Price: $2.00
Serving: 1 wrap, 6 oz.
Calories: 220
Fat: 5%, 3g
Sodium: 24%, 580mg
Protein: 14g
Carbs: 12%, 36g
Fiber: 12%, 3g
WW Points: 4 Points

Cedarlane says: Start with a wheat flour tortilla. Fill it with a generous helping of couscous, non fat mozzarella, zucchini, olives, onion, tomatoes, bell peppers, green chilis, and just the right seasonings. Wrap it up and you have the delicious Cedarlane Low Fat Couscous & Vegetable Veggie Wraps. Wholesome, low fat and great tasting, plus they have no cholesterol.

Abi says: I’d let you know if this was filling, but I consumed it with a Diet Coke, string cheese, and apple slices. While I’m craving some chocolate right now (pretty sure I have chocolate almonds in my tote bag), I’m not on the look-out for other lunch items. This is a good sign, but not telling.

Cedarlane’s cooking instructions told me to microwave the veggie wrap (which I will mistakenly call a burrito from now on) in a paper towel on high for 2 minutes. That or I could put it in the toaster oven for 30-35 minutes. I had a feeling that my coworkers would not be pleased with my toaster oven monopoly unless I was using it to make cookies for them. I might do that later today. After all, three o’clock is the infinite hour and some cookies might help.

While I would never have thought to make a couscous burrito, I must admit that it was a great lunch item, for something that is really just carbs wrapped in more carbs. No, it is not an entire lunch, but definitely part of a well-balanced meal. A meal that included cheese and chocolate.

But let’s get back to the burrito. It is filled with pasta. Does that not strike you as a little unbalanced? It definitely weirded me out. Fortunately, I was able to put that feeling aside. Well, put it aside until I cut open the burrito and found a tell-tale cold spot in the middle.

Ok folks who keep chastising me for using an office microwave and complaining about overcooked food, I am taking this opportunity to point out that our office microwave is not the super-industrial monster all of you must think it is. I had to open up the burrito and heat it for another 30 seconds after the initial 2 minute cook time. This was not my idea of fun. Why? It involved getting back in the microwave line. Actually, it meant cutting in line. Cutting in the microwave line! I did not feel good about this turn of events.

Fortunately, it just took another 30 seconds of heating to have a piping hot couscous wrap/burrito on my hands. At this point, you may be wondering if I’m even going to say anything about the veggies. No, I’m not. Well, I guess I am, but they aren’t even going to get their own paragraph. The vegetables in this wrap were a non-factor. Veggie-phobes can rejoice in the fact that the wrap contains approximately 3 cubic centimeters of zucchini and 2.5 slices of olives. I didn’t recognize any other vegetable items. This was quite disappointing for a frozen item that had the word vegetable and a derivative of the word vegetable on the label. I’m not too impressed.

Will I buy these again? Only if they’re on sale. Otherwise I’d be paying over $2.00 for what amounted to pennies worth of ingredients. I make pretty terrific couscous myself and don’t need to eat it inside of a tortilla.

(According to the package, this meal contains mozzarella and honey, thus it is not vegan. This is pretty lame because they could easily leave out those two ingredients and have a perfectly OK wrap.)

Price: $2.00
Serving: 1/2 pie, 5.5 oz.
Calories: 215
Fat: 11%, 7g
Sodium: 25%, 595mg
Protein: 13g
Calcium: 25%

Cedarlane says: We take layers of organic corn tortillas, organic black beans, green chilis and cheddar cheese and cover them in a delicious salsa-style sauce with fresh cilantro and chunks of fresh tomato, topped with black olives.

Veda says: The Cedarlane Three Layer Enchilada Pie is one of my favorite “I don’t wanna cook tonight” meals. The zesty mix of tortilla, black beans, chilis and cheese always hits the spot. As a black olive lover, I am sometimes disappointed, though. This time - for example - there wasn’t a single olive to be found. Other than that it’s always yummy.

If you read the box, it will tell you that this is two servings of enchilada. “Yeah right” is the only thing I can say to that. It’s delicious and I defy anyone to put half away. This is the first time that I microwaved this particular Cedarlane Product. Like most things, it’s better in the oven. The microwave leaves it a bit soggy.

I give this meal 5 stars out of 5. Especially from the oven.