Pizza
Pizza is one of the most popular foods on the planet, yet has a bad reputation as junk food. For health reasons, I am pretty picky about what I eat. I am happy to eat pizza, but I'm also aware of some tips and tricks for making it work for me in the face of various issues, like being sensitive to tomatoes, needing to limit yeast and being prone to being too acid.
This makes Little Caesar's pizza something I can tolerate better than most takeout pizza. I can get pizza from them more often than from elsewhere without it causing me problems.
Look at the menu options. If you have trouble tolerating tomatoes, you may be able to order "light" sauce or a different sauce altogether.
If yeast is an issue, thin crust is typically less yeasty than regular crust or thick crust. This holds true regardless of the pizza chain in question.
Parmesan and Romano cheeses keep better than mozzarella cheese. If you don't go through a lot of cheese, keeping pre-grated Parmesan or Romano on hand means you are unlikely to find the cheese in your fridge has spoiled and grown mold since the last time you looked at it.
Buy the tiny little pepperonis or the cubed pepperonis instead of the big slices to do individual little pizzas. Prepare other toppings ahead of time so you have little ziploc bags of diced toppings to toss onto your individual pizzas.
I like pepperoni, onion, green pepper and pineapple. Making homemade flat bread and little ziploc bags of diced onion, diced peppers and diced pineapple (enough for a few days worth of pizzas) means it's quick and easy to toss together homemade, actually healthy pizza and heat it in the oven for a few minutes.
If you've got all the ingredients prepped ahead of time, individual pizzas are well within the ability of many kids to make for themselves as a step up from just heating frozen pizza.
I confess: I first got hooked on Pizza Quick sauce pizzas as a teen using my mother's cutting edge, custom-installed microwave. Pro tip: If at all possible, heating it in an oven or countertop toaster oven yields vastly superior quality. (Yes, many kids can do this.)
If you make pizza from scratch, I like working with a pizza stone and rolling the dough in corn meal at the end to make it non-stick. Little Caesar's uses the corn meal trick with their dough and it's part of why their pizza is less acid and something I tolerate better. (So, obviously, the corn meal trick can be used even if you aren't using a pizza stone at home.)
Takeout/Delivery
If you get takeout pizza in the US, Little Caesar's is less acid than other chains I am familiar with and the dough is fresher. Unlike most chains, they make their dough daily in-house rather than having it made elsewhere and shipped in frozen.This makes Little Caesar's pizza something I can tolerate better than most takeout pizza. I can get pizza from them more often than from elsewhere without it causing me problems.
Look at the menu options. If you have trouble tolerating tomatoes, you may be able to order "light" sauce or a different sauce altogether.
If yeast is an issue, thin crust is typically less yeasty than regular crust or thick crust. This holds true regardless of the pizza chain in question.
At Home
Pizza Quick sauce plus any bread you like and toppings of your choice heated in an oven can be quick, easy and healthy. Buy the organic Pizza Quick sauce to up your game in terms of health.Parmesan and Romano cheeses keep better than mozzarella cheese. If you don't go through a lot of cheese, keeping pre-grated Parmesan or Romano on hand means you are unlikely to find the cheese in your fridge has spoiled and grown mold since the last time you looked at it.
As a general rule, hard cheeses such as cheddar, processed cheeses (American), and both block and grated Parmesan do not require refrigeration for safety, but they will last longer if kept refrigerated.Read the label to be sure, but Romano is basically Parmesan cheese but made from either goat milk or sheep milk instead of cow milk. If you don't tolerate cow milk very well, Romano may work better for you than cow cheeses like mozzarella or Parmesan.
Buy the tiny little pepperonis or the cubed pepperonis instead of the big slices to do individual little pizzas. Prepare other toppings ahead of time so you have little ziploc bags of diced toppings to toss onto your individual pizzas.
I like pepperoni, onion, green pepper and pineapple. Making homemade flat bread and little ziploc bags of diced onion, diced peppers and diced pineapple (enough for a few days worth of pizzas) means it's quick and easy to toss together homemade, actually healthy pizza and heat it in the oven for a few minutes.
If you've got all the ingredients prepped ahead of time, individual pizzas are well within the ability of many kids to make for themselves as a step up from just heating frozen pizza.
I confess: I first got hooked on Pizza Quick sauce pizzas as a teen using my mother's cutting edge, custom-installed microwave. Pro tip: If at all possible, heating it in an oven or countertop toaster oven yields vastly superior quality. (Yes, many kids can do this.)
If you make pizza from scratch, I like working with a pizza stone and rolling the dough in corn meal at the end to make it non-stick. Little Caesar's uses the corn meal trick with their dough and it's part of why their pizza is less acid and something I tolerate better. (So, obviously, the corn meal trick can be used even if you aren't using a pizza stone at home.)
