You CAN Have Your Pizza and Fit Into Your Skinny Jeans!

This is a compensated review by BlogHer and DiGiorno.

Time's up - and the winner is comment #75! Katherine, you have 48 hours to contact me with your address.

It's no secret that I transformed my diet a few years ago. I took out the fast food, the junk food, the white flours and I developed an exercise habit. I lost 80 pounds. (I've since gained back about 10 of those pounds, but beggers can't be choosers and I'm trying to get that weight back off.) The changes that I made to my diet were not enormous, mind blowing things, however - they were incremental, tiny steps that all together helped me to live a more healthy lifestyle.That's the most effective way to create a sustainable lifestyle change, I think - small manageable steps.

Pizza is usually one of the foods that a dieting person, sadly, feels that they must remove from the diet. After all, it's gooey, cheesy deliciousness, combined with the saltiness  of the mozzarella and the tang of tomato - my stomach is rumbling just thinking about it. It fills you up in a wonderful way - but it can also pack on the pounds. In the past, I've just avoided pizza - but, I think, with the new DiGiorno 200 calorie pizza selections - it's back in my diet. And that makes me so very happy. Created with Italian inspired ingredients on thin crispy crust, these single serve meal options are a great lunch or dinner, and have the added bonus of being the perfect portion size - probably one of my biggest roadblocks when it comes to eating pizza. (I may or may not have been known to sneak downstairs and eat just one more piece from the delivery box late at night. I'm not telling.)

I was delighted to receive three different selections of the new Digiorno 200 Official siteCalorie pizzas - Pepperoni, Chicken with Peppers and Onions and Cheese and Tomato. I sampled the Cheese and Tomato for dinner, and it was delicious, although much more crispy than I had anticipated. The crust cracked when I bit into it, and left my lap covered in crumbs - lesson to self, eat over a plate - duh. I scarfed down one of the two individually wrapped, three ounce servings. I wondered if by microwaving the pizza I'd caused it to be more crispy than it was supposed to be, and so I baked the second slice in my toaster oven.

Nope. Still crunchy. But yummy. As was the Chicken with Peppers and Onions, although I thought that the chicken was a little sparse - both portions that I had contained four small pieces of chicken. I did not try the pepperoni, but my 17 year old son did, and he loved it. In fact, the entire line up of DiGiorno 200 calorie pizzas has been added to the permanent shopping list - only problem being, they aren't sold in my area yet.

But never fear. I am on the hunt.

 Want to win a $200 gift card to buy yourself some pizzas and salad fixings - because, really, this single serving of pizza is perfect with a salad to complete your meal? One lucky winner will win a $100 Visa gift card just for commenting here!

To enter, leave me a comment below and tell me your favorite kind of pizza, or you may leave a link to your post on your own blog in the comments below.  The contest will begin 1/25/2010 and will end 2/22/2010.  Make sure that the e-mail address you leave is correct. 

Rules:

• No duplicate comments.
• You may receive an additional entry by linking on twitter and leaving a link in the comments.
• You may receive an additional entry by blogging about this contest and leaving a link in the comments.
• This giveaway is open to US Residents, aged 18 and older
• Winners will be selected via random draw, and will notified by e-mail.
• You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.
• Please see the official rules Official rules

In addition, there are NINE other chances to win. Check out the round up page, and get busy with your comments - I think you'll love this pizza - I sure did.

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Comments

[Danyelle]

I like pizza with everything on it.

[Beth C]

I LOVE pizza with ham, bacon and pineapple

[Cori]

My very favorite pizza is chicken and mushroom with white garlic sauce and parmesan and garlic on the crust. No surprise that I don't eat it often, right? Thanks for the chance to win, Carmen!

[Angela]

My face is pepperoni and pineapple--salty and sweet. Yum!

[Angela]

Darn iPhone!! Fave, I meant fave!

[Nicole]

My very favorite pizza is one with lots of cheese, but I'm also always up for something Hubby describes as "weird" like spinach and goat cheese.

[Melanie]

Love fresh mozzarella and fresh tomatoes on pizza!

[Headless Mom]

When I was in college my fave was pepperoni with jalepenjos. Seriously!

[elizabeth]

A real oddity - but I love Canadian bacon and sauerkraut, and just a sprinkling of cheese (a real GOOD cheese! Also - a huge fan of taco pizza. I love making home made pizza - but I would love to try this for a quick, and good pizza for *those* nights! ;-)
Thanks for the opportunity!

[Annika]

I'm so dull--I like plain cheese pizza.

[Marjie]

I love, love, love pineapple and ham on my pizza!

[Marie]

Ham pizza.

[Lori Riviere]

I love any kind of pizza........but I adore mushrooms on it.

[Denise]

I like chicken ranch pizza alot since my hubby brought one home a while back. Ultimately though, to really make me happy it has to be a pie from Sal's Pizza on the corner of my hometown. No one has ever made em' like Sal's!

[Michele D]

What I like is a veggie pizza with extra cheese, but since my DH and I eat Vegan, I get boring pizza now and live vicariously thru our kids selections.

[Michelle]

My favorite is a white pizza with fresh mozzarella prosciutto and arugula!!!!!

[MelissaS]

I love a simple pizza with fresh tomatoes, basil, and mozzarella. Make it at the height of summer on the grill, and it's heaven...

[Kai]

I am a pizza purist, I like just plain cheese with a red sauce! Mmmm pizza!

[Katie]

Mmmmm...I live in Chicago, so my most favorite pizza in the world is a stuffed pie with spinach. Sooooooo delicious. (But way more than 200 calories a serving!)

[Jen]

I love Canadian Bacon!! And pepperoni, and hamburger! Really, any kind of pizza. :)

[Paige]

I love hawaiian pizza. Yum. I'd love to try this new pizza.

[Heather]

I love ham and pineapple on a pizza but if I was getting a pizza that I didn't have to share with my family, I'd get grilled chicken, green peppers, mushrooms and extra cheese. YUMMY!

[Beth]

shrimp, alfredo sauce, fresh mozzerella and spinach -- amazing on a thin crust!

[MFDart]

Pizza. We love it here! My all time favorite is 5 cheese pizza with chicken on top (yum). The children like Pepperoni and plain cheese pizza. And I have one fire eater who likes hot peppers, etc on hers, go figure.

[karen]

I love "white pizza" or just lots of cheese and bacon, oh yea feta too, and forgot mushrooms.(the only healthy part!)

[Kelly]

Love the Rising Crust pizza with four cheeses

[Lisa @ All That and a Box of Rocks]

Well, being a true-blue Memphis girl, I've gotta say my favorite pizza is good ol' pulled pork bar-b-que pizza. Yum!!

However, that is a stroke AND a heart attack on a thin crust, so I try to stay away from it!

[Matt]

My favorite kind of pizza changes between BBQ Chicken and Hawaiian!

mattschmunk at hotmail dot com

[el-e-e]

Pepperoni/pineapple, in a dead-even tie with basil/tomato. Just. Can't. Decide.

:) yummy!

[samantha jo campen]

I love Veggie Lovers or Supremem pizza!

samanthajocampen at gmail

[Mami2jcn]

I love pepperoni and sausage pizza.

[Mami2jcn]

I blogged about this giveaway:

http://grandgiveaways.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/digiorno-200-calorie-pizza/

[Susan]

Pretty much all pizza is good, but we have a local place that uses sliced meatballs, which is a delicious alternative to sausage. I just never want to eat canned mushrooms on a pizza- blech!

[Mami2jcn]

I tweeted:

http://twitter.com/mami2jcn/status/8248695265

[Jenny B]

I love all meat pizza! YUM! now I want some!

Jenny B

[Kelsey Kim]

I love pizza! If ordering from somewhere, pepperoni and pineapple, but we make homemade pizzas alot, and I make a thai and bbq chicken pizza that are DELICIOUS!
micahandkelsey1@cox.net
courageousmother.blogspot.com

[Cheri]

I love margherita pizzas. I don't know if it's the yumminess of the ingredients or if it's because it sounds like margaritas ;)

[Monica]

I love a Hawaiian Pizza but am allergic to the pineapple. My next love is chicken garlic with extra garlic, tomatoes, and onions.

[Ris]

Pepperoni and lots of cheese is the pizza for me! Mmm pizza.

[Lindsey]

My current fav is meatball and red bell pepper.

[Jennifer H]

I like the plain cheese. Yum.

[Terri P.]

My favorite pizza is one with a great crust and pepperoni and green peppers. Thanks!

[Terri P.]

Tweeted: http://twitter.com/dahbou/status/8255586661

[Katie R]

I love pizza with pineapple and canadian bacon.

[DCGirl]

Gluten-free pizza around here!

[Lori]

I like breakfast pizza. Mmmmmm!!

[Kim]

Cheese pizza all the way here.

[colleen]

Pineapple for me and the kids; Pepperoni for my oldest, and white pizza for my husband. My kids would live on pizza if I would let them.

[zenmomma]

Mmmmmmm…sundried tomato and basil.

[Vicky]

Ham & pineapple or a veggie pizza, thin crust only!