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Olive Garden calorie calculator: build a plate under your cap

Set a calorie cap from 200 to 1,500 and build an Olive Garden plate from 43 dishes, each counted with the choices it comes with (38 come with an optional soup or salad and 5 come with a choice of sauce, an optional topping and an optional soup or salad), using Olive Garden's own published figures, rounded to whole calories and grams. The lightest plate is the Cheese Ravioli with Marinara Sauce (Lighter Portion) at 440 calories with its lightest choices. The most protein in a complete meal under 800 is 74 g.

Source: Olive Garden nutrition guide (official), August 31, 2026 edition · Data refreshed

As of October 2026, 43 Olive Garden dishes can go into a built plate, and the most protein in a complete Olive Garden meal under 800 calories is 74 g (A Grilled Chicken Margherita, no soup or salad, and a Cappuccino).

Build your Olive Garden plate

Pick a cap, choose what matters, then add, swap or remove a dish, a side or a sauce; a plate keeps the choices it comes with, and the total, the macros and the words to tell your server update as you go.

Olive Garden meals under 800 calories

Starting points for the builder: one plate with a pick for each of its choices and at most one drink, the best under the cap for each goal, as the MinMax app builds it.

Most protein

  • Grilled Chicken Margherita650 cal · 65g
  • Cappuccino150 cal · 9g

800 of 800 cal · 74 g protein

What to tell your server: “A Grilled Chicken Margherita, no soup or salad, and a Cappuccino.”

Get it at the nearest Olive Garden →

Most filling

  • Grilled Chicken Margherita650 cal · 65g
  • Pasta Fagioli Soup Soup or salad150 cal · 8g
  • Coffee0 cal · 0g

800 of 800 cal · 73 g protein

What to tell your server: “A Grilled Chicken Margherita, with pasta fagioli soup, and a Coffee.”

Get it at the nearest Olive Garden →

Lightest

  • Cheese Ravioli with Marinara Sauce (Lighter Portion)440 cal · 25g
  • Coffee0 cal · 0g

440 of 800 cal · 25 g protein

What to tell your server: “A lighter portion Cheese Ravioli with Marinara Sauce, no soup or salad, and a Coffee.”

Get it at the nearest Olive Garden →

The 20 lightest Olive Garden plates

Each dish alone and with its lightest choices, the plates the builder starts from at a tight cap. Every Olive Garden row is on the Olive Garden calories page and in /data/olive-garden.json.

Lightest plates at Olive Garden
DishComes withDish aloneWith its lightest choices
Cheese Ravioli with Marinara Sauce (Lighter Portion)an optional soup or salad440440
Shrimp Scampian optional soup or salad490490
Spaghetti with Marinaraan optional soup or salad490490
Spaghetti (Create Your Own Pasta)a choice of sauce, an optional topping and an optional soup or salad340490
Angel Hair (Create Your Own Pasta)a choice of sauce, an optional topping and an optional soup or salad350500
Cheese Ravioli with Meat Sauce (Lighter Portion)an optional soup or salad500500
Lasagna Classico (Lighter Portion)an optional soup or salad500500
Gluten-Free Rotini (Create Your Own Pasta)a choice of sauce, an optional topping and an optional soup or salad380530
Bucatini (Create Your Own Pasta)a choice of sauce, an optional topping and an optional soup or salad410560
Rigatoni (Create Your Own Pasta)a choice of sauce, an optional topping and an optional soup or salad440590
Herb-Grilled Salmonan optional soup or salad610610
Chicken Parmigiana (Lighter Portion)an optional soup or salad630630
Five Cheese Ziti al Forno (Lighter Portion)an optional soup or salad630630
Spaghetti with Meat Saucean optional soup or salad640640
Grilled Chicken Margheritaan optional soup or salad650650
Eggplant Parmigiana (Lighter Portion)an optional soup or salad660660
Spaghetti with Meat Sauce & Italian Sausage (Lighter Portion)an optional soup or salad720720
Cheese Ravioli with Marinara Saucean optional soup or salad750750
Spaghetti & Meatballs with Meat Sauce (Lighter Portion)an optional soup or salad800800
Cheese Ravioli with Meat Saucean optional soup or salad860860

Eat at Olive Garden without blowing your cap

MinMax finds the best Olive Garden meal under your calorie goal — at the location nearest you — and lets you swap items to hit your protein. Free on iPhone.

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