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