Real Good Foods Pizza Review: Low Carb, Gluten Free Pizzas
The Real Good Foods Co. low carb pizza has been crossing my screen and coming up in discussions around the web A LOT lately, so when Kathy of Netrition reached out and asked me if I wanted to review them I said “Yes, of course!”
They just started carrying Real Good Pizza at Netrition, and they have 3 options: the large pizza, breakfast pizza, and personal sized pizzas.
You can see all three at that link, along with the flavors (pepperoni, supreme, bacon, sausage, cheese, etc) and the ingredients & nutrition facts for each as well.
I did NOT like the Real Good Pizza. 😛
Kathy and I were both excited about Netrition carrying this product, and me doing this review for you, but when I let her know I thought they were HORRIBLE, she agreed to sponsor this review anyway. She really loves our community here, and appreciates my “objective” reviews as much as you do. 😉
I’ll share my experience with the Real Good Low Carb Pizzas (which was NOT good, lol), and let you know what I DO love from Netrition – in case you’re putting an order together. And if you’ve tried the Real Good Foods brand pizzas yourself, I would love to hear YOUR thoughts too!:)
I’ve been shopping at Netrition for 5+ years now, and I’ve had nothing but GREAT experiences. They have super fast shipping, a HUGE selection of products, and a low $6.99 flat rate shipping – no matter how much you order, or how much it weighs.
They also now offer FREE SHIPPING plus a FREE GIFT on larger orders now!
Real Good Foods Low Carb Pizza Review (Spoiler: It’s Awful!) 😛
I wanted to like this product. I really did…
It turns out some people DO like them (a few), but most people agreed that they were terrible. There was a lot of discussion and feedback shared about them on both Instagram and Facebook when I tried them this week.
Kathy sent me two Real Good Low Carb Pizzas to review, so I took the advice from around the web and tried to make them the best I could.
The first one was a “Large” Pepperoni Low Carb Pizza:
I baked it in the oven as directed, then pan fried it to make the crust crisper.
If you don’t crisp it up in a pan on the stove, it has a pretty soft/odd textured bottom, because the crust is made from ground chicken & parmesan.
(My crust never did get crispy – it remained soft, no matter what I tried.)
The large sized Real Good Foods low carb pizzas (above) are meant to be two servings, at 4 carbs per serving. That’s total carbs, by the way – there’s no fiber.
The large is not very large either. It’s a 7″ pizza and very thin.
To call it two servings means basically two very small slices or one very large slice – but thin, and only 260 calories per serving. So it’s not enough to call it a “meal” unless you eat the whole pizza (which is 8 carbs).
I found it to be way too salty, with a very “fake pizza taste” and basically… just a frozen pizza.
And not a great one at that. 😛
It wasn’t anywhere near as good as those 99 cent high carb Totino’s frozen pizzas I used to binge on, which are much larger and crispier and just all around way better!
After reading several comments and everyone’s feedback, I gave it a second shot – with a bit of hesitation, I might add. 😉
My second one was a “Personal Size” Low Carb Cheese Pizza:
This smaller pizza is… VERY small:
This is a one serving pizza for 4 carbs, but again – not enough for a serving. I was told to pair it with a salad to make a meal out of it, so that’s exactly what I did. 🙂
Compare that to the size of one Know Low Carb Cookie:
Right. 😉
This is a regular size dinner plate, and a small side salad I had leftover from restaurant take-out, to give you a size visual:
Both times I had to dip it in ranch and chase it with chocolate – just to finish the pizza. 😛
There’s just no way to make these taste good.
I don’t care how many or what toppings you add to them to cover up the weird “fake pizza taste” – between the crust, sauce and cheese… it’s just not something I would eat. Or ever eat again, I should say. 🙄 😐 Yuck! 😛
Here’s the personal size cheese pizza close-up:
Blech!
I really like to melt fresh mozzarella in the oven on parchment paper and add pepperoni’s on top to make a yummy crustless pizza. THAT is good!
Another popular option is Fat Head Pizza, but I’ve never made or tried that myself. I’m guessing you can find the recipe for it on Pinterest, or maybe someone here has a great recipe and you can share the link with us?? 🙂
What I Do NOT Like About Real Good Pizza:
- They’re way too expensive. Especially for what they are.
- They’re way too small, and too many carbs.
- It takes 20-30 minutes to bake one, then you have to pan fry it to try to make the crust a better texture. It’s way too much time, trouble & hassle for a “convenience food” like frozen pizza.
- The taste and texture are awful. Like a really bad fake pizza.
The ingredients aren’t terrible. You can see the ingredients here. There’s no artificial ingredients, “only minimally processed” and the macros aren’t bad. And it IS grain free and gluten free. (But I wouldn’t eat it again.)
Here’s what I do LOVE from Netrition…
I’ve been shopping at Netrition for years, and LOVE that they have so many great low carb foods to choose from – and flat rate shipping no matter how much you order.
People are always asking for my recommendations, so here are my TOP favorites from Netrition that are great additions to mix things up in your low carb kitchen:
Note: This is the most popular Low Carb Pizza Crust on Netrition if you really want a pre-made crust. I wasn’t a huge fan of it, but I’m so used to eating “crustless pizza” at this point that crust just doesn’t appeal to me anymore. But people seem to like that one!
As for pizza sauce, there are several low carb options to choose from, but I’m totally spoiled on really GOOD high quality sauce. My recommendation: Organico Bello Low Carb Sauce or Marinara at Netrition.
That is the best sauce you’ll ever taste! 😉
You’ll find several recipes & posts where I’ve used the Bello organic sauce & marinara here. I need to order some more! It pairs well with SO many things, and makes a fabulous topper for a big juicy hamburger steak.;)
You can also find some of the Know Foods Products on Netrition now! I would recommend the syrup, thins & cookies from that list.
Netrition also carries my favorite Low Carb Bread, which make an amazing grilled cheese sandwich! Tip: don’t skimp on the butter or the cheese. 😉
That delicious low carb grilled cheese is faster, easier, less carbs and WAY BETTER than a “real good pizza” any day of the week! 🙂
If I were going to make a Low Carb Grocery List for Netrition to stock up and take advantage of the Free Shipping and Free Gift, here are MY favorite items I would definitely order:
- Chipotle Lime Mayo – great for making baked parmesan chicken!
- Cranberry Almond Flax Sticky Bar (LOVE!)
- NUSH Organic Low Carb Cakes (I like Banana Walnut)
- Good Dee’s Low Carb Baking Mixes (ALL great!!)
They also carry Quest Nutrition Bars and Atkins Shakes plus many other low carb foods. There are Two Low Carb Granola Products and I like both of them but I was torn on which one I like best (as you’ll see in that post!).
What would YOU add to this list, or what are your favorite products to order from Netrition? Let’s get a bigger list going! 🙂
They offer Free Shipping by FedEx Ground on any order $99 or more, and you get a Free Gift with any order over $75
And: Have you tried the Real Good Food Co low carb pizzas yet?
If so, I would love to hear YOUR thoughts.;)
Best,
Lynn Terry,
aka @LowCarbTraveler
Discount Code: LOWCARBTRAVELER
I really love the Real Good Pizzas especially the breakfast ones!! They are expensive but mine cooked up delicious! I felt half of one filled me up because of the chicken crust. My crust was crispy every time with just cooking in the oven for 30 min.
I recently tried these pizzaβs too. I was so excited to finally get my hands on one and was so so disappointed. I will never buy again.
If you haven’t tried Cali’flour pizza crusts yet you are really missing out. You can put any healthy (or not so healthy) topping on the crusts you like and they always turn out great! I’ve only had rave reviews from my husband, teenage daughter and other family members some of which are on a low carb/keto diet. My nephew said this is so f#$@&@! good! It has changed my life! He’s on the keto diet. They have 4 different flavors, Original Italian, Sweet Red Pepper, Plant Based Vegan Crusts, and Jalapeno. I’ve tried the first 2 and they are amazing. I’ve also made Lasagna from the crusts and it is delicious. The crusts are about 10″ and the entire crust is 6 nets carbs. https://www.califlourfoods.com/
I am in 100% agreement on the Califlour crusts. Love Love Love them!!
I also hated these pizzas. I bought 4 because I was so excited for low carb pizza, very disappointing.
Refreshing honesty Lynn, and a manufacturer who cares about their reputation will appreciate it and make changes to the product. It must be good to work with people who care.
You know what I often find with sites like Ebay and Amazon – people just won’t post negative feedback. I am guilty myself not wanting to make trouble for the seller who has sold me a bad product, so people keep buying it and stay silent about problems with it. That’s certainly not serving the market well! :/
By the way, I love the picture of toasted low carb bread with cheese – it looks so appealing that I could eat it now! In the UK we have such a limited variety of low carb foods. You won’t find it in supermarkets – would need to go to Amazon or Ebay. Even the bread I buy comes from Germany! π
Thank you for your honesty on your reviews. I cannot afford to buy things like this that are pricey only to throw the items in the trash
I cannot tell you how many “yuk” low carb or low cal and diet foods and shakes i bought in the past. Your reviews will save me a ton of money in the long run. Thank God for what you do!
One thing i maybe thought were not as good as you said it would be are the Know cookies. I bought three boxes and though the cookies were not bad, i would not ever buy them again. The texture was too dense. I got tired of eating those very quickly. The Know waffles were horrible. I think again, it was the dense texture. Waffles should be light and fluffy and melt in your mouth. Those were heavy and not tasty imho. I think the other low carb mixes would make for much better waffles.
But everyone has their own preferances
I would never order those low carb pizzas…..yuk.
Thanks again for the review.
Hi Gina π
The Know Cookies are very thick and chewy. I hadn’t considered them “dense” until I was eating the new Peanut Butter Keto Kookies this week, but that’s a good description too. I find the Know cookies best warmed up just a bit, and really like them with cream cheese on them (as a meal replacement).
I didn’t eat the Know waffles, just because they were too high in carbs for me (if you ate two or more) so Aaron ate those. He ate four in one sitting and loved them lol – but I haven’t tried those.
The New Hope Mills mix remains my favorite for low carb pancakes or waffles: http://www.travelinglowcarb.com/pancakes π Here is my recipe using it to make low carb blueberry pancakes: http://www.travelinglowcarb.com/14046/low-carb-pancakes/ Yum!!
I just tried the pepperoni today and the supreme yesterday. The supreme I microwaved and finished in the pan. Crust didn’t get “crisp”, but it wasn’t mushy either. The pepperoni I prepared in my air fryer and I think the air fryer produced better results than the microwave. I will try the cheese tomorrow in the over to see how that comes out. But, so far, I liked both the supreme and pepperoni. Neither of them can hold a candle to my most favorite pizza joint, but they sure are better for me; carb, calorie and nutrition wise. I thought the taste was good. When you are not in the mood to cook, these pizza’s with a salad make a decent meal. The cost for what you get is high, so this would not be a main staple in my kitchen, but perfect for a quick meal. I plan on trying the breakfast pizza and the enchiladas as well. I appreciate your honest review; that is hard to come by.
I’m forcing myself to finish one serving of the cheese pizza, but it’s so salty I can’t even!!!
I tried the low carb pizza. I would not give it to my dog. Horrible…
Soggy, blech.
Interesting story goes with a review I put on their page. I said I didn’t like the pizza. They contacted me and asked if I’d take down the negative review if they sent me a coupon for their new burrito product. I took the review down. The coupons never came and I’m blocked from commeting on their page. Nice way to do business Real Good Foods
Wow Cheryl – I am floored that they would bribe you into removing a review. That alone really shocks me! :-/
Obviously you’re going to be giving up quite a bit in exchange for almost all the carbs. With that in mind, I’ve found Real Good’s pizza to be a fantastic option! It tastes really decent for a super-low-carb pizza substitute. And thank goodness, available in Kroger!
I tried one of these. I actually spit out the first bite and threw the rest away.
Hi Lynn.. Thanks for Honesty in all your reviews of products. I have read so many negative reviews on the βReal Goodβ products and also the costs of those items! I love the New Hope Pancake mix but was wondering if you have tried the Waffles with this mix? I have tried many LC waffle recipes and ending up throwing them away..too soft! I want crispy!!
Have a Great Day!
Julie
Hi Julie π My FAVORITE low carb waffles are actually made with nut butter, and they come out PERFECT. The same recipe almost makes amazing muffins and pancakes. π You’ll find that recipe at: https://www.travelinglowcarb.com/20832/low-carb-nut-butter-recipes/
A local grocer had these on sale, so I tried the supreme version and was disgusted. Expensive (even on sale), greasy, salty glop that didn’t even taste like pizza. It smelled great while cooking, but flavor was awful. When I took it out of the oven there was a huge puddle of oil where the parmesan cheese crust had oozed oil while cooking. Give me ordinary high-carb gluten loaded pizza any day over this. Strangely enough, reviews on Amazon for this product have been disabled.
I concur, these chicken crust pizzas are terrible – chicken with pepperoni is a bad taste combo – way salty, floppy crust even with the pan frying gambit – I threw it out – no one should eat these things
I’ve had the Real Good cheese pizza and the pepperoni mini pizzas. The large one was soft and tasting poorly, the mini pizzas burned when cooked as directed in a toaster oven. The price is extravagant, especially considering the awful taste and worse mushy texture. I’ll never buy them again. They’re worse than Amy’s brand pizzas.
Possibly the WORST frozen pizza I’ve ever tried. Awful. Couldn’t even eat it.
I completely agree. This miniature personal pan supreme pizza that I bought for $6 (the same price as a muchhh better-tasting healthy family sized pizza I bought the same day) was literally so bad. I cannot even explain how upset I am that I wasted my money on this. I was initially really excited because I thought it’d be great, but it was just not pleasant at all when I ate it. I don’t know why they’d put the directions for 27-30 minutes at 425 degrees… I took mine out of the oven a couple minutes before the recommended time, and it was very burnt on the outside crust, yet grossly undercooked in the middle. I put it back in the oven at 325 for an additional 10 minutes in effort to try to solve this problem, but it didn’t at all. The middle was just as undercooked and the crust was even more burnt. I literally made a yelp account just to give this pizza a bad review (usually I never feel strongly enough to take the time), but I guess you can’t review brands on yelp lol. I will never buy this ever again. So beyond disappointed.
I tried the Real Good Foods Supreme pizza tonight. I baked it for the 30 minutes then I tried to crisp the bottom up in a cast iron skillet. Like you said, it never ever got crispy. I tried it. It’s disgusting. It literally tastes like Pizza Hut pizza being vomited back up. That’s what I told my husband…and he agreed.
To make matters worse I waited like 40 minutes for this pizza to be ready and I’m doing 23/1 OMAD KETO. So I was starving!
I dont recommend purchasing this!
Iβm so happy to have found this post because that company seems to be thriving and people seem to love it. I really wanted to like their products because they use real foods right?! But I couldnβt find it around town so I placed a LARGE order on their site and ordered over 20+ diff products from them!
Long story short – I didnβt find 1 single item that I would re-order again from them!
Some items were ok – their ice cream is decent but too high in carbs for me
50% of the products I had to force feed myself – and the other half if I include the ice cream weβre ok but with zero reason to buy again ββοΈ
The chicken crust pizza felt like I was chewing rubber – could not finish!
The cauli crust was ok but for all that I can just make a pizza on a low carb wrap or tortilla etc
And I cannot believe theyβre blocking bad reviews! No wonder it SEEMS theyβre doing great. Shame shame I know your name! Lol
I just tried the snack size pizzas. What a disaster! They didn’t come anywhere close to being cooked in the time specified for the microwave. I finished them in my old convection oven. Basically burnt the top of them, but the crust was still floppy. And the taste? Listen, I’m a fat dude not easily disgusted by anything greasy or salty, but I couldn’t finish these. I only purchased this because my local store had clearanced them (what a surprise.). It was so bad I’m not even going to give them a second chance.
The chicken Parmesan is three pieces of chicken sandwich meat with a white tasteless substance thatβs supposed to be Parmesan cheese in slot, a lot of water. So not worth the money
I tried the Margarita Pizza. Followed all the cooking instructions. How they can call this pizza is beyond me it is the worst tasting frozen pizza ever. I wonβt waste my money again. Should Have David Portnoy review. It would be a negative score