Ok, wait a minute? Because Holistic Nutrition??! I made a frozen pizza, with ooey gooey cheese and a homemade pizza crust, processed meat, packed with gluten and all of the ingredients that we’re so often told to avoid? Yes. Why? I have kids and kids love pizza. Who doesn’t? I love pizza. Also, I love balance, an 80/20 Balance. This recipe can be filed under my 20% and served up with a great big, delicious salad (good choices like that make up the 80%).
The last time I made pizza, I made way too much dough!!! I could have made up an extra pizza and served it up for kids lunches all week but that doesn’t pair well with the 80/20 rule. That’s when I decided it was time to make my own homemade convenience food. I’ve been experimenting with this idea in my kitchen lately; I’ll write up my homemade chicken fingers and my frozen cookie dough at a later date.
I’m busy lately, studying like a big, awesome nerd at my kitchen table. As a result, my kids have had to step up their household contributions. I honestly don’t remember the last load of laundry I did, thanks to my amazing teenage daughter and my son has become quite brilliant with a vacuum and mop. These are all life skills that my kids have helped out with from time to time but now that I’m back in school, these chores have been assigned as expectations. My list of chores still includes supplying delicious and well balanced meals for the family, regardless of how busy I feel. I do feel that kids belong in the kitchen; so I often ask for their help around dinner time, especially, if I have something easy prepped with which that they can help. I have always done a fair amount of food prep on the weekends; that habit has taken on a life of its own. Throughout the course of the weekend, I aim to make an extra meal for later in the week, I cook up a meat that can be used for sandwiches (usually a roasted chicken or a beef roast served with all of the fixings, on Sunday), a bone broth, if I’m really ambitious, a soup with the bone broth, a salad dressing and if I have time, a bread or a muffin. Two weeks ago I made pizza for dinner with my favourite pizza dough recipe:
We enjoyed two pizzas for a dinner on a Friday night and I prepped the third, with my homemade pizza sauce, a lactose free mozzarella and some parmesan cheese, pepperoni and peppers. Once prepped, I popped it into the oven, while we ate. I didn’t want to fully cook the final pizza, just pre-bake it long enough to melt the cheese for easier freezing. I set the oven to 350 F and baked for 10 minutes. When I pulled my half baked pizza out of the oven, it looked like this:
I allowed it to cool, for about 20 minutes, before I placed it in the freezer on a cookie sheet. Once it was completely frozen, I wrapped it with plastic wrap.
When my pizza was completely wrapped, I returned it to its place in my deep freeze. This crowd pleaser is currently awaiting a busy night, when I have to study, my daughter has soccer and my son has parkour. The kids can pop it into the oven at 350 F for 20-25 minutes and serve it with a delicious side salad or cut veggies and possibly a glass of red wine for this mama! It’s convenience food but convenience food that is going to properly feed my family with no extra additives. That fits within my realm of 80/20.
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