<p>“Calories” is not synonymous with “unhealthy”. If you just don’t want calories, don’t eat anything. If it is something you like but you want fewer calories, eat half of it. Bread is not “unhealthy” either.</p>
<p>“I can’t believe all the recommendations of Chipotle.”
At Chipotle, like Subway, it’s all made to order. You can easily keep the calorie count down by nixing the guacomole, sour cream and cheese.
A straight up burrito off the menu is the worst possible choice. (the flour tortilla alone is 290 calories) <a href=“http://www.chipotle.com/en-US/menu/nutritional_information/nutritional_information.aspx[/url]”>http://www.chipotle.com/en-US/menu/nutritional_information/nutritional_information.aspx</a></p>
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<p>I can. I have a realtime chart of CMG on one of my monitors. It’s gone from $80 to $180 in the last year.</p>
<p>“nixing the guacomole”</p>
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<li>nixing the best and most nutrients packed part? I would nix everything else. I have avocadoes almost on a daily basis (not at fast food place). I can eat avocado without anything.</li>
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<p>Damn! Why did I think of that? 
Just eat less, huh? Go figure!</p>
<p>Chipotle’s salads are delicious – but since I can’t resist the dressing and the gaucamole, hardly low-calorie.</p>
<p>Whatever is on the Value Menu is what I’m getting. </p>
<p>Personally, I’d get a Burger King Whopper Jr. (370 calories). Probably split a small onion rings (150/300).
If there were a Braums, I get a Jr. Deluxe and a cherry limeade.
I like Taco Bell and Wendy’s, too.</p>
<p>Actually you can do Chipotle wisely and healthy if you choose carefully. Even if you go with one of the regular menu items and get everything on it most people do, they’re so filling you can eat half and save the other half for dinner/lunch the next day, etc. It’s rare that I’ve ever been able to eat a whole portion in one sitting… if it did, I regretted it. </p>
<p>And the Egg McMuffin at McD’s is fairly low in calories, too.</p>
<p>Here’s why I snicker at the Chipotle suggestion. You think you are saving calories by not getting the cheese, sour cream or guac. So you go thru the line and custom build a burrito with lime cilantro rice, black beans, fajitas veggies, chicken, and salsa.</p>
<p>That’s 770 calories – the same as a Big Mac and small fries. Then you eat 4 ounces of chips and pack on an extra 540 calories. The food’s OK; Chipotles is a good place. But the notion that you can send a dieter there and have them just automatically “eat healthy” is silly, just as it is at Subway. If you didn’t watch it, you could make Chipotle incredibly fattening. If you are trying to restrict calories, you really don’t want to build meals around 300 calories of four tortillas or sub rolls.</p>
<p>I don’t get tortillas at Chipotle anymore. I think it’s their salsas alone that make the meal. If you insist on tortillas, always choose corn over flour.</p>
<p>“But the notion that you can send a dieter there and have them just automatically “eat healthy” is silly, just as it is at Subway.”
THAT notion is silly ANYWHERE. Portions and the right choices are what its all about. I just think that at Chipotle there are LOTS of great choices. AND the food is fresh and tastes good. Plenty of us hate McDonalds and their prefab food. I’m with you Terwitt, I stretch one order of 3 tacos into two meals. Way too much food.</p>
<p>In keeping with WW, anyplace you can get high fiber food, ie; beans, whole grain and vegetables, you’re ameliorating calories, as long as they aren’t loading on the fat with the beans.</p>
<p>Yeah. Their salsas are good. I thought the meat was just so-so.</p>
<p>Overall, I’m much better off making ten-minute fajitas at home (as I am doing tonight with some chicken breast I grilled other night). That way, I can have it on one small tortilla and splurge and have a little cheese plus fresh peppers and onions, and much higher quality.</p>
<p>I’d like Chipotle’s a lot better if you could order half sizes. I agree that a full burrito is a huge portion – OK for dinner, maybe, but absurd for lunch.</p>
<p>Actually, thingking about it, fast food is not that fast. It is much faster to grab food from fridge, given of course, that somebody else went to the store to buy it. Works perfectly for me, but my H. loves to shop, our fridge cannot be opened w/o something falling out. Fruits are ususally in front, and yes, you guessed it right, it is mostly what I eat, too lazy to dig in and find something else.</p>
<p>I’m a big fan of Subway when I’m on the go and there aren’t a lot of options. I go back and forth between the sliced turkey breast and the chicken breast. Recently, though, my D told me that the chicken breast wasn’t “real” but rather a mushed together blob of miscellaneous chicken goop - rather like a chicken nugget. Please tell me it isn’t true!</p>
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<p>But you wouldn’t have the same amount of saturated fat, trans fats, sodium and God knows what other chemicals that you’d get in a McDonald’s burger and fries. I don’t even want to think about the quality of the beef or chicken, either.</p>
<p>But you are right about the calories. No way would I eat the whole thing at Chipotle’s - even without the chips (I would skip those, too, though), that’s too many calories. But the portions are so huge, the times I’ve gone there, I have split whatever I got with a companion or I’ve taken it home for another meal. I love leftovers.</p>
<p>Has anyone tried the egg white breakfast selections at Subway yet? Just wondering how they are.</p>
<p>You can make Chipoltle heathy…no tortillas, make it a bowl.
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<p>McDonalds is a particularly grievous comparison. I mean, I certainly wouldn’t eat their hambugers, just because they taste disgusting. Having said that, I didn’t see much at Chipotle that would suggest low-fat or low sodium. The various meat preparations in the steam table containers looked about as grim as McDonalds. The 800 calorie Chipotle burrito I “prepared” earlier has over 2000 milligrams of salt, more than double the 1000 milligrams in a Big Mac. 2 tablespoons of their tomato salsa has 470 mgs of sodium by itself.</p>
<p>idad…what do you think of the article?</p>