Low Carb Pizza!

Pizza with a Parchment Cracker Crust

Pizza was always a staple on my family's diet, especially a Friday or Saturday night.  With my low carb diet, I usually just forgo having any pizza and stick with the salad bar when we go out for pizza.  However, yesterday, in the midst of a mega play date, the kids wanted to make their own pizza.   I thought, what a great time consuming idea, doing something creative together instead of exploding dresser drawers and the closet all over the floor in my daughters room!  Let's do pizza!

We went to the grocery store and I was pleasantly surprised by what the girls wanted to put on their pizzas.  Basil, sweet sausage, green peppers, Canadian bacon; these pizzas were going to rock!  They wanted real dough, not the pre-made crusts so we did cheat a little and used the Pillsbury brand pizza crusts, each crust makes cookie sheet sized pizza.  The girls split them in half and made the pizza in the shape they wanted.  One did look like a butterfly, but mainly most looked like a long hoagie bun.

I really wanted that pizza, but I knew I just couldn't afford that dough and the pizzas were so good coming out of the oven that there wasn't a lot left over for me to just pick off the toppings.  Then I remembered...I had parchment like crackers from Trader Joe's that just might work.  The crackers are called Pane Guttian and are Sardinian Parchment Crackers.  There are 8 grams of carbs per cracker and the cracker is large, it fills up the center of a plate.   This could work...and it did.  Here's my pizza and it's Carbometer:

1 Pane Guttian Cracker: 8 carbs : .5 Fiber

1/2 Mozzarella shredded cheese: 0: 0

1/8 cup sliced mushrooms: 1.2 : .5

1/8 cup sweet sausage:  1 : 0

1/8 cup sweet mini peppers:  1: 0

4 pieces of pepperoni: 0 : 0

2 tbsp. of pizza sauce: 3 : .5

2 pieces of basil, sliced and sprinkled on pizza sauce before toppings and cheese: 0 : 0

Total Carbometer: 14.2 : 1.5 Fiber

It was AWESOME!  I'll definitely do this again. 

I did read up on some other creative ways to have even lower carb pizzas.  Try a bacon crust (I couldn't handle the thought of all the salt), or to make parmesan crisps and place the pizza on that.  That could bring the carb count down considerably.  However, I must say, that cracker tasted awesome, all 8 carbs of it!