Low FODMAP at Bob Evans

Rise & Shine Breakfast (customized)

Two eggs, shredded hash browns, and bacon or sausage links are all plain, single-ingredient items — the plate's only wheat is the bread that comes with it.

💬 Order it: Choose shredded hash browns (not a skillet), hold the toast and biscuit, and skip any gravy. Bacon is the surest meat pick.

Build Your Own Omelet

You control every filling, which makes it the most tunable item on the menu — the danger is only in what you add (onions, peppers, salsa) and how much cheese goes in.

💬 Order it: Fill with bacon or ham, spinach, and tomato; go light on cheese or skip it; no onions, peppers, or salsa. Take hash browns, not home fries, and no biscuit.

Hickory-Smoked Ham Steak plate

Smoked ham steak is a plain cured protein, and the vegetable sides at Bob Evans are unusually clean — green beans with ham, buttered corn, and carrots are all simple preparations.

💬 Order it: Ask whether the ham gets a sweet glaze and request it unglazed; pick green beans and buttered corn as sides and skip the dinner roll.

Country vegetable side plate

Green beans with ham, buttered corn, carrots, and french fries are each low-load at normal portions — combining three or four makes a genuinely workable meal without touching a gravy.

💬 Order it: Build from green beans with ham, buttered corn, carrots, and fries; keep broccoli to a small portion; avoid mashed-with-gravy, mac & cheese, coleslaw, dressing, and roasted apples.

Sausage Gravy & Biscuits

The house signature is the single heaviest plate for this diet: flour-and-milk gravy ladled over wheat biscuits — fructans and lactose in every bite with no way to modify it.

Slow-Roasted Turkey & Dressing

The turkey itself is fine, but it arrives buried under bread-and-celery dressing and flour-thickened gravy, with onion seasoning throughout the dressing.

Sunshine Skillet

Home fries, sausage, and cheese topped with sausage gravy — the gravy brings flour and milk, and skillets are seasoned as a unit so they can't be cleanly deconstructed.

Lemon Garlic Chicken

The menu's one grilled, lowest-calorie 'light' entree is the classic trap — garlic is the headline flavor, so the healthiest-looking item on the dinner page is an allium delivery vehicle.

Mushroom and Onion Chopped Steak

Named for its triggers: a sautéed mushroom (mannitol) and onion (fructans) topping over a seasoned patty, usually with gravy on the side dishes too.

Honey Butter Chicken and Biscuit

Wheat-breaded fried chicken on a wheat biscuit finished with honey butter — fructans from two directions plus excess fructose from the honey.

Steak Tips & Eggs

The tips come griddled with sauteed mushrooms and caramelized onions, finished with green onions — the onion and mushroom load is built into the dish, not a topping you can hold.