Cheesy Bacon Ranch French Bread Pizza

Cheesy Bacon Ranch French Bread Pizza – this easy dinner recipe combines ranch with PIZZA! Ranch is mixed with pizza sauce and topped with extra cheese and bacon. The perfect weeknight meal!

For years and years I’ve dealt with Jordan being a picky eater. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, because I’m super picky too (and, even though he won’t admit it, so is Mel). Pasta, rice, and potatoes are off the table for Jordan: she doesn’t like any of them unless it’s a french fry. She’ll eat most meats, but hates all beans, and she never met a bread she didn’t like. She has four favorite foods: cheese quesadillas, cheeseburgers, grilled cheese, and pizza.

Whenever I ask what she wants for dinner, her first choice is ALWAYS to go out. Second choice is pizza. Third choice is whining about what I’m actually making. As much as I’d love to rotate through her top four day in and day out, my waistline can’t handle that much kid food. But, more often than I’d like to admit, I cave on pizza because it’s my favorite too. Sometimes I’ll make homemade pizza, and other times we order in.

I know, I’m going somewhere with my story, I promise. Pizza reminds me of how picky Jordan is because recently she’s discovered ranch dressing. She never liked it before (she used to be the only kid eating carrots plain at any play date) but now she LOVES dipping her pizza in ranch. I created this french bread pizza with her in mind because of her new love:

1. This pizza is built on French Bread, which is one of her favorite things. (Who doesn’t love a nice fresh loaf of sourdough? I don’t want to know that person.)


2. Bacon is one of her food groups.


3. Cheese is another of her food groups.


4. I mixed ranch dressing INTO the pizza sauce so this pizza is the ranch dip and the pizza all at once. *head exploding*

Cheesy Bacon Ranch French Bread Pizza – a crunchy gooey cheesy pizza with the tang of ranch in every bite!

Really, how can you not get behind every single ingredient in this recipe? Pizza sauce, ranch dressing, two kinds of cheese (I used cheddar and mozzarella), bacon, bread…it’s like a dream come true. Plus, it’s an easy weeknight meal with 5 ingredients that can be made in under 20 minutes. It makes enough for a big family or a family of four with lunch leftovers. Jordan took this in her lunchbox 2 days in a row (so you know it’s even good cold!)

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