Bacon Cheddar Mashed Potato Bites

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The other day I posted my take on low calorie / light mashed potatoes. They are awesome and you should definitely try them. Now that I had all these mashed potatoes I needed to figure out what to do with them other than eat them as is. I like variety in my diet, If I’m stuck eating mashed potatoes every single day, I’m not going to be happy and I’m going to fall off track.

Queue Jesse making a post in our Lose Weight Eat Pizza facebook group with just the word “potato”. Funny memes were posted, everyone was having a great time and someone mentioned Unos Pizza Skins and I know exactly what I needed to make.

We’re calling ours Bacon Cheddar Mashed Potato Bites and I promise you will eat the whole tray, Just don’t get carried away – at 136 calories a bite it’s so easy to accidentally eat an entire tray and go over your calories for the day. (Ask me how I know)

What are Unos Pizza Skins?

Unos Pizza Skins are a deep dish pizza crust filled to the brim with creamy mashed potatoes, bacon and cheddar. They are delicious and they better be – coming in at 1970 calories for a single appetizer. I don’t know about you but that’s more calories than I get to eat in a day…for single appetizer.

How’d You Lower The Calories?

We made the crust using weight watchers 2 ingredient pizza dough. WW 2 ingredient pizza dough is one of the easiest ways to to make pizza dough for a fraction of the calories. You just combine equal parts self rising flour and 0% greek yogurt. I use my Kitchen-aid stand mixer to make this with the dough hook attachment. This dough can be made in bulk and frozen but I would recommend rolling it out into sheets first (make sure to use plenty of extra flour to coat the dough and rolling pin because this dough is so sticky). This will make it much easier to thaw what you need instead of having a giant dough ball that takes forever to thaw.

Second, we use my low calorie mashed potatoes recipe. These mashed potatoes are made without butter and are 37% less calories than a traditional recipe. We use I can’t believe it’s not butter as a substitute for butter in the mashed potatoes. We also use eggs as a milk substitute for the mashed potatoes. This allows for peaks to form and our mashed potatoes to be fluffy and still creamy.

We top everything off with fat free shredded cheddar cheese and bacon crumbles to make the best low calorie healthy snack that feels like junk food. These can be garnished with chives & dipped in light sour cream.

What Do I Need?

Any Substitutes? I Don’t have XYZ In My Pantry.

Self Rising Flour – If you don’t have self rising flour on hand you can make any flour “self rising” by adding 1 tsp baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/4th a teaspoon of baking soda for every cup of regular flour

0% Greek Yogurt – If you can’t find 0% and happen to have 2% or higher on hand you can use that instead.

Russet Potatoes – If you have Yukon Gold on hand you can use this instead. I wouldn’t recommend using any other type of potato other than these two.

Whole Garlic Gloves – You can leave this out but do not replace it with minced garlic, tube garlic or garlic powder. Cloves are added while the potatoes are boiling and removed before mashing.

Eggs – You could leave the eggs out entirely or substitute with water, I wouldn’t recommend it as this is what gives the mashed potatoes their creamy texture

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter Light – You can replace this with regular butter, it’ll up the calorie counts a bit so use a light hand.

Fat Free Shredded Cheddar – You can sub this for regular shredded cheddar or shred a block of cheddar yourself – just make sure you account for the calorie difference.