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When you think of Bob Evans restaurants, you probably think of sausages and grits, not yogurt and oatmeal.
But now the chain is the latest to offer healthier food with a new menu called Fit from the Farm.
None of the items have more than 650 calories and 750 milligrams of sodium, Nation's Restaurant News reported.
Each choice has 35 percent or fewer total calories from fat and fewer than 10 percent of total calories from saturated fat, and none of the food contains trans fat. Calorie information is posted next to each menu item.
Among the fare to choose from: fresh fruit with yogurt or cottage cheese, a vegetable omelet, an apple-cranberry spinach salad with low-fat raspberry vinaigrette and potato-crusted flounder.
Diners on a 2,000-calorie daily diet would be able to eat three meals a day off the new menu, Mary Cusick, senior vice president for marketing at Bob Evans, told NRN.
The chain joins others including KFC, Dunkin' Donuts, Taco Bell, Starbucks and Applebee's that have revamped their menus in response to public demand and legislation calling for healthier food at restaurants.
There are 569 Bob Evans restaurants in 18 states, many of them in the Midwest and Southeast.
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1-24-2010 @7:07AM London said... Sorry, but what do the above posts such as looking for a woman and health insurance have to do with the Bob Evans article???? And why is this allowed?
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1-24-2010 @11:30AM Granny said... I was also thinking the same thing.
1-24-2010 @11:09AM slinky said... Maybe those posters are trying to tell us that if we eat from the new selections at Bob Evans, we can slim down and make ourselves sexier, and in slimming down, our health insurance premius will go down. But yes, they are quite annoying and I don't really understand why aol allows them to advertise for free.
1-24-2010 @8:29AM CIndy said... I read somewhere that these ads are there on purpose and that AOL put them there themselves.
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1-24-2010 @10:08AM Eloise said... This Bob Evans article sounds like an advertisement. I wouldn't be surprised if they paid AOL to post this.
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1-25-2010 @4:50PM ginny said... I have been in the rest bus for 30th years. I am a bartender. We all pick on the ff fries! But i feel it uncessary for a server to tell the world about eating off uneaten food. Leave that behind kitchen door!
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1-24-2010 @11:13AM slinky said... We don't go to Bob Evans for our health, we go there for delicious comfort food. If only they would expand to California...
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1-24-2010 @11:33AM A. Mancin said...
Doesn't any restaurant chain offer menu items without soy and gluten. All this other stuff is just fluff.
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1-24-2010 @1:42PM Dori said... Those ads are annoying, but there is one ( probably more than that ) that is on every article. It's the one the guys posts "he's, rich, handsome & single" if he's all that, & more, why can't he find someone to "love him back" on his own?
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1-24-2010 @1:59PM Bigbill said... This is great for those who are into this kind of food! I'm still annoyed that they took the fried catfish off the menu. I asked about it and my server said loads of people asked the same thing. I don't know who they survey about their menu items, but they sure don't seem to listen to the right people ( if indeed they survey anyone at all )!
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1-24-2010 @2:22PM Angiebaby said... I've never eaten at a Bob Evans. Actually, I've never even seen one. But this sounds like a good idea, especially for families that have varied tastes. While I don't usually go to restaurants to order only healthy foods, I love, love, love fruit and cottage cheese, and that salad looks like manna from Heaven!
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