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you can pick healthy choices... i can get crunchy tacos with carnitas, fajita veggies, lettuce, and medium salsa. all stuff that I know won't add a lot of calories (like rice, beans). My total for that is 410 calories.

benknight -
While the chocolate might not be "bad" it certainly will not be at its best after more than a month in storage at room temperature. My recommendation to you, especially if you happen to be studying in Barcelona or will be visiting there shortly before you leave, is to pick up some Spanish chocolates. Some names to look for include Enric Rovira, Oriol Balaguer, Cacao Sampaka, and Blanxart.

:: Clay

I'm storing chocolate I bought in Belgium about a month ago to bring home with me when I'm done studying abroad in Spain in June. Right now I'm keeping it in a plastic bag in an odorless closet. I open the window to the room often, and luckily I think the Spanish spring is not too bad with humidity and temp usually stays between 60-80 F. I hope this will keep the chocolate quality high enough to have been worth it to bring all the way home to the US from Belgium!!

Clay - my husband has a wine keeper (300 bottles) and I used to have a shelf on that ... but he's gone and filled it up so I needed my own. I keep my less expensive stuff in plain old insulated ice chests in a dark closet.

The 90% statistic comes from a research report published by the market research firm Packaged Facts. The key to the statistic is in some form.

To get to the 90 per cent figure it is necessary to include chocolate milk, chocolate soy milk, chocolate breakfast cereal, chocolate yogurt, chocolate ice cream, chocolate ice milk, chocolate frozen yogurt, hot fudge, regular fudge, chocolate chip pancakes, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate wafer cookies, chocolate chip muffins, chocolate chip anything, chocolate snack cakes, brownies, chocolate pudding, fudge, hot chocolate, most everything with the word mocha in it, and that's before we even get around to thinking about the chocolate in candy bars, chocolate bars, and confections. A surprisingly large number of savory dishes, and not just Mexican ones, use chocolate to add depth, complexity, and richness.

When you think about chocolate that inclusively, you'll see that it's nat all that difficult to get chocolate (the sixth food group) into your diet every day - it might even be impossible to avoid if you have kids.

Hi, Cybele. Great photo of your wine fridge. I outgrew mine a long time ago and upgraded to a wine cellar down in my basement (very common here in the Northeast [basements, not wine cellars] but not so common in LA). Airtight containers are a good idea, hadn't really thought of using Pyrex but it's a very good choice for many reasons and it would be great for combating the humidity problem I face in late summer.

Ok, glad to see I wasn't the only one surprised by that statistic. Source?

The law just requires that you post calorie information... I think Chipotle decided to do the "Calorie Range" as a way to post mis-leading information. Because items are not pre-made with a specific set of ingredients, and calories will vary based on your personal selections, they are well within their legal right to post a "range"- but clearly the range is total baloney.

As for the law itself, while I agree that eating by numbers is no way to live, there are clearly alot of people who think that fast food is less fattening than it is, and while we are all fairly well informed eaters- you'd be really surprised how many people are shocked to discover how incredibly fattening a Chipotle Burrito is.

As far as Chipotle being for "Serious Eaters", while their use of organic and/or fresh ingredients is commendable, it's still the lesser of two evils- and is clearly fast food made to be mass marketed and mass produced across the country in a cookie cutter way.

Try an asada steak, guac, and pico do gallo burrito (holding the rice, beans, peppers, onions, cheese, sour cream, lettuce, and anything else I might have missed). Have it with a Negra Modelo. Grab a couple lemon wedges from the fixins bar, and sprinkle some lemon juice as you go.

I think the rice is this biggest sneak when it comes to calories.
My favorite is a barbacoa salad.

Go to this website www.chipotlefan.com/index.php?id=nutrition_calculator to find out just how bad for you it is. Never stops me from going, even though I live in a Tex-Mex capital. I love their guac.

I generally have a burrito bol with barbacoa, rice, black beans, fajita veggies, tomato salsa, green salsa & lettuce. It's 600 calories, which is a bit much, but not the end of the world if you're eating healthy the rest of the time. I can always drop the beans or the veggies if I want to come in lower, or switch to chicken. Sometimes I just go vegetarian, which saves me calories as well.

The real calorie saver is dropping that tortilla.

I also support having calorie info available. I don't think the fuzzy math on the Chipotle menu is helpful, but I do believe that restaurants should make their calorie info available online or in a separate sheet that could be reviewed at the restaurant. It really burns me when places refuse to do so... ahem, Quiznos (whose claims to be healthy I find dubious).

Chipotle IS for serious eaters. Their fresh ingredients and free-range meats are a welcome taste to the tired ingredients of other fast food places. The Chipotle calculator mentioned above is a really helpful guide to figuring out the calories. Maintain portions, hold cheese & sour cream for me! But keep that "healthy fat" guacamole!

I have eaten hundreds of burritos from Chipotle over the last 4 years and I have yet to turn into a fat, sweaty, repulsive, panting slob.

My burrito of destiny includes:
Chicken, rice, pinto beans, pico de gallo, corn, hot red salsa, cheese and sour cream. Guacamole if I'm feeling wild and crazy.

As a finishing touch I always politely ask for the burrito guts to be mixed up.

Be ready to take a short siesta afterwards.