CONSIDER YOURSELF A NERD

Now a part of your balanced breakfast
Last month at clinic they said that my protein level was low, but they weren't surprised since I'd been so sick with that awful strain of the flu. This month it was a little higher, but still below the desired level. WTF? The nutritionist asked if I skip meals (breakfast once in a while), and suggested I try protein bars.

I'm not real into what I consider "cheating" food. If you're going to eat tofu, be honest about it and eat tofu--don't eat tofu made to look like meat, which strikes me as hypocritical. You don't eat real meat, but you eat fake meat? Do you decry fur as evil but wear fake fur anyway?

Anyway, they kept trying to give me supplemental shakes in the hospital, but I wouldn't touch them. Protein bars are pretty much the same thing, but solid, as far as I'm concerned, but I picked one up at Meijer a couple of visits ago. It was chocolate and peanut butter, and was supposed to provide 30 grams of protein. (It also wasn't cheap).

I took it with me to work one morning and tried to eat it in the car on a morning when I was really starved, figuring it would help.

The bar was heavy and leaden and somewhat pasty in texture, with nowhere near enough flavour to make up for this failing. I managed two bites and threw the rest away.

I'm still a little mystified by the low protein levels... I'm one of the more carnivorous people I know. My typical workday breakfast, however, isn't real protein-filled--usually it's a bowl of cereal at work because I don't have time for anything more elaborate. Sure, I'd love to have an egg-based breakfast, but it's not very practical, and I'm not sure I could convince myself to get up any earlier just to make a different kind of breakfast.

And now it's time for my protein-ful Sunday lunch: a ham and cheese omelette.

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