Slim Chickens Nutrition and Calories
This page gathers the calorie figures for Slim Chickens items that are publicly published in menu listings and nutrition databases, and it is upfront about the gaps. The chain does publish one official nutrition and allergen page, and it covers most single items and all of the house sauces. What no source publishes is a figure for every meal as a combined total, for kids meals as single entries, or for every drink size. What exists in public is therefore still a patchwork: the chain’s own published figures, calorie counts printed on some menu listings, figures in third party nutrition databases, and ranges for meals where the total depends on your choices. We list only figures we found in a public source. Where no figure is published, the item says so rather than guessing.
Why meal calories are ranges
A tender meal is not one fixed dish. A Chick’s Meal can be listed anywhere from 450 to 1410 calories because the total changes with the side you pick, the sauce you pick and the drink you pick, and with whether the tenders are fried or grilled. Public menu listings put numbers on the pieces: fries add about 470 calories, mac and cheese about 260, potato salad about 300 and fried pickles about 670. Sauces add up too: the chain’s own published sauce figures put Slim Sauce at 210 calories per serving, Ranch and Cayenne Ranch at 163, Honey Mustard at 195 and Blue Cheese at 270. Your drink can add zero calories for unsweet tea or water, or several hundred for a large sweet tea or soda. Add those choices together and the wide meal ranges make sense.
Items with published calories
The table below lists every item in our database that has a publicly published calorie figure. Ranges are shown where the source publishes a range, usually because the figure covers two cup or portion sizes.
| Item | Published Calories (cal) |
|---|---|
| Chick's Meal | 450 to 1410 |
| Slim's Meal | 620 to 1860 |
| 6 Piece Slim's Tender Bites à la carte | 360 |
| 6 Piece Slim's Tender Bites Meal | 900 |
| 10 Piece Slim's Tender Bites Meal | 1200 |
| Crispy Chicken Sandwich | 500 |
| Slim's Salad | 400 |
| Fries (Regular) | 470 |
| Mac and Cheese (Regular) | 260 |
| Potato Salad (Regular) | 300 |
| Potato Salad (Large) | 900 |
| Fried Pickles | 670 |
| Fried Okra | 540 |
| Texas Toast (1 slice) | 100 |
| Tender Mac and Cheese Bowl Meal | 1120 |
| Buffalo Mac and Cheese Bowl Meal | 1402 |
| Kids Tender Meal | 450 |
| Kids Tender Bite Meal | 400 |
| Vanilla Milkshake | 565 |
| Chocolate Milkshake | 665 |
| Chocolate Brownie Pudding Jar Dessert | 500 |
| Nilla Banana Pudding Jar Dessert | 400 |
| Cherry Cheesecake Jar | 450 |
| Chocolate Chip Brownie | 450 |
| Sweet Tea (20 oz) | 200 to 325 |
| Unsweet Tea (20 oz) | 0 |
| Peach Tea (20 oz) | 200 to 325 |
| Raspberry Tea (20 oz) | 325 |
| Lemonade (20 oz) | 250 to 400 |
| Coca-Cola (20 oz) | 235 to 375 |
| Dr Pepper (20 oz) | 250 |
| Sprite (20 oz) | 235 to 375 |
| Bottled Water | 0 |
| Gallon of Sweet Tea | 1300 |
| Gallon of Unsweet Tea | 0 |
| Gallon of Lemonade | 1600 |
| Gallon of Peach Tea | 1300 |
| Ranch | 163 |
| Slim Sauce | 210 |
| Cayenne Ranch | 163 |
| Honey Mustard | 195 |
| Honey BBQ | 90 |
| Buffalo | 75 |
| Spicy BBQ | 81 |
| Gravy | 57 |
| Garlic Parmesan | 150 |
| Mango Habanero | 75 |
| Blue Cheese | 270 |
| Sweet Red Chili | 120 |
| Korean BBQ | 105 |
| Hot | 45 |
| Lite Italian Dressing Packet | 60 |
| Balsamic Vinaigrette Packet | 90 |
| Small Crowd Mac & Cheese | 3554 |
| Small Crowd Potato Salad | 2400 |
| Large Crowd Mac & Cheese | 7107 |
| Large Crowd Potato Salad | 4800 |
| Miss Vickie's Sea Salt Kettle Cooked Potato Chips | 210 |
What is not published
Be clear about what this page cannot tell you. For many items, including most sandwiches, wraps, wings and kids items beyond the two listed above, no calorie figure appears in the public listings we checked, so those items are marked as not published in our database rather than estimated. Full breakdowns of fat, sodium, sugar and protein are published even less consistently, mostly in third party databases of uneven quality, so we do not reproduce them here. Allergen information used to be the biggest gap in our data; we now collect the chain’s official per item allergen flags on our allergens page. Even so, if you have an allergy, confirm with the restaurant before you order, because recipes, frying oil practices and suppliers change.
Practical takeaways
The lightest full meals are built on grilled chicken: a Slim’s Salad with grilled tenders and a vinaigrette, or tenders grilled where the location offers them, with a side salad or potato salad and unsweet tea. The heaviest published items are the mac and cheese bowls, at 1120 calories for the Tender Mac Bowl Meal and 1402 for the Buffalo version, and the shakes and jar desserts, where a chocolate shake alone is listed at 665 calories. None of that makes those items off limits. It just means the published numbers are most useful at the extremes, when you are choosing between a bowl day and a salad day.