s/o Is Chipotle healthier than Burger King?

[Anonymous]

from other thread:

Chipotle doesn't fit anyone's definition of even remotely "healthy." Where are you getting that?

Say you just get a normal chicken burrito with black beans, rice, cheese, sour cream, and lettuce. That's 825 calories right there, or twice what a burger from McDonald's would be. You're hungry so you decide to nosh on chips and salsa too. Another 590 calories. If you eat them both you're consuming 62 grams of fat and 2,390 milligrams of sodium.

Hell, that's a day's worth of those things for me all in one meal. I'd have to skip everything else during the day.

http://www.chipotle.com/en-us/menu/nutrition_calcu...ator/nutrition_calculator.aspx

That would be a REALLY big meal. Do you really need all that food? Of course if you load up on the carbs and fat and cheese, it will be a lot of fat and calories!

We eat more reasonably in our family. For example, this is what I typically order at Chipotle:

salad, with chicken, black beans, and fajita vegetables

360 calories, 8 grams fat, 1265 mg sodium (Yes, too high...) and 42 g protein

http://www.chipotle.com/en-US/menu/nutrition_calculator/nutrition_calculator.aspx

We do order some chips and salsa or guac occasionally but share them.

Often my kids and I will share an entree. I DO think it is a healthier takeout option than Burger King or McDonalds.

[Anonymous]

You're rationalizing. You could order a salad at BK and go sparing with the dressing and achieve the same results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're rationalizing. You could order a salad at BK and go sparing with the dressing and achieve the same results.

A Burger King salad isn't remotely delicious or "dinner". Chipotle's salads are satisfying!

[Anonymous]

No but it tastes better!

[Anonymous]

Chipotle is fast food and isn't any more or less healthy than other fast food. It's all about the choices you make. You could get a cheeseburger and fries for the roughly same nutritional values for calories, sodium, and fat.

[Anonymous]

Chipotle as we order it has a lot more veggies than a Burger King meal.

[Anonymous]

I always get a salad at chipotle. The kids have rice and beans. We avoid the chips. Not sure why this is a bad meal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always get a salad at chipotle. The kids have rice and beans. We avoid the chips. Not sure why this is a bad meal?

It's the sodium and hidden fat (e.g., in the rice). But, I think that if you're going to do fast food, Chipotle is the best of what's out there.

[Anonymous]

Hon, really... y'all are making this waaay too complicated.

Everybody know that as long as you eat a good variety of well balanced foods, you will be fine.

So, don't always just eat at Chipotle or BK... spread it around... Popeyes, Subway, China King, Moby Dick, Taco Bell, heck even Pizza Hut...

Be the desperate girl looking for attention from the cool guys... get a taste of it all.

Sweetheart, do as I say, not as I do.

[Anonymous]

It sounds good to say that you get more veggies, or chicken or beans at Chipotle but really all those foods are processed (yes even the veggies - they include pre-packaged seasonings, oil to grill the veggies, etc. The beans are canned, never rinsed, contain seasonings and salts, etc, the chicken - same story) reducing their nutritional value and upping some other non-nutritional factors like sodium.

As a PP said, fast food is fast food.

[Anonymous]

Eating put is always going to be higher in salt and calories.

But I'm tempted to say Chipotle is healthier. Even if it's higher in calories then a burger.

[Anonymous]

Out, that is

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sounds good to say that you get more veggies, or chicken or beans at Chipotle but really all those foods are processed (yes even the veggies - they include pre-packaged seasonings, oil to grill the veggies, etc. The beans are canned, never rinsed, contain seasonings and salts, etc, the chicken - same story) reducing their nutritional value and upping some other non-nutritional factors like sodium.

As a PP said, fast food is fast food.

So you are saying, that eating beans and pre-oiled-to-grill veggies in a Chipotle burrito, is no better than burger and fries from BK?

Good logic!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eating put is always going to be higher in salt and calories.

But I'm tempted to say Chipotle is healthier. Even if it's higher in calories then a burger.

Yield to the temptation -- just say it already!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eating put is always going to be higher in salt and calories.

But I'm tempted to say Chipotle is healthier. Even if it's higher in calories then a burger.

That's just your intuition speaking; it's not really backed up by nutrional facts. I mean, a burger has lettuce and tomato, so it's hard for me to see how that's really all that inferior to fajita vegetables (peppers and onion) that have been fried in oil.

Chipotle food may be slightly higher in quality (i.e., better cuts of meats), but just because it's not sold from a restaurant mocked in a documentary doesn't make it healthier.

Chipotle may also offer more "better" options than fast food. That's a point in its favor.

But really, anytime you don't prepare the meal yourself, you're at the mercy of how much oil, butter, whatever someone else has cooked with. That's true for a burger flipped at Mickey Ds or the fajita meat sizzling at Chipotle.

And you and you alone are in control of portion size.