If you get the bowl with all the goodies yes. Meat, beans, and rice are all calorie dense. Cheese, guac, and sourcreme pile on more calories, the corn salsa adds a fairly good amount too. That all comes in at 915 calories... add some wiggle room for error on behalf of the preparer and boom 1000 calories.
According to the chipotle website, a chicken or steak burrito (WITH the 300 calorie tortilla), beans, rice, cheese, sour cream and tomatillo salsa is about 950 cals. So I would guess a bowl (assuming the same amounts of the same ingredients) is about 650? Definitely not "diet", but not the worst choice you could make. At least it's not deep fried!
Last edited by NorthernExposure; 03-04-2010 at 11:02 PM.
According to the chipotle website, a chicken or steak burrito (WITH the 300 calorie tortilla), beans, rice, cheese, sour cream and tomatillo salsa is about 950 cals. So I would guess a bowl (assuming the same amounts of the same ingredients) is about 650? Definitely not "diet", but not the worst choice you could make. At least it's not deep fried!
Another option is that when me and my husband do happen to get a burrito at Chipotle, we split it. A burrito with rice that we would get is 850 calories (425 each), drop the rice and it is down to 725 calories (362 each).
This what I love about having the LoseIt! App on my iPhone. It is really good about having a lot of different restaurants on it. For example, it has every chipotle ingredient on it so you can estimate (you just don't know if the server is sticking to the serving size) your cals. Then you can decide, well I can get EVERYTHING I want and only eat half or I can skip the cheese, guac, sour cream, etc. and eat it all. SO many options! But good for you for making your own at home that is even better and you feel better about yourself, save money and have more control over ingredients and portions.
I think you did a great job making "Chipotle" at home, but I can't eat a Chipotle bowl at one sitting, so for me, Qdoba or Chipotle is a good lunch option because I will take it home and eat the remainder the next day and still stay within 1200-1400 calories for the day.
I'm so glad that you were able to cook a healthy alternative!
The burrito bowls really aren't 1,000 if you just get the right things in them. A burrito bowl with fajita vegetables, carnitas (I love this, I can't pass it up), all the yummy salsas, and lettuce is listed at 355 calories. http://www.chipotlefan.com/index.php...ion_calculator
The other day I was CRAVING a burrito from there and instead got a burrito bowl and came home and put it in a lower calorie whole wheat tortilla. The rice, black beans, and cheese don't really add that much flavor for me, but the carnitas really does. It probably around 500 calories, but more than worth it to satisfy my cravings!
