Brian Nagele
Are you trying out a low-carb diet? Have you been on the keto diet for a long time but never know what to eat when you go out? Lucky for you, there are keto Taco Bell items for those following this diet!
We know it’s difficult to find cheap, tasty options when you’re dieting or changing your lifestyle, so we’ve put together this ultimate list of the 10 best keto Taco Bell items below.
While it will require some modifications to stay within your keto or low-carb goals, Taco Bell actually offers some surprisingly great options for when you’re on the go or even just craving fast food. They have plenty of healthier options and even great options for vegan Taco Bell fans!
Why should you miss out on easy, delicious, budget-friendly options just because you’re keto? Or low-carb? The answer is simple: you shouldn’t!
You may not have thought that Taco Bell would be an awesome choice for your keto needs, but we’ll show you below how easy it truly can be with these items.
Beefy 5-Layer Burrito
If you make Taco Bell’s Beefy 5-Layer Burrito a bowl (without the carb-heavy tortilla and the refried beans), it totals to only 7g of carbs.
From there, you can make further modifications to result in the best, most delicious, keto-friendly, budget-friendly burrito bowl possible!
The burrito bowl will contain seasoned beef, shredded cheese, nacho cheese sauce, and sour cream. You could optionally add some delicious jalapeños, tomatoes, guacamole, or lettuce to up the nutritional value further.
When modified, the Beefy 5-Layer Burrito contains the following nutritional values:
- Calories: 150
- Total Fat: 10g
- Cholesterol: 25mg
- Sodium: 420mg
- Total Carbohydrates: 7g
- Protein: 7g
Mini Skillet Bowl
The breakfast Mini Skillet Bowl is already close to being keto-friendly.
The only thing necessary to lower the carb count is to swap out the potatoes for any meat of your choice. When doing this, the carb count drops to 4g.
Once modified, the breakfast bowl would contain the meat of your choice, scrambled eggs, and nacho cheese sauce. Taco Bell offers bacon, sausage, and steak as breakfast options, but you could also opt for their normal lunch or dinner time meats like chicken or ground beef.
A Mini Skillet Bowl with the potatoes removed and steak added will have the following nutritional values:
- Calories: 140
- Total Fat: 9g
- Cholesterol: 120mg
- Sodium: 470mg
- Total Carbohydrates: 4g
- Protein: 11g
Grande Scrambler Burrito
The Grande Scrambler Burrito can be modified similarly to the Beefy 5-Layer one. Without the tortilla and the potatoes, you can get the total carbs down to 5g.
Once modified to be keto-friendly, your burrito-turned-burrito bowl will consist of bacon, scrambled eggs, shredded cheese, sour cream, and nacho cheese sauce.
Of course, you could always up the meat or veggies for some extra protein or fiber without compromising the low-carb count.
A Grande Scrambler Burrito without a tortilla or potatoes would have the following nutritional values:
- Calories: 200
- Total Fat: 15g
- Cholesterol: 120mg
- Sodium: 480mg
- Total Carbohydrates: 5g
- Protein: 10g
Steak Power Bowl
The Taco Bell Power Bowls are amazing, delicious, keto-friendly options that only require a few modifications to come out high-fat and low-carb, at only 8g.
The Power Bowl with steak, in particular, will be great to remove the rice and beans from. You’ll be left with all of the good stuff, and none of the high-carb stuff.
Once you add steak, the bowl will consist of steak, sour cream, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, guacamole, and avocado ranch sauce. These modifications leave you with a still-delicious, much more keto-friendly bowl.
After the aforementioned modifications, the bowl would contain the following nutritional values:
- Calories: 260
- Total Fat: 16g
- Cholesterol: 60mg
- Sodium: 800mg
- Total Carbohydrates: 8g
- Protein: 20g
Beefy Frito Burrito
While the Beefy Frito Burrito is not naturally super keto-friendly, it does cost only $1.00.
When you take away the tortilla, rice, and Fritos, you are left with a bowl of low-carb ground beef and nacho cheese. To be exact, this beefy, cheesy bowl would clock in at 5g of carbs total.
Maybe not the most intricate meal, but it would be incredibly filling and easily fit within your keto diet goals.
Without the tortilla, rice, or Fritos, the Beefy Frito Burrito would have the following nutritional values:
- Calories: 100
- Total Fat: 6g
- Cholesterol: 15mg
- Sodium: 360mg
- Total Carbohydrates: 5g
- Protein: 5g
Burrito Supreme
Like with many other of Taco Bell’s burrito options listed here, the Burrito Supreme only requires removing the tortilla and the beans to be left with a hearty, tasty, keto-friendly, low-carb option.
This one, in particular, will only contain 10g of carbs after modifications.
When removing the high-carb components, you will transform this burrito into a bowl that would consist of seasoned beef, shredded cheese, iceberg lettuce, onions, sour cream, tomatoes, and red chili sauce.
Don’t forget to add guacamole to up your total fat for the meal! When doing so, the bowl would contain the following nutritional values:
- Calories: 170
- Total Fat: 11g
- Cholesterol: 25mg
- Sodium: 590mg
- Total Carbohydrates: 10g
- Protein: 8g
Chicken Quesadilla Melt
This option, like the Beefy Frito Burrito, will also result in a bowl of just meat and cheese after the keto-friendly modifications are made, but it once again costs only $1.00!
A modified Chicken Quesadilla Melt would be a filling and delicious option to keep within keto guidelines.
After removing the tortillas, you will be left with only 6g of carbs in your chicken and cheese bowl. Plus, there’s an awesome jalapeño sauce that comes with it.
After modifications, the Chicken Quesadilla Melt would contain the following nutritional values:
- Calories: 310
- Total Fat: 21g
- Cholesterol: 75mg
- Sodium: 790mg
- Total Carbohydrates: 6g
- Protein: 21g
Chicken Power Bowl
Your keto-friendly, modified Chicken Power Bowl will look a lot similar to the Steak Power Bowl.
It depends if you prefer chicken or steak! Either option is perfect for fitting into a keto diet since the chicken option comes in at 7g of total carbs.
For this bowl, you will need to exclude the beans and rice to get the best low-carb option, and once you do, you will be left with a fabulous bowl of grilled chicken, shredded cheese, guacamole, iceberg lettuce, sour cream, tomatoes, and avocado ranch sauce.
After modifications, the Chicken Power Bowl would contain the following nutritional values:
- Calories: 240
- Total Fat: 14g
- Cholesterol: 70mg
- Sodium: 770mg
- Total Carbohydrates: 7g
- Protein: 21g
Naked Egg Taco Bundle
The Naked Egg Taco Bundle is luckily wrapped in an egg patty instead of a tortilla!
No modification is needed there, but you will need to remove the overflowing potatoes. Once you do, you’re left with only 3g of carbs! 3g!
The Naked Egg Taco is filled with shredded cheese, nacho cheese sauce, and bacon, all stuffed into an egg patty. As such, you would be left with a great, keto-friendly breakfast option.
After modifications, the Naked Egg Taco Bundle would contain the following nutritional values:
- Calories: 170
- Total Fat: 14g
- Cholesterol: 115mg
- Sodium: 460mg
- Total Carbohydrates: 3g
- Protein: 9g
Fiesta Taco Salad with Chicken
This taco salad comes in a hard tortilla shell for a bowl, which can easily be swapped out for a regular bowl to immediately cut down on some carbs.
After that, be sure to remove the rice, beans, and the red strips (which are pieces of tortilla).
Once you’ve made these easy modifications, you’ve cut the total carbs down to 6g. The bowl will be filled with grilled chicken, shredded cheese, iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream.
A modified Fiesta Taco Salad with Chicken would contain the following nutritional values:
- Calories: 180
- Total Fat: 8g
- Cholesterol: 70mg
- Sodium: 640mg
- Total Carbohydrates: 6g
- Protein: 21g
It may seem daunting to find keto options when you’re busy or on a budget, but Taco Bell’s sneakily keto-friendly menu makes it easier for us all.
Using this ultimate guide to the 10 best keto options at Taco Bell, you’re sure to actually enjoy sticking to your diet. Finding options here will not only be easy, but budget-friendly and delicious too!
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