Papa John's Pizza

[volleyball]

Did anybody see the new whole grain pizza crust? I saw a commercial but I don't think any are around me.
I checked and their sauce does not include corn syrup that many other places do.

[derf]

I saw that. But look at the carbs for a cheese pizza. That whole wheat crust still has a lot more than the thin crust. And it's not much different than the regular crust...

Papa John's Nutritional Menu - Cheese Pizza (http://www.papajohns.com/menu/popup_cheese.htm)

[volleyball]

But whole wheat carbs are not the same as enriched flour carbs

[Nifr]

I tried it last night and thought it was pretty good. And maybe it was a fluke but my 2 hour bg was 108 (that's with an extended bolus).

[derf]

I tried it last night and thought it was pretty good. And maybe it was a fluke but my 2 hour bg was 108 (that's with an extended bolus).

I learned that with pizza, I need to check my 3 hour bg to get an accurate reading since the fats from the meat slows down my spike. Last time I ate pizza, I was only up 10 pts at 2 hours but shot up 70 more just an hour later.

[BriOnH]

Pizza with cheese, sauce and mostly the crust are just sooooo high in carbs no matter how you slice it :) . I get the thin crust chicken pizza from pappa murphys and ohhhh man it is SOOO good.

This one chain store kinda like a safeway called bel-air had pizzas they made in their deli section that you can take home and bake had some of the best pizza I have ever eaten. I used to eat it all the time but i thought I was so good at counting carbs and couldn't figure out why my blood sugar would be so incredibly high everytime after I ate it. Well I turned out that 1 measly slice had 32g of carbs and I would eat half of one. 120+ grams of carbs. Man that sucked!

[jackmcmanus21]

Bri...I'm a thin crust guy myself. Loved the "slice" pun haha

[Babsie4]

Bri. It sure does suck!! I eat two slices of pizza with meatballs every week. So far, My BG never goes up over
135 2 hours after?
The places where you can buy the pizza, by the slice, is the best. I think at Papa's you need to buy the whole pizza and I don't know about you, but it would drive me nuts hav'in that thing around and not being able to polish it off.

Babsie

[terryok123]

From.. Healthy Calendar Diabetic Cooking, published by the American Diabetes Association

1 tsp olive oil
1 cup broccoli florets, fresh
1 cup Squash, summer, all types, fresh, slices, yellow
1 cup fresh mushrooms, sliced
1 red bell peppers (med), sliced into thin strips
2 garlic cloves, large, minced
1 pizza crust dough, frozen
1/2 cup part skim shredded mozzarella
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp hot red pepper flakes

Directions
1 Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Add olive oil to a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add broccoli, squash, mushrooms, and red bell pepper; sauté for 3 minutes. Add garlic and sauté 30 more seconds.
2 Place pizza crust on baking sheet. Spread the veggie mixture evenly over the pizza. Sprinkle with cheese, black pepper and red pepper flakes.
3 Bake pizza in oven for 20 minutes or until cheese begins to lightly brown.

enjoy

[Janlaton]

So does Papa J make the whole wheat in a thin crust? I might just try it if they do. We have a privatly owned place here in town that makes one so thin I can not pick it up in my fingers. I really hate eating pizza with a fork. I get a rye crust there is so little bread to it my bg stays fairly normal. But then I never eat but 2 slices.

[volleyball]

From.. Healthy Calendar Diabetic Cooking, published by the American Diabetes Association

1 tsp olive oil
1 cup broccoli florets, fresh
1 cup Squash, summer, all types, fresh, slices, yellow
1 cup fresh mushrooms, sliced
1 red bell peppers (med), sliced into thin strips
2 garlic cloves, large, minced
1 pizza crust dough, frozen
1/2 cup part skim shredded mozzarella
1/4 tsp black pepper
1/4 tsp hot red pepper flakes

Directions
1 Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Add olive oil to a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add broccoli, squash, mushrooms, and red bell pepper; sauté for 3 minutes. Add garlic and sauté 30 more seconds.
2 Place pizza crust on baking sheet. Spread the veggie mixture evenly over the pizza. Sprinkle with cheese, black pepper and red pepper flakes.
3 Bake pizza in oven for 20 minutes or until cheese begins to lightly brown.

enjoy

No sauce means not really pizza. More like one of those gormet pizza's. It is not any more healthy over a pizzeria pizza.
I laugh at the ADA idea of healthy recipes

As for the papa johns. If they made a thin crust, that would be better. since they are a local shop, you just order it that way and if they make it wrong, you don't pay for it.

I did a papa john website seach for a local place and there were none. But someone said they knew of one a lot closer. So maybe I can try one and compare.
Things we do for science!!