronounce all of the ingredients!

Check out all their products on their website:   American Flatbread

Crust contains: 100% Organically Grown Wheat (this is a white flour with restored wheat germ), Good Mountain Water, Kosher Salt, Fresh yeast.

Topping contains: Mozzarella Cheese (Whole Milk, Vegetable Rennet, Salt), Vermont’s Blythedale Farms Asiago/Grana Padano Cheese (Whole Milk from Jersey Cows, Vegetable Rennet, Salt), Garlic Oil (Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Organic Canola Oil, Fresh Organic Garlic), Fresh Organic Parsley, Herbs, Kosher Salt.

Now take a look at the ingredients of a Freschetta 4-Cheese Pizza....yikes!

INGREDIENTS: ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, REDUCED IRON, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), TOMATOES (WATER, TOMATO PASTE), CHEESE BLEND (LOW MOISTURE PART SKIM MOZZARELLA CHEESE [CULTURED PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, SALT, ENZYMES], WHITE CHEDDAR CHEESE [CULTURED PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES], PROVOLONE CHEESE [CULTURED PASTEURIZED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES], PARMESAN CHEESE [CULTURED PASTEURIZED PART SKIM MILK, SALT, ENZYMES]), YEAST CONTAINS 2% OR LESS OF: CORNMEAL, SHORTENING (PALM OIL, NATURAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN), BUTTER FLAVORED OIL WITH GARLIC (LIQUID AND HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, NATURAL GARLIC FLAVOR, SALT, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SOY LECITHIN, BETA CAROTENE [COLOR], VITAMIN A PALMITATE), SUGAR, SALT, SPICE, DATEM, WHEAT GLUTEN, DEXTROSE, SEA SALT, OLIVE OIL, GUAR GUM, GARLIC, SOY LECITHIN, ASCORBIC ACID, ENZYMES (SODIUM CHLORIDE, WHEAT STARCH, ENZYMES, MALTODEXTRIN).



Wouldn't you rather be eating an American Flatbread pizza for dinner?  :)

~The Healthy Food Detective