Quote from: JayJuanGee on May 23, 2025, 09:12:08 PM

I would not eat oatmeal every day, but steak, eggs or bacon.. sure. Oatmeal might be advertised as a health food, but it is missing essential proteins and essential fats. Oatmeal is mostly carbohydrates, and there is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate, even though sure oatmeal might have some nutritional benefits, while at the same time, steak (non-trimmed) would have quite a few essential proteins and essential fats (eggs and bacon would have quite a few essential proteins and fats too..).

You have been propagandized if you believe that oats and/or grains are healthy as compared with meat with fat, and sure probably the most unhealthy part of the pizza is the bread (the dough), even thou some guys in this contest have been substituting their pizzas with various other (and potentially inventive) ingredients, and frequently few fatty meats are seen on these pizzas. which fatty meats are healthy, contrary to popular propaganda that might be wanting to vilify fats.

I will also proclaimed that some of the processed meats (such as hot dogs) that I see in some of the submissions might not be very high quality in terms of nutrition.

Thin crust pizza is probably healthier than thick crust, and sure I admit that the bread will taste good, and it could be a bit of a challenge to have both a healthy crust and to have it taste good, too.. . and noodles for a crust and corn on pizzas is quite weird, even though I still sent participation merits to some of those seemingly crazy (inventative) pizza concoctions.

I understand if some members might not have an oven (or even one of those small toaster ovens), then perhaps making their pizza in a frying pan could be a substitute (though it should probably be covered to attempt to get some convectional heat), even though it seems to take something away from the baking part of the pizza (the convectional air circulation that cooks the top of the pizza)... and sure, I am not sure how the Italians feel about the fire-pit oven pizzas... it seems that sometimes it would be harder to control the heat level with some kinds of baking with wood or even with charcoal (it seems that a pizza is baked or toasted).

Don't get me wrong here. Oatmeal is not something you should eat all day, every day. Just something you can eat every day for breakfast and you'll be completely fine and healthy, as long as you eat other things too. oatmeal is also not eaten alone, but usually with milk and often fruit. Personally, I like to add bananas dates and blueberries. Depends on what I have, but there's often at least 1 type of fruit in my bowl, sometimes also nuts, or peanut butter.

Why is it healthy? Let's compare with bacon.

100g of oats contain:
6.5g fat
16g protein
6mg sodium
10g fiber
1g sugar

100g of bacon:
35g fat
34g protein
1684mg sodium
99mg of cholesterol

You're getting 2x the protein, that's good, but also almost 6x the fat, no fiber and 70% of your daily recommended sodium intake, not to mention cholesterol.
I like bacon, but it really isn't healthier than oats.

Not my intention to change this thread into a debate about healthy food

Pizza is super tasty, so is meat and bacon (I'm not a vegetarian).