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Deliciously Diverse: Savoring Plant-Based & Gluten-Free Delights at On the Border
Hello YouTube and welcome back to another episode of Kelly’s plant-based guide to eating out today I’m going to jump into a restaurant that I actually just ordered catering for for my company I work for a Home Building Company and I work in the construction department so I’m in charge of ordering the food now they’re not really open to my way of.
Eating so I kind of just go with what they go and I bring my own food and I eat my own food but I wanted to review the restaurant that I ordered because everyone there loved it nobody in the construction apartment is actually plant-based but I did see one thing on the menu I was like oh that actually looks decent I think I should review.
This restaurant on you know my YouTube for you guys and go through this because I think other people have gone to this restaurant it’s a popular you know Mexican chain so hopefully I can help you guys with learning what you should order if you want to stay gluten-free you want to stay oil free or low oil you want to stay plant-based you don’t want.
To eat any animals and you want to stay healthy so for this video we’re going to be reviewing On the Border let’s take a look at their MI all right here is their website so on the border is a Mexican Grill in Cantina it’s kind of like a fast Mexican restaurant we ordered catering from them today we were able to get chicken and steak fajitas and then.
It came with soap ofas and brownies definitely not anything I would eat at all but everyone seemed to really really like it so I’m curious to go through this menu so again we go to the website when we’re looking for a menu and we always look for menu let’s just pull up the full menu and let’s go through it and see really what is on this menu.
Let’s start with let’s start with the seasonal why not let’s just start the top and then go all the way down seasonal menu is here what is their seasonal menu all right they got a spicy ghost Dorita that’s not really for us Texas flight Mexico flight not for us guacamole boardable so this guacamole was what I saw we ordered the fajitas.
And it came with a ton of guacamole this looks delicious and I heard from other people that it was very very just avocado based it was mostly avocados but look at this you guys this is amazing like look how good this is like cilantro lime rice black beans pickled red onions toasted corn queso fresco so we would say no cheese because we don’t eat dairy.
But other than that oh my gosh this is this is great like this is so much easier than the last Min in the restaurant that I looked at but yeah so you would definitely say no cheese and it does look like right right here there’s some it doesn’t say on here that there’s cheese but this does look like that Co cheese so you would probably.
Just say no cheese no Dairy but this looks super simple for you to be able to eat that’s awesome yeah these are the soapas that we ordered and again gluten not something that’s going to be good for us but this fresh guacamole bable oh I would thumbs up to that if you are going to On the Border let’s keep checking what else they have so sides.
And salads again this guacamole it looked delicious like I it was gone I went back to actually get some cuz I was like I want to take some some home and maybe eat it later because I was eating fruit and you don’t mix fruits and fats so I never mix my fruits and fats I would never eat an avocado with a mango so I was waiting and I waited too long.
Because everyone ate all of this it was actually one of the few things that was like 100% gone so guacamole probably be very delicious here cheese gluten gluten fajitas it doesn’t look like you can get a vegetable fajita right here so that’s not really something that we would go for the the dressings they have they have a homemade salsa the homemade salsa.
Might be what you would do as a dressing honestly because that is just going to be very basic food there’s not going to be any oil in it the lime vinegret might have some oil in it some it could have some cream in it you’d really have to ask to see what’s in there it probably looks like that one wonder if they have the they don’t have the they don’t have.
The ingredients all right so chicken flas pjo nachos none of this none of this none of this none of this none of this all right fajitas see if they have any sort of plant-based fajitas they do look at this you guys they have portella mushrooms and veggie grilled over mosquite wood along a hand press.
Flow tortilla so if we wanted to keep this gluten-free I would say no flour tortilla get a corn tortilla or get no tortilla I would ask about the beans because beans not not all the time are vegan sometimes they are cooked with meat or animal products so you have to be careful of the beans the Mexican rice should be okay I would say no cheese so.
You would have to change this a little bit bit it will take the calories down which would be really nice because I think flour tortillas are tons of calories so this will definitely get that lower but that’s quite a bit of calories for a meal that’s like almost as many calories as I eat in a day I eat about 1,800 calories so that’s that’s.
Quite a bit of calories for a day but this is something that you could probably do you know portella mushrooms with veggies and then yeah they’ve got steak so mosqu Grill let’s see what else they have on the grill quesadilla quesadilla here’s a veggie quesadilla but again it’s got sour cream and it’s got cheese.
We don’t we don’t do the dairy text mess faves um there is here classic chimy chonga nope nope nope nope Noe okay Combos and meals let’s see if there’s anything in Combos and meals does not look like it I’m just looking at the pictures I just see fried fried fried fried here’s a house salad.
So again a salad is always an Easy Choice typically you can change the salad make it what you want if it’s not a salad that’s based with the protein it’s typically going to be generally cheaper I would not do their dressings or maybe ask about their dressings those dressing seemed decent don’t do the ranch the ranch will definitely have.
Cream in it I would say no queso fresco the queso fresco is going to be Dairy no tortilla strips that is going to be gluten so you kind of have to change their salad a little bit or you’re just getting lettuce and cabbage and Pico that’s like it but you add the guacamole that we found earlier that would make that pretty delicious uh um the Pick.
Four combo of okay know the fresh guacamole bable we saw this earlier yeah this is so far my number one pick because you can actually eat a whole thing you’re not just eating you know some lettuce and some Pico and some Tomatoes you’re eating actually a meal so I like this so far a lot it is not raw though because you do have the.
Toasted corn you have the Pickled rag Onan so this wouldn’t be a raw vegan Choice it would just be a a cooked plant-based choice that you’re eating so there’s that let’s take a look at the kids menu what is going on in the kids menu again there’s a little bit of green I see a little bit of green in that soft taco but again where’s the color where’s.
The greens where’s the Reds where’s the yellow well there’s a little bit yellow but where’s the fiber where’s the fruits where’s the vegetables we need to be feeding our children better meals you guys uh I hope restaurants take notice of this and start giving children better options okay so soapas it’s interesting because I ordered the brownies and I.
Ordered the soapas for work and a lot more people like the brownies and soapas we had a whole platter left of these so maybe people are tuning into to like I don’t want to eat just fried bread and they don’t want to eat gluten so there’s there’s that pinatas allar tacos avocado slic so look at this this is perfect you guys you can get some avocado slices to.
Actually this would be a perfect dressing you could get the three avocado slices you could put some lime or lemon on top of it and mash it up with a fork and there’s your dressing perfect the cilantro lime rice I don’t really love rice but if you want that I assume that’s probably plant-based and probably okay if you wanted to add rice in if.
You’re eating rice I just don’t eat rice the black beans are vegetarian so you have to make sure that there’s no cheese on them so just make sure no cheese no cheese no cheese always say no cheese when you go to these places because sometimes they don’t even say that there’s cheese and they’ll add cheese so just obv no cheese no cheese here’s the.
Guacamole here’s the house salad that we would have to take a lot off the Pico we could do these fied beans actually have meat in them I did learn that o you guys sauteed vegetables there you go some sauteed vegetables it looks like they got like all a lot of salt on them but that’s that’s a better option salsa you can definitely eat some salsa tortillas.
I would say no tortilla but there are corn tortillas so you could go for corn tortillas if you wanted to stay gluten-free drinks we stick to water and we stick to not drinking with our meals and we stick to drinking 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after and not drinking liquids during our meals that’s going to help with your digestion that’s.
Going to be the best for your your gut you know you don’t want to be putting water in there and watering down that food while it’s trying to actually digest in the body so none of this because we don’t drink alcohol either um yeah I think this is all alcohol all this and yeah oh a mango a mango iced tea probably might have you know.
Flavoring in it but that sounds pretty good right now I love mango so there is all that again at the very very very bottom of the menu you typically will find the allergen information you find the gluten-free menu you find the vegetarian menu and the nutrition information these are huge to go through let’s actually just look at one of.
Them so here is this oh this is a cool one you could print this out look at this suggested menu and beverage options for egg allergies so egg allergies would be something you are avoiding if you’re trying to stay plant-based because you don’t want to eat any eggs this is cool L see without so yeah this tells you kind of what doesn’t have eggs in it.
This tells you what doesn’t have fish in it that’s cool what doesn’t have milk in it oh sweet wow they did on the B I’m impressed with on the border with how they did this peanut allergies all right cool shellfish allergies so if you don’t e any fish shellfish allergies soy allergies where’s the gluten tree nut allergies wow this is this is wheat and.
There we go for gluten wheat allergies so this is all the stuff that we could not eat so yeah look at the dressing the spicy avocado ranch the lime vinegar I knew it you will find gluten in dressing it’s so weird you will find gluten in the most random things that you wouldn’t even think gluten would be in but you got to you got to be careful sometimes.
Because you’ll find it in like dressings when there shouldn’t be wheat in these dressings you know but they like to put it in there these are all the things that you can eat if you wanted to avoid wheat that’s a great that’s a great great tool right there if you guys wanted to do that the gluten- friendly menu is probably very similar let’s look.
At that gluten friendly menu wow wow this is I’m impressed I think other restaurants need to take note of how on the border is doing it because this is cool and here you go this is this is actually your nutrition information so if you really wanted to break down and see okay how much fat in am I eating how many.
Calories am I eating here is that information which is really cool I love when restaurants give you this information because you you have control again you know and when we go when we go out to eat we lose a little bit of control we don’t know exactly what’s everything in there but when they give you this kind of stuff this helps a.
Little bit you know this helps you get a little bit more control back you know when you’re looking at something you’re like I really want a veggie quesadilla but you’re like holy crap that’s or a steak quesadilla that’s 1260 calories like do you really want that steak quesadilla because I mean that’s that’s like half of your day’s worth of.
Calories you know like for one meal that you’re eating it’s that’s that’s maybe more than half of your day’s worth of calories you know so it’s it’s one of these I love looking at these to just you know figure out okay am I eating too much is it too little is it too much what fits in my goals for the day so I hope you guys enjoyed this little quick.
Peek into on theboard restaurant and it gives you some insights of what you could order again I would order that guacamole Bowl I think that’s great there’s some really good side options on there that are really good that guacamole look delicious I’m really bummed I didn’t get to try any of the guacamole now but yeah I hope this.
Helped you guys and I will see you next time
