If you’re going to buy pepperoni for pizza, calzones, salads or any other purpose, it’s almost always a better deal to get it sliced fresh from your deli rather than buying it pre-packaged. I don’t ever need any more than a quarter pound of it, so I generally pay around $1.50 as opposed to around $3 for pre-packaged.
The other benefit to purchasing it from the deli is that I can have it sliced however I like. For pizza I like it really thin, but for salads I like it really thick. I like to toss leftover pepperoni into pasta sauce or put it in sandwiches, so if we have a little extra, that doesn’t go to waste either. The Italian Pasta Salad you see above is made with leftover pepperoni. Want to know what’s in it?
1 lb. cooked, tri-color rotini
3 oz.(ish) monterey jack cheese, cubed small
1 green pepper, diced
parmesan cheese
Italian dressing
(Also add olives, grape tomatoes, ham, other peppers, whatever is in your fridge)
Combine all the above ingredients and refrigerate. You may want to add more dressing when you serve it. Yum.
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Now that’s a salad I can make. I recently found a pepperoni that doesn’t have additives or MSG. So glad I happened upon your place by beingfrugal. Subscribing to your feed…
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Looks very yummy.
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And, whatever you do, don’t discount your local pizza chain as a great source of pepperoni (and other toppings). My husband owns a franchise, and we have a few customers who only come in for toppings and dough, which we sell at cost. With the economy being where it is, we look at it as a measure of goodwill. Try it, you may be surprised!
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I’m hungry and that looks so goo! I’ll have to try it. I try to only buy meats that are nitrate/nitrite free and that is hard to find in pepperoni (unless you go to whole foods). I’ll have to try the deli counter to see what I can find. Good tip!
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mmm…that looks delicious!!
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Thanks for the pepperoni tip! I wish I had read this earlier, I almost always keep pepperoni on hand, but no more pre-packaged for me