An experiment.

I hate Wednesdays. I mean it - I really dislike them. It's nothing personal - it's the fault of my timetable. From one o'clock until bedtime, I have nothing. It's so boring. No tutorials, lectures, clubs, orchestra, nuffink.

So I'm sure you can imagine the excitement that lit up my face when my friend Iveta presented me with a challenge. Could we make a £1 Tesco Value pizza taste good?

No, alright. I wasn't excited. I was bored as heck after an entire afternoon of cutting up cookery magazines, and very very dubious.

Yes, I'm aware that that's an empty wrapper. I didn't want to repulse you. It seriously looked horrid. The cheese was all on one side and the base looked like cardboard. The challenge was not looking good.

I started by sprinkling it with copious amounts of basil and oregano, and Iveta donated some mushrooms and smoked ham. We added extra cheese and some olives that were in my fridge. At this point, it actually looked quite pretty.

We felt there was no more we could do. So we shoved it in the oven and waited, hearts pounding and with baited breath. Just kidding. It's Tesco Value. Oh, I drizzled it with my magic garlic oil, too.

Look! Edible goodness! It worked! We are culinary geniuses. Kind of. Well, it was alright. It needed salt and pepper. A lot of pepper. But mainly, the point is, that it was edible and tasted mostly of olives and mushroom. And it was a massive pizza. For a quid, this was a bargain.

Look, I wasn't promising Michelin-starred essence-of-fennel-coated-veal-with-shavings-of-southern-french-peasant. You can't polish something nasty (if the saying is what I think it is, I don't wish to type it). But it filled us up, and didn't taste actively unpleasant.

On a scale of one to yummy? About an 8.