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Happy Friday! Friday has always been my favorite day of the week.
Is there anything better than Friday?
Pizza, perhaps?
Pizza makes my happy 🙂
Combine Friday with pizza and I’m in heaven!
Growing up we often had pizza for supper Friday nights. It was a tradition that I continued through college and into my early working years.
Heck, I love pizza so much I’ve even made it in the crockpot!
Sometimes I satisfy my pizza cravings with lighter, healthier alternatives to traditional pizza that are just as delicious.
I’ve gathered a few of my favorites here for you to check out.
They include pizza-flavored “mini muffin pizza bites,” veggie-crusted pizzas, “English muffin pizzas” and thin crusted pizza flatbreads made from pitas, tortillas, or prepared thin crusts (like boboli or lavosh flatbread).
Even my mom, a huge pizza lover, has started making her own mini pizzas with tortilla crusts at home, instead of heading out to her favorite pizza joint when a craving strikes.
Enjoy!
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Favorite Lighter Healthier Alternatives to Pizza
Pepperoni Pizza Bites – These pepperoni pizza mini muffins are a lighter healthier way to satisfy a pizza craving. I love them dipped in a little warm marinara sauce. Each one has just 29 calories and 1 Weight Watchers SmartPoint.
English Muffin Hawaiian Pizza – A light english muffin topped with sauce, cheese, ham and pineapple is fun, easy, healthy and delicious way to satisfy a pizza craving any time of day, 230 calories, 6 SmartPoints
Chicken Arugula Flatbread – All you need is a flatbread/lavash wrap (we used the whole wheat kind), bruschetta sauce (a simple mixture of chopped tomatoes, olive oil, garlic and basil), cooked chicken (leftovers or rotisserie chicken works well), fresh arugula, and some shaved Parmesan cheese. 8 SmartPoints
Pizza-Bellas Recipe – A portabella mushroom forms the crust of this tomato, cheese, turkey pepperoni, olive and cheese stuffed pizza creation, 118 calories, 2 SmartPoints (Hungry Girl)
Zucchini Pepperoni Pizza, Zucchini slices are used as crust for these clever pepperoni pizzas, 56 calories, 1 SmartPoint (Slender Kitchen)
Meat Lovers Pizza – A thin crust, light cheese, and turkey sausage and pepperoni keep the fat and calories in check, without compromising flavor, 207 calories, 6 SmartPoints (Emily Bites)
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Giveaway has ended: See winner below!
The winner of the HydroFlask is:
Jenny: “If nothing stood in my way, I would travel with my child to other states and other countries. There could be nothing better to broaden her horizons, to see how other people live, and be thankful for what we have!”
Congratulations! Please send an email to support@simple-nourished-living.com to claim your prize!
And thanks to all of you who stopped by and participated by sharing your dreams and desires with us.
Hydro Flask Giveaway Details…
This giveaway has ended!
Today, because it’s Friday, because it’s my favorite day of the week, because I care about you and want to help you stay hydrated, I’m giving away a 40-ounce Hydro Flask Insulated Stainless Steel Water Bottle!
My sister introduced me to these amazing double wall vacuum insulated devices that manage to keep beverages hot or cold for hours. They are designed to be lightweight, making them great for long hikes, days on the beach, hot yoga classes, tennis, long road trips or everyday office use.
Even when filled with ice, the exterior of the Hydro Flask will never leave a puddle on your desk, drip on your shirt, or sweat in your bag 🙂
TO ENTER
To enter the giveaway, just answer the following question in the Comments section of this post:
“What would you do if nothing stood in your way?”
I love this question and the powerful positive responses it provokes.
If you could do ANYTHING, what would it be?
Would you travel? Would you start a new business? Would you move? Would you go back to school?
Just share your dreams, big and small, and you’re automatically entered to win the Hydro Flask (affiliate link).
THE RULES
One entry per person, please. Winners will be announced Sunday night.
Good luck!
I would travel around the world!!!!!
mostly things stand in our way because we let them – the less they do, the more free we are to dream and act in the service of our dreams – for me, that’s a combination of service to others, luxuriating in the gift of time, being grateful for the sacrament of the moment…
I would learn to play the piano and/or organ. I played a musical instrument in school and always planned to learn the keyboard “sometime”.
I would create and operate a huge no-kill luxury dog shelter to give abandoned, abused dogs a loving nurturing environment to heal in.
If I could do anything, I would first finish my 14 year home renovation then buy a top of the line RV followed by bringing my husband on board with my business. Then, I’d keep doing what I do (coaching women to be their own boss) but, I’d be coaching from where ever my RV is parked May through September and from my Phoenix home October through April.
If nothing stood in my way… I would take my family on a road trip of all the states from a to z!
Climb Mt Everest and open a restaurant (not sure which would come first).
If nothing stood in my way I would open my own pizza place, run a marathon every weekend and still have plenty of time to spend with my wife and kids! Those truly are my passions…Family, Food and Fun!
I would travel a lot more! Growing up I was fortunate enough to have a family that could take multiple trips and vacations throughout the year. Now, as an adult I find it harder to get away from work without feeling guilty. My husband was the opposite, he maybe went on one or two vacations his whole life until we met. I would love to be able to travel more and have him experience everything that I was lucky enough to experience! Some of my favorite memories were from my trips to Europe and the Caribbean! We recently moved from Virginia to Florida and for the first year it felt like one long vacation! Now I’ve made a commitment to explore our new city and the surrounding cities every chance I can, and try to take at least one “real” vacation a year!
Love this post, and thanks for hosting this giveaway! I would definitely love to travel, go back to school for cosmetology or aromatherapy, and somehow find a way to live where I live now part time, and live near my family part time!