Oh, when will I learn?

Chipotle knocked me over with how many points their food is worth. Twenty-two points for a chicken burrito! Add my breakfast, and I officially was through all my points for the entire day.

Lesson learned:

1. Chipotle must soak every ingredient, every tortilla in butter. Jeezy creezy.

2. I really gotta do some research before I eat out.

I know, my worst habit is counting calories AFTER I eat!
I love the title of your post!

It's not soaked in butter - those burritos are just plain huge. DH and would always split one in half for dinner after I learned how many calories is in one!

Tasty, though

Sometimes I go to a meeting where they order Chipotle for us..I learned the dangers of it a while back, but I also learned how to eat it and still avoid a week's worth of calories in a day. I get romaine lettuce, chicken and tomato salsa- that's it. It's filling and flavorful and not even 300 calories. Not bad, huh? Sodium is another story, but hey, I just drink a lot of water with it!

Always check the calories BEFORE you eat out...a lesson well learned.

Chipotle isn't too bad, though, if you investigate ahead of time. And so satisfying! You can get a delicious salad there...chicken, black beans, some salsa for dressing...yum! The peppers and onions make a great add-on to that salad as well.

I love Chipotle for lunch - I can get a GREAT filling salad for around 450 cals ... and it's enough that I don't need an afternoon snack.

Salad (not a bol), which means lettuce
Black beans
corn salsa
tomato salsa
hot salsa
cheese (a very little)
Guac (on the side - that way you don't get a honking huge spoonful)
DO NOT eat the dressing.

This salad w/ the guac is 450 cals, w/out the guac is around 320.

Anything with the rice and tortilla is going to be waaaaayyyyyy too many calories.

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I love Chipotle too as one of my low calorie options. I get a bowl, extra lettuce, extra tomato salsa, extra grilled veggies, extra black beans, no rice, no tortilla, no sour cream, no cheese and usually a dab of guac.

I'm so glad we don't really have Chipotle in Massachusetts. (There's ONE in Boston, but that's it.)

But it sounds similar to Qdoba and Boloco. Any burrito place, I do what it looks like the rest of you are doing. I get a naked burrito (no tortilla, no cheese, no sour cream) and the calories come out just fine. And it's still delicious.

Just to reinforce what everyone else has said, if you get a burrito bol or salad without rice, you can make a really healthy, filling meal at Chipotle.
This is a really good website for figuring out what you are going to order before you go: http://www.chipotlefan.com/index.php...ion_calculator

For both Qdoba and Chipotle, I get things ''naked'' (bol in Chipotle language) - although store bought tortillas aren't bad in cals, you can see on each restaurants nutrition calculator that theirs are pretty high. I load up on beans and rice and corn (great for Fat Smashers, lol). If I'm feeling indulgent, I'll allow myself some sour cream - and for both places, pork (not chicken) is actually the lowest calorie meat.

I wouldn't know all that random info...if it wasn't for the fact that my friends and coworkers choose qdoba and chipotle to eat for lunch at least two or three times a week.

[EDIT] ....BEWARE the qdoba salad! Ive never had one at chipotle, but I used to love the taco salad (without the shell) at Qdoba...until I found out the 'salad' was 800 calories o.O Yikes!

Just wanted to say "Jeezy Creezy"... that's one of my favorite little quips!

The portions there are HUGE. We just got one here in the last 7-8 months and I was shocked. The burrito I order was as big as my forearm.