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Ed Levine goes on a diet. Offer some recipes please.
In the words of Michael Pollan,
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
My favorite sticky, chewy food is ______
goo goo clusters... the caramel and marshmallow combo does it for me
Do you have weekly food traditions?
Growing up, my mother would always make buttermilk biscuits from scratch on Sunday mornings. She'd always save a bit of uncooked dough for me and my sister, which I considered the best part of the meal.
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Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
chicken fajita burrito, tomatillo-green salsa, cheese and guacamole. sometimes, i'll add in the chips and guacamole. yes, it's a calorie bomb, but once-a-month won't kill me.
Ed Levine goes on a diet. Offer some recipes please.
In the words of Michael Pollan,
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
My favorite sticky, chewy food is ______
goo goo clusters... the caramel and marshmallow combo does it for me
Do you have weekly food traditions?
Growing up, my mother would always make buttermilk biscuits from scratch on Sunday mornings. She'd always save a bit of uncooked dough for me and my sister, which I considered the best part of the meal.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
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.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
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.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
mmm chipotle! i get the veggie burrito w/ black beans, tomatoes & roast corn, lettuce, cheese, guac & sour cream. it's probably a lot of calories (who's counting?) but it's not like i eat there all the time, maybe once a month or so for lunch.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
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.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
wasn't this news several years ago? i eat: burrito bol, rice, black beans, two salsas, guac and extra lettuce. total: 550 calories. the thing about that bol is i FEEL full. it seems like a lot of food. you could get the same caloric intake for a big Starbucks drink or a milkshake at some drive through - and not feel full.
recommended: this blog, where someone details how he lost 60 pounds on his "chipotle diet" -- link
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
I think the rice is this biggest sneak when it comes to calories.
My favorite is a barbacoa salad.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
I get a salad with chicken, corn salsa, tomato salsa, a bit of sour cream and cheese. And I maybe eat half of it and save the rest for another meal. The salad dressing is DEADLY, calorically-- 200 just for the dressing.
Thanks, aliikazoo, figured out my salad is 880 calories. Good thing I only eat half.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
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.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
I'm with you @CVilleBilly! I have an obsession with tacos...especially crunchy corn ones. I get the tacos with barbicoa, sour cream, cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, and mild chunky salsa on the side! Mmmmm...chipotle!
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
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 Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
What? No one eats the tacos? Crispy tacos with carnitas, pico, hot, sour cream and extra cheese makes for an excellent lunch.
Also, if you're on a south beachy diet, the riceless burrito bowl is one of the few options you have when eating out.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
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!
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
Steak burrito, no beans, corn salsa, cheese, and guacamole.
If you consider how giant Chipotle burritos are, those calorie counts are not surprising. If you get the most caloric burrito and eat half of it (which is about all I can eat), you have a meal that is just under 500 calories. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
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.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
Chicken burrito with rice, pintos and a 1/2 scoop of green tomatillo salsa. If I got rid of the tortilla, the calorie count would be better, but I like it as hand food!
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
Ooh Chipotle is always a treat. I get black beans, barbacoa, medium salsa, corn salsa, cheese, and sour cream. I can get two (or if I'm good, 3) meals out of it. But the way it usually ends up is I eat half at lunch then can't stop thinking about how good it was and have the rest for snack a few hours later.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
Norovirus if I dine at the Kent State University Chipotle! http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=87794
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
Geez - What I usually get (barbacoa, veg, black beans, and corn salsa) is pushing beyond 500 calories, way too many for me to eat in one sitting for lunch.
I'm just glad I eat there maybe only 2 times a year.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
Burrito bowl with rice, half black and half pinto beans, steak, medium salsa and easy cheese. Chipotle gives the appearance of being healthy, but you have got to know that it really isn't low calorie.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
Geez. I like to get fajita veggies, rice, pinto beans, and tomato salsa, and that's already pushing me into more calories than I like to consume in one meal. :(
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
I must say that I completely disapprove of any law that mandates calorie counts on menus. I don't believe in "eating by numbers" and don't think that it is a good way to eat, live, or diet.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
For some serious eats, I get my burrito with rice, black beans, fajita, tomato, green, and corn salsas, guacamole, and lettuce. Basically, everything they offer vegan is going into my burrito. I don't count calories, so I wouldn't care how many calories are in it. As long as it fills me up and I get enough food for my money, I am happy.
Chipotle isn't unhealthy, unless you really need to lose some weight. I eat there about once a week, and it's all good.
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
carnitas salad, black beans, hot, fresh and corn salsa, cheese, sour cream and guac with a side of chips. Hey...I left off the tortilla, refried beans and dressing. Besides, the salsas count as extra veggies. :)
Chipotle Calorie Math Makes Absolutely No Sense
What does the law require, do they have to report the full range of possibilities?
Ed Levine goes on a diet. Offer some recipes please.
Ed! I want to call your attention to a recently published book, The 28 Day Mediterranean Diet. I discovered it while eating last weekend at the Shish Kebab Restaurant on Main Street in Port Washington (Long Island), a historic landmark, by Port Washington's harbor and dock.
Turkish and Mediterranean foods have become enormously popular, especially during the past ten years. As a result of this wave of interest, "the Mediterranean Diet" emerged as a preferred weight loss method and health eating lifestyle. Even though it was only six or seven years ago when attention on "the Mediterranean Diet" surfaced (a little after The Atkin's Diet), people in the Mediterranean have been enjoying and eating this way for hundreds, even thousands of years, which is why they are considered to be so healthy.
These recipes seem to be simple and easy to make...all less than ten minutes....relatively inexpensive foods...healthy, interesting to eat...satisfying...
According to this book, followers of The 28 Day Mediterranean Diet can lose ten pounds per month. Exercise while encouraged and recommended, is not necessary here. ( Personally, I am seeking to lose thirty pounds!)
A major difference here when compared to other diets is that this one is not so radical or overly ambitious that it is doomed to failure and discouragement after a week or two. There is some information and expertise on www.ayhansmarketplace.com that "the Mediterranean Diet" contributes to sexual health and performance!
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chicken fajita burrito, tomatillo-green salsa, cheese and guacamole. sometimes, i'll add in the chips and guacamole. yes, it's a calorie bomb, but once-a-month won't kill me.