Try a lettuce wrap or veggie bun

A simple way to consume more vegetables is to replace tortillas and bread with lettuce as a wrap or certain veggies as buns. Lettuce wraps are versatile and frequently used to make low-carb sandwiches and bunless burgers.

In addition, a variety of vegetables, including tomato halves, portobello mushroom caps, sliced eggplant, halved red or yellow peppers, and sweet potatoes, make wonderful buns. Since one lettuce leaf only has one calorie, lettuce wraps and veggie buns are a simple method to cut calories. The calorie content of refined bread is substantially higher. With lettuce wraps and vegetarian buns, try some of these:

• Chickpea taco lettuce wraps
• Paleo lettuce wrap
• BLT lettuce wrap
• Portobello mushroom bruschetta
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