Dine Out Dish: Chipotle

This week’s Dine Out Dish features one of America’s favorite grab-n-go Mexican food restaurants.  We have bad news and good news here, so we’ll go ahead and give you the bad news first.  The burritos are not going to be the healthy option, as the burrito itself slams you with 290 calories, 9g fat and 44g of empty carbs-and that’s just to start with!  The good news is that their Burrito Bols allow you to fill up on healthy calories elsewhere!

A Burrito Bol that includes rice, black beans, chicken, and Green Medium salsa contains 455 calories, 11g fat, 50 g carbs, 12 g fiber, and 42g protein.  If that carb count scares you a bit, opt out of the rice and your new totals drop to 325 calories, 8g fat,  27g carbs, 12g fiber, and 40g protein.  If you would like to add some vegetables in there and opt to keep the rice out of the equation, you can get the fajita vegetables for only 20 more calories, the fat stays the same as above, and only 4g more carbs.  We all know avocados are good for us and Chipotle is known for their tasty guacamole, however adding this to your dish adds an additional 150 calories and 13g fat so we suggest to use sparingly-you don’t need to use the whole serving they give you.  And who needs to add cheese and sour cream when the salsa adds plenty of flavor itself?  We say~dig in and enjoy!