Whole wheat pizza goes Greek

It's not easy to find whole wheat pizza. It's not even easy to find whole wheat pizza crust with wholesome ingredients at a reasonable price. The Wegmans supermarket in Woodbridge, NJ came through for me. I purchased their whole wheat "Food You Feel Good About" 16-inch pizza crust. Whole wheat flour is ingredient number one. The rest of the ingredient list is inoffensive, including less than 2% (non-whole) wheat flour.

You can see the nutrition facts here. Mostly good news, although the sodium content is a bit disturbing. It looks innocuous at 120 mg until you realize that's for one ounce of crust, or a twelfth of the pie. Since my family split the pizza three ways, that's 480 mg per person in the crust alone. I'm sure the Greek-style toppings I added contributed considerable additional sodium. I was definitely thirsty after this meal.

Those toppings sure were tasty, though! I drizzled the crust with olive oil and then added crumbled feta cheese, as well as chopped olives, artichoke hearts and Peppadew peppers from Wegmans' olive bar. I also placed thinly-sliced zucchini on half the pie. (I left it off the other half because one member of my family, who shall remain nameless, doesn't like zucchini).

After about 15 minutes in the oven, it came out looking like this.

I would say the whole wheat crust was slightly less tasty than typical white crust, but not bad at all, and the overall result was delicious. This wasn't a low-cost meal -- about $4 for the crust, another $4 for the cheese and $7 for the toppings, totaling the price of a large pizza with one topping from a local restaurant. But for a whole wheat pie with multiple exotic toppings, not a bad deal.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, but don't be afraid of Greek-style whole wheat pizza!