Ideas for wraps

redarmy1929

Hi all,

I'm looking for some ideas for making wraps.

I was looking at my diet, and currently dont eat enough during the days, so reckon I need to eat a healthy lunch, and have decided to go for wraps, but I dont really know what to put in them. Any ideas?

Cheers,

homemadecider

Vegetables
Salads
Meat
Fish
Cheese

Even better, eat all the above but ditch the wraps.

Gumbo

Wrap
2 chicken fillets stir fried and sliced
Lettuce
Onions
Peppers
Pinch of grated cheese
Tomatoes

No need for any sauces as the tomatoes Wetten up the wrap.

I also use the wraps for homemade Mexican.
Stir fry mince, onion, peppers and taco seasoning, place in the middle of the wrap, pinch of grated cheese, fold and eat. Be careful of hot mince squeezing out when you bite and burning your balls off though

the world wonders

Wraps aren't any healthier than ordinary white bread, nutritionally they are practically identical.

rubadub

the world wonders wrote: »

Wraps aren't any healthier than ordinary white bread, nutritionally they are practically identical.

Wraps can appear smaller/thinner. But really a wrap is like a few slices of standard sliced pan which is squished with a rolling pin.

You can use iceberg lettuce leaves as a wrap. I have been eating finely chopped raw cabbage with salad cream as a filler with meals where I used to have bread/rice/pasta.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

chinese lettuce is excellent for wraps if you can find it. i used iceberg before but you only get 5-6 useable leaves out of the head...or I did anyway, maybe it was just my clumsy bastard hands

rubadub

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

. i used iceberg before but you only get 5-6 useable leaves out of the head.

Yeah, its tricky as they break up. I have given up buying lettuce because of this.

A large white cabbage is about €1 in dunnes, a head of lettuce is about the same, but the cabbage weighs a ton compared to it. It keeps far longer in the fridge. I cut off a slice and then chop it up, a thin slice explodes into a really large volume when you cut it up. To me cabbage tastes like the really crisp white bit of the iceberg lettuce.

Gumbo

the world wonders wrote: »

Wraps aren't any healthier than ordinary white bread, nutritionally they are practically identical.

I'd be aware of that, but you can get whole meal wraps, and to me I feel fuller after a wrap than two slices of bread, plus you omit the butter

rubadub

kceire wrote: »

I feel fuller after a wrap than two slices of bread

Your wrap possibly has more calories/dry ingredients than the 2 slices of bread though. Some are huge.

Gumbo

rubadub wrote: »

Your wrap possibly has more calories/dry ingredients than the 2 slices of bread though. Some are huge.

Yah fair enough. I've just get the details from a standard tortilla wrap here :

Each wrap is 64g
181 calories
2.1g Sugar
2.2g Fat
1.2g Sats
0.5g Salt

I've ran out of the low fat and whole meal ones so can't compare those.
I agree there's most likely no nutritional value from either bread or these wraps, it's just the wraps make me fell fuller over say two slices of bread with butter.

runawaybishop

the world wonders wrote: »

Wraps aren't any healthier than ordinary white bread, nutritionally they are practically identical.

They aren't the devil either.

OP - don't eat enough of what? Veg, protein, calories in general?

kceire wrote: »

plus you omit the butter

Don't omit the butter

Mellor

kceire wrote: »

I'd be aware of that, but you can get whole meal wraps, and to me I feel fuller after a wrap than two slices of bread, plus you omit the butter

Firstly, wholemeal is significantly healthier than white. You can get wholemeal bread too which negates that whole argument.
Butter is a not a bad thing.

Feeling fuller from wraps could be down to the fact you can sometimes get more on to a wrap, depending on size. So if you are using a good filling, this is a plus, a bad filling and its a negative.

ElleEm

What about wholemeal pittas?
I have the opposite problem to the OP, and am trying to cut down on my calorie intake. I thought wraps were safe enough so am glad I read this before I started eating them.
I either have wholemeal pitta with salad or a couple of ryvita with salad for lunch.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

try a couple of chinese lettuce leaves, toss whatever fillings you have into them and munch away. they seem like they were designed in a lab to be used as wraps/sandwhiches/whatever

the middle of them has a good bit of backbone so it's almost like eating one of those pizza roll things except with... lettuce instead of.. roll
and pizza

dashdoll

Anyone know where you can get low carb wraps easily?

Do Dunnes/Tesco/lidl or anywhere do these?

Always meaning to try them but never seem to see them while shopping.

redarmy1929

kceire wrote: »

I'd be aware of that, but you can get whole meal wraps, and to me I feel fuller after a wrap than two slices of bread, plus you omit the butter

Exactly.

I have gone to a nutrionist who put me on a 4 week plan.

I wasnt hitting my daily calorie intake for the day, actually was only hitting half it.

He recommended wholemeal wraps as they are high in fibre etc..

Thanks for the comments guys.

rubadub

If you insist on wholemeal then be sure to check the ingredients, it can have white flour in it.

McCambridges standard wholewheat bread probably has some white flour, I expect many think its all brown/wholewheat. No % is given so it could be just in the starter yeast, if it was low I would expect them to declare it though.


If it says "wheatflour" it is usually white, otherwise they would typically make a point of saying its not.

Ingredients

Fresh Buttermilk (43%),Wholemeal Flour (30%) ,Wheatflour ,Raising Agent: Bicarbonate of Soda ,Salt ,Wheatgerm

Brennans wholegrain slice pan uses mainly white flour.

grimm2005

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

chinese lettuce is excellent for wraps if you can find it. i used iceberg before but you only get 5-6 useable leaves out of the head...or I did anyway, maybe it was just my clumsy bastard hands

Must look into getting these! I use iceberg as well and like yourself only get a few leaves per head also, meaning that I would only get 2 - 3 sandwiches per lettuce (sometimes more or less depending on how lucky I am, also I use at least 2 leaves per wrap so it won't fall apart easily). It's not hugely expensive as each lettuce head is only 89c but it feels like a real waste when I'm left with 3 perfectly good lettuce heads in the fridge but none of them have enough consistency left to pull off full leaves!

Can you get chinese lettuce in any shop? I've never seen them in the regular supermarkets.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

tesco should have them although I remember I tried looking back in '12 and couldn't find them here in carlow but just happened to see them recently. if they're in carlow I imagine they have them in actual civilised parts of the country