I received a pizza delivery flyer in the mail today, and it got my lips smacking. I have always been a big pizza eater. It was the treat as a child, and a staple meal now that I am an adult.

It started me wondering about healthy pizza and even more importantly, healthy pizza that doesn’t taste horrible. Sure, there are whole wheat pizzas with chicken and low fat cheese, but they taste to me like cardboard with chicken flavouring.

I am talking about pizza that makes your mouth water when you smell it and is a delight to eat. Pizza that lets you give into your cravings, while not making you feel overly guilty? Is there really such a thing, or do I just order normal pizza and have the wife and I eat it over three or so days?

What goes into a pizza that makes it so unhealthy? I am assuming it is the combination of the white dough, the sugar laden sauce, the oily cheese, and the fatty meats, but how bad are they? The hardest thing about eating better is to know what better is. At one point, I figured that going to thin crust would be healthier, until my personal trainer at the time let me know that it isn’t always the case.

How can people make healthy choices when unhealthy things taste so much better?