Cooking Light White Pizza with Spinach

Sassybecky
Sassybecky Posts: 72
in Food and Nutrition
I was trying to figure out what to eat for lunch today. The cafeteria at work has a Cooking Light station where they offer healthy options, and today's feature was the white pizza with spinach. They have little cards with the nutrition info up and the nutrition info for the pizza said 399 calories. It was a personal-sized pizza.

After I ate it (yum) I looked on the Cooking Light website to make sure the calories were right. Well their recipe is for a 14-inch pizza and the calories are 359 PER SLICE! How in the world could a whole personal pizza only be 399? I think the cafeteria screwed up! What should I do now?

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  • bm99
    bm99 Posts: 597 Member
    Cry.
  • Emily_Katherine
    Emily_Katherine Posts: 150
    That recipe looks fantastic for starters - thanks for posting it 'cuz I'm totally saving it!

    Whether the stats your cafeteria were reasonable totally depends on the size of the personal pizza, how much cheese was on it, and the crust. 1/6th of a 14" pizza (the amount in the cooking light website recipe) is a pretty big slice. I've made personal pizzas on medium sized whole wheat pitas (http://www.haddadbakery.com/pitadetails-high-fibre.html), for under 400 calories easily, with 1/4 cup of cheese. If you feel like it was pretty big for a personal pizza, and that there was a lot of cheese, maybe log a few extra calories. Anyway, no need to panic.
  • morkiemama
    morkiemama Posts: 894 Member
    Personal pizzas are usually a heck of a lot smaller than a normal 14" one. Do you know how large your whole personal pizza was? I doubt it was as big as the 14" recipe and thus the calories could have been correct.

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