Roll up sandwiches

Yes, we love to make tortilla roll ups in our home. I love them for breakfast especially. I put a scrambled egg (or egg beaters)2 slices of bacon, and some salsa and roll it up! YUM! We often have roll up sandwiches for dinner with chicken that is sauteed in fajita mix, rice, blackbeans and onions. YUM! REally, almost anything is good as a roll up!

Tortillas are excellent if you are making lunches for kids to take to school. I find my kids go through phases where half their sandwich comes back home at the end of the day. They get kind of bored. You can use lots of great fillings -- tuna salad, egg salad, ham salad, even peanut butter and jelly in a pinch! -- as an alternative to meat slices. I always like to do what GardenGerty said and cover the tortilla with lettuce first (except with the peanut butter lol). I find it makes the roll a bit "stronger" for holding the contents. Another thing that has been popular with the kids is that I'll put a good handful of leftover salad on their tortilla, along with meat, and drizzle a bit of low-fat ranch dressing on top. They get extra veggies this way in the form of cucumber, carrots, onion, etc., from the salad bowl and it's super-fast to make. One trick to holding these together -- fold up the "bottom" of the tortilla, towards the middle, at least a few inches. Then roll it up, side to side. This way, nothing drops out the bottom while you're eating :)

Great discussion! Here in the East, flatbreads are soaring off the charts with popularity... The prices are,too! So go back to your kitchen basics and learn to make flatbreads in your home... Most flatbread recipes are almost the same as making pancakes, except that you don't use eggs or self-rising flour. Some batter, a big cast iron skillet, and a little shortening and you are in business! :) Making bread this way is one of the oldest and easiest methods on Earth and many different cultures have thier own different styles of flatbreads... My favorite is Injira, an Ethiopian flatbread that is so wonderful in texture that it compliments any food served with it. I'll bet that it would make one heck of a sandwich, too! ;)

I and my hubby like almost all kind of sandwiches with lettuce and lots of meat on it. But we don't use tortillas much. After reading this discussion and reading all the different ideas of people I am feeling like I should try tortillas with differnet veggies. It sounds good. Thanks for sharing this.

What kind of tortillas are the best to use. I noticed some wheat ones but not a variety of them. For the low carb benefit can I use any of the tortillas in the grocery? The sandwiches sound delicious to me. I've tried the wraps at McDonald's and while they are tasty they don't seem to healthy to me with the fried chicken and the ranch dressing, but the concept of making different varieties of veggies and meat with lettuce, etc. sounds very good.

The only thing though is that they've proven that carbs aren't necessarily bad. You need them. Of course I still do like my occasional wrap. Especially from Subway.

I have never tried it, or tasted it. Thanks for sharing that with us. I think I will give it a try. What about filling it with cheese and diced tomatoes, rolling it and heating? Will that work?

My doctor told me to eat tortilla's to cut back on carbs, I don't like them though they just taste nasty to me. the other thing I cannot find was he said to buy Manna from Heaven bread and cannot find it.

I just had one the other day for lunch. I used mayo, chicken, lettace, tomato. It was great! I did not know it was lower in carbs than bread. I will remember this and try to use the shells more often At a deli I use to work at, we used chicken strips, honey mustard, lettece. and tomato. I also like the ones at KFC. I do not think this is a 'diet' food though!LOL I think I will try to stick to the baked chicken for that!

Yes i love the roll up sandwiches,there is a lot you can do with them.My favorite is ham and turkey with melted cheese.

Well I have never tried tortillas for lunch, although I have had flat bread for lunch, and made sandwiches with them they are very nice and you are right they are differetn to the same old sandwiches and you can add more meat with them and they are lovely I like them a lot and you can use your own imagination to fill them up to your likings I will have to try these with tortillas though to see if they are just as nice.

i love this kind of "sandwiches". my friend use to make buritos. it is like a mexican dish. it has ground meat (u use ground beef too), kidney beans, corn kernels, tomatoes, cheese, bell pepper, rice and lettuce with a little sour cream. it really tastes good. i sometimes prepare this kind of food but im having a hard time preparing the tortilas. its kindda hard. i prepare the tortilla since i can't find any in our place.

it sounds really yummy. il make one with a mix of imagination and experimentation...i'll tell you about the result.

Sounds yummy. I'm trying to drop 100 pounds so I can use all the help I can get! Thanks!

I do this all the time its quick easy and tastes great, you can use any kind of meat in them, thats why I like them

I like to do this too. Another spin that I try - is avoid the bread altogether and make a lettuce wrap. Bibb lettuce works best for this. You roll everything inside the lettuce leaf like a wrap.

ive never done this but i think its a fantastic idea, i think ill be getting some for my chicken and then brown bag my lunch on monday morning, thank you blessed be

I do this for the kids a lot. They like just about any kind of lunch meat with cheese,lettuce,tomatoe, and occasionally onion. I have also made them a peanut butter and jelly on a tortilla, and then cut it into four little pieces and they love it. I like to buy the flat pita bread, or pocket pita bread and kinda do the same for sandwhiches. We eat a lot of sandwhiches in our house, so creativity to avoid boredom is a must!

I love the idea, and have actually used it! However we have found that we also like a large leaf of lettuce, cream cheese, meat, pickle and sliced cheddar. You cut the carbs out completely! It is really good!

sounds good, i'll try them! :P