I don’t meat on  Thursday’s, just a gentle way to practice some restraint in my eating habits I suppose. Which poses a problem while structuring my meals for the day; veggies just lack the protein, and let’s be honest, the sheer deliciousness of a slab of meat! So I have to ensure the meals I prepare for Thursday are creative and tasty enough for me to look forward to eating them without getting tempted to slip in a chicken nugget or two.

Cheese pizza is the ultimate fall-back meal for vegetarians everywhere, my lovely wife included. She will gladly pick up a greasy/oily slice at 3am after a party night – that is the lure of the ubiquitous slice. But given my intense dislike for foods that have been sitting under a heat lamp, and the sheer impracticality of rolling out my own dough every Thursday, I decided to take a healthy shortcut – Whole Wheat Pita Pizza’s! Piled high with fresh veggies and really mozzarella cheese, these beauty’s are a cinch to make, re-heat perfectly in the toaster over, and taste good enough to not even tempt me to throw some pre-cooked chicken on them!

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