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<ownershipDocument>

    <schemaVersion>X0101</schemaVersion>

    <documentType>3/A</documentType>

    <periodOfReport>2002-09-03</periodOfReport>

    <dateOfOriginalSubmission>2002-09-10</dateOfOriginalSubmission>

    <noSecuritiesOwned>0</noSecuritiesOwned>

    <issuer>
        <issuerCik>0000033769</issuerCik>
        <issuerName>EVANS BOB FARMS INC</issuerName>
        <issuerTradingSymbol>bobe</issuerTradingSymbol>
    </issuer>

    <reportingOwner>
        <reportingOwnerId>
            <rptOwnerCik>0001191732</rptOwnerCik>
            <rptOwnerName>COLWELL SCOTT D</rptOwnerName>
        </reportingOwnerId>
        <reportingOwnerAddress>
            <rptOwnerStreet1>  </rptOwnerStreet1>
            <rptOwnerStreet2>  </rptOwnerStreet2>
            <rptOwnerCity>  </rptOwnerCity>
            <rptOwnerState>  </rptOwnerState>
            <rptOwnerZipCode>  </rptOwnerZipCode>
        </reportingOwnerAddress>
            <reportingOwnerRelationship>
            <isDirector>0</isDirector>
            <isOfficer>1</isOfficer>
            <isTenPercentOwner>0</isTenPercentOwner>
            <isOther>0</isOther>
            <officerTitle>SR V.P. MARKETING</officerTitle>
        </reportingOwnerRelationship>
    </reportingOwner>

    <derivativeSecurity>
        <securityTitle>
            <value>Incentive Stock Option (right to buy)</value>
        </securityTitle>
        <conversionOrExercisePrice>
            <value>31.16</value>
        </conversionOrExercisePrice>
        <exerciseDate>
            <value>2004-06-06</value>
                <footnoteId id="F1"/>
        </exerciseDate>
        <expirationDate>
            <value>2012-06-06</value>
        </expirationDate>
        <underlyingSecurity>
            <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                <value>Common Stock $.01 Par Value</value>
            </underlyingSecurityTitle>
            <underlyingSecurityShares>
                <value>4282</value>
            </underlyingSecurityShares>
        </underlyingSecurity>
        <ownershipNature>
            <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                <value>D</value>
            </directOrIndirectOwnership>
        </ownershipNature>
    </derivativeSecurity>

    <derivativeSecurity>
        <securityTitle>
            <value>Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy)</value>
        </securityTitle>
        <conversionOrExercisePrice>
            <value>31.16</value>
        </conversionOrExercisePrice>
        <exerciseDate>
            <value>2003-06-06</value>
                <footnoteId id="F2"/>
        </exerciseDate>
        <expirationDate>
            <value>2012-06-06</value>
        </expirationDate>
        <underlyingSecurity>
            <underlyingSecurityTitle>
                <value>Common Stock $.01 Par Value</value>
            </underlyingSecurityTitle>
            <underlyingSecurityShares>
                <value>4396</value>
            </underlyingSecurityShares>
        </underlyingSecurity>
        <ownershipNature>
            <directOrIndirectOwnership>
                <value>D</value>
            </directOrIndirectOwnership>
        </ownershipNature>
    </derivativeSecurity>

    <footnotes>
        <footnote id="F1">Granted pursuant to the Bob Evans Farms, Inc. First Amended and Restated 1998 Stock Option and Incentive Plan. The option vests in installments as follows: 1,390 shares on June 6, 2004; 2,892 shares on June 6, 2005. The option was timely reported on Mr. Colwell's original Form 3 filed on September 10, 2002.  However, the number of shares subject to the option was inadvertently overstated in the original Form 3 as 17,356 shares.  The option actually consists of an Incentive Stock Option for 4,282 shares and a Nonqualified Stock Option for 4,396 shares.  All other terms of the option
as reported in the original Form 3 remain the same.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Granted pursuant to the Bob Evans Farms, Inc. First Amended and Restated 1998 Stock Option and Incentive Plan. The option vests in installments as follows: 2,893 shares on June 6, 2003; 1,503 shares on June 6, 2004. The option was timely reported on Mr. Colwell's original Form 3 filed on September 10, 2002.  However, the number of shares subject to the option was inadvertently overstated in the original Form 3 as 17,356 shares.  The option actually consists of an Incentive Stock Option for 4,282 shares and a Nonqualified Stock Option for 4,396 shares.  All other terms of the option as reported in the original Form 3 remain the same.  </footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>SCOTT D COLWELL</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2003-07-25</signatureDate>
    </ownerSignature>

</ownershipDocument>

