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My daughter looked at the ingredients for pizza crust that I had sitting on the counter.    Is that all my t takes, she said.     She had just bought a vegan pizza at one of those 42 percent profit stores for ten dollars.      It never ceases to amaze me how they can omit  the most expensive ingredients in a pizza ( the meat and the cheese) and still price a pizza at ten bucks.   

The cost of a large pepperoni pizza at home is about 1.50.  The flour for a pizza crust is .30.  Add water, 2t olive oil. Salt, amd yeast.   I buy yeast at Costco  on

in a bulk bag.   You can buy it at Winco by the scoop if you don't want to make the investment.   I don't price anything under 2T that is kitchen staples.  It's too much like hard work.   I have pieced and broken down basic things like beans and flour.  

It takes about five minutes to make the dough and another rest time of ten minutes.   You can. E chopping and gathering the ingredients for the topping during the rest time.   

The pizza sauce is a dollar at the dollar tree.   The same brand as you will find in other grocery stores for 1.50.   I open the jar and pour it into my ice cube trays and freeze it in the ice maker.   Cover it with something first .  It takes three ice cubes to make a pizza.    There are 16 cubes  in a tray.  So, for about .18 you can spread sauce on a pizza with a pastry brush.    Pepperoni is .50 with a coupon at the dollar tree.   Coupons are almost every month at coupons.com 

In the time it takes you to wait for the pizza guy or go pick up a pizza from the store, you can have a pizza ready for the oven.   

Flour for crust .30 

Sauce .18 

Cheese 1/2 cup .25, full cup .50 

Pepperoni .50 

Total  1.48 of you use a whole cup of cheese.   

That is 15 percent  of the cost, and you are getting cheese and pepperoni.