Made flatbread pizza, low carb & delish.
Made flatbread pizza, low carb & delish. I got Light Italian herb FlatOut breads (www.flatoutbread.com) from the grocery store yesterday ($2.99/pack, 6 large pcs). Leftover meat sauce on one side, cheese w/pizza sauce & Vidalia onions on the other, baked on a parchment-lined sheet, about 8 minutes.
The whole thing is about the size of a dinner plate, but it’s really really thin. If you’re starving, you can eat it all without guilt if doing low-carb, since each flatbread has 6 net carbs, then you’re free to add whatever on top. In my case, it seemed really easy to wolf it all down but then it kinda sat in my gut like a brick because I ate it too fast. Next time, I’ll share it with someone or eat half and have a salad or other veg on the side if I can afford a couple more carbs from veggies that day.
My whole meal turned out to be closer to 15 carbs because the products I used to top the pizza were not all zero-carb. I will make a better pizza sauce next time. The tomato paste I used had something in it to make it sweeter. Then there’s the cheese. I remember when it used to be be that buying cheese by the block was cheaper and I’d grate it at home, vs. buying the bags of grated. Now, for the past few years, it’s about the same price, and even for the same amount, but little did I know, companies are using potato starch in their shredded cheeses, which adds 1-2 grams of carbohydrate, depending on the amount of cheese you use in a serving. No bueno! Not my cheese! Supposed to be practically a “free” food on this plan.
So I gotta go back to the drawing board where cheese is concerned. Oh well, I do have a nice box grater and food processor. Plus, I forget that I can freeze cheese. And yeah, onions and tomatoes and herbs are not “low carb” as they do have natural sugars in them, but I just use a dash of herbs or get them fresh, and use like one tiny slice of a Roma tomato or 2 tsp of grated onion on salads or what-have-you, to keep things low.
Oh, and these do create a nice, crisp pizza, but the side of mine that had the leftover meat sauce on it was a bit floppy since it was a very heavy and juicy sauce. The side of the pizza that was just plain cheese w/onion and pizza sauce was crispy and I could hold it without it folding up.
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bby i’ll be there in ten minutes for that meat sauce slice
Iz all gone – this was yesterday
I love flat outs
They’re pretty good! Have you tried the fold-it ones? They’re kind of like a pita bread shape.
Bobbi Jo Woods yep yep
Hmm I wonder if the low carb foldits are any good. I got some Joseph’s mini pita breads here that are supposed to be low-carb, but aren’t that great but are pretty close. So far, almost everything I try is grainy. That said, I’m still eating spinach and cabbage and leafy things loaded up with meat and cheese since bread replacements are disappointing and I don’t really miss it all that much, but damn, I missed pizza.
Bloody hell that looks absolutely gorgeous!
I’ll take that as a compliment, coming from an Italian
So I have more nice veggies in this week, and still have lots of these FlatOut things (I’m sort of afraid that they’re stil fresh after all this time–eek! Frankenfood!), but I didn’t have any problems with sugar spikes or having this be a gateway to cheating w/high carb foods. So I’m going to make a spinach/mushroom one (maybe with roasted garlic pieces and hunks of feta), a pesto chicken one, and a pepperoni and mushroom one. Would love to try something wacky and out of my comfort zone, like collard greens and barbecue chicken, or something, but sticking to safe options for now. I have some seasoned ground lamb, smoked Gouda, and a fresh mozzarella log on order for my 6/22 delivery, too.