Is there such thing as a healthy Pizza?

jc4lab

My local shop reckons cheese & Tomato with extra fresh tomato is healthfood..or is this stuff so bad a LEJOG ride wont be enough to burn it off

Headhuunter

jc4lab wrote:

My local shop reckons cheese & Tomato with extra fresh tomato is healthfood..or is this stuff so bad a LEJOG ride wont be enough to burn it off

Doesn't sound bad to me. Pizzas only get nasty when you start scattering lots of fatty pepperoni, or extra cheese or other high fat ingredients on it. A simple thin crust, margherita or pizza scattered with ingredients like sweetcorn, peppers, mushrooms etc probably ain't gonna kill you.

Watch the salt though, a lot of takeaways seem to use a lot of salt in their bases or tomato sauces/puree etc and watch the quantity, even if it's relatively healthy there are a lot of carbs in the crust and fat in the cheese in a massive takeaway pizza.

Bhima

Yes, as above. It's the fat/salt that makes it unhealthy.

I make my own pizzas at home. That way, I know exactly what's in them.

APIII

The pizza express ones from the supermarket are reasonably healthy (and tasty). The margherita is anyway

samoff

Me and Mrsmoff lost a lot of weight using the Slimming World diet. It works by assigning 'sins' to everything you eat. According to its scorebook, the absolutely worst thing you can eat is pizza.
Their magazine features 'low-sin' recipes that seem to allow you to make a healthy version of more-or-less anything. I've never seen a decent one for pizza, though: they always seem to involve making your base out of mashed potato or something. Yuk.

Headhuunter

samoff wrote:

Me and Mrsmoff lost a lot of weight using the Slimming World diet. It works by assigning 'sins' to everything you eat. According to its scorebook, the absolutely worst thing you can eat is pizza.
Their magazine features 'low-sin' recipes that seem to allow you to make a healthy version of more-or-less anything. I've never seen a decent one for pizza, though: they always seem to involve making your base out of mashed potato or something. Yuk.

Sounds almost Catholic. Do you have to self flagelate or say a thousand Hail Marys after a slice of Dominos Hot Pepperoni?

johnnyc71

^^^
Hilarious!

I know a few people on these "sin" diets and I just don't get that whole persepective. I hear them saying, "I can't eat that, it's got too many sins in it." Crazy :shock: !

jc4lab

http://www.pizzatoppings.co.uk/pizza-re ... a-topping/
This one looks pretty SINFUL
And this one EVEN MORE SO..
http://www.pizzatoppings.co.uk/pizza-ne ... disrepute/

samoff

Yeah, it sounds a bit mad. My other half wanted to give it a go and I went along with it.
Actually, though, if you look at what they encourage you to eat, it's just about eating healthy. Nothing's actually banned, you just can't have mars bars for tea.

Joycie

I make my own using wholemeal flour, reduced-fat mozarella, home grown tomatoes and fresh basil.

I think I'm practically a saint... but I only make it a few times a year as it takes so long... :oops:

EdZed

A pizza once in a while will do you no harm, the fresher the ingredients the better; but have them regularly and watch the pounds pile on. The salt and saturated fat content is high so chances of a coronary later in life gets higher. It's the cheese (and the dough) that does it as far as high calories are concerned, even a veggie pizza is high in calories due to the cheese topping. But like everything else, moderation is the key. Eat a balanced diet and exercise and the occasional pizza is not going to do you any harm - damned tasty too! Avoid the deep pan versions at all costs and ones that are swimming in oil and have bases that have been brushed in oil to get them out of the cooking pan - thin, stone baked is best.

No matter what you eat it's the usual equation; consume more calories than you expend and you'll put on weight. Obviously you should avoid food with high salt and saturated fat content as much as possible. Also be wary of fad diets, many people who go on fad diets end up putting on more weight in the long run as they're not sustainable and the dieter reverts back to eating more.

stevenmh

healthy pizza

lol now there is an oxymoron if I ever heard one. Some things in life are not meant to be healthy and I am sure pizza is one them.

Eat, add some extra cheese, and ride a little harder next time if you really must.

redvee

Pizza's are healthier than the 6 pints of lager consumed when I have them.

jc4lab

How many sins are there in Edinburgh Special Deep Fried Marsbar..Came across these pedadlling back late from one of last years Edinburghs Festival Fringe events

penugent

I like the Goodfella's Cajun Spiced Chicken as it is tasty enough without so much fat as others.

BigG67

Once tried a deep fried Mars Bar.....bad enough but the killer was it tasted of fish from the batter :shock: I could taste it for days, and days, and days, and days, and..........

Anonymous

Large cheesy bite crust chicken bbq from pizza hut. If you cant have something funky now and again you begin to obsess... not healthy.

cyclingmev

You only live once...if you like pizzas, whatever the breed, you should just eat them...makes all that bikeling worthwhile. Oh aye, whilst you're at it, you can't eat one without a few bottles of Magners pear cider, and a tub of Hagen Daz ice-cream for pudding..

zedders

If like me you can eat a large or extra large pizza. But every now and then I'll have a medium size one. That becames a healthy pizza just by size alone. Get in.

shockedsoshocked

After 90 miles of Divisional Championship suffering, the first thing I did when I got back home was get a 16 inch pizza and 2 litres of coke down me.

It was awesome.

White Line

Ach, pizzas are fine! They've been half of my stable diet since I started eating solids.

I make several pizzas a day - Friday and Saturday night I make a few hundred.

Just stay away from chorizo. Pepperoni is fine. Lay off the cheese too. They seem to be better when they're not smothered in cheese anyway. You need to taste the sauce.

People just have to stop panicking about food. I'm a skinny bastward. 10 stone @ 5'11" ish.

gkerr4

White Line wrote:

Ach, pizzas are fine! They've been half of my stable diet since I started eating solids.

I make several pizzas a day - Friday and Saturday night I make a few hundred.

Just stay away from chorizo. Pepperoni is fine. Lay off the cheese too. They seem to be better when they're not smothered in cheese anyway. You need to taste the sauce.

People just have to stop panicking about food. I'm a skinny bastward. 10 stone @ 5'11" ish.

yeah but - how old are you?

I'd guess early 20's from your justgiving profile - am i far off?

in a few years that "stop panicking about food (**I eat what I like and**) I'm a skinny bastard" - will turn into "Christ if I even smell that pizza I won't fit in those 34" jeans ever again"


(**I added this bit for you - I could tell you were thinking it**)

White Line

Nineteen next week.

Fortunately for me skinniness runs in the family. :P

chriskempton

I think there's 3 kinds of pizza:

1. From a takeaway - these are a dietary apocalypse. The base is soaked in oil, and they're normally covered in a sogy mat of cheap rubbish cheese. Avoid.

2. From a shop, baked at home. Not too bad, but lots of artifical additives and salt. Not very often.

3. Homemade. You control the fat, the salt, the toppings. Enjoy.

I only ever go for type 3 - it's 10 minutes to make the dough (then you leave it to rise), 10 minutes for the sauce, 1 minute to assemble and 9 minutes to bake. Half an hour total. Yum.

gkerr4

chriskempton wrote:

I think there's 3 kinds of pizza:

1. From a takeaway - these are a dietary apocalypse. The base is soaked in oil, and they're normally covered in a sogy mat of cheap rubbish cheese. Avoid.

2. From a shop, baked at home. Not too bad, but lots of artifical additives and salt. Not very often.

3. Homemade. You control the fat, the salt, the toppings. Enjoy.

I only ever go for type 3 - it's 10 minutes to make the dough (then you leave it to rise), 10 minutes for the sauce, 1 minute to assemble and 9 minutes to bake. Half an hour total. Yum.

re No1 - this is soo true - when I first got into cycling (aug06) (again) in order to lose some weight I actually looked up the 'nutritional info' on a dominos to put it in my calorie diet - I was shocked! - the half large pizza had about 3 days worth of calories in it! - i haven't touched one since - shocking!

I would say there are four through - or perhaps 3a and 3b - where 3a is homemade with bought in bases which are much much quicker to put together - better than a shop 'made' pizza but not as good as 3b which is the 'complete' homemade pizza as described above!

ride_whenever

okay, i love pizza, but am trying to get competition fit, anyone have a good recepie for pizza?

shockedsoshocked

ride_whenever wrote:

okay, i love pizza, but am trying to get competition fit, anyone have a good recepie for pizza?

Train lots, buy pizza, cook pizza, throw pizza in bin, eat rice cakes instead

White Line

Pizza just gives you all the more reason to spend more time on the bike! it's a win/win!

shockedsoshocked

White Line wrote:

Pizza just gives you all the more reason to spend more time on the bike! it's a win/win!

Now that's proper thinking!

Porgy

samoff wrote:

Me and Mrsmoff lost a lot of weight using the Slimming World diet. It works by assigning 'sins' to everything you eat. According to its scorebook, the absolutely worst thing you can eat is pizza.
Their magazine features 'low-sin' recipes that seem to allow you to make a healthy version of more-or-less anything. I've never seen a decent one for pizza, though: they always seem to involve making your base out of mashed potato or something. Yuk.

Wouldn't work for me - I'm a compulsive sinner.

LittleB0b

We're heading to pizza express tonight - and this thread got me thinking - so i had a squint at there website - helpfully (kudos) they provide

Pizza Express Calories Guide

oh well :roll: I least i know how many hours it will take to work off