[Healthy_Recipes_For_Diabetic_Friends] Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Wrap, Whole recipe has 5 grams effective carbohydrate

Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Wrap

From Laura Dolson,

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Tomatoes are one of the vegetables (botanically a fruit, as are many
foods we call vegetables) that have more sugars in them than you'd
think, so if you are very sensitive to carbohydrate you can't go
overboard on them. In fact, for 10 months of the year, I don't even
bother with tomatoes -- those pale, grainy, wannabee tomatoes that
seem to come on every restaurant salad. But in late summer, I don't
force myself to resist the Call of the Tomato, fresh from farm or
garden. Here's my favorite way to have the classic BLT sandwich
flavors without the bread.

INGREDIENTS:
½ cup raw chopped tomatoes
3 slices lean or turkey bacon, cooked until crisp and crumbled
2 tablespoons low fat mayonnaise
Black pepper to taste
3 to 4 large leaves of green lettuce

PREPARATION:
Mix chopped tomato with crumbled bacon, mayonnaise, and a generous
amount of pepper. Spoon mixture into the center of the leaves, and
wrap in either a burrito or taco shape.

Nutritional Information: Whole recipe has 5 grams effective
carbohydrate plus 2 grams fiber, 7 grams protein, and 362 calories.
Note that this is not a great protein source; most of the calories
(202) come from the fat in the mayonnaise. * Using low fat mayonnaise
will reduce the fat grams in this recipe.

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