El Pollo Loco: they have salads too! #ad
This is a sponsored post, but all opinions are my own.
It’s a new year and you know what that means… it means that new year’s resolutions have been made by many well-intentioned and dedicated people (except me). Losing weight, eating healthier and making better choices are among the most common resolutions for my friends and family. I don’t make new year’s resolutions any more; I stopped that a few years ago.
The good news is that going on a diet doesn’t mean you have to stop eating food that tastes good.A lot of restaurants offer healthy alternatives, from low-cal and low fat, to items that meet the requirements for specialty diets (including Atkins, Paleo, and others). El Pollo Loco offers a lot of options that will fit your diet needs. But today I am going to talk about the traditional diet food: salads.
Shown here is the Chicken Tostada Salad, which is basically a chicken salad in a taco shell. The spotlight ingredient is the cubed chicken, which is (of course) made from their signature citrus-marinated chicken breast, on a bed of chopped romaine lettuce blend, with pinto beans, rice, shredded jack cheese, sour cream and pico de gallo salsa topped with a creamy cilantro dressing and some sour cream.
Yes, I know that that doesn’t sound like a healthy alternative, but compared to the way I normally eat, it is.If you want to opt for a healthier version you can order it without the dressing or the shell.
Other salad options include the Ultimate Double Chicken Salad, which doesn’t come in a fried shell, the Mexican Cobb Salad, which I’m looking forward to trying, and the Avocado Bacon Chicken Tostada Salad, which is basically a Chicken Tostada Salad with avocado and bacon. You can special-order any of these to meet your needs. When you test them out, let me know what you think.
I’ll talk about the “Bowl” dishes next time.
You can find more info about El Pollo Loco at www.elpolloloco.com. They even have a My Loco Rewards club.
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- El Pollo Loco opens in Sugar Land
- El Pollo Loco comes to Houston
- DISCLAIMER: This is a sponsored post, but all opinions are my own.
Sandra Fernandez is a professional communicator, tech enthusiast, book lover, and blogger. You can find her main blog at SandraSays.com and more of her writing at HispanicHouston.com.