Chipotle Chicken Cobb Salad. (2024)

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Is Chick-fil-A's Cobb Salad healthy? ›

While it may sound healthy since it's a salad, Wheeler says that this meal can get up to over 850 calories (depending on which protein you choose), which can be up to 45% of someone's daily calorie allotment. For example, the Cobb salad with nuggets or Chick-fil-A filet is 830 calories.

Comes with eight Chick-fil-A Nuggets, sliced and served hot on chopped Romaine lettuce and baby greens, shredded red cabbage and carrots, shredded Monterey Jack and Cheddar cheeses, crumbled bacon, diced eggs and grape tomatoes. Made fresh to order. Ask the cashier to omit the grape tomatoes to save 5g net carbs.

Chick-fil-A® Nuggets, freshly breaded and pressure-cooked, sliced and served on a fresh bed of mixed greens, topped with roasted corn kernels, a blend of shredded Monterey Jack and Cheddar cheeses, crumbled bacon, sliced hard-boiled egg and grape tomatoes.

Your choice of meat or sofritas served with our fresh supergreens lettuce blend made of Romaine, Baby Kale, and Baby Spinach. Add beans, queso blanco, salsa, guacamole, sour cream or cheese and top it off with our signature Chipotle-Honey Vinaigrette.

Lunch and Dinner:

Grilled Nuggets (8-count): 1g net carbs. Cobb Salad with Grilled Chicken (without dressing or crispy bell pepper toppings): 12g net carbs (with Grilled Filet), 10g net carbs (with Grilled Nuggets) Market Salad (with Grilled Filet and without dressing or toppings): 10g net carbs.

Grilled Chicken Sandwich

If you want to keep things healthy while ordering at Chick-fil-A, one trick is to “go grilled.” “It's made with a boneless breast of chicken, marinated in a blend of seasonings and grilled for a tender and juicy backyard-grilled taste,” said Mohr.

A traditional cobb salad includes a variety of nutrient-rich foods, but it has some super high fat ingredients, too. The fat from the bacon, bleu cheese, avocado and salad dressing drive up the calorie count very quickly. Before you know it, you've eaten over half of your calorie needs for the day, in one meal.

"The Chick-fil-A Mac and Cheese is one of the worst choices on the menu," says Amanda Lane, MS, RD, CDCES, founder of Healthful Lane Nutrition. Remember that a side dish is a complement to a meal, and this one adds an entire 450 calories, 16 grams of saturated fat, and 1,190 milligrams of sodium.