McDonalds southwest salad

I never eat at McDonalds, but last night I had to rush from my son's track meet and get hime home with less than an hour until a soccer game, so we voted and my kids really wanted McD's.  I tried the southwest salad with their dressing.  It came out to 450 calories and was awesome.

I got the grilled chicken on it, it had different lettuce, curly carrots, grilled corn, black beans, lime juice, a little bit of cheese and I think fritos.  The dressing was very good.  I would highly recommend this one. 

I'm not advocating fast food, but in life things happen, and I felt this was an excellent dinner, very tasty and filling.

Oh yes, I had one of those today too.  The chip things are lime flavored corn chip strips - I love those things.

Very yummy and fairly low cal considering the other options MCD's offers.

THANK YOU so much for that tip! I've been wanting to try that, now i know its good!

I loved it when I tried it! I didn't even use the dressing, with the lime sauce on the chicken I didn't find I needed it. So good!

mmmmm i love it too!! I get mine without chicken ( to much sodium)
but i use the dressing and love the chips.

wow, I've wanted to try that but I figured it would be too high in cals. Is that including the dressing?

the sodium in the chips is most likely much higher than the sodium in the chicken.

omg i LOVE those salads!!!!they are so good and not that unhealthy for you!!!!

I prefer the asian salad. Paired with a fruit and walnut salad, it's pretty satisfying for me, and well within my maintenance cals.

My husband had this the other day, and loved it....  he wanted it again for dinner tonight...but we had something else.  :)   I can't wait to try it.  I also love the fruit and walnut salad..well, fruit and walnuts, and yogurt...it's yummy

hmm, i'm going to be on the road on Monday night, I might have to have me a fruit and walnut -- gotta love the finger food.

I tried this salad at the urging of a friend and now I can't stay away from it.  One of the best parts is the southwest salad dressing which has a tang to it.  I've tried to find it in the stores but they don't sell it...boohoo.  The whole salad is great and I had it for two meals yesterday.  YUMMY

I will agree with most on this one.  I've had it twice now and it's pretty good for a fast food place.  Put's anything Burger King has under the table!  Nice to hear that it's that low in calories.  I was amazed at the dressing tasting so good, I figured that it had to be high in fat, calories and sodium, but when I looked at the nutritional info on the back it wasn't that bad at all.  Only 100 cal for the whole packet and I only needed to use about half.  It's the best salad at a fast food place that I have had!

I agree. To have something delicious and 450 calories is great. You feel like you are cheating with bad food and you aren't

I got one today and it was great! One thing I did check on was McDonalds web site at the Bag a McMeal. the salad had 320 calories and Dressing 100. I could not even eat all of mine. What a great lunch!

I love the bacon ranch salad w/grilled chicken and low fat balsalmic viniagrette.  Total is only like 310 calories.  I skip the croutons

Last week my mom and sister and I went to the McD's drive thru and I ordered a fruit and walnut salad, expecting lettuce. I don't ever eat McD's, and I was pretty disappointed when my lunch came and it was tiny.

Luckily!! My mom had boneless, skinless chicken breast and lettuce at home, so I cooked up some chicken, mixed it with the fruit and walnuts, put the mix on my romaine and smothered the whole thing in the yogurt which I thinned with a little water. It was delicious!! Seriously, it was probably my favorite meal in about two weeks or so. I bet if I had thinned the yogurt with some lemon juice instead of water it would have rocked way harder.

 

The Southwest sounds great too.