Time for a fresh post!

There's absolutely no excuse to be made for not keeping up with blogging, because I love to write! It's just so easy to get swept up in your world of work, friends and family, that you find it increasingly difficult to take time for yourself.

Therefore, I'm starting a blog challenge for myself.

I'm going to post a blog, even if it's a short one, every day this week. It may be about what I ate that day, a fitness tip, a new blog or website I found or some healthy tips for how to enjoy life! I hope this instills some blog discipline in me, and gets some cool information out for people to read!

SO, for today's post, I want to share my new take on "Friday Pizza Night". My family has done this for a while now because Friday's for me and now for my sister were filled with football game performances, competitions, sleepovers, etc. It was easy to order a few pizzas, make a big salad and hang out with whoever was over at the house.

Pizza is just bad news.

You can never have just ONE slice, right? (Or is that just me?) By the time you've had your two slices of pizza, a salad and a glass of soda, you've eaten half of your calories for the day. Trust me, having a salad on the side does not counteract the processed meat, cheese and dough you just indulged on.

So this past Friday I was browsing old Pinterest Pins of mine and stumbled across Bodyrock.tv's recipe for Portobello Mushroom Pizzas and became very, very excited. They looked sooo delicious in the picture and would be a great alternative to a big ole', greasy pizza! The link for the recipe is posted below, but I made a few additions for the family.

We found Applegate Farms Uncured Pepperoni at the store and sliced that up for my dad, brother and sister to make their pizzas a little more traditional. My mom and I just had ours topped with cheese (mine with vegan cheese (I prefer Go Veggie! Mozzarella and Cheddar blended together - loooove this shredded cheese) - will do a post on food allergies in the VERY near future!). I was going to toss together the traditional pizza salad, but discovered the massive amounts of carrots and zucchini still left from our garden upon opening the refrigerator. So, I sliced them up into strips, tossed with some olive oil, garlic powder, fresh parsley, salt and pepper and popped them in the oven to roast and made veggie fries! (Confession: I filled small cups with 1 tbsp of ketchup for everyone to dip - it was delicious! Just don't overdo the ketchup and you can still watch your calories and splurge on a little processed food on a Friday  night.) They were so good, and my family and I wiped out the entire pan.

So have fun with your portobello pizzas, post any additions you made to yours and let me know how it goes! The link to the recipe is posted below - the fries I made up (toss veggies with whatever and pop in the oven on 400 degrees for 30 minutes give or take)

http://www.bodyrock.tv/2011/06/25/delicious-healthy-pizza-recipe/

(Sorry some of the pics are sideways - getting the hang of how to fix that!)

Post any comments or questions below!