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Anyone who knows Refinery29's Lucie Fink knows just how much she loves pizza. This week, Lucie does her favorite challenge ever: 5 days of eating only pizza! Let's see if Lucie can handle eating so much her favorite food without hating in at the end of the week.
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00:00I'm Lucy Fink and this week is 5 days of eating only pizza.
00:06Hey guys!
00:08It's Lucy, your favorite pizza lover.
00:11For anyone who follows me on social media, you already know how deep my love for pizza
00:16runs.
00:17I have pizza t-shirts, pizza stop motion videos, I even made an entire YouTube video about
00:23my pizza addiction.
00:24So it's safe to say that I'm obsessed.
00:26This week is about thinking outside of the box.
00:30So the first thing we have to do is define what is pizza.
00:33It's not about bread and tomatoes and cheese, but to me it's more so the idea of pizza.
00:39It's the crust on the bottom with some sort of toppings on it.
00:43It can be round.
00:44It can be square.
00:45It can be a triangle.
00:46Earlier this morning I sat down with a nutritionist named Carrie Glassman and her excitement about
00:51this experiment made me even more excited.
00:54I am not one of those nutritionists by the way that never indulges and never enjoys pizza
00:58and does not like food.
01:00Right.
01:00I love food.
01:01I love to eat.
01:02I love pizza.
01:03I like to indulge from time to time.
01:04So we have to make sure that you stay as healthy as possible while still enjoying this super
01:10fun five day challenge.
01:11Exactly.
01:12And also don't get completely sick of pizza so you never want to look at it again.
01:16Eat responsibly.
01:17Good job.
01:18Exactly.
01:18So today though, you're going and touring Manhattan, I mean I say today, enjoy.
01:22Just drink a lot of water throughout this challenge.
01:25That'll help obviously keep you hydrated, but it'll also help you eat maybe a little bit
01:30less pizza.
01:31I started out day one of my pizza challenge with a New York City pizza walking tour.
01:37Starting early this morning in Lower Manhattan, I'm on my way to Grotto Pizzeria to get a bacon,
01:43egg, and cheese slice.
01:47They don't sell individual slices, so I got an entire pie and after I ate one slice,
01:52I saved the rest for later in the week.
02:00When I told my friends I was doing this experiment, I got at least three people telling me that
02:05I needed to go to Prince Street Pizza, a little family-owned pizza joint in Soho.
02:10Pizza tour.
02:11Pizza tour.
02:12Listen to me and listen closely.
02:15If you are ever in New York, go to Prince Street Pizza.
02:19Just ordered a pepperoni square slice at Prince Street Pizza.
02:23I got my order number two.
02:25It's so fitting because it's pizza number two.
02:30Our beautiful baby.
02:31It's so good.
02:34Between slices today, I took Carrie's suggestion and made sure to drink tons of water to stay
02:39hydrated.
02:39And next up for dinner, I was taking a casual stroll through the Union Square area and I stumbled
02:45upon Joe's Pizza.
02:46I got a stunning, stunning caprese pizza.
02:51Got it.
02:52With fresh tomato, fresh mozzarella, and fresh basil.
02:56I took a photo of it and I put it on my Instagram and I think my entire Instagram community
03:01unanimously
03:02agreed that it was the most photogenic slice of pizza we had ever seen in our lives.
03:06That's good.
03:07And of course, no day, not even a pizza day, is complete without dessert.
03:11So I went to Max Brenner for a s'mores pizza.
03:14I love this place so much.
03:21And oh my gosh, they served it alongside a chocolate martini.
03:27The perfect end to the perfect pizza day.
03:32Day two, I woke up this morning and I had the cooking bug.
03:37So today, I'm hashtag working from home and I'm going to make all four pizza meals, breakfast,
03:42lunch, dinner, and dessert into homemade pies.
03:45If you're going to break it out like that by the meal, I would think, kind of think of
03:49each meal like you would think of the meal without the pizza.
03:52So for example, breakfast, what do you think of as traditional breakfast foods?
03:56But I always, you know, like to tell people to get in vegetables if they can, to absolutely
04:00get in protein, and also to get in some fiber.
04:03First up, breakfast.
04:04I loved my bacon, egg, and cheese pizza from yesterday and I wanted to replicate that at
04:09home.
04:09So I decided to make it again with a few tweaks.
04:12Say hello to the Pillsbury Crescent Roll Pizza.
04:17I rolled out my dough from two cans of Crescent Rolls, cracked on my eggs, sprinkled cheese
04:22on top, and lay down some cooked bacon.
04:24And once it came out of the oven, I enjoyed my amazing breakfast pizza right here in bed.
04:33You know what makes a good lunch?
04:35Salad.
04:36So for this meal, I decided to eat a Greek salad.
04:39Just, you know, on top of a pizza crust.
04:43I rolled out some store-bought pizza dough using my water bottle.
04:48Always getting crafty over here.
04:49I added a garlic and olive oil base, put some mozzarella and feta on it, and then I baked
04:55it on my pizza stone before adding some fresh vegetables and more feta.
04:59Guys, I think I might have figured out the new way to eat salad.
05:02Just turn it into a pizza.
05:05And for dinner, I wanted a margarita pizza completely from scratch, meaning I had to first
05:10make the dough and wait for it to rise and rest.
05:13And once it was ready to go, I added tomato sauce, parmesan, fresh mozzarella, garlic, and
05:18basil.
05:19And I waited for my masterpiece to bake.
05:21It was a beautiful success, 100% perfect in every sense of the word.
05:27On the one hand, I really wanted fruit for dessert, but I also wanted a cookie.
05:33So I decided to make both.
05:36I baked a sugar cookie base, spread on Nutella, and topped it with a beautiful rainbow of fresh
05:43fruits.
05:43If it looks like a pizza, it probably is one, right?
05:51At this point in our internet relationship, you probably know Michael.
05:56Michael is my boyfriend of eight years.
05:58I think he might be tied with pizza in my book.
06:01But Michael is gluten intolerant, which makes going out for date nights to get my favorite
06:05food a little bit tricky.
06:07I want today to be all about dietary choices because I want to show that being gluten free
06:12or being vegan does not have to bar you from eating pizza.
06:15I think gluten free for breakfast, you could use either sweet potatoes or regular potatoes
06:20and make a hash.
06:22You could top it with some vegetables, you could top it with a little with cheese, so then you've
06:26got potatoes and cheese, which actually sounds really delicious.
06:28For breakfast, I went full gluten free.
06:31I took Carrie's advice and used potato hash browns as the base.
06:34I baked them in the oven, and then I added scrambled eggs, bacon bits, and cheese.
06:39Now, this was definitely way out of the box for a pizza because it tasted more like a
06:43breakfast scramble, but for someone who's gluten intolerant, a hash brown crust is a great
06:48alternative.
06:50I have to backtrack and be honest here.
06:53When I woke up this morning, my stomach did not feel the best that it's ever felt.
06:57It's been two days now of eating nothing but pizza, and I've had a lot of cheese.
07:02Oh no!
07:03Today's vegan lunch pizza stripped out all of that dairy.
07:07I made a vegan buffalo cauliflower pizza on a vegan and yeast free crust.
07:11The crust was simple to make because there's no yeast in it, so you don't have to wait
07:15for it to rise.
07:16The buffalo cauliflower was unbelievable.
07:18So spicy, so crunchy, and then I topped it all with a vegan ranch dressing.
07:25For dinner, I decided to get a little fancy.
07:28Because pizza doesn't have to be a sit-down-in-your-sweatpants-and-watch-TV type of food.
07:33So I ordered a gluten-free pizza on Seamless, popped on this fancy gold dress, and surprised
07:39Michael with a romantic gluten-free pizza dinner for two, complete with a candle and red wine.
07:45The two loves of my life at the same table.
07:49Cheers, Michael.
07:50Cheers.
07:54Day four of eating just pizza, and I realized that I've done a ton of home cooking this week,
08:00so I reheated some leftovers from yesterday and Tuesday for breakfast and lunch today.
08:05And then for dinner, I took Carrie's advice.
08:08Find somewhere great that you can actually kind of go into the kitchen, go behind the scenes
08:13a little bit, and learn what goes into making a pizza.
08:16Find some fun pizza places that you can get involved and learn a little bit there.
08:20I discovered Custom Fuel Pizza, a place that calls itself the Louis Vuitton of pizza.
08:25Because their pizza is personalized, it's not your average dollar slice pizza.
08:30They use all high-end meats and cheeses, fresh ingredients, and 100% homemade pizza dough.
08:36I made an all-veggie pizza, added sauce first, then put on mushrooms, onions, red peppers, and
08:43artichoke.
08:44Followed by fresh goat cheese.
08:47And then you come on the side.
08:49And while the pizza cooked in the oven for only three minutes, we did the pizza dance while
08:54we waited.
08:55Waiting for our pizza.
08:57Shake it off.
08:57Shake it off.
08:58I made it up.
08:59It's not a real dance.
09:00Cut it down the middle, and then doop, doop, doop.
09:04And then we added scallions, arugula, basil, and olive oil.
09:08And it was epic.
09:12So if you happen to be the owner of, or if you know someone who is the owner of one
09:17of
09:17these out-of-the-box, different, cool pizza places, please call me.
09:23Cheers.
09:25Bye.
09:28It's my last day, and I've never had so much fun doing a Try Living with Lucy five-day
09:33challenge before.
09:34Throughout the course of this whole week, my coworkers have been so intrigued by this challenge.
09:39Everyone's asking me if I saved any pizza for them.
09:42And you know what?
09:44They deserve it.
09:45So today, I surprised my office by ordering a whole bunch of pies to Refinery29, and I fed
09:50my friends.
10:04And for dinner tonight, I couldn't believe that I had gone through this entire five-day
10:07challenge without stopping for one classic New York City dollar slice.
10:12It never disappoints.
10:14Final takeaways.
10:15Aside from a slight stomachache on Wednesday, I feel completely normal and just like always,
10:20which I really do attribute to the fact that I diversified my pizza so much this week.
10:25I understand that not everything I ate this week is 100% considered to be technically pizza,
10:32as defined by the pizza gods above.
10:34But I think that pizza is really less about the individual ingredients and pieces that make
10:39it up.
10:40And it's more about the whole overarching feeling.
10:43And this week definitely captured that feeling for me and brought me so much joy.
10:48See you next time.
10:50He eats.
10:51Oh, oh.
10:51Do you love pizza?
10:52Do you love pizza?
10:53I think I'm hard to always talk about it.
10:53But what is this?
10:53I just kept going on over.
10:54The other thing is, make a lot of ви Lee's five-day.
10:54I'm so sorry, anyway.
10:55I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.
10:55And my family, you don't want to be a big piece of coffee but you don't want to work on
10:55the