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Evening bowl of nuts and a boiled egg

The game asks for chips. The salt of the chips returns to the bladder at night. This bowl is less spectacular and less salty.

The night is not wrecked only by beer. The salty packet in front of the TV holds water in the tissues; when you lie down, some returns to circulation and wakes you for no reason. Nuts and egg fill earlier, so it is harder to “finish the packet”. Serve the portion in a bowl. The packet, back in the cupboard.

Time: 8 minutes if the egg is already boiled, 15 if you boil it now. Servings: 1 bowl, not a basin. Size matters more than the recipe: from the packet you eat twice as much without looking.

Ingredients

• a small handful of walnuts (about 6 halves)
• a small handful of almonds (about 8)
• a tablespoon of pumpkin seeds, better unsalted
• 1 boiled egg (cooked in advance)
• optional: 4–5 carrot sticks or cucumber slices, no salt

Steps

1. In the morning or at midday, boil the egg 7 minutes, cool it, leave it in the fridge in the shell.
2. Before the game, take out a small bowl — breakfast size, not salad size.
3. Count walnuts, almonds and seeds. Close the packet and put it back in the cupboard before you sit.
4. Peel the egg. Put it whole or in halves. If there is carrot, beside it.
5. Sit with the bowl, not with three open packets. When the bowl is finished, it is finished. There is no second round “because it is healthy”.

Why the salt of the chips comes back at night

Chips, nachos and packet sauces are concentrated salt. Salt holds water in the tissues through the afternoon. When you lie down, some of that water returns to the blood and the kidneys. You wake and blame the 21:00 glass. Often the culprit is the 20:30 packet. The bowl is not magic: it is less salt and a portion you can see.

Egg fills. Nuts also, if you do not eat them from the bag. Together they replace the gesture of “opening something” without copying the sodium bill. The frame is in the article on waking at night and in the one on the beer trick.

Hour: before 20:00, not with the last episode

Eat them after supper, if supper was early, or as a swap for the snack-supper if at 19:30 you were only going to open chips. After 21:00, empty mouth. A sip of water if the mouth is dry. Another cup of infusion at 22:00 does not enter this plate: it is more night fluid.

If there is beer, let it be with the meal or mid-afternoon, not with this bowl at 23:00. The bowl does not “compensate” a late lager. They are two different gestures. Together, worse.

Variations

• Without egg: a lightly sweetened plain yoghurt and the same handful of nuts. Still serve in a bowl.
• Without nuts: egg and carrot. Less dense, still better than nachos.
• With cheese: a small cube of cottage cheese, not a plate of salty hard cheese.
• Sweet: a piece of fruit (apple, pear) instead of the egg. Avoid handfuls of dates and salty chocolate.

Shopping and the Sunday trick

On Sunday boil 3–4 eggs. Prepare three imaginary bowls: you do not need to assemble them, it is enough to know the egg is there. Buy unsalted seeds. If the almond pack is 200 g, do not leave it open on the table; an opaque jar in the cupboard.

The usual error is “because it is healthy, I eat more”. Calories are not the topic of this page. The topic is salt and hour. A small bowl four nights a week is worth more than a basin on Friday.

Tip

If at 17:00 you take Urokolia nettle infusion, do not add another cup at night. The bowl replaces the chips, not supper. Eat supper earlier, with less salt, and leave this bowl for TV time. Lower light. Phone a little further. The pelvic floor, if you train it, on a chair before, not at 23:30 with the bowl in your hand.

Who it is not for

For anyone with a nut allergy. For anyone the doctor limited fats or yolks: adapt or ask. For anyone who gets up three times every night for months: this is a snack, not a diagnosis. Book and go with notes.

In the morning, the eggs with seeds. The map of the week is in men’s health and the daily rhythm.

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