Day 9 - Jicama Tortillas

Like many people these days, I am trying to cut down on my carb intake and if there is one place where that is hard to do, it is when you are wanting to eat Mexican food!  My plan for dinner tonight was chicken fajitas, and I was telling my trainer and accountability partner when I was there today that I would just eat mine without a tortilla.  She asked me if I had tried jicama tortillas.  Never heard of them!  But I do like jicama just for its cool crisp texture.  So she told me to go to the part of the vegetable section at the grocery store that has the pre-chopped packages of things and I should be able to find them.  So off I went to HEB and sure enough--there they were with the chopped onions, spiraled veggies, stuffed mushrooms, and other quick and easy products.  So I grabbed a container and made my fajitas tonight for dinner.  I fed my husband the regular tortillas,  and I had the jicama tortillas not wrapped around my fajitas but underneath where I could cut everything with a fork.  They were so yummy that I got a wrap out and filled it with guacamole and took one to my husband--he loved it.  We are already seeing the possibilities of using these as wraps for appetizers of all kinds because they have such a mild flavor but give such a great refreshing crunch.  You will have to go to a fairly large grocery store no doubt to find them--but give them a try.  They also have jicama sticks pre-peeled and cut which would be great for dipping instead of chips.  A new first that will soon become a go to standard I suspect!