Slim Chickens Mac and Cheese Bowls
The mac and cheese bowls take the regular mac and cheese side and promote it to a main course. The Tender Mac and Cheese Bowl Meal tops the mac with chopped tender chicken and shredded cheese, and serves it with Texas toast and a medium drink. The Buffalo Mac and Cheese Bowl Meal goes further: Cayenne Ranch sauce, green onions, crispy fried onions, more cheese and a drizzle of buffalo sauce over the top. Both bowls also come in spicy versions made with spicy tenders, for a small step up in price. The bowls began as a limited time idea at many stores and proved popular enough to stay on the standing menu at most locations.
Items and typical prices
Good to know
These are rich meals. Published calorie figures put the Tender Mac Bowl Meal at 1120 calories and the Buffalo version at 1402 calories, which makes them the heaviest standard meals on the menu, heavier than the big tender meals once sides and drinks are counted. Order one when you want comfort food at full strength, and consider sharing a Buffalo bowl with a side salad if two people are eating light. On price the bowls sit below the tender meals with the same drink included, which is why they are often the best value filling meal in the restaurant.
The spicy versions, explained
The two spicy bowls are not separate recipes so much as the same bowls built on spicy tenders, the hotter breading used in the spicy tender meals. The Spicy Tender Mac and Cheese Bowl Meal keeps the classic bowl profile with heat in the chicken itself. The Spicy Buffalo Mac and Cheese Bowl Meal stacks both heat sources at once, spicy tenders plus the buffalo drizzle and Cayenne Ranch, and it is the hottest standard item in this section. If you are heat curious but cautious, order the regular Buffalo bowl first: the drizzle is easier to pace than heat that is baked into every piece of chicken. Both spicy versions include the same Texas toast and medium drink as the standard bowls.
About these prices
Prices at Slim Chickens are set by each franchise location, so the figure you see in a restaurant in Arkansas can differ from the figure in Texas or Colorado. Delivery apps add their own markup on top, which is why the same meal can look one to three dollars higher on a delivery listing than it does on the board in the restaurant. On this site we publish a typical price for every item: a mid figure taken from several public listings across different states, checked in October 2026. Use these figures to plan your order and compare items with each other, then confirm the exact price at your local restaurant or in the official app before you pay. That habit will save you from surprises, because limited time items, featured items and seasonal items can change price or leave the menu without much notice.