Flatout Bread Wraps: Perhaps the Best in Low-Calorie Wraps

In recent years, wraps have seen surging popularity as an alternative to the age-old sandwich. Many consumers contend that wraps are lighter, less doughy, and most importantly, guilt-free. And indeed, many wraps do cater to the dieting crowd, marketing their lower-carbohydrate and caloric totals on the front label.

But unlike a good, chewy bagel or a hunk of sourdough, wraps often taste like bland packaging for turkey, Swiss and mayo. They are, as their names suggest, mere wrapping paper for tastier contents. Wraps: not quite as self-consciously health-obsessed as lettuce leaves, but not exactly something that you would crave, either. A few names do offer a pretty tasty product, however, and give the bread aisle dynasty-tough competition

Flatout Bread wraps may just be the best of the field in low-calorie wraps. Flatout wraps hail from Saline, Michigan. Having spent the better part of ten years in Michigan, I have driven or run past the plant countless times; it only took me about eight years before I realized that this plain, industrial block cranked out a national food product. And so now, over a thousand miles removed from the assembly lines and cargo trucks, I finally have tried this "local" product.

My conclusion? These wraps, characterized by their unique, soft-edged "rectangular" shape, are a nice change from their circular competition. I have tried the more tortilla-style wraps and the ultra "healthy" variety. Too frequently the shells would crack and not "roll" properly during lunch prep, or, a few hours later, I would find soggy sandwiches in my lunch box. Flatouts have given me no such problems - nearly every time, a surprisingly fresh wrap awaits me at noontime.