Questions In Need of Answers - No. 3

Trader Joe's frozen pizza is amazing. So is the Target Archer Farms brand.

My kids and I enjoy all of the Lego games for the 360 - take your pick: Batman, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Harry Potter, etc. If you get Star Wars - get the complete saga and definitely play the first part of any of the games that have 2 parts (Batman before Batman 2, etc). For the Kinect, we enjoy Kinect Party (free on XBLA...but this may be for Gold members) as well as Just Dance 4. Speaking of Xbox Gold - check techbargains.com and/or eBay before buying. Do not attach your credit card to the box, buy membership cards and redeem them from your browser (www.xbox.com). I've never paid more than $35/year of membership - there are always deals popping up for year membership cards on buy.com, eBay.com, newegg.com, etc.

I'd like to reiterate what Jeff said, get the Lego games. Definitely start with the Batman and Star Wars ones. Those are easily the best ones.

Dr Oetker's thin-crust frozen Ristorante pizzas are quite good if you like thin crust pizzas. Sometimes they're hard to find...Food Lion has them, but Kroger's doesn't. As with most tasty foods, the serving size is something like 1/3 of the pizza, but I can split it with someone, or eat the whole thing if I'm hungry. Don't be scared off by the "Dr."...this isn't like South Beach Diet food or another "Dr."-endorsed food. According to the website's history, Dr. Oetker developed a superior baking powder in 1891.

Tombstone pizzas are my favorite frozen pizzas, although DiGiorno are good if you like the thicker crust. Regardless of brand, all of them are better if you use the Presto Pizzazz pizza cooker. I have had one for about 10 years and I love it!

In my opinion, there really is no such thing as a "good" frozen pizza - - no matter what brand you buy, if you just take it out of the box and slap it in the oven, you are still just going to have a nasty frozen pizza experience. What I do is just buy the cheap ones (Totino's party pizza - - on sale) and just use that as a starting point, adding my own extra toppings to make it a tasty pizza experience. You can get really creative, putting on various cheeses, pepperoni, sausage, sliced jalepenos, pineapple chunks, etc. I keep things like that on hand and it just takes a minute to doctor it up. Also, they are small, so you can make multiple, different ones to satisfy varying tastes. Another option is to buy the ready-made crusts (Boboli) and make your own pizza from the ground up - - I do this sometimes and my kids love them.

I like the sauce on the Tombstone, but the extra cheese has way too much. I usually scrape 50-60% of it off. I also like the Trader Joe's pizzas.

Chuck the XBox and get Backgammon or Chess. For the pizza problem I suggest Red Baron Mexican Style Pizza, add some McCormick Perfect Pinch® Salad Supreme Seasoning, Taco Bell sauce, Filé powder, pickelled bannana peppers and Mexican 4 Cheese shredded blend.

I usually buy a frozen/refrigerated pizza on nights when I do the grocery shopping because I never feel like cooking after a trip to the grocery store. When it come to frozen pizza I usually skip it and buy the grocery store brand pizza that is merely refrigerated in the deli department. It is about the same cost as frozen and I think it tastes slightly better. Often times I will buy a bell pepper or a few cherry tomatoes, olives, or some other pizza like ingredient for use in a different recipe later in the week and I will use just a bit of those ingredients to help spice up the store bought pizza.

If your family likes karaoke, there is a Kinect game available in the Xbox Live app store. It was free when I downloaded it a few months back. You get a few songs with it and then purchase other songs that you like.

Regardless of what type of pizza you choose. Use a pizza crisper ( http://www.amazon.com/Fox-Run-14-Inch-Non-Stick-Crisper/dp/B000XTOKAO ). This will keep the crust from being chewy. The one I use looks more like a screen with ~ 1/8th inch holes. It has made store bought pizza much more interesting. As for my pizza preference - I love the Target brand pizzas. They have some very interesting choices as well.

Just thought about Costco pizzas - Yummmmm. Also, I have a herb garden just for my pizzas. Most are easy to grow and really spice up a pizza.

Dogtown or TJ's out of St. Louis, MO

Xbox Live Family Game night, this has five or six games you can play, handy if you do not have the board equivalent. Kinect Party is fun for everyone also.

Instead of frozen try the deli, they usually have pre-made uncooked pizza, those are much better than any frozen.

The LEGO game series isn't too bad. Batman, Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and Star Wars. And they're multiplayer.

Dijorno makes the best pricey pizza to cook at home imho. But as far as flavor of sauce along with a cheap price, Red Baron the whole way! They have great sauce!

I will second the Trader Joe's pizza. My favorite is the Maitre Pierre Tarte d'Alsace. It's amazing.

California Pizza Kitchen, especially the garlic chicken if you like that sort of thing.
DiGornio's is #2.

I really like Marifano pizza. I've only found it at the WalMart near me, but they have great toppings (the spinach & feta is a personal fave), or there's always Boboli crusts. Then you can just make your own :)

Freschetta is definitely my favorite frozen pizza.

Freschetta with Rising Crust is the best I've had. DiGiorno RC is good too. Walmart store brand RC is surprisingly good for $3.99. I'm all about the crust, baby! The rising crust tastes more like real yeast dough which is what the pizza places use. Don't keep a RC in your freezer for more than 3 months or the yeast dies and you have flat doughy crust. Mama Celeste is good for the super cheapos. I spread some oil on the bottom of the crust before cooking to keep it from being so dry. Cook in a toaster oven or real oven.

freschetta pizza is the best of the frozens, but a carry out or home made will always beat out a frozen one.

American Flatbread pizza is the absolute best!

I really enjoy playing Scribblenauts with my nieces. It’s a single player game, but everyone using their imagination to get through the puzzles is pretty fun.
We accidentally unleashed a My Little Pony zombie apocalypse on one of the levels… Oops. >_>;

1. my 5 year old loves Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy, since all we own is PS2. it's great because you can pop in with a two player mode to help them out. then drop out and have them back at one player again.
the refined gameplay vs. the first Lego Star Wars makes this a winner for my son.

We also tried Katamari Damacy & the sequel, We <3 Katamari. While he enjoyed rolling stuff up, the tank-style controllers (analog stick) for him was a bit challenging.

2. Pizza? we're not picky. so the 2 dollar Roma frozen pizza works for us (probably on the bad taste menu). Otherwise my homemade pizza is a hit. even for friends. I've masterd the Chicago Style Deepdish. but still working out how to get a new york thin without using a dough sheeting machine ;). recipe? send me an email i'll send the recipe: vanmeterx@gmail.com :)

1. I got Kinect Party when my son was 6 and if you can let yourself go and be silly it is fun to play. We also have Kinect sports, where you can take turns doing something like bowling. Both of those use the sensor. Using controllers, my son likes Angry Birds (but he likes Angry Birds everything so this is no surprise).

2. Trader Joe's makes a good deep dish pepperoni pizza. My only suggestion for cooking is to remove the pepperoni for the first 10 minutes of baking time, unless you like extremely crispy pepperoni. My kids like Amy's Organic cheese pizza, but one of them also thinks McDonalds has the best food in the entire world, so not sure this opinion is trustworthy (I myself like McDonalds, but I do not think it is the best food in the entire world).

1. Castle Crashers!!!

Stoufers french bread pizza made in a toaster oven...yum

If you are looking for something quick for one person you have to try the Red Baron Feasts For One. The first microwave pizza that I thought was really good. Unfortunately they are sometimes difficult to find in my area.

For full size oven pizza, I used to love DiGiorno, but they have changed it enough over the years that I'm not really a fan any more.

before I became gluten intolerant, my fav was California Pizza Kitchen. Barbecue chicken especially. But homemade is so easy if you get those Boboli shells.