This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Tony’s Pizza. All opinions are 100% mine.

Tony’s Pizza gave me the opportunity to try their newest spin on personal take and bake pizza, the new Crispy Crust pizzas. Considering the price of these pizzas, I thought I would review them and share my finding as they are very reasonably priced.

The first thing you will notice about these pizzas is that their crust is not round like most personal sized pizzas, but “scround” as they put it.. sort of square with round edges and the crust is actually air baked to reduce trans fat and produce a crisp, light crust.

Personally I found the pizzas reminiscent of high school cafeteria food. They were edible but the flavor wasn’t great. The crust certainly was crisp and light though, and priced at around $1 for a one, which would feed two people (they are pizza, and still a bit heavy on calories, so I wouldn’t recommend eating an entire pizza yourself), I would consider them in the future.

Overall I would say that if you are generally busy and need something that you can quickly heat up and eat, these are a great value but if you are feeding a family and prefer to spend a bit more for higher quality products, there are other take and bake products out there.

For those of you out there that would like to try this product, I have five coupons left for free pizzas. Just drop a comment and I can mail one out to you. Tastes vary and I would be curious if others share my thoughts on this product.

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Another week just flew by. I’m still playing catchup, so here are more golden oldies to wet your appetite.

My pick this week goes to Simon at Realm of Prosperity and his article titled Changing the Price from Dollars to Work Hours When Shopping. This is something I have done for years. I’m not sure why I started doing this but it just made sense. I usually do this for consumables or ’stuff’ that will simply not be around very long and compare the price of that stuff to how many hours of my life I would have to give to the man in order to pay for that stuff. The post is succinct so I won’t even quote it this time but it’s worth the read.

Addition goodies this time around:

• Financial Freak Show discusses thoughts about persistence and excellence in Cocaine Excellence,  spurred by the program called Cocaine Cowboys. I’ve never seen the show myself but I’ve watched Blow with Jonny Depp which is a similar story of being persistent and creating excellence in everything you do. Now you just have to take that and apply it to legitimate business
• Though it’s old news now, Jim at Bargaineering highlights the University of Idaho’s free personal finance courses. When it first launched I ran through some of their info, and it certainly is full of good stuff.
• The Dough Roller talked about 7 Lessons Learned from a Failed Attempt to Refinance a Mortgage. This post stuck with me as I had just gone through a refi. Mine was successful but only because it wasn’t my first go-around and I had learned the 7 lessons before. Number 4 especially is helpful to keep you cool and calm during the whole process.
• Five Cent Nickel shares some interesting info from research at the University of Pennsylvania in Savers vs Spenders. The info suggests that opposites attract even when it comes to money matters.  I think that’s life’s way of balancing things out and it’s no accident.
• More on money mistakes and learning from them, Matt at Financial Methods writes Why do We Need Financial Hurdles to Overcome? His thoughts relate well to the workforce. Work experience will usually be favored over a green degree. If ya don’t get what I mean, go read his article.

That’s it for today so have a great weekend!

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Lately I have been pretty dormant here. One of the main reasons at least for the recent dormancy is that our 9 month old daughter was in the hospital for almost a week. She is back at home now and life is returning to something that closely resembles the normal swing of things.

The hospital stay was uncomfortable in many ways. For one, there wasn’t much, as parents, my wife and I could do to help our daughter. She has RSV which is a respiratory virus that, in adults, resembles the common cold but in infants and young children is life threatening. Our daughter couldn’t breath well and it was just hard to sit there and watch while being so helpless.

Another thing that made the stay uncomfortable, dare I say it, is the money. Hospital stays are expensive, even with insurance! I couldn’t help but think, “boy this is gonna cost us” while we were in the ER. Then when they decided to admit my daughter, the thought again crossed my mind but at that point I realized there were more important things going on. I also realized that we have an emergency fund for just this sort of situation, an emergency.

So today’s linkworthy pick is an older post by The Monevator called Emergency Funds: The ten essential steps. This article has some great and usable pointers about how people should deal with emergency funds, myself included. I still have personal conflicts with how I deal with my emergency fund, primarily number 5 in the steps, know an emergency when you see one.

Because of these tips and others I have picked up around the web in the last year, I shouldn’t be worried about money when my daughter has to stay in the hospital, but I do until my wife gives me a good kick…gotta love wive’s for keeping us short-sighted men in line.

The other linkworthy of this week include:

• J.D. Roth shares additional information about savings account planning in How Much Should You Have In Savings. He shares some pointers from a book I have yet to read called Why Smart People Do Stupid Things with Money
• One more on funds, Frugal Dad talks about a different kind of fund. The Entrepreneur Fund is an awesome idea. Becoming self employed is very scary and very risky because you never know if your idea will actually go through and you will be able to support your family on the projected income. So instead of jumping in without a plan, Frugal Dad gives tips on preparing a fund ahead of time and building on it when profits come in to support your family while self employed.
• It may have been better to link to this in January when everyone was spurring up for new year’s resolutions but it’s still early. Financial Samurai shares things he learned after his 35 days without spending any money on junk. It’s more about goals than junk and he has some great tips to reach your goals. He has some expensive tastes but managed to pass up the temptations and reached his goal.
• No Credit Needed gets deep with Some Thoughts About Thinking. It’s a good idea to just stop whatever you are doing and think about thought sometimes, or think about nothing at all. In our current age of data overload, our brain needs a break at times. TV doesn’t count.
• Finally, The Digerati Life talked about Measuring Job Satisfaction. Another thing that’s been keeping me busy lately has been job interviews. I can’t share too much info right now but the company is pretty huge and I’m really excited but the interview process is long and difficult. This post talks about different things to consider in your current job to see if you are fully satisfied and happy or if changes need to be made.

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