Uber healthy wrap (or so i thought) help please!! :)

sprocket1978

Hiya folks just want to pick a few brains, im really trying to figure out the calories for this recipe!!

I started trying to find a VERY healthy wholemeal tortilla wrap recipe that i could use for dinners/lunches. I came across this one which states it makes four portions (more like two honestly)

This is the original recipe :

Ingredients
• 120g plain flour
• 80g wholemeal flour.
• a pinch of salt
• 1 vegetable stock cube. Crumbled
• 1 teaspoon of olive oil
• quarter of a pint of warm water

Read more: http://suppersatisfaction.blogspot.com/2010/04/wholemeal-wraps.html#ixzz27TfhdlE4

I ALTERED the recipe to make it a bit healthier by making it 100% wholemeal flour. When i rolled out one portion it was really really small, and instead I made two decent sized wraps, one for the hubby and me. They tasted yum, (I only ate half of one and had the rest for lunch the next day

Problem is when i went to figure out my calories i was flabergasted!!!!....
One full wrap uses 100g flour which i didnt think was a lot but im finding out online is about 339 calories!
So when you include my salad/veggie quorn chicken sub/and a spoon of homemade pesto my HALF a wrap was nearly 400 calories???

Am i going nuts is this right for half a wrap!!

EvgeniZyntx

You numbers are correct. 800 cals for a loaded tortilla wrap is not uncommon. Use shrimp, more lettuce, tomatoes to keep it down. Spring roll wraps are also less calorie rich.

I love tortillas, make my own since I was 10 and learned to do so in my mother's kitchen. But I can't eat them like I used to.

I'm going on the tortilla diet, it's perfect to lose weight. Said no one. Ever.

sprocket1978

Thanks a mill!! :flowerforyou:

Dag Nabbit!:sad:

I was really really really hoping i was wrong and they were 2cals each......boooooooooooooooo....oh well treat day maybe.
im a veggie so usually filled with yummy salads.
I shudder to think whats in the processed white flour packet ones now after reading this!!! formaldehyde maybe?

good luck in your search of scrummy mex tastiness!

:drinker: