healthiest pizza?

Of those two, I imagine it's going to come down to which crust and toppings you choose. Want less calories? Go for less meat and crust and don't get extra cheese. More micronutrients? Top it with vegetables.

For me, reducing the items that have the highest calorie count and increasing the volume of low calorie items, I'll order a thin crust, tell them I would like "MINIMUM" sauce and 1/2 the normal amount of cheese (see if they can give you an estimate of how much 1 cup, 2 cup etc of both the sauce and cheese for logging). Then I kill it with toppings, tell the server specifically... double chicken, double green peppers, double onions, then jalapenos, tomato slices, no added salt.

Restaurant pizza sauce is generally heavily laden with salt and sugar. Sugar is added to the tomato paste to take out the tartness and salt is added to take out the sweetness, its a weird taste bud thing but it works.

When I was much younger, I worked at two different pizzeria's and both had pizza sauce that the main 3 ingredients to start a sauce mix was 2 gallon cans of Tomato paste, a bag of sugar, and an entire container of Morton Salt, (then custom spices and added veggies), so yes, I cut back on the sauce and cheese...

I'll add black pepper, crushed red pepper, and parmesan cheese at the table as needed....

Make sure you have planned accordingly for it and have the needed calories to stay within your calorie goal for the day.

Thin crust, multigrain... add some veggies and keep it to the more unprocessed meats like chicken or shrimp or maybe ground beef but avoid the sausage, pep, extra cheese.

I think that making pizza "healthy" is a waste of effort and good pizza. Make some room for calories and enjoy real pizza. There's nothing inherently "unhealthy" about pizza, just keep it within your goals.

I make my own thin-crust pizza with dough from a local pizzeria but trader joe's dough is good too. It's almost as easy as buying pizza, tbh. I use pre-made (no sugar added) tomato sauce too. A big slice of that with a salad is a great meal and not too high in calories, compared to Pizza Hut or something.

I make my own that is pretty healthy. Ezekiel sprouted grain tortilla, non gmo organic Pizza Sauce, artichoke hearts, olives,sun dried tomatoes, spices and layered in spinach. (No cheese, im vegan) and i'm stuffed with only about 325 calories.

melimomTARDIS wrote: »

I had pizza ranch tonight.

We ate at Pizza Ranch in their buffet for the first time a couple months ago and it was SO good. Their cheese sticks are yummy, and I like the variety of their pizzas and the fact that they switch them out with different flavors. We went a second time about a month later, and it wasn't nearly as good. I guess it depends on who's working. We haven't gone back since mainly because of the price and the disappointment the second time around.

Huppdiwupp wrote: »

A pizza can be healthy if it fits in your calorie limit. I tend to order my pizza without cheese, which makes it a lot less fat, but of course you can always just eat a smaller portion. (I generally don't eat cheese, but I suppose leaving out the cheese is also a good option if you want your pizza to have less calories - depends on your taste as well, of course, for some people, pizza is all about the cheese, and then I would just eat less of it).

pizza without cheese? That's blasphemy!