Sweet and Sour Veggie Pizza

This was a complete success and I just happened to have all ingredients on hand since I've been specialty shopping and cooking.  I imagine this would be quite expensive if you had to run out and buy everything at once but I didn't. 

I did the math one day; we had pizza night every Friday and the average cost was $40.  That is upwards of $120 per month (depending how many Fridays you end up with).  I knew we needed to cut that out and we don't like those frozen ones.  We used to make them with the Kraft kits when I was growing up and they worked out okay so I went back to them.

This is the size of pizza half the dough makes. Kid's was same size.

This is what I spent; yield, 4 pizzas or two weeks worth of pizza Fridays in my house
(2)Pizza kit: $11.50
Mozzarella: under $7 (on sale)
Kalamata olives: under $5
Feta cheese: under $6
Tomato: under $1
Sweet and Sour Peppers
    Red pepper: $.80
    Red onion: $1.25
    Garlic clove: $.30
    Red Wine vinegar: $4
    Olive oil: $6
Italian Sub Meat: $5
Total: Under $48.  And the only things I bought specifically for the pizzas were the kits and sub meats.  Everything else is stuff I needed for other meals - the sweet and sour pepper mixture was actually leftovers from another meal so I'm guessing at the cost of those.  Kraft kits make excellent dough, spices included (I also mix some in with the dough before adding water), canned sauce (which I've never used all of and also use the spices in - it's quite tasty for a package) and a package of parmesan cheese (never used all of it either).  Biggest pay off? An average pizza night now costs around $9 so that's a savings of at least $80 a month. 

By the way, that pizza was incredible - and I also tried a stuffed crust on the kids' pizza - cut the cheese a little thick, then in half lengthwise and then folded the edges of their pizza over it - worked really well too!