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Low Carb Papa John’s – What To Order
Hey there, It ’ s Brian B the modern content coach at MrSkinnyPants ! Since I ’ megabyte from KY, I could not help but partake some options from Papa Johns. Your choices are pretty straight forward. You can pry off the toppings from your pizza ( do what you got tantalum do ) or dig into some oven broil wings ( better choice )
here are some low carb options at Papa Johns in the order of tasty to, “ doing what you got ta do ”
here is how to decree low carb .
1. Buffalo Wings (8-count)
These are the bone-in wings. ( there are boneless options ) They are tossed in american bison sauce and baked. They are extremely slowly to eat because they come backaged in a small cardboard box. In this photograph they are unrapped so you can see what you ’ ra eat .
- Order it low carb: “Buffalo wings”
- Macros: 840 calories and 7 net carbs
Because these wings are baked, they aren ’ thymine wrinkle like the fry wings you might get at your local anesthetic flank joint. still, the spirit is good enough that these suffice for a keto meal in a pinch. On the american bison wing heat scale, I ’ five hundred rate these as mild to culture medium .
2. Unsauced Wings (8-count)
Don ’ deoxythymidine monophosphate like old world buffalo wings ? You can order wings with NO SAUCE ! These are bone-in and oven-baked to a tender, but not wrinkle texture. If you ’ re like me you ’ ra gon na want SOME flavor… so check out our breakdown of sausces in option # 3 .
- Order it low carb: “Unsauced wings”
- Macros: 810 calories and 4 net carbs
If you ’ re at one of the golden locations that carry Garlic Parmesan Wings…they check in at 1040 calories and 6 net carbs but those were not available at the Papa John ’ mho near me .
Their BBQ Wings and Honey Chipotle Wings are excessively high carb to fit a keto diet .
3. Low Carb Dipping Sauces
sometimes you just need to add some flavor. other times you fair need to switch up the relish. If that ’ sulfur you…. keep read !
- Ranch – 100 calories and 2 net carbs (my personal go to)
- Cheese – 40 calories and 2 net carbs
- Pizza Tomato Sauce – 20 calories and 3 net carbs
- Blue Cheese – 160 calories and 0 net carbs
- Garlic Butter – 150 calories and 0 net carbs
- Buffalo – 15 calories and 2 net carbs
3. Pizza Toppings – Option #1
here is an interesting choice to add some toppings to your pizza and still be low carb ( and tasty )
- Spinach Alfredo Sauce
- Canadian Bacon
- and Green Olives
starting signal with Spinach Alfredo sauce. It ’ mho sexual love carb and batch of calories .
WARNING…
This will not be easy, but tastes big LOL
Add Canadian Bacon & Green Olives
The consequence is a $ 10 bunch of humble carb ingredients that looks awful but tastes great .
- Order it low carb: Not possible. Must order w/ crust and peel off toppings.
- Macros: 380 calories and 8 net carbs (toppings for 1/2 medium pizza)
unfortunately, I ordered 3 test pizza with Alfredo sauce and an original crust, so you ’ ll see the ball in two more examples .
4. Pizza Toppings – Option #2
Anchovies are weird but give this one a shoot. When desegregate with these toppings this combination will do the trick and be a reasonably tasty low carb option !
- Spinach Alfredo Sauce
- Anchovies
- and Bacon Pizza
- Order it low carb: Not possible. Must order w/ crust and peel off toppings.
- Macros: 460 calories and 12 net carbs (toppings for 1/2 medium pizza).
somehow the Papa John ’ south bacon has 1 net carb per slice according to their on-line nutrition menu so that made this entree higher carb than expected .
5. Pizza Toppings – Alfredo Sauce, Sausage, and Banana Peppers
This has been one of my standard pizza orders for the fast food challenge. For some reason, I didn ’ deoxythymidine monophosphate enjoy it angstrom much as I normally do. Flavor fatigue, possibly .
- Order it low carb: Not possible. Must order w/ crust and peel off toppings.
- Macros: 460 calories and 8 net carbs (toppings for 1/2 medium pizza).
After having fuss peeling the toppings off my Alfredo sauce pizza orders, I placed two more pizza orders to test the peel-ability of tomato sauce versus no sauce and thin crust versus master crust. I wanted to see which pizza yielded the best peel-ability.
Read more: The Top 3 Ways to Reheat Pizza—Ranked
verdict : For the easiest peel off pizza, get a slender crust with tomato sauce .
6. Pizza Toppings – Light Tomato Sauce and Pepperoni
surprisingly, peeling toppings into perfect slices was easy when the pizza had tomato sauce. The tomato sauce prevents the cheese and pepperoni from adhering to the crust .
- Order it low carb: Not possible. Must order w/ crust and peel off toppings.
- Macros: 380 calories and 8 net carbs (toppings for 1/2 medium pizza).
The 8 net carbs is probably overstated as much of the pizza sauce gets left behind on the crust when you peel. I ’ ve reported the highest potential value to be safe .
7. Pizza Toppings – Light Tomato Sauce and Italian Sausage
My final pizza for this review was an italian blimp. By this point, I had gotten good at prying the toppings off the pizza. It ’ south much easier when you give it 10 minutes to cool and use a branch to pry from the edge of the crust towards the center of the pizza .
- Order it low carb: Not possible. Must order w/ crust and peel off toppings.
- Macros: 400 calories and 8 net carbs (toppings for 1/2 medium pizza).
Crustless Pizza
pizza restaurants will make you a crustless pizza if you give them a specific set of instructions. I haven ’ metric ton been able to convince a pizza place to do it, but if you ’ d like to try, hera ’ s the instructions to give them :
- Add a tiny bit of oil to the pan and pass it through the oven to get it hot.
- Put down a very thick 1/2 inch layer of cheese for the “crust.” Run it through oven with just cheese. Cheese will compress & flatten by 3/4 and caramelize into a crust.
- Add a very light layer of pizza sauce, more cheese, and these toppings: [insert your toppings].
- Pass the pizza through the oven one last time.
- Let it cool off a little to harden before sliding it into the pizza box.
( note : Thanks to Reddit user mlumpkins for these instructions. )
Low Carb Papa John’s – What To Avoid
In subject you ’ re new to the keto diet, you can ’ metric ton eat the pizza crusts, breadsticks, cheese sticks or garlic knots. They ’ re besides gamey carb .
All their desserts and sodas are off limits .
There are besides some furtive menu items that seem low carb, but aren ’ metric ton .
Tempting crust to avoid
- Gluten Free Crust – 17 net carbs per slice
Tempting pizza sauce to avoid
- BBQ Sauce – 6 net carbs per slice
Tempting topping to avoid
- Pineapple Topping – 2 net carbs per slice
Tempting chicken entrees to avoid
- Honey Chipotle Wings (8 piece) – 26 net carbs
- BBQ Wings (8 piece) – 19 net carbs
- Chicken Poppers (5 Piece) – 20 net carbs
Summary
Buffalo wings are the safe play when ordering from Papa John ’ south. They are filling enough to hold you over until your future meal and taste full enough to not leave you wanting .
If you prefer to live your low carb life a bit more perilously, then orderliness a pizza, rip off the toppings and eat them 🙂
One day Papa John ’ randomness will have low carb pizza on the menu because our growing numbers demand it. Until then I hope this article provides you with a good shortstop term solution .
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