Eat Out Without Sacrificing Your Waistline (& Giveaway)
Veggie Omelet
The New Year always brings a flurry of New Years Resolutions about staying fit, eating right and getting back into shape. I personally am not a fan of New Years Resolutions so I rarely have any of my own to strive towards. However, I did just have a baby so my waistline is forefront on my mind these days.
Recently, Bob Evans contacted me to let me know (and to let you know) that they have a new Fit from the Farm menu that began January 7th. Here are some of the features of the menu:
- Based on an average 2,000 calorie daily allowance, all Fit from the Farm dishes have:
• 650 calories or less
• 750mg or less sodium
• 35 percent or less total calories from fat
• Less than 10 percent of total calories from saturated fats (or 1/3 or less of the recommended Daily value for
saturated fat)
• 0g trans fat
• No MSG - The Pick-Three Breakfast Combo gives guests a choice among seven menu options to create a balanced grouping.
Other breakfast options include the fresh fruit plate with a choice of low-fat strawberry yogurt or low-fat cottage
cheese, the veggie omelet, fruit and yogurt crepe with oatmeal and blueberry banana French toast. - The lunch menu now offers a new Apple-Cranberry Spinach Salad (available as an entrée or savor-size portion)
served with a reduced-fat Raspberry Vinaigrette dressing. Additionally, there are three soups and six side dishes that
can be paired together to create the perfect combination. The fresh fruit plate is also available at lunch along with
Chicken, Spinach & Tomato Pasta. All lunch dishes are less than 530 calories and contain 16 or less grams of fat. - Dinner entrees on the Fit from the Farm menu include the Grilled Salmon Fillet, the Potato-Crusted Flounder and
Grilled Chicken Breast, all served with a baked potato (plain) and steamed broccoli florets. Drink recommendations
are also given to pair with the various dishes on the new menu, including cold or hot tea or a diet Coke, all at one
calorie or less.
Apple-Cranberry Spinach Salad
As an encouragement to you to try the new Fit from the Farm menu (and to stay healthy in 2010) Bob Evans is offering a $20 gift certificate, free kids meal coupon, $2 off $10, pedometer, water bottle and jump rope to one lucky reader. Here is how you can enter to win (you can comment using the following criteria for up to 3 entries):
1. Comment – How are you trying to stay healthy, fit or out of the cookie jar in 2010?
Additional ways to enter:
2. Tweet or Facebook this contest – make sure that you use @onceamonthmom in your Tweet or Facebook status. And don’t forget to leave a comment below stating you have done so.
3. Subscribe to the Once A Month Mom blog via RSS or email. Let me know that you have done so. Of course, if you are already subscriber make sure you leave that too.
This giveaway ends Friday, January 22nd at NOON. Winner will be chosen by random using random.org.
Disclosure: I received a Bob Evans $20 gift certificate, free kids meal coupon and $2 off $10 coupon for myself and one to giveaway to a reader. All the opinions of the product are my own.
I glad to see resturants taking an interest in healthy eating.
I’m trying to exercise REGULARLY and eat more fruits and veggies this new year! Lost 3.5 pounds in two weeks so far!:)
We are exercising 3 times a week, and trying to eat less sweets!
I am beginning a competition with my friendsthis friday that lasts for 12 weeks. It’s our own biggest loser.
9 months after baby #2 – I have gotten back on track with the help of Weight Watchers points!!
We are keeping up with our calories and choosing healthier options. Would love to try some of those!
I’m not trying to lose weight at the moment (6 weeks away from having a baby), but I’m trying to maintain a healthy gain… and then I’ll be breastfeeding (which is a great help to losing baby weight…) But I’m definitely going to have to watch my snacking after the baby – that’s my downfall! Snacks are good – junk food is not. They are NOT synonymous!!
My biggest thing is to stay away from all the snack foods. I think my toddler lived on those toward the end of my pregnancy. As much as they are handy, no one needs to eat fruit snacks and a cereal bar for a snack. Even though I get the all natural ones. Ironic there there are all natural no sugar added fruit snack, isn’t it.
I am trying to exercise more and make more foods from scratch so I can control the calories. I also have been walking to pick up my kids from school so I get 3 miles of walking in two to three days a week.
I have been reading your site for a while, and I finally subscribed to your RSS feed.
I forgot to mention that I subscribe to your blog through my Google Reader.
My computer is upstairs and I’m trying to stay up there and away from the temptations in the kitchen. I’m also do workouts on my stationary bike.
I’m subscribed via Google Reader.
I subscribe to email!
I have stopped buying most processed foods and have added more rice and vegetables to our family meals.
I started playing volleyball at our church
just subscribed recently and am already loving your blog! thanks!
I have lost over 30lbs in the past few months and continue to watch what I eat, working on more better foods and staying away from fast food!
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oh yum, I am getting hungry reading this! The best way I have found it get a free account at a place like FitDay.com and track ALL of your calories. You’ll find yourself making better choices about snacking for sure!
I am also training for a half marathon, running is such a great calorie burner!!
I tried to stay out of the cookie jar by getting rid of it..only to see way too much stuff in my pantry..so I did a major purge and gave away most the “junk.”…oh how I’d love a twinkie right about now LOL Thanks for the chance to win.
For motivation, my girlfriends and I are staying on top of each other. Trying new recipes together, working out together…it helps to have a friend to push you on the days you just want to skip!
A group of us at school are eating together once a week and sharing recipes…Great for keeping us accountable.
Sounds like a great idea! Be sure to send some of those recipes my way!
I am really trying to cook with less processed food. I am trying to make healthier meal choices. And when the kids get home from school, I put out more fruits and veggies instead of the junk food they usually eat.
I am subscribed to your blog by email and RSS.
I’ve lost over 100lbs (YES, 100+) during the past year by cutting out all simple carbs, sugars, carbonation, etc. Of course, I could do this without exercising like a crazy person.
My husband and I can’t afford to eat out (darn, Medical School), so we eat a lot of tuna, chicken, lentils, beans, and green beans. We do have Bob Evan’s Restaurants near us and would love the opportunity to try them out, especially if they’re now offering a new Fit from the Farm menu. It’s nice to know that I could eat out and still stay true to my positive changes. Thanks for the heads up! In the meantime, I still have 25 more to lose. = )
Oops, I meant to say that I COULDN’T do this without exercising like a crazy person. = )
I eat and cook healthy for my children and my husband and I reap the benefits
. I chase after 4 little ones all day for great exercise!
I am an email subscriber – love your blog!
I am an email subscriber
I am cooking all our meals at home and we are exercising 3 days a week.
definitely by walking more and hopefully when income tax refund rolls in, purchasing the wii fit add on for our wii. Im also cooking sweet treats at home so i know exactly what goes in them!
I’d really like to lose the 13 lbs. of baby weight I still have hanging around before trying to get pregnant again this year. But as always, I just want to eat more healthfully and exercise.
I try to stay healthy by drinking lots of water. I find I tend not to snack if I drink my 8 glasses of water a day.
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My husband and I are doing Weight Watchers. We’re tracking all of our food and having a lot of success so far!
I subscribe to your blog, also.
I recently subscribed (after finally learning how to do rss feeds thanks to my husband!) and one thing I’m doing to stay healthy is planning my meals (hence, my interest in oamm!!) I find that when I plan, I not only save money, I’m also less stressed, and eat better!
On a side note, I’m a former Bob Evans waitress! I loved waitressing and miss it sometimes- I’m a total people person and loved interacting with customers. I highly recommend the flounder- very yummy! Their salads are great too.
We have been eating less, cutting back on carbs, and not eating less than 2 hours prior to going to bed. Soon to start exercising.
I am doing the 30 day shred by jillian micheals.. on day 10! love to be entered into this drawing
I am subbed to you already!
I joined WW online, have a support group of friends online and am trying to fit exercising more into my schedule. (Still have to work on that one
)
Cut back carbs and keep up with gym schedules.
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I’m a subscriber.
I’m trying to drink more water. I used to drink a lot but it seems to have dropped off a lot lately for no reason, and I ‘know’ I need to be drinking more. I feel really sluggish.
I subscribe.
I’m also doing the 30 Day Shred…but I’m only on day 3. I have a long ways to go!!!
And I subscribe to your feed!
trying to stay healthy and fit in 2010!
subscribed via rss
I try to eat healthy as possible (fruits and vegetables everyday).
I’m trying to count calories and walk more.
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I subscribed via email.
I’m trying to stay fit by taking the stairs, parking far from the supermarket and walking all the aisles in the supermarket. I also try to use my Wii and other exercise equipment at home.
I am trying my hardest to walk more and drink more water. Oh, and not to eat after 8 at night!!