566 calories for a taco.

i think its the same asss how...a grilled chicken sandwhich with wheat bread from mcdonalds has...the same if not more calories as a sonic burger all the way...think its best to just..eat at homee lol or stick with a salad

How can they make something that should be a good choice that bad for you?! There must be something we are not taking into account here.

Believe it baby, Moe's is fresh and tasty but all of their stuff is HIGH CALORIE. I had a tofu burrito from there that cost me 663 calories the other day. It was huge and delicious and worth it though.
I only get 1200 calories a day so what I'll do is just...for example that day I just had no food til lunch time. Lunchtime, ate the burrito. Don't want to eat before that or you'll have nothing for later when youre hungriest. lunch was around 12:30. i ate my remaining calories around 3:30 and then in the evening just worked out and kept my mind off food. really wasn't hungry. ideally, the 3:30 meal would've been more around 5:30 to stretch it out as much as possible...but it works out fine.

can you go to the website and check? I find that at restaurants it is crazy and I was shocked! Before I go to a restaurant I check the websites and database to try and select the best thing! I think yours would have been less as you took stuff off it but I would have guessed 450-600 if someone had asked me before doing my research! Especially since when you make tacos at home they are so much less than that!

I don't think that is right. Make a taco like you have in your create recipe page. I bet it's not what you think.

I agree with shopgirl- when you go from 300-600 calories just by changing from a soft taco to a hard taco shell, its probably because it is deep fried.

Actually, there is an entry for a hard shell taco with beef, lettuce and tomato that lists it as 181 calories. 1 hard taco shell seems to have about 50 calories.

Hey there. I checked the website too and the calories jumped from 226 for a soft flour tortilla with ground beef to 566 for a crispy corn taco shell. That's a big difference! My guess is the shell is fried. Didn't think it would make THAT big of a difference!

Yep - it's prob. right - eating out is not much fun anymore because its just not worth it! (my husband thought I took a long time to order before I was counting calories...that's nothing compared to how long I take now!) Last year my office mates convinced me to get a bean and cheese burrito from Carl's Jr / The Green Burrito (this thing was so small - the size of a fat marker wrapped in a burrito shell and it clocked in at 470 cals / 19g fat!! Of course I didn't know it until after...after I ate 2 of them!!! Meanwhile they had been getting them 2x weekly! What an eye opener. Needless to say NONE of us get them anyomre after finding out the info. And luckily if I do go out to eat my husband has a small appetite so I can pick something on the menu and split it with him and only feel half as guilty. BUt with fast food places being so cheap now and on every corner its no wonder we all keep getting bigger and bigger. At least you know now, and you can make better choices going forward. Also, if the sodium was high in that thing it could be a water retention thing that you are up a pound too. (When I eat sushi / chinese food or anything else that gets paired with soy sauce my weight goes up until I flush the sodium out - usually after a day of back to normal eating it goes back down)

Going out to eat even if it is a salad has more calories than if you are eating at home sometimes. When you know that you are eating out you must remember to save calories for that occasion that's what I do. When I crave something fast food I make sure I save the calories,fat,protein etc. because it can add up to half or more than half of your days calories. So until then I have a low calorie snack and fill up on water and watermelon.