Bob Evans' Healthy Breakfast Choices for Seniors

Eating out for breakfast is tricky if you're watching fat grams and calories. Taking time to check out a restaurant's choices makes good sense and allows you to have fun with friends and still eat sensibly.

Bob Evans Restaurants, for example, are widely known for having a warm atmosphere, kind hospitality and for high-quality food. Ordering breakfast there, however can derail a healthy diet. Go in knowing that breakfast items (on any restaurant menu) are likely to be high in sodium if you eat out. Try to choose the items with the least amount of sodium when possible.

Breakfast Pizza

A good item at Bob Evans is their Western Omelet made with "egg lites" and delivered to your table at only 310 calories, 14 grams of fat but still with a whopping 1,453 mg of sodium. This omelet made with regular eggs adds 177 calories and 18 g fat. Contrast that with their yummy Border Scramble at 677 calories, 33 grams of fat and 1,716 mg of sodium. Call the Border Police because when the filler is made with egg whites, the burrito has more calories than two Egg McMuffins and as much saturated fat as 13 strips of bacon. Avoid it!

Here's a hint, however. If you order a la carte, you can fare pretty well. An order of smoked ham (99 calories) and two scrambled eggs (168 calories) would make a good breakfast - don't do the toast, butter and jelly side, however. Or choose a bowl of oatmeal (167 calories) and the strawberry banana parfait (151 calories) and you'll have your table mates wishing they'd chosen more carefully themselves.

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Be careful eating out. Choose wisely and you can have your fun and eat out too!

Bob Evans' Healthy Breakfast Choices for Seniors

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