I still have garden tomatoes that are ripening on the kitchen counter. And to me, the best way to honor them is with a BLT! But I’m a bit restricted with my diet. So I do lettuce wraps.
I leave the bread out, limit my mayo (which is way more difficult than it sounds), and weigh the cooked bacon, which, according to the package, is 90 cal per 17 g.
So the bacon was 180 cal, and the mayo was 100. The lettuce and the tomato can really count as nothing. A total of 280 cal, which would have been at least triple had I used bread.
Is it the same as a big fat sandwich dripping with mayonnaise? Of course not. But it satisfied the cravings, and that’s all you can ask for in a diet!
