Bitesize 36 - Healthy Pizza?

If you love the taste of fast food - you’re not alone - but dread the salt and fat content, Devin Alexander’s recipe book, Fast Food Fix, has some alternatives, including healthy variations of Taco Bell’s Mexican pizza.

Johnson County, Kansas is promoting a youth class (ages 8 to 14) called Healthy Pizza Three Ways. The class teaches how to pick a variety of healthy ingredients for pizza. Considering that pizza is an ever-popular food for kids, this is a great idea.

Pizza Marketing Quarterly has a few tips, too, on making a healthy pizza. Keep in mind that this is an pizza industry website, so these two articles are aimed pizzeria owners. But there are more than enough ideas there. My own experience cooking at a gourmet pizzeria/ bistro is that you can produced some very healthy pizzas. My choices? Use a whole wheat thin crust and a larger proportion of fresh veggies over meat. BTW, a

Like pizza? Interested in an all-you-can-eat pizza buffet for under US$5? You’ll have to go to Bejing China to get it. After Pizza Hut created a pizza market in China in 1990, other contenders have entered, including Big Pizza, who have healthy variations on their menu.

With the Olympics appearing in Beijing in 2008, I’m predicting that pizza chains are going to do very well, thank you, for at least the next 3-4 years.