I’m not a big pizza fan. I don’t like oversauced-overcheesed-thick crust pizza. It feels like it sits like an anchor in my belly.

But I do like thin-crispy-crust-veggie-filled pies. Mr. Real Mom Recipes eat meat and I don’t so often we end up ordering two different things, but I think I’m going to try this new Hungry Girl recipe on him this week.

**If you are ever trying to ‘trick’ your hubby or kids into eating something healthy use healthy thing and one normal thing. Example: for this recipe I will use turkey sausage but real pizza cheese. I hope they will get so sidetracked by the yummy cheese, they won’t notice the sausage swap.

Hungry Girl Sausage Pizza Swap

Ingredients:
1 frozen meatless or turkey sausage patty with about 80 calories (like the kind by Morningstar Farms or Jimmy Dean)
2 tbsp. diced bell pepper
2 tbsp. diced onion
1 stick light string cheese
1 whole-wheat or high-fiber pita with about 125 calories
2 tbsp. jarred pizza sauce
Optional toppings: garlic powder, red pepper flakes

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Spray a baking sheet with nonstick spray and set aside.

Bring a skillet sprayed with nonstick spray to medium heat on the stove. Add sausage patty and cook for 4 minutes.

Flip sausage patty and continue to cook for 2 minutes.

Add veggies to the skillet with the sausage and cook for about 2 minutes, until sausage is hot and cooked through and veggies have slightly softened and lightly browned. Remove from heat and set aside.

Break string cheese into thirds and place in a blender or food processor — blend at high speed until shredded/grated. (Or tear into pieces and roughly chop.) Set aside.

Place pita on the baking sheet. Evenly spread pizza sauce onto the pita, leaving a 1/2-inch border around the edge. Sprinkle cheese over the sauce and set aside.

Once cool enough to handle, roughly chop sausage patty. Sprinkle chopped sausage and veggies over the cheese.

Bake in the oven until hot and toasty, 10 – 12 minutes.

If you like, season to taste with garlic powder, red pepper flakes, or your guilt-free pizza toppings of choice. Enjoy!

MAKES 1 SERVING

Serving Size: entire recipe
Calories: 290
Fat: 8g
Sodium: 834mg
Carbs: 33g
Fiber: 7g
Sugars: 3g
Protein: 19g

Last night I started off making a giant cheese pizza with refrigerated pizza dough for the entire family for dinner. But I had a dough malfunction as I tried to open the second can of dough I needed..so I improvised and came up with a fab version of something I would normally never eat.

The calorie and fat count in a real BBQ Chicken Pizza just isn’t worth it to me. But this one is so low carb/low cal and completely balanced that I might be eating it every day for lunch until I just can’t look at BBQ sauce anymore. There is nothing better than eating something that tastes GOOD and knowing it’s good for you too!

I imagine that’s how the food will be in heaven.

You need:

1 large size La Tortilla low carb tortilla

1 tbsp BBQ sauce

4 oz canned chicken

1-2 cups chopped or torn fresh spinach

1/4 cup low fat shredded mozzerella

1/4 cup low fat cheddar

I’ve made pizza on a tortilla before..but this time I “toasted” the tortilla on both sides in the oven before I loaded on the toppings and that gave me a yummy, thin crispy crust.

Spread the chopped spinach on the toasted tortilla, top with mozzarella cheese

Mix the chicken with the BBQ Sauce and spread on the cheese

Top with cheddar

Bake at 425 degrees for about then minutes

For a little over 300 calories you get to eat the ENTIRE PIZZA!!! When was the last time you got to eat an entire pizza??? Well…and not feel guilty for two days about it after????