Store fluctuates from being cheapest to second cheapest, but delivery is generally always cheaper than home-made all things considered. I like making my own pizza, but I consider it a treat due to everything involved.
I guess it all depends on what you like and where you buy sometimes once you add up all the things you need to make a homemade pizza with taxes and all it comes to about the same as if you were to just get one from a pizza place.
I think the only way homemade pizza would be cheaper than Little Caesars is if you already had the ingredients left over from other things. Like if you have cheese left over because you bought a huge bag to make lasagna, and you have flour because you bought a huge bag to bake with, and you have leftover odds and ends of meat and vegetables from other meals, you might be able to cobble together a cheap pizza. I think this is why people do meal planning and bulk shopping, so that they can get several meals out of a huge bag of mozzarella cheese. I have a lot of respect for people who are disciplined enough to know what they're going to use every cup of flour for. I just wing it.
I don't about you guys but I found it cheaper to make my own pizza at home. I have even used tasty bread as crusts for my pizza so it's definitely more affordable. I think the trick is really resourcefulness in this case.
Homemade is MUCH cheaper. Flour is diet cheap, tins of tomatoes are dirt cheap and you can buy mozzarella cheap. I could make many huge pizzas for the price of one crappy pizza from Domino's. I know that for a fact.
I actually do both on occasion, I buy frozen pizzas and I make my own. Now I have found that when I make them myself I do get off a bit cheaper then when I buy the frozen variety. So why do buy that frozen variety on occasion. Well other then the fact that when I make them myself its actually more work, its also that I make only the french break roll kind. In other words I buy french rolls, tomato paste, and pepperoni to make these. I don't need to buy shredded cheese for this purpose because this is any item we always buy in our home regardless. So, I don't make the kind of pizza where you use the pizza dough that would definitely be too much work but we do like to have this type of pizza as well, so I will buy it frozen.
I am a girl who loves to cook so therefor homemade pizza is the way to go for me. I hate buying frozen pizza because it is so much money and I hate wasting money on things that I can prepare myself and prepare them in a way that ends up being the tastiest.
It depends on where you get the pizza and how much you are paying for it in your area. There are several pizza shops in my neck of the woods that will sell 12" and sometimes even 14" pizzas for $5 on certain days of the week. There's not much of a way you can beat that price home made - a bag of mozzarella alone costs about $3.50, a can of sauce $1, flour and yeast will bring you up to $5. On the other hand, if you're ordering pizzas that cost like $15 and then paying a delivery charge, then yes, making them at home would be cheaper. I've also seen some pizza shops and italian grocery stores sell the raw pizza dough for like 99 cents a bag. You can usually make like 2 pizzas out of it if you've got the other ingredients on hand.
I am definitely someone who would go for homemade pizza instead of store bought. I feel for that same money plus some I can make the same quality and even better in most cases as well. I think frozen pizza is a waste of money because you can make so much more if you have the correct ingredients on hand!
i did not make pizza ever before so i do not have any idea which one will be cheaper home made or store
I've never really thought about it. The ones we make are most definitely more expensive than store bought. But that's because of how they make those cardboard thingies they call pizza lol. Cheap, empty, fake, mystery ingredients. So gross. We make ours from scratch so we know what's in them and they FEED us lol. Even most chains use those mystery, gross ingredients. There are a couple we like that we'll turn to when we don't feel like making them. Local places in my hometown that were around since I was small and the ingredients are amazing. My new city though, I'm surrounded by chains that all make the exact same "pizza".. I want to go home now lol.
Pizza hut is currently running a special for $5.55 large one topping pizzas this week. I can still get 12" pizza's of much higher quality for $5 from some of the other local pizza joints around here on certain days of the week, but it's not a bad deal if you're more into quantity over quality.
My BF and I always make our own pizzas. It is so easy to do and always tastes better! The most expensive part is the cheese but the rest of our toppings are quite cheap. We also freeze our homemade pizza dough so we can turn it into a nice quick dinner on a day when we don't have as much time.
I don't make pizzas often at home to justify buying all ingredients and putting in the time and effort. I just get Dominos which is really cheap with the coupons available and I really do like their crust too. I don't like frozen pizzas from the supermarket though. They taste like cardboard to me. It's either Dominos with coupons or when I am wanting a fancier, much better pizza, there's a Zachary's near my house that has phenomenal pizza.
But you don't actually use all the cheese and sauce that you buy on one pizza. You can actually get 3 or 4 pizzas out of the ingredients you buy. You lay out a lot of money up front, but it averages out to be cheaper per pizza because you can make a few of them.
a home made pizza is more cheaper than buying in a pizza chain if you have some ingredients left in the kitchen like pizza sauce tomato sauce cheese pepperoni.. and the component is almost complete I would prefer a home made pizza
