When a movie scene is successfully filmed, the director calls out, “That’s a wrap!” Everything is completed to satisfaction.
Well, with these products, you can easily proclaim, “That’s a wrap!” because these wraps will satisfy you and your family, plus go a long way to making healthy eating a reality in your day-to-day life.
From pinwheel canapes to breakfast, lunch, and dinner hold-in-your-hand meals, turning to healthier wraps will satisfy even the most discriminating palates. The calorie and the carbohydrate counts will go down, but that hand-held satisfaction will remain high!
I’m always looking for a way to dress up my breakfast/lunch. About 4-5 hours after my breakfast cookie (or two – see post HERE), it’s time to fix a meal. But what if I want a bread-like component without the big carb hit?
It’s hard to eat a fried egg without something to sop up that yummy yolk.
For eggs, I turn to Mission brand gluten-free spinach herb wraps with 26 grams of carbohydrate, 6 grams of fiber (take the fiber grams away from the total carbs and you end up with only 20 net grams of carbs), and 120 calories.
Roll-up Ideas:
Bacon Egg and Cheese Roll-up
Heat wrap in toaster oven with cheese slice in center until cheese is bubbly.
Add cooked egg and bacon, if desired.
Roll up and enjoy.
Bacon Egg Cheese and Spinach
Heat wrap in toaster oven with cheese until warm – vary cheese choices: feta, Queso, Chevre/goat, or blue cheese.
Wilt a very large handful of spinach in a bit of olive oil or butter in pan and add to wrap.
Add cooked egg and bacon, if desired.
Roll up and enjoy
Salad with Meat
Make salad look and feel different by adding it to a warmed wrap.
Add leftover meat of choice, maybe cheese, and a few dots of dressing, if desired.
Let’s turn to a different kind of wrap. Thrive Market’s Coconut Wraps. You can get these yummy and healthful wraps HERE. There are only 3 ingredients in these wraps vs 35 in the Mission brand I just showed you. My grandchildren ask for these coconut wraps every time they visit.
These wraps have just 6 grams of carbs and 2 grams of fiber for just 4 net grams of carbs! One gram of protein and just 70 calories. Wow!
Pinwheel Hors d’oeuvres
Assemble ingredients in mixing bowl:
8 ounce tub of whipped cream cheese
½ cup very finely chopped dried cranberries
½ – ¾ cup feta cheese, chopped
¼ – 1/3 cup finely chopped chives
2 – 3 Tbs. of finely grated or finely chopped walnuts
Mix very well using a hand mixer. Divide into thirds.
Spread 1/3 of mixture onto a tortilla or – BEST – a green spinach gluten-free wrap. Spread close to the edges of the wrap. Tightly roll up the filled wrap and place on some plastic wrap and roll up tightly, twisting edges of plastic wrap to secure. Repeat for the other two wraps. Refrigerate for a few hours.
Unwrap a rolled log and place on cutting board, seam-side down. Carefully slice, creating no more than ½ inch slices, and place on serving tray. Each log is individually wrapped so you can use what you need. The others may be saved a few days for later use.
The cranberry red specks along with the chives make this a colorful and festive hors d’oeuvre – especially if you have green wraps around.
Coconut Wrap ideas
I generally do not preheat these. Very kid-friendly for young chefs.
- PB and J a new way!
- PB and banana slices- an excellent snack or meal.
- PB and dill pickle! Yes – an old family favorite – try it, you’ll like it!
Of course, you can use nut butters if you want to ramp up the nut factor to get away from the legumes that peanuts really are.
Anything that can be wrapped is excellent for these as well. There is a mild coconut-y flavor so eggs might not be a great match. Certainly meats, fish, and seafood would be fantastic with these coconut wraps.
So, ahem! – that about wraps it up for now.
In health-
Deidre
tempting. A great gift idea, too. Haven’t taken that swab plunge yet, but sometimes a very Nordic, “Yah,” periodically comes out of my mouth that I wonder, “where did that come from?”
what I mean: some ‘random’ thing that leads to something else that leads to something else? The dominoes keep tipping over in a beautiful opening of blessings?
One evening, we dined with an Amish family who served traditional Amish fare supplied by a local restaurant and who opened up for an honest and frank question and answer period. As a personal thank you gift, I gave her a signed copy of my book, Toolkit for Wellness, as a gesture of sharing, in kind, a bit of myself.
when her husband had died in 2010, but that she waited two years to read it. She said that reading the book, When God Winks at You, changed her life.
accident that you just picked up When God Winks. In fact, you may have suspected all along that there is more to coincidence than meets the eye. These seemingly random events are actually sign posts that can help you successfully navigate your career, relationships, and interests. By recognizing the God winks our Creator sometimes places in our paths, we can understand—and embrace—the journey God has laid out for us.
Speaking of book-giving at Christmas – where did that tradition come from? I have always loved giving and getting books for Christmas. Yah?
items readily available to give as gifts at Christmas. Hence, a strong tradition of book ownership, reading, and Christmas gift preferences.
While change is one of the few constants in this world, it’s the one we tend to like the least. The older we get, the tighter we cling to the old ways and resist anything new.
I have to say that the simple wisdom found in this quick read of Out of the Maze has helped me in my own transitions of late. It’s a great book to pull off the shelf at the start of each New Year as we all move forward with our lives and pause to reflect on our progress or to consider if we are ‘stuck’ in a maze.
targeted to be ‘food’ for your mind, body, and spirit.