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
- 43 plates
- 440 cal lightest plate
- 74g protein in a meal under 800
- 200–1,500 cal cap range
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.
| Dish | Comes with | Dish alone | With its lightest choices |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheese Ravioli with Marinara Sauce (Lighter Portion) | an optional soup or salad | 440 | 440 |
| Shrimp Scampi | an optional soup or salad | 490 | 490 |
| Spaghetti with Marinara | an optional soup or salad | 490 | 490 |
| Spaghetti (Create Your Own Pasta) | a choice of sauce, an optional topping and an optional soup or salad | 340 | 490 |
| Angel Hair (Create Your Own Pasta) | a choice of sauce, an optional topping and an optional soup or salad | 350 | 500 |
| Cheese Ravioli with Meat Sauce (Lighter Portion) | an optional soup or salad | 500 | 500 |
| Lasagna Classico (Lighter Portion) | an optional soup or salad | 500 | 500 |
| Gluten-Free Rotini (Create Your Own Pasta) | a choice of sauce, an optional topping and an optional soup or salad | 380 | 530 |
| Bucatini (Create Your Own Pasta) | a choice of sauce, an optional topping and an optional soup or salad | 410 | 560 |
| Rigatoni (Create Your Own Pasta) | a choice of sauce, an optional topping and an optional soup or salad | 440 | 590 |
| Herb-Grilled Salmon | an optional soup or salad | 610 | 610 |
| Chicken Parmigiana (Lighter Portion) | an optional soup or salad | 630 | 630 |
| Five Cheese Ziti al Forno (Lighter Portion) | an optional soup or salad | 630 | 630 |
| Spaghetti with Meat Sauce | an optional soup or salad | 640 | 640 |
| Grilled Chicken Margherita | an optional soup or salad | 650 | 650 |
| Eggplant Parmigiana (Lighter Portion) | an optional soup or salad | 660 | 660 |
| Spaghetti with Meat Sauce & Italian Sausage (Lighter Portion) | an optional soup or salad | 720 | 720 |
| Cheese Ravioli with Marinara Sauce | an optional soup or salad | 750 | 750 |
| Spaghetti & Meatballs with Meat Sauce (Lighter Portion) | an optional soup or salad | 800 | 800 |
| Cheese Ravioli with Meat Sauce | an optional soup or salad | 860 | 860 |
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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