Try making a meatza! It's an awesome way to get a ton of protein in and also have a pizza-ish meal.

1. pre-heat oven to 450 degrees F

2. mix ingredients in ratio of: 1lb ground meat 1/4 cup parmesan cheese 1 egg italian spices to taste (I eyeball this. Use Italian Spices or Oregano, Parsley, Basil and others) Salt and pepper to taste.

3. Flatten out on a baking sheet and place in oven for 10 minutes.

4. Drain the excess fat, or store if grass fed beef (as tallow)

5. Put on toppings

6. Broil until toppings are good to go.

7. Om nom nom...

You can pick a new food that becomes your Friday tradition. Pizza is one of my #1 missed food. I thought of getting one and scraping the toppings off the ditching the crust, but I decided it's better to just avoid it.

Tradition is never a valid reason to continue a bad habit.

our pizza night was monday- you pay the time you call and we called it "recession pizza night" and got together with some neighborhood people with kids the same age every week. after paleo, i called monday a cheat day and would eat the pizza, then i would have just one slice on mondays, then i just started to order a big salad with steak tips on it and got pizza for the kids. now we dont do it at all, but get together with those same people and just cook dinner.

These sort of questions are understandable but they remind me of vegetarians who spend their lives looking for meat-a-like dishes. My advice is get tough and make a new paleo friendly dish your Friday night special.

Meatza! You can experiment with recipes and what you like, but here's a good place to start: http://www.justinowings.com/b/index.php/me/meatza-meatza

My advice would be to skip Pizza Night for about a month to six weeks, just so you can get in the Paleo groove and break your addiction to wheat (which I assume you have). After that, I would re-introduce Pizza night. There is no need to become a fanatic, and it's good to deviate from Paleo now and then.

One of our local pizza places has a gluten free pizza crust. You would be surprised how many do now. I would call around and see what you can find.

If you make the pizza, Bob's Red Mill also sells a gluten free pizza crust mix.

The "gluten free" options still have some stuff that is not exactly Paleo, but it's still better than eating gluten. I think you will find that as you transition you'll want the fake stuff less.

There's some cheese in these but if you're doing dairy either one of these would be great options.

Cauliflower crust pizza

I also highly recommend this recipe which is just cheese and egg. I actually prefer this to the cauliflower but both are good.

NancyEll's cheese crust pizza

Use portobello mushroom caps as your base, load them with your sauces, meat, veggies, and cheese, then bake. Serve with a salad.

I miss pizza too, but never had a paleo crust turn out good. Anyway there it is very annoying when you are a real good pizza or any food "fan" and that mock flavor pi***es you off.

My solution......fast and easy:

I pour a tomato puree over a plate, sprinkle basil and oregano on it. Add mozzarella and place it under the broiler.

Turns out just like perfect pizza less the crust. The tastiest part anyway with no hassle, no guilt.

No need for a pizza cutter or knife, just dig in with a fork.

http://library-rss.crossfit.com/free/rss/pdf/CFJ_Meatza_Recipe_March2011.pdf

Friday night was pizza night here too!! I'd say that is the thing I miss most since starting the Paleo diet two months ago... So, now I order sausage and peppers (just in a bowl without the bread or pasta) while everyone else eats pizza! I know it's not lean meant, but eh, you can't be 100% good all the time!

Hi Tricia,

I actually toyed around with a few different recipes for pizza when i went primal. Cauliflower was horrible and the meatza didn't quite satisfy that pizza craving I had so I made my own. I did a video for the primal blueprint challenge so you can watch or just look at the info and the recipe is listed in there. Hope it helps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrVXDgxM3t4

If that link doesn't work just seach: perfect primal gluten free pizza crust

I haven't tried it yet but it's on my to-do list. I want to try to use the spinach "bread" recipe from Mark's Daily Apple http://www.marksdailyapple.com/spinach-bread/ as a pizza crust. The spinach "bread" is just eggs, spinach, butter, pine nuts, garlic and basil. All things that I think could pair well with pizza flavors.

I also fully agree with the Meatza. Love it! I mix part ground beef part hot Italian sausage for the "crust" and then top with whatever we would normally order on a pizza.

http://www.amazon.com/Chebe-Bread-Pizza-Crust-7-5-Ounce/dp/B001ACMCNA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1304706098&sr=8-1

Ingredients Manioc (Tapioca) Flour, Modified Manioc Starch (100% Manioc), Iodine-free Sea Salt, Basil, Garlic, Onion, Oregano. Manufactured In A Gluten-free Environment. Allergen Information: Contains No Wheat, No Soy, No Corn, No Rice, No Potato, No Yeast, No Nuts, No Peanuts, No Lactose, No Casein.

You could try making a nice kebab. Paleo, quick to make, tasty too. Some ground turkey or lamb wil do nicely. Add in some cumin, garamasala, crushed dried chilis, garlic salt. Griddle, or BBQ, till nicely seared. I top mine with variations on guacamolenand serve with oven roasted tomatoes and garlic and a fresh salad. Yum.

I make little pizza puffs/dumplings by stuffing Brazillian cheese breads like a little grain-free Hotpocket. You can also just flatten a Brazillian cheese bread and it makes a fun pizza crust.

Google "pao de queijo" for recipes.

I try not to eat too many primal "processed" foods like cheese and nut/coconut/tapioca flours, but once in awhile I'll do it for a treat. Brazillian cheese bread is my new favorite treat. Sooo good and so easy. But if you aren't used to eating starches, it might be intense, haha.

Kabobs...the new Friday night tradition!!

I make a paleo crust from cassava flour, eggs, coconut oil, grassfed bacon grease, and spices. You can have your pizza and be paleo too.

Here is my recipe: http://paleohacks.com/questions/37487/whats-your-favorite-debatebly-paleo-pizza-crust-recipe

I get my cassava flour, other root flours, and dextrose here:

http://www.barryfarm.com