This California wrap is made with low-carb instead of flour tortillas and a homemade ranch dressing that uses fat-free milk and light mayonnaise.

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A California wrap can make a smart meal for people who are watching their weight, but pay attention to the trimmings you pile on that turkey.

Food Network's California wrap features vegetables and turkey, but the extra calories add up fast thanks to flour tortillas, avocado, a rich ranch dressing and lots of bacon. Eat that wrap for lunch and it will cost you 876 calories and 56 fat grams. Ordering a double cheeseburger plus small fries from McDonald's instead would save you 187 calories and 18 fat grams.

However, some simple changes can put this sandwich in a dieter's reach without sacrificing taste. This California wrap keeps some bacon, avocado and a slimmer ranch dressing while shaving off 64 percent of the calories and 71 percent of the fat.

Choosing low-carb tortillas in place of flour tortillas saves 168 calories per serving, leaving room in this wrap for some avocado.

The original ranch dressing in this wrap also needed a makeover because just the mayonnaise in that recipe loaded 200 calories into each serving. The new ranch dressing uses a mix of buttermilk, fat-free milk, light mayonnaise and light sour cream to maintain the flavor of regular ranch while cutting the dressing's calories by 79 percent and slashing the fat by 86 percent.

The original wrap calls for bacon, and we didn't want to leave it out, but we trimmed calories by picking center-cut bacon and using two bacon slices in each wrap instead of three.