Questionably Healthy Lunch

From time to time, one must leave their home for work in such haste that all they can do for a packed lunch is scrounge up loose items from the fridge. Today was one such day and the lunchbag inventory is as follows:

2x Hard boiled eggs
1x Apple, Musili and Nuts Activia Fibres yogurt
1x Banana
1x Small container of olives (multiple varieties)


Hard Boiled Eggs

For the past few years, I've boiled eggs according to the Charles D.H. Williams uber scientific method. I don't actually get how it works, but the formula looks something like this:







It is a little known fact that the best way to boil an egg is not to boil it at all, but rather to steam it. Cover the egg with water in a pot, wait until the first bubbles break and then take it off the heat, place a lid on it and wait about 15mins. Perfect eggs every time. Thank you Charles D.H. Williams.

So how do they taste? Not half bad. I tend to toss out the yokes. They're full of cholesterol, fat and taste like ground up chalk. Quick fact: The yolk is yellow due to the colour of the chicken's feed. Some farmers try to artificially colour the yolk, but this practice is outlawed in many areas.

The white of the egg is nothing but water and protein. I should have brought some salt.


Olives

There are over 16 million varieties of olives and I brought about 7 of those with me today. Black, green, Kalamata, umm... big, little, chopped, oil... They're all delicious and good for your heart. Olives only seem to last a day or two in these containers before the olive oil starts to congeal.


Yogurt

The website for this particular brand of yogurt claims that it is unique for it contains "bifidobacteria". It is a "friendly" bacteria that promotes colonic digestion. As if that wasn't enough, they've now added fiber into the yogurt in the form of musili and nuts. It all tastes fine as can be, though I should probably wait another hour or so for the real effects.


Banana

Now, I'm as much against genetically engineered fruit as the next person, but how come they can't get rid of those stringy things that stay on the banana after you peel it? They are one of nature's atrocities. The rest of the banana, however, is fine by me. Funny shape, adds colour to your lunchbag, tastes like you'd expect every time. Bananas make an excellent hangover cure, by the way. Hangovers are caused mainly by dehydration and lack of potassium. True story. Bananas have lots of potassium but so do orange juice, potatoes, bananas, avocados, tomatoes, broccoli, soybeans and apricots.


Conclusion

This lunch makes for a lot of work and waste just to eat it. Everything needs to be peeled, shelled or pitted. This is, perhaps, why chili in a breadbowl is the greatest evolution in food.

Scorecard

Nutrients: Some
Gas: Immanent