On the Border is a Mexican restaurant that specializes in delicious mesquite-grilled food. There are so many great tasting foods to choose from at this restaurant but if your desire is to eat healthy you need to take into consideration nutrition-calories, fat and carbohydrate grams. The following will give you the information you need to make the best choices when ordering.
Instructions
1. Eat a salad first to fill up your stomach before eating your main course. A house salad is 170 calories, 10g fat and 15g carbs. Order your salad without cheese or croutons and lower your calories by half. The only fat you will consume will be in your salad dressing.
2. Choose the fat-free balsamic vinaigrette dressing to rid your salad entirely of fat. Two tablespoons have only 50 calories and 10g of carbs. Low-fat ranch has 110 calories, 6g of fat and 11g of carbs.
3. Substitute the cheesy pepper jack mashed potatoes if it comes as a side item with your entree for grilled vegetables. They will charge you about a dollar to do this, but you will save yourself a ton of fat and calories. The nutrition value of the potatoes is 380 calories, 27g of fat and 26g of carbs whereas the vegetables have 50 calories, 1g of fat and 8g of carbs.
4. Order the Border Smart Chicken, which is the healthiest item on the menu. It is Mesquite-grilled chicken with salsa and comes with Mexican rice and grilled vegetables. It has 480 calories, 14g of fat and 47g of carbs.
5. Order the Lunch Fajitas with Chicken if ordering from the menu before four o'clock in the afternoon. It has 310 calories, 12g of fat and 14g of carbs. Instead of ordering the Chicken Tortilla Soup as a side item, which comes as a choice with your meal and has 350 calories, 22g of fat and 24g of carbs, order a side salad.
6. Order the Kids Grilled Chicken Dinner for your children, which has 170 calories, 4g of fat and 1g of carbs and has the most nutrition value on the kids menu. Order a salad with their meal with ranch dressing which has 180 calories, 17g of fat and 5g of carbs.
7. Order the plain vanilla ice cream if you just have to have something sweet. This dessert has 180 calories, 10g of fat and 19g of carbs and is the least fatty dessert item on the menu.
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