Low Carb Tortilla ?

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bmcky said:

Howdy -

I went looking LC tortilla's in my local supermarket and the best I
could find were something sold under the 'Mission' label. The have a
LC line listed with Tot Carbs 18 less 11 g of dietary fiver for a net
carb count of 7 per tortilla. These are pretty good sized, about 7
1/2 inches in diameter, but are 7 g of carb a lot for one tortilla?
I'm just curious if I should keep looking around or go with these.
Thanks for any advice (besides eat less and exercise more :P )

bmcky

Boston, MA

Keep looking.
Mission "low carb" tortillas taste like cardboard.

YMMV.

I use HEB's brand at only 4 grams net carbs, and they are delicious. ;-d

Cheers!
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Om.

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No wonder you stalled.

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In article <[email hidden]>,

bmcky said:

Howdy -

I went looking LC tortilla's in my local supermarket and the best I
could find were something sold under the 'Mission' label. The have a
LC line listed with Tot Carbs 18 less 11 g of dietary fiver for a net
carb count of 7 per tortilla. These are pretty good sized, about 7
1/2 inches in diameter, but are 7 g of carb a lot for one tortilla?
I'm just curious if I should keep looking around or go with these.
Thanks for any advice (besides eat less and exercise more :P )

bmcky

Boston, MA

Keep looking.
Mission "low carb" tortillas taste like cardboard.

YMMV.

I use HEB's brand at only 4 grams net carbs, and they are delicious. ;-d

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack
Nicholson

bmcky said:

I went looking LC tortilla's in my local supermarket and the best I
could find were something sold under the 'Mission' label. The have a
LC line listed with Tot Carbs 18 less 11 g of dietary fiver for a net
carb count of 7 per tortilla. These are pretty good sized, about 7
1/2 inches in diameter, but are 7 g of carb a lot for one tortilla?
I'm just curious if I should keep looking around or go with these.
Thanks for any advice (besides eat less and exercise more :P )

I see you're in Boston - another one you might want to try is Trader
Joe's low-carb whole wheat tortillas. I've found them at both the
Cambridge and Arlington locations.

I really like them - 50 cals, 4 g net carbohydrate, fiber and protein
to boot. They're probably more like 5-6" diameter, though. Nice and
chewy - great for fajitas or huevos rancheros. Disclaimer: I'm not on
the Atkins diet; I'm just watching intake of refined carbs.

Cheers
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I use Mission Low carb tortillas and one I get at Sam's Club--it's brand is
Santa Fe tortilla company. Their "carb choppers" are 13 g carbs with 7 g
dietary fiber. They are wheat tortillas and are about 9" across.
www.santafetortilla.com is their address, but, like I said, I get them at
Sam's.

Pat in TX

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Quoted message said:

I use Mission Low carb tortillas and one I get at Sam's Club--it's brand is
Santa Fe tortilla company. Their "carb choppers" are 13 g carbs with 7 g
dietary fiber. They are wheat tortillas and are about 9" across.
www.santafetortilla.com is their address, but, like I said, I get them at
Sam's.

Pat in TX

Pat,

do try the HEB brand low carb tortillas. :-)
They are SOOOO much better than the Mission brand!

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

: Pat,
:
: do try the HEB brand low carb tortillas. :-)
: They are SOOOO much better than the Mission brand!
:
: Cheers!
: --
: Om.

The only H.E.B. store around here that I can think of is Central Market. I
was there last week for some Guinness, but I didn't see the tortillas.
Okay, so maybe I was distracted....

Pat in TX

In article <[email hidden]>, "Pat" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

: Pat,
:
: do try the HEB brand low carb tortillas. :-)
: They are SOOOO much better than the Mission brand!
:
: Cheers!
: --
: Om.

The only H.E.B. store around here that I can think of is Central Market. I
was there last week for some Guinness, but I didn't see the tortillas.
Okay, so maybe I was distracted....

Pat in TX

<lol> It's easy to get distracted at Central Market!!! ;-D

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

:
: <lol> It's easy to get distracted at Central Market!!! ;-D
:
: Cheers!
: --
: Om.
:

And well fed. I had tastes of cheese, ham, sausage, olives--you name it.
Made for a good lunch if you consider walking from item to item acceptable.
The price was right, though!

Pat in TX

the wheat mission LC tortillas have only 4 net carbs.
"bmcky" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Howdy -

I went looking LC tortilla's in my local supermarket and the best I
could find were something sold under the 'Mission' label. The have a
LC line listed with Tot Carbs 18 less 11 g of dietary fiver for a net
carb count of 7 per tortilla. These are pretty good sized, about 7
1/2 inches in diameter, but are 7 g of carb a lot for one tortilla?
I'm just curious if I should keep looking around or go with these.
Thanks for any advice (besides eat less and exercise more :P )

bmcky

Boston, MA

I find the Mission taste the best, but they have the most fat, totaling 200
Calories.

Have not seen/tried HEB. But locally I do find La Tortilla Factory (70
cals) and I -think it's called, "Don Jose Wraps", whole wheat, 7-9 net Carbs
and 70-100 cals.

The Mission LC comes in 3 sizes; Fajita, Taco, and Burrito. I have not seen
a whole wheat variety.

Check other labels - Whole Wheat tortillas have a lot of fiber so the net
can be low, but many brands haven't put "LC" on the packaging (yet).

HTH

Steve

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Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

bmcky said:

Howdy -

I went looking LC tortilla's in my local supermarket and the best I
could find were something sold under the 'Mission' label. The have a
LC line listed with Tot Carbs 18 less 11 g of dietary fiver for a net
carb count of 7 per tortilla. These are pretty good sized, about 7
1/2 inches in diameter, but are 7 g of carb a lot for one tortilla?
I'm just curious if I should keep looking around or go with these.
Thanks for any advice (besides eat less and exercise more :P )

bmcky

Boston, MA

Keep looking.
Mission "low carb" tortillas taste like cardboard.

YMMV.

I use HEB's brand at only 4 grams net carbs, and they are delicious. ;-d

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack
Nicholson

In article <[email hidden]>, "Pat" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

:
: <lol> It's easy to get distracted at Central Market!!! ;-D
:
: Cheers!
: --
: Om.
:

And well fed. I had tastes of cheese, ham, sausage, olives--you name it.
Made for a good lunch if you consider walking from item to item acceptable.
The price was right, though!

Pat in TX

I know what you mean. ;-)
Saturday is a good day to go there!

Cheers!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

Try this, Sami's has low carb Lavash (it's like a tortilla) or a flat
bread. ZERO Carbs. Works for pizza shells, and wraps.

Great Products and Tested on TV by a local tv station.

http://www.samisbakery.com/pd_detail2.asp?str=5

Curt said:

Try this, Sami's has low carb Lavash (it's like a tortilla) or a flat
bread. ZERO Carbs. Works for pizza shells, and wraps.

Great Products and Tested on TV by a local tv station.

http://www.samisbakery.com/pd_detail2.asp?str=5

Those aren't zero carb. (God, did I just channel JCDK for a second?)

65 total calories, minus the 12 calories from 3g of protein, minus the 9
calories (from 1g of fat) leaves 44 calories coming from carbs (because
there's no place else for calories to come from). 44 calories means 11g of
carbs, so the fiber has already been subtracted from that "11g" carb count.

I think there must not be a strict requirement in the US that manufacturers
do this one way or the other consistently - I see some food labels where the
fiber grams aren't subtracted from the carb count, and some where they are.
(Not surprisingly, most of the products where it's subtracted are
"reduced-carb" products. They're probably hoping that people have just
adopted the simple "subtract fiber grams from carb grams" rule, and thus
their products look lower-carb than they are, without the manufacturers
having to actually come out and lie or anything.)

I've heard, but not looked closely enough to know, that on EU labels, carb
counts always mean "net carbs", and fiber counts always mean
indigestible/non-caloric fiber. That makes sense to me - but until the US
goes consistently one way or the other, shopping will involve math. (I
don't mind doing math, but I do wish labels were more useful)

It's my impression that they include the fiber carbs in the calorie count.
Eleven grams sound high for one of these, but looking at the ingredients, 0
also looks low.

Bob Geary wrote:
|
| Those aren't zero carb. (God, did I just channel JCDK for a second?)
|
| 65 total calories, minus the 12 calories from 3g of protein, minus the 9
| calories (from 1g of fat) leaves 44 calories coming from carbs (because
| there's no place else for calories to come from). 44 calories means 11g
| of carbs, so the fiber has already been subtracted from that "11g" carb
| count.
|
| I think there must not be a strict requirement in the US that
| manufacturers do this one way or the other consistently - I see some food
| labels where the fiber grams aren't subtracted from the carb count, and
| some where they are. (Not surprisingly, most of the products where it's
| subtracted are "reduced-carb" products. They're probably hoping that
| people have just adopted the simple "subtract fiber grams from carb
| grams" rule, and thus their products look lower-carb than they are,
| without the manufacturers having to actually come out and lie or
| anything.)
|
| I've heard, but not looked closely enough to know, that on EU labels, carb
| counts always mean "net carbs", and fiber counts always mean
| indigestible/non-caloric fiber. That makes sense to me - but until the US
| goes consistently one way or the other, shopping will involve math. (I
| don't mind doing math, but I do wish labels were more useful)

Bob Geary <[email hidden]> wrote:
:> Curt wrote:
:>> Try this, Sami's has low carb Lavash (it's like a tortilla) or a
:>> flat bread. ZERO Carbs. Works for pizza shells, and wraps.
:>>
:>> Great Products and Tested on TV by a local tv station.
:>>
:>>
:>> http://www.samisbakery.com/pd_detail2.asp?str=5
:>
:> Those aren't zero carb. (God, did I just channel JCDK for a second?)
:>
:> 65 total calories, minus the 12 calories from 3g of protein, minus
:> the 9 calories (from 1g of fat) leaves 44 calories coming from carbs
:> (because there's no place else for calories to come from). 44
:> calories means 11g of carbs, so the fiber has already been
:> subtracted from that "11g" carb count.
:>
:> I think there must not be a strict requirement in the US that
:> manufacturers do this one way or the other consistently - I see some
:> food labels where the fiber grams aren't subtracted from the carb
:> count, and some where they are. (Not surprisingly, most of the
:> products where it's subtracted are "reduced-carb" products. They're
:> probably hoping that people have just adopted the simple "subtract
:> fiber grams from carb grams" rule, and thus their products look
:> lower-carb than they are, without the manufacturers having to
:> actually come out and lie or anything.)
:>
:> I've heard, but not looked closely enough to know, that on EU
:> labels, carb counts always mean "net carbs", and fiber counts always
:> mean indigestible/non-caloric fiber. That makes sense to me - but
:> until the US goes consistently one way or the other, shopping will
:> involve math. (I don't mind doing math, but I do wish labels were
:> more useful)

The sad thing about Sami Lavish is that they state on the package 0 carbs!