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Click around with this nice tool: http://www.chipotlefan.com/index.php?id=nutrition_calculator

Skip the tortilla, sour cream and chips and you've just saved 980 calories. Without those it's hard to create a meal that has a calorie issue. Aside from the sodium, Chipotle is darn healthy.

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The thing that lets people create 1200 calorie monstrosities is what makes Chipotle my favorite fast food chain. No matter whether I'm trying to add or cut weight I always know that I can tailor a Chipotle meal exactly to my caloric & macronutrient needs. Both from the fact that the food is easy to customize as well as the fat that they have good calorie and macronutrient breakdowns of each ingredients.

Subway, for example, makes it tough to find info on individual ingredients. Some things need to be backed out by comparing, say, a roast beef sub vs a veggie sub to determine the stats on the roast beef individually so that you know what you're getting if you do double roast beef.

You can find individual items as listed on pages 2 & 3 of this pdf:

https://www.subway.com/Nutrition/Files/NutritionValues.pdf

Edit: Actually, on the same Chipotlefan link, there is a similar link for Subway. http://www.nutritionix.com/subway/nutrition-calculator

Since I'm on keto I usually go for a salad, single or double serving of meat depending on how many calories I can have, cheese, sour cream, some type of salsa. This usually amounts to 440-600ish calories and I eat this several times a week for lunch. It's not really like chipotle is much different from other food joints as far as calories go. You could go over 100 getting a burrito, chips, and especially if you get a 200 calorie drink but I can do the same at mcdonalds easily.

That's odd some of their values differ greatly from the ones provided by Chipotle themselves. This strikes me as a significant problem, nutritional values are provided and are totally inaccurate. Which one is accurate how can we judge?

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

Looks like the information provided by chipotlefan is from 2009.

Most that I've looked at seem to be within 5-10% which is surely within the variance for food being doled out by scoop. I just preferred the UI of the first one. Which items are way off so I know what to look out for?

White rice is off by 50 calories for example (135 on chipotlefan and 185 on chipotle).

You probably get that much variance depending on the scooper anyway

Great point, very true.

I'd wager the most popular items worldwide stray from the healthy range. I only have personal experience in two college towns to go off, but it's just what I've seen. People don't line up for a healthy salad bowl, they line up for a big burrito.

Maybe that's why I always find Chipotle to be ridiculously bland :)

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