How do you save money with your Thermomix? There are so many ways that owning a Thermomix can help you save you a little or a lot off your weekly grocery bill that I thought I’d share some of my Top Tips! In this series of blog posts, I will share Thermomix Cost Saving tips, pizza…making homemade in the Thermomix to be exact…
As a family, Fridays are always pizza night. We’ve taken it a step further in our family and made it our weekly “pizza and movie night”, complete with fresh, amazing homemade pizza. In this blog, I’m going to compare the costs between buying a pizza and making your own.
If you ordered take away or went to a restaurant, you could be paying on average £12 just for a Margherita Pizza (other pizzas will cost more). That translates into at least £24 for two people and £48 for a family of 4. The same family of 4 would probably spend at least £24 on the supermarket’s not so freshly made pizzas.
Dominos Cheese and Tomato 13.5″ pizza (Docklands Branch) £16.99
Franco Manco (Canary Wharf) £7.95
Pizza dough only has a few ingredients, most of which are probably already in your store cupboard. As for toppings, let’s start with a simple mozzarella and basil pizza with tomato sauce, otherwise known as Pizza Margherita. Here’s a list of the ingredients and their cost for two medium pizzas.
Ingredients & costs
- Flour, bread flour, 500g, 65p
- Active dry yeast, 1 packet (8g), 20p
- Olive oil, extra virgin, 2 tbsp, 10p
- Salt, 1 tsp, less than 1p
- Sugar, 1 tsp, 5p
- Whole peeled tomatoes, 1 can (400g), £1
- Mozzarella cheese, 125g, £1.25
- Basil, free from the garden
Do you have a margherita pizza recipe for TM you recommend? The ones I’ve done so far have disappointed a little….
Goodness, there are so many. To be fair, I have adapted my pizza recipe so many times now, that I don’t actually follow a recipe. I like to mix the flours – plain, wholemeal, even cornmeal to give it a crunch and then whack a tomato sauce on it. My kids are still very Margherita Pizza so I add 4 kinds of cheese to be special, but I love pepperoni, artichokes, jalapenos on mine whilst my husband puts ham and pepperoni. I think the beauty of Thermomix and homemade pizza is that you can do what you want. A good starter recipe would be this one https://cookidoo.co.uk/recipes/recipe/en-GB/r39452. Let me know how you get on.