Pizza Hut has always been about the cheap — there’s got to be a coupon lying around the house somewhere. But with Pizza Mia, Pizza Hut is skimping on ingredients for the first time. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Here’s to dragging out your New Year’s resolution one extra week.

Now, here’s the Pizza Mia blueprint: a 12-inch medium pizza made with whole-milk mozzarella and a sprinkle of cheddar cheese, a new, sweeter tomato sauce and your choice of traditional Pizza Hut toppings.

Total calories: 210 per slice. Fat grams: 9. Dietary fiber: 1 gram. Carbs: 23 grams. Manufacturer’s suggested retail price: $5 each if you order three or more Pizza Mias.

Pizza Hut calls it “a great everyday value price.” And that’s true — if you buy in bulk. Welcome to Sam’s Club. If you buy just one Pizza Mia, that’ll run you $6.99, which is pretty much what a regular pizza costs when you find that coupon in your kitchen junk drawer.

Pizza Mia translates roughly to “My Pizza” or “Pizza for Me” — and a 12-inch pie sounds like a perfect fit. It’s pizza for one. At least, one of me.

This definitely is not a regular Pizza Hut medium pizza, with cheese that runneth over and tons of toppings. A regular Pizza Hut pie has cheese on top and below the sausage and pepperoni, and even inside the crust if you’re lucky.

Pizza Mia has less of everything. There’s only one thin layer of cheese. First the sauce goes on, then a layer of cheese, then the toppings. Done.

The sauce, made with vine-ripened California tomatoes, is sweeter than Pizza Hut’s regular sauce. Pizza Mia uses less-pricey whole-milk mozzarella instead of the partially skim-milk mozzarella found on regular pizzas.

The toppings are the same, only more sparse. Every inch of a Pizza Mia isn’t covered with pepperoni. You get maybe one or two slices on each pizza slice.

We’re talking only five bucks for a freshly baked, hot Pizza Hut pizza. So you get a little less of the gooey stuff. This is more along the style of pizza in Italy, where everybody gets their own pizza, just the way they like it. Now I get it … Pizza for Me.

The flavor is different. It’s not the overpowering pizza experience that regular Pizza Hut pies deliver. With Pizza Mia, you won’t go stumbling to the couch with a heavy gut.

Pizza Mia is a lighter pizza that’s lighter on your wallet and conscience. Each slice is “only” 210 calories, whereas a slice of regular pizza packs 240 or more calories, depending on your toppings. Thirty calories doesn’t sound like a lot, but when you eat the whole thing, eight slices of skimpy pizza add up.