Take a trip down your fast food memory lane and order some keto Taco Bell. Flour tortillas and rice aren’t necessary when it comes to grabbing a quick, Mexican meal. There are countless keto fast food options out there and Taco Bell has some delicious keto-friendly meals to offer.

YES! You can order Keto from Taco Bell, and it can be a healthy, satisfying meal. Just stick to these guidelines and ordering a low carb meal will be simple.
A few of our other favorites are McDonald’s, Starbucks, and Chick-Fil-A. Read our Keto Dining Guide for more info on how to order from your favorite fast food restaurant.
4 Tips for Eating Keto Taco Bell
We all find ourselves in tight situations on the keto diet, whether you’re in a hurry and need a quick meal, or on the road and don’t have any keto snacks packed in the car. Use these keto fast food tips to stay on track.
- Skip on the full-sugar soft drinks. Opt for diet soda, water, or coffee.
- Ask for any breaded items (chicken) to be grilled instead.
- Avoid all rice and tortillas. Ask for extra veggies or a side salad instead.
- Most of their sauces are keto-friendly, but salsa and sour cream will be the healthiest options.
How Many Carbs in a Taco Bell Taco?
On a keto diet, people should stay within the 20-50g range per day, so a Taco Bell taco is most likely off limits. Here are the carb counts for Taco Bell’s most popular items.
- Tacos – Around 15g net carbs
- 7-Layer Beef Burrito – 47g net carbs
- Beef Crunch Wrap Supreme – 67g net carbs
- Beef Chalupa Supreme – 25g net carbs
- Cheesy Gordita Crunch – 35g net carbs
Taco Bell Keto Hacks
Taco Bell is open to menu modifications. In fact, they invite you to “customize” any of the items on their menu, so don’t be afraid to get creative with your order.
1. Add Fat to Your Meal
Taco Bell has a variety of tasty ways to add fat to your meal. This will help you hit your keto macros for the day and keep you fuller for longer. Add any or all of the following to your meal:
- Shredded Cheese
- Sour Cream
- Low-Carb sauces (see below)
- Guacamole
2. Enjoy Taco Bell Keto Sauces
- Creamy Jalapeno Sauce – 1g carb
- Guacamole – 1g net carb
- Nacho Cheese Sauce – 1g carb
- Creamy Chipotle Sauce – 0g carb
- Avocado Ranch – 1g carb
- Spicy Ranch – 1g carb
- Red Sauce – 2g carb
3. Avoid these Ingredients
The base of most Taco Bell menu items is high carb, but it’s not difficult to swap the tortillas and rice for salad or extra protein. Avoid the following:
- Beans
- Fritos
- Potatoes
- Seasoned Rice
- Black Beans
- Taco Shells and Tortillas
- Nachos
- Fries
4. Order a La Carte
Whenever you’re in doubt at a restaurant, just order individual items that you know are keto. This is especially easy at Taco Bell. Similarly to eating Keto Chipotle, you can create a bowl using the following keto items.
- Lettuce
- Beef, chicken, eggs, bacon…etc.
- Cheese
- Veggies
- Sour Cream
- Guacamole
- Low-Carb Sauces (see list above)
What Can I Eat Keto at Taco Bell?
While Taco Bell offers a variety of ways to eat keto on-the-go, it’s important to remember not everything on the menu is optimal for your health. The low-carb sauces are most likely made with unhealthy vegetable oils and there could be added preservatives in the meat and dairy.
Remember, cooking healthy keto recipes at home with simple ingredients is always our number one option, but a fast food meal is totally find when you’re in a pinch. Here is how to order keto Taco Bell.
Taco Bell Low-Carb Menu – Five Orders
These five Taco Bell orders are totally keto friendly and easy to customize. Add more guac or omit the cheese. Douse it in hot sauce if that’s your style. Get creative!
1. Mini Skillet Bowl – 5g net carbs
Order the Mini Skillet Bowl, but replace the potatoes with a meat of your choice. Up the fat with some guacamole, extra cheese, or a drizzle of any of the low-carb sauces.
Bowl: Eggs, steak, cheddar cheese, sour cream, guacamole, creamy chipotle sauce.
2. Fiesta Taco Salad with Chicken – 10g carbs
Order the Fiesta Taco Salad and ask for no beans, no rice, no shell, and no Red Stripes (chips). This ensures your salad is filled with only the good stuff – lettuce, cheese, chicken, sour cream, tomatoes and salsa. Don’t forget to add guac if you want more fat.
Bowl: Lettuce, chicken, cheddar cheese, sour cream, guacamole, tomatoes, salsa.
3. Power Menu Bowl – 6g net carbs
Power up with a keto version of the Power Menu Bowl. Omit the rice and beans and you’re left with a high fat, high protein keto Taco Bell lunch. We added lettuce and bacon for more volume. Wash it down with water or any of the diet sodas available for purchase.
Bowl: Lettuce, shredded chicken, cheddar cheese, bacon, sour cream, guacamole, bacon, Avocado Ranch Sauce.
4. Grande Scrambler Burrito – 7g carbs
Order a Grande Scrambler Burrito as a breakfast bowl instead of a burrito and ask for no potatoes. This is a quick and easy keto breakfast you can top with guacamole, tomato, or salsa.
Bowl: Pico de gallo, sour cream, cheddar cheese, and a choice either bacon, sausage, or steak.
5. Beefy 5-Layer Burrito – 6g net carbs
As per usual, you’re going to ask for this burrito to be a bowl. This will eliminate the carb-heavy tortilla and and beans. You will be left with meat, cheese, tomatoes, and jalapeños.
Bowl: Nacho cheese, seasoned ground beef, grated cheddar cheese, sour cream. Optional: lettuce, guacamole, salsa.
Homemade Keto Mexican Food
Keto Taco Bell is a great option when you’re on the road or in a hurry, but nothing is as tasty or as nutritious as our homemade Mexican recipes.
Check out our full Keto Fast Food guide for our top five favorite fast food joints, or browse the guides below.
- Keto McDonald’s
- Keto Starbucks
- Keto Chic-fil-A
- Keto Panda Express
- Keto Blaze Pizza
- Keto Smoothie King
- Keto Burger King
- Chilis Keto

I love your blog and your recipes. Love all the information you send about low carb food and where to buy it. Love your blog and everything you write. Enjoy your family. Wish we could see your little boy. Maybe you could put a picture from the back of him so we could see how tall he is. I’ve got 7 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren with one due in July.
Thanks for the tips! Carbs really add up and you’ve help make it less painful!
This is FANTASTIC.
I used to purchase 3 taco supreme and a side salad, then dump the contents of the taco shells into the salad and trash the shells. Great taco salad on the go!
My favorite Keto order from Taco Bell:
Steak Power Menu Bowl
– No Black Beans
– No Rice
– Xtra Guac
– Xtra Sour Cream
– Xtra Steak
– Add Creamy Jalapeno Sauce
The downside is that if you want a “filling” meal at a fast food restaurant, it gets pretty expensive. These modifications turn a $5 Power Menu Bowl into $8.83 before tax, and if I’m really hungry I order two of them. That ends up being a $20 fast food order. And some of them interpret “extra” differently, I’ve ordered this and come out with a Power Menu Bowl that looks like they just gave me regular servings of everything and added creamy jalapeno sauce. And quite frankly when I’m paying that much for it, it feels like I’m getting scammed.
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Thank you for suggestions. So helpful!
I’m not a huge fan of Taco Bell, but I’m a fan off y’all. My 25 yr old child forced me to take him to Taco Bell recently. I probably got a tostada al fresco omit beans or some such. I don’t eat the tortilla,it just provides a support for my”salad”. Best to y’all! Thanks for having a great channel.
I order 3 tacos supreme, no shells. It’s plenty for me. I might ask for the shredded chicken next time.
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Wow, I like the flexiblity of the fast food choices.makes eating out really ok.Thanks so much.
Peter
Loved this video. I laughed all the way through the thing, lol. Although i used to love Taco Bell, it isn’t worth the price now that I’m keto. Totally agree with Matt and that look on his face at one point in this video is priceless, LOL. Do more of these eat outs please, PLEASE!! There’s gotta be better eat out options, but go to the lousy ones too. I needed a good laugh today and you two made my day!! Don’t know what I’d do without KetoConnect. 🙂
I would stay away from the ground beef they add sugar to it found out the hard way sugar would trigger grandsons seizures we had to call and they told us they add sugar
I order 3 sides of lettuce, 2 sides of taco meat, 1 side each of sour cream, shredded cheese, onion, and tomato. Less than $5.
How do they package that, do they put the taco meat in one of the black bowl/containers? Just trying to get an idea of what I would get. This sounds like a good option. Not sure I could get taco bell and not use the hot sauce though, so may be too much temptation for me.
Great topic, I never know what to eat when I’m out if the house. Thank You!!
When I saw you driving and realized you guys are in Philly I almost fell off my chair! From a fellow sister in the City of Brotherly Love, THANK YOU sooooo much for all of your videos! Your recipes and tips have helped me so much along my Keto journey!
The only thing to watch for is taco bell meat is not gluten free. It has flour in it as my wife cannot eat there due to gluten sensitivity. So beware. So if gluten is not an issue, then go ahead.
True, the ground beef is not GF but the shredded chicken andd steak are okay. My boyfriend has celiacs and these are his go-tos
I actually did all this and asked for extra lettuce but they will take out but will not for the life of me replace it with or add extra of anything?? You are left staring at the bottom of an empty black container?? I give up. I tried.
I get the power bowl no rice, no beans, extra lettuce, cheese, and steak and I am pretty full after I eat it.
Im from Philly too but live down the Shore. My favorite breakfast is the egg bowls at WAWA.It comes with a variety of meats to add. Great! THX
Did you have your baby yet?
Adele
The breakfast bowls at Wawa are not keto friendly. The eggs have a ton of carbs because of added ingredients