When time is limited but your hunger isn’t, reliable and flexible go-to meals are life savers. Enter the under appreciated wrap or burrito- two practical solutions for those busy days. With customizable options, each one of these recipes emphasizes simple ingredients, efficient prep, and a meal that travels well from kitchen to commute. Whether you need your portable meal to hold up over time, reheat splendidly, or stay fresh when eaten cold, with these easy recipes, your lunch is working around your schedule, not the other way around. Plus, for those who want to indulge without wasting a lunch break in a drive-thru, I’ve got a dedicated section of Taco Bell favorites to bring a beloved fast food chain into your kitchen.
17 Burritos and Wraps for Lunch on the Go!
A full meal wrapped up, delicious, filling, satisfying, and ready for whatever your day brings you.
Chicken Shawarma Pita Wraps with Dill Yogurt Sauce
Chicken Shawarma Pita Wraps with Dill Yogurt Sauce are baked on a sheet pan with sweet red onions and wrapped in a pita for the ultimate lunch without the long lines at your favorite lunch restaurant. Pairs well with Pure Leaf® Mint Flavor Iced Tea.
Balsamic Chicken Goat Cheese Wraps made with balsamic roasted chicken breasts, arugula, pecans, cranberries and goat cheese and topped with a wonderful balsamic glaze. The perfect lunch on the go. Pairs well with Pure Leaf® Raspberry Flavor Iced Tea.
Convenient, customizable, and without having to visit the drive-thru. These favorites will keep you going throughout the afternoon.
Taco Bell Burrito Supreme (Copycat)
Taco Bell Burrito Supreme (Copycat) is an easy make at home recipe for one of Taco Bell’s best menu items. With beans, beef, red sauce and cheddar cheese.
Whether you’re packing lunch for work, school, or a full day out, this collection offers flexible choices that will simplify your routine, and will make you actually look forward to your lunch. From lighter wraps to more filling burritos, these options can be made in bulk for meal prep, or for a last minute lunch before you run out the door. If you want to make everything from scratch, try my Homemade Flour Tortillasrecipe. Fresh and delicious flour tortillas, made with only five ingredients. My goal here is to give you a wide array of choices that will keep you from getting bored, but also not overcomplicate things. You’ll never have to dread another lackluster lunch again!
Sabrina is a professionally trained Private Chef of over 10 years with ServSafe Manager certification in food safety. She creates all the recipes here on Dinner, then Dessert, fueled in no small part by her love for bacon.
Sabrina Snyder is a professionally trained personal and private chef of over 10 years who is the creator and developer of all the recipes on Dinner, then Dessert.
She is also the author of the cookbook Dinner, then Dessert – Satisfying Meals Using Only 3, 5 or 7 Ingredients, published by Harper Collins.
She started Dinner, then Dessert as a business in her office as a lunch service for her coworkers who admired her lunches before going to culinary school and becoming a full time personal chef and private chef.
As a personal chef Sabrina would cook for families one day a week and cook their entire week of dinners. All grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning was done along with instructions on reheating. As a private chef she cooked for private parties and cooked in family homes in the evenings for families on a nightly basis after working as a personal chef during the day.
Sabrina has been certified as a ServSafe Manager since 2007 and was a longstanding member of the USPCA Personal Chef Association including being on the board of the Washington DC Chapter of Chefs in the US Personal Chef Association when they won Chapter of the year.
As a member of the community of food website creators Sabrina Snyder has spoken at many conferences regarding her experiences as a food writer including the Indulge Food Conference, Everything Food Conference, Haven Food Conference and IACP Annual Food Professionals Conference.
Sabrina lives with her family in sunny California.
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