Although Chick-Fil-A is best known for crispy chicken sandwiches and delicious, buttery biscuits, you can eat keto at Chick-Fil-A.
Similar to other fast food places, low carb Chick-Fil-A options require you to hold any breaded chicken, bread, and sugary sauces. We recommend going with the grilled chicken nuggets and a low-carb dipping sauce.
Here’s how to eat low carb at Chick-Fil-A and exactly what to order to make sure you stay in ketosis.
Hash Brown Scramble Bowl With Grilled Filet (no hash browns)
Chick-Fil-A gives you the option to customize this meal by removing the hash browns. If you do this you’ll have a hearty bowl of scrambled eggs, grilled chicken, and a blend of cheeses.
This is one of our favorite keto-friendly options. Your meal without the hash browns contains 270 calories, 16g fat, 2g carbs, and 30g protein.
What to order: the Hash Brown Scramble Bowl with grilled filet and no hash browns.
Hash Brown Scramble Bowl With Sausage (no hash browns)
Similar to the above option, you can customize this Scramble Bowl by removing the hash browns. Your keto-friendly meal will contain scrambled eggs, sausage, and a blend of cheeses.
Your meal without the hash browns contains 340 calories, 27g fat, 2g carbs, and 21g protein.
What to order: the Hash Brown Scramble Bowl with sausage and no hash browns.
Grilled Chicken Nuggets
The grilled chicken nuggets are not breaded like the regular chicken nuggets are. This makes them a great low-carb option.
You can order them as a 4, 6, 8, or 12 count. Be sure to go with a low-carb dipping sauce, such as zesty buffalo sauce (0g carbs) or garden herb ranch (1g carbs).
A 12-count serving contains 200 calories, 4.5g fat, 2g carbs, and 38g protein.
What to order: the grilled chicken nuggets (4, 6, 8, or 12 count) with zesty buffalo dipping sauce or ranch.
Kale Crunch Side
If you’re looking for the perfect side dish to accompany your chicken, then go with a kale crunch salad instead of fries. It’s topped with crunchy almonds.
It contains 120 calories, 9g fat, 8g carbs (7g net carbs), 1g fiber, and 3g protein.
You can reduce the carbs by asking to hold the apple cider and Dijon mustard vinaigrette.
What to order: ask for the kale crunch side without dressing instead of fries as a side dish.
Market Salad
The market salad comes with chicken breast on a bed of lettuce with blue cheese, red and green apples, strawberries, and blueberries. It’s served with Harvest nut granola, roasted almonds, and light balsamic vinaigrette salad dressing.
It comes with your choice of chicken preparation, including breaded chicken strips, a cold grilled filet, grilled nuggets, regular breaded nuggets, or a spicy cold grilled filet.
If you order this salad with a cold grilled chicken filet, it will contain 250 calories, 10g fat, 16g carbs (12g carbs), 4g fiber, and 27g protein.
You can reduce the carbs by holding the apples and granola. You can also swap out the balsamic vinaigrette dressing for ranch.
What to order: the market salad with grilled chicken and ranch dressing. Hold the apples and granola.
Grilled Chicken Cool Wrap
The grilled chicken cool wrap comes with sliced chicken breast, green lettuce, Monterey cheese, cheddar cheese, and your choice of dressing in a flaxseed flour flatbread.
It contains 350 calories, 13g fat, 29g carbs (16g net carbs), 13g fiber, and 42g protein.
We recommend asking for a low-carb dressing, such as ranch. Or you can hold the dressing altogether. You can also reduce the carbs by asking for no flatbread.
What to order: the grilled chicken cool wrap with ranch dressing and no bread. Request to have this wrapped in a lettuce wrap.
Cobb Salad with Grilled Chicken
The Cobb salad comes with mixed greens, roasted corn kernels, Monterey jack and cheddar cheeses, bacon, grape tomatoes, grilled chicken fillet and a hard-boiled egg with avocado lime ranch dressing.
If you get it with a cold grilled filet, it will contain 400 calories, 19g fat, 22g carbs (18g net carbs), 4g fiber, and 36g protein.
You can reduce the carbs by asking for no corn kernels. You can also ask for the dressing on the side.
What to order: the cobb salad with grilled chicken and ranch dressing on the side. Hold the roasted corn kernels. Try the creamy salsa dressing!
Egg White Grill
Chick-Fil-A has a variety of breakfast sandwiches that you can get if you go there in the morning. These are good options because they usually contain sauce meat, eggs, and cheese with no sauce. All you have to do is toss the bun.
The egg white grill is a light sandwich that would work well as a morning snack. It comes with grilled chicken, egg whites, and American cheese on a multigrain English muffin.
It contains 290 calories, 8g fat, 29g carbs, 1g fiber, and 26g protein. By holding the muffin, you can reduce the carbs to two grams or less.
What to order: the egg white grill minus the English muffin.
Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Biscuit
The bacon, egg, and shredded Monterey jack biscuit contains 420 calories, 23g fat, 38g carbs, 2g fiber, and 15g protein.
By holding the biscuit, you should be able to reduce the carbs to only one or two grams.
What to order: the bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit minus the biscuit.
Sausage, Egg, and Cheese Biscuit
The sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit has more calories than the bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit. This makes it a better option if you want something more filling.
It has 630 calories, 43g fat, 38g carbs, 2g fiber, and 23g protein.
You can reduce the carbs to nearly zero grams if you hold the bun.
What to order: the sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit minus the biscuit.
The Grilled Chicken Sandwich
The grilled chicken sandwich comes with lettuce, tomato and honey roasted BBQ sauce on a bun.
It contains 320 calories, 6g fat, 41g carbs, 4g fiber, and 28g protein.
However, you can reduce the carbs to one or two grams by asking for no bread or sauce.
What to order: the grilled chicken sandwich with no bun or sauce. Get this with a side kale salad instead of fries.
Grilled Chicken Club Sandwich
The grilled chicken club sandwich comes with chicken, bacon, lettuce and tomato with a honey roasted BBQ sauce. You can get it with your choice of American, Colby jack or pepper jack cheese.
It contains 460 calories, 17g fat, 41g carbs, 4g fiber, and 37g protein.
You can reduce the carbs to one or two grams by asking for no bun, and switch the BBQ sauce to garden herb ranch dressing.
What to order: the grilled chicken club minus the BBQ sauce and bun. Enjoy a side salad with ranch instead of fries as your side.
Conclusion
Chick-Fil-A specializes in chicken sandwiches, wraps, and sides. You’ll want to avoid the crispy chicken and nuggets and stick with grilled, unbreaded chicken instead. The Chick-Fil-A sauce has 7 grams of carbs per 28 gram serving, so it’s best to avoid it.
You can eat low carb here by choosing the grilled nuggets or a sandwich minus the bread. They make a kale crunch salad that would be a good replacement for fries as your choice of side.
Always opt for a low-carb dressing, such as ranch or zesty buffalo sauce, or no dressing at all. Safe beverage choices in all restaurants include water and unsweetened tea.
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