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Healthy Pizza Recipe

 

Whole Foods & Healing Recipes

 

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For those parents who are forever seeking ways to feed their

children healthy food, this will be a great solution you can add to

your secret bag of tricks. Every kid loves pizza and there is no

reason they have to know just how healthy our pizza recipe is. You

know and that's all that matters. Besides being scrumptious, the

whole family can build individual pizzas to their own liking, adding

fun to health. The more you can create associations of " tasty "

and " fun " to healthy eating, the better. Here is how you do it.

 

Crust

Putting the word " healthy " into pizza starts with the crust. Most

standard pizzas your kids are eating is full of nutritionally

useless white gluey flour. Did you know that white flour spikes

blood sugar faster than white sugar? That makes white flour very

addictive. The fast alternative is using whole grain pita shells.

All grocery stores should carry them in the bread area. They are a

perfect size for making individual pizza masterpieces. Look for the

thin ones, they have half the calories than the thick ones, 70

calories compared to about 150 calories.

 

Now you may have to take some searching and reading the ingredients

time to find better food for your family to eat. But before you

know it you will familiarize yourself with a whole new part of the

grocery store. It's worth the effort. If you cannot find the thin

type of whole grain pita shells, don't panic, the more common

thicker ones will work just fine. Just make sure they are whole

grain.

 

 

Pizza Sauce

Canned pizza sauce can be found on the shelf beside the spaghetti

sauce. Again, read the ingredients. Try to find an organic brand that is not

full of unpronounceable chemicals and inferior oils, unless it is olive

oil, preferably, extra virgin olive oil.

 

If your really ambitious, you can always make your own pizza sauce.

Blend five Roma tomatoes with two tablespoons of extra virgin olive

oil, and season with salt, garlic and Italian Spice, to taste.

 

Cheese

May I introduce you to goats cheese. A goat's digestive system is

much closer to ours than a cow's, therefore their milk is more

digestible for humans. And yes, you can buy mozzarella goats

cheese. If you don't tell them nether will I. The stuff tastes

great!

 

Toppings

Now we get to the fun stuff. I am going to give you a list of great

pizza toppings but I am sure you can think of many more. You can

put just about anything on pizza, creating a mélange of unique

flavors and bright color. You can dice your toppings large or

small. The rule of thumb is strong flavored toppings like onion,

garlic and hot pepper should be diced finely, whereas tomato or

mushroom can be sliced.

 

Here is our top ten list:

roma tomatoes

onions

black & green olives

mushrooms

pineapple

all types of peppers

broccoli

spinach

feta cheese

 

Building and Baking

Prepare all the toppings ahead of time . Preheat oven to 450

Fahrenheit. Have the pitas laid out on cookie sheets, two will fit

per sheet. You can fit two sheets in your oven. Allow the family

to build their own pizza's, ladies before gentlemen. Bake for 10 to

15 minutes or until cheese is melted. Expect demands for seconds!

 

Suggestions: I like a little cheese under and on top of my toppings,

it helps hold the mountain together.

 

 

 

Shopping List:

 

whole grain pitas

goats cheese

pizza sauce

toppings