Fast Food Fitness: Taco Bell’s Fresco Menu

Last night, I had to run an errand for my wife. Her car was due for the 60,000 mile check-up, so she dropped it off at the dealer after work. I picked her up, but time was getting tight for her Body Pump class. The Body Pump craze has spread so fast that you have to register a half hour to an hour before the class begins. Even though time was short, it didn’t make sense to skip dinner. I didn’t want to risk her having dehydration issues like WeightLadder did earlier this week.

We thought about where we could go for a quick healthy dinner. And if you read my Lazy Man and Money site, you know that I was also looking for something cheap. That’s a tall order, but I think we made the decision in going to Taco Bell. Taco Bell is not typically at the tops of the “healthy eats” list, but in the last year, it’s gotten a lot better. They’ve figured out that simply by offering the option to substitute the cheese on anything on the menu with some pico de gallo, it can be a healthy meal. If you want this, you just ask for something Fresco style. They’ve even created a whole Fresco Menu, to make ordering easier.

I got a couple of the soft taco’s. That came in at 360 calories and 14 grams of fat. It ended up costing me under $3. My wife went for two chicken soft tacos which were 340 calories and only 8 grams of fat. The chicken version was probably a dollar or so more. From a combination of speed, health, and cost, it was so much better than we could have done at many other places.

We might be mixing a little more Taco Bell into our diets when we can’t cook things ourselves.

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Posted by Lazy Man on May 8, 2008 in fast food.

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