Sunday, September 23, 2012

Harvest Salad Wrap- Lightened Up
 
My daughter and I went to a 'healthy fast food' restaurant yesterday and had a Harvest Salad Wrap.  This place would make any of their salads into a wrap.  I just had them leave out the goat cheese and add tofu to the lettuce, apples, beets, walnuts and cranberries.  While I was enjoying my wrap I was trying to think about what I could substitute for the dressing that would make it less wet and portable enough for lunch at work.   Today I found their nutrition information online.  I about fell over when I found that my healthy lunch contained 761 calories!  The salad alone, without the wrap, had over 500 calories.
So today I offer you the lighter, portable version of the Harvest Salad Wrap.  It is just as yummy as the high calorie version and I have shaved off 438 calories!
 
 
1 tortilla (I used La Tortilla Factory 100 calorie whole wheat tortilla)
2 tablespoons Tofutti Cream Cheese
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
several romaine lettuce leaves, washed and patted dry
1 tablespoon chopped walnuts
1 tablespoon dried cranberries
1/4 cup diced apple (I used Golden Delicious)
1/4 cup roasted beets (I used golden beets)
2 pieces Maple Bacon flavored tempeh (Turtle Island Foods, Inc)
 
Lay one tortilla on a piece of parchment paper (or foil or plastic wrap)
Mix the cream and mustard together and spread on the tortilla
Lay the lettuce leaves over the cream cheese mixture
Pile everything else on top and roll up like a burrito.  Wrap in the parchment if preparing for later.  Consume right away or refrigerate.
 
Serves one and has just 323 calories.
 
 
 
 
 

 

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