Tacos with flour soft tortilla, shredded beef, roasted chile corn, salsa roja, lettuce and fajita vegetables. Their mango salad without a bowl would also be a great choice! Taco Salad with no bowl, with chicken, black bean and corn salsa, fat free picante ranch, salsa verde, fajita vegetables. With that being said, here are some things I would choose at Qdoba. I would ABSOLUTELY use their website beforehand to get the nutritional information and have your meal planned out before you walk in the door. Get my Healthy Restaurant Cheat Sheets with the top healthy choices at all my favorite fast food and casual dining places!!Īs I experienced on Sunday, it is HARD to make choices that support healthy eating at Qdoba just based on the menu. Processed ingredients (I checked their full nutritional/allergen breakdown), high calorie items, and just in general, typical fast food.It is really easy to add-on a LOT of extra calories with the toppings-sour cream, cheese, guacamole-it adds up fast!.As you can see from their website there is sort of a false sense of “healthiness” about Qdoba, like it’s okay to eat a giant burrito as long as you put black beans and brown rice on it.Feels a bit more “fancy” and like you’re treating yourself more than fast food.Option of brown rice or salad to make your burrito!.They have quite a few fresh options of veggies to top your food with-I also like the option of going veggie on their meals using fajita vegetables-yum!.They have a simple to navigate online menu so you can check the nutritional information on your food choices BEFORE you get to the restaurant.They’ve since revamped their website and this photo and the quote above is no longer on it, but I still find it funny, these little hipsters biking along with their Qdoba) I want food that yes, tastes good, but also won’t make me feel like crap, gives me energy, and fuels my body for more than a nap on the couch. I came across this little tidbit on their website: “Taste Buds Never Lie– What it all comes down to is having a passion for crafting something creative and special food that your taste buds will love you for.”Ĭreating food that my taste buds love may have been all it was about when I was 14 or when I was gaining weight and not giving a darn about my health-but now that’s not all I want from my food. So on Sunday we went to Qdoba and I didn’t check the nutritional information beforehand, I just kind of went with “what sounded good”-a definite mistake if trying to eat even semi-healthy at Qdoba! After I got home I decided Eating Healthy at Qdoba needed to be the next post in my “ Healthy Restaurant Guide” series.ĭisclaimer: I recognize that fast food even “upscale” fast food is what it is-lots of sodium, processed food, probably GMOs, animals raised in factory farms-my point is NOT to laud fast food as the healthiest choice, but to help you discover some of the healthiest fast food options out there.
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