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It’s hard to beat the $10 Dinner Box from the Hut
Ken Hoffman | Posted: Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:04 am
This week I reached out for a $10 Dinner Box, new at the world's No. 1 pizza slinger, Pizza Hut, with 10,000 restaurants rockin' all over the world (great song by John Fogerty).
Here's the blueprint: one medium, rectangular, one-topping pizza, five breadsticks with marinara dipping sauce and 10 cinnamon sticks with white icing.
Since we're dealing with multiple items here, the nutritionals are going to be a little different. Let's assume that you're eating two pieces of pepperoni pizza, two breadsticks and two cinnamon sticks -- a balanced diet. That sounds about right. Your pizza will pack 500 calories and 24 fat grams. The breadsticks and marinara are good for 400 calories and 10 fat grams. The cinnamon sticks and icing are 490 calories and 9 fat grams. So, dinner is 1,390 calories and 43 fat grams. You couldn't take just one cinnamon stick?
Where the $10 Dinner Box hits you hardest is on the carbs -- 186 grams. There go your two weeks of eating chicken breasts and egg-white omelettes, right down the drain.
The $10 Dinner Box is easy on your wallet, though. If you ordered these three items separately, they'd run you $16. A $6 savings is nothing to sneeze at, even in cold-and-flu season.
My only problem with the $10 Dinner Box is the box. It's too big to fit in the refrigerator unless you clear out a whole shelf. Let's see, I'll move the mayo to the top shelf and the ketchup to the door, and I'll just freeze these hamburgers, since I'll be eating Pizza Hut leftovers tomorrow. And this jar of olives ... I don't even remember buying that. What's the expiration date? Whoa, I wasn't even living in this house when these olives turned bad.
The $10 Dinner Box is a discount version of last year's Big Dinner Box, which sold for $19.99. It contained two medium pizzas, eight wings and eight breadsticks -- total retail value $26. So the $10 Dinner Box is more savings and more bang for your 10 bucks. I'll take two. I'm losing money by not ordering more.
What it comes down to is: Do you really want breadsticks and cinnamon sticks? Between the hand-tossed pizza crust, the breadsticks and the cinnamon sticks, you're getting a lot of bread, even if it's for only a little bread.
The cinnamon sticks are tasty and sweet and a little crunchy on top. They're dessert in Pizza Land. I'm not a dessert guy when pizza is the main course. OK, maybe a chocolate cannoli from the Italian bakery down the street.
I wouldn't order breadsticks with pizza if I'm going a la carte, either. Breadsticks dipped in marinara is halfway to pizza. The only thing missing is cheese. Breadsticks are crust.
On the plus side, Pizza Hut is a very dependable phone call. The pizza is consistent, no surprises. They give you a decent amount of pepperoni, and because the pizza is baked on a timed conveyor belt, it's evenly cooked, with no burnt edges or an underdone middle.
I'm good with Pizza Hut pies. It's not Luigi's Pizza on the corner in Little Italy, but Pizza Hut will get you to tomorrow with no complaints.
Plus, Luigi's is going to cost you more than $10 for a medium pizza, breadsticks and cinnamon sticks. And you've got to put on pants and comb your hair and drive to Luigi's, and you never like what's on the jukebox, and Luigi doesn't realize they make TVs bigger than 19 inches now.
It's easier to stay home and call the Hut.
It’s hard to beat the $10 Dinner Box from the Hut
Ken Hoffman | Posted: Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:04 am
This week I reached out for a $10 Dinner Box, new at the world's No. 1 pizza slinger, Pizza Hut, with 10,000 restaurants rockin' all over the world (great song by John Fogerty).
Here's the blueprint: one medium, rectangular, one-topping pizza, five breadsticks with marinara dipping sauce and 10 cinnamon sticks with white icing.
Since we're dealing with multiple items here, the nutritionals are going to be a little different. Let's assume that you're eating two pieces of pepperoni pizza, two breadsticks and two cinnamon sticks -- a balanced diet. That sounds about right. Your pizza will pack 500 calories and 24 fat grams. The breadsticks and marinara are good for 400 calories and 10 fat grams. The cinnamon sticks and icing are 490 calories and 9 fat grams. So, dinner is 1,390 calories and 43 fat grams. You couldn't take just one cinnamon stick?
Where the $10 Dinner Box hits you hardest is on the carbs -- 186 grams. There go your two weeks of eating chicken breasts and egg-white omelettes, right down the drain.
The $10 Dinner Box is easy on your wallet, though. If you ordered these three items separately, they'd run you $16. A $6 savings is nothing to sneeze at, even in cold-and-flu season.
My only problem with the $10 Dinner Box is the box. It's too big to fit in the refrigerator unless you clear out a whole shelf. Let's see, I'll move the mayo to the top shelf and the ketchup to the door, and I'll just freeze these hamburgers, since I'll be eating Pizza Hut leftovers tomorrow. And this jar of olives ... I don't even remember buying that. What's the expiration date? Whoa, I wasn't even living in this house when these olives turned bad.
The $10 Dinner Box is a discount version of last year's Big Dinner Box, which sold for $19.99. It contained two medium pizzas, eight wings and eight breadsticks -- total retail value $26. So the $10 Dinner Box is more savings and more bang for your 10 bucks. I'll take two. I'm losing money by not ordering more.
What it comes down to is: Do you really want breadsticks and cinnamon sticks? Between the hand-tossed pizza crust, the breadsticks and the cinnamon sticks, you're getting a lot of bread, even if it's for only a little bread.
The cinnamon sticks are tasty and sweet and a little crunchy on top. They're dessert in Pizza Land. I'm not a dessert guy when pizza is the main course. OK, maybe a chocolate cannoli from the Italian bakery down the street.
I wouldn't order breadsticks with pizza if I'm going a la carte, either. Breadsticks dipped in marinara is halfway to pizza. The only thing missing is cheese. Breadsticks are crust.
On the plus side, Pizza Hut is a very dependable phone call. The pizza is consistent, no surprises. They give you a decent amount of pepperoni, and because the pizza is baked on a timed conveyor belt, it's evenly cooked, with no burnt edges or an underdone middle.
I'm good with Pizza Hut pies. It's not Luigi's Pizza on the corner in Little Italy, but Pizza Hut will get you to tomorrow with no complaints.
Plus, Luigi's is going to cost you more than $10 for a medium pizza, breadsticks and cinnamon sticks. And you've got to put on pants and comb your hair and drive to Luigi's, and you never like what's on the jukebox, and Luigi doesn't realize they make TVs bigger than 19 inches now.
It's easier to stay home and call the Hut.
It's not delivery... it's
When I'm feeling cheap I'll go with a large $5 ready-n-hot pizza from Little Caesar's...
If I got the time and energy, I'll take a stroll down the frozen food aisle and grab me some oven-baked pizza.. I just feel like other places don't do thin-crusts right..
Tastewise... Papa John's pizza with ground beef and chicken with the garlic dipping sauce and you'll never turn back..
When I'm feeling cheap I'll go with a large $5 ready-n-hot pizza from Little Caesar's...
If I got the time and energy, I'll take a stroll down the frozen food aisle and grab me some oven-baked pizza.. I just feel like other places don't do thin-crusts right..
Tastewise... Papa John's pizza with ground beef and chicken with the garlic dipping sauce and you'll never turn back..
I'd say most of us would agree that homeade specialty pizzas are better than chain...
With that being said, I'd say most of us, at least occasionally, still consume chain pizza.
To the OP's topic, the Pizza Hut deal seemed better. Papa John's tastes better to me, especially when you consider the garlic sauce.
With that being said, I'd say most of us, at least occasionally, still consume chain pizza.
To the OP's topic, the Pizza Hut deal seemed better. Papa John's tastes better to me, especially when you consider the garlic sauce.
