Craving Pizza? Low Carb Flatout Pizza

[gamergirl 4,610]

Pictures and nutritional facts at pizza for days. We used to get pizza once a week and although we got the “healthy” kind (thin crust, veggies, with half the cheese), it still wasn’t that good for us.

I’ve been thinking about how to recreate this and although I’ve seen lots of cauliflower crust, meat crust, ground chicken crust etc. recipes, they seemed a bit contrived. So I tried this with Flatout bread and it actually worked out very well. The nice thing about individual serving pizzas is that I was able to make one with just pepperoni and cheese for my son at the same time.

Makes 2 sleever servings, 1 serving for a non-op

Ingredients

• 1 piece of Italian herb flatout bread (I got it at Tom Thumb but wal-mart carries it too)
  
• 2 tbsp ready-made pizza sauce (you need so little it’s hardly worth making your own I think)
  
• 10 slices pepperoni
  
• 1/8 c diced onions
  
• 1/8 c diced tomatoes
  
• 1/8 c diced mushrooms
  
• 1/2 c shredded mozzarella cheese
  

You can substitute other toppings of course, but the nutritional info on the site is for the ingredients listed above

Method

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees
   
2. Place flatout bread directly onto the rack. Do not put on a cookie sheet
   
3. Cook for 5 minutes. It will be fairly crisp by this point.
   
4. Remove from oven, spread sauce and cheese, and spread toppings
   
5. Carefully put it back into the oven, and cook for another 3-4 minutes until the cheese has melted and the toppings appear wilted
   
6. Cut into pieces and serve. I was only able to eat 1/2 of one.
   

[☠carolinagirl☠ 18,722]

thanks for sharing this

[B-52 7,113]

Things like this sound great and nutritious, but it does not fool my band...you lost me at the word "Bread"

It's the same as "Turkey or chicken Meatballs"....they go to great lengths to make it just like actual meat...so much so that my band will reject it the same as if it was meat....

I even have problems with Tofu Burgers...they go to great lengths to make it just like real burgers made of meat, my band cannot tell the difference....my band cannot rad labels.

For me, it is not the foods themselves, but the texture of the foods....

[gamergirl 4,610]

Things like this sound great and nutritious, but it does not fool my band...you lost me at the word "Bread" It's the same as "Turkey or chicken Meatballs"....they go to great lengths to make it just like actual meat...so much so that my band will reject it the same as if it was meat.... I even have problems with Tofu Burgers...they go to great lengths to make it just like real burgers made of meat, my band cannot tell the difference....my band cannot rad labels. For me, it is not the foods themselves, but the texture of the foods....

What you're saying sounds a lot like what I've read about fake sugars. That our brains can't tell the difference between real and fake sugar, and when we eats fake stuff like Splenda, etc, our brains think it's real sugar and release insulin anyway.

Do a lot of banders have trouble with bread? Even toasted bread? I know I can't eat potatoes at all, so we all have our kryptonite I guess.

[*susan* 1,709]

That sounds absolutely delicious, I am definitely going to give it a try.

And yes, breads are a major issue for most bandsters. When I had mine, I just knew there were certain things I couldn't eat, and two of the top items were any type of bread or Pasta. You eat those, and you think you stopped at safe point, but then they expand in your stomach and the next thing you know you are in band misery.