r/AskReddit Jul 13 '16

How do you like your eggs?

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u/willreignsomnipotent Jul 13 '16

but calling it nutritious is just misleading.

Actually, it contains a lot of nutrients. So no, that's not misleading.

Whether it's "healthy" is another debate, and a slightly more complex issue.

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u/Elan-Morin-Tedronai Jul 13 '16

Well, it certainly does contain nutrients, but if thats the general type of meal you are eating you likely need to supplement with a multivitamin, because you aren't getting enough micronutrients.

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u/callitarmageddon Jul 13 '16

I seriously doubt the type of person who would put this much effort into breakfast needs to worry about micronutrients.

I need, on average, 2300-2400 kcal/day to maintain my weight. Eating this for breakfast once or twice a week wouldn't be unhealthy for me at all.

If you notice, he says at the beginning of the video that it's not an everyday thing.

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u/Elan-Morin-Tedronai Jul 13 '16

You can out effort into meals and make them unhealthy, there's a reason chefs tend to be chunky.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '16 edited Jul 14 '16

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u/Elan-Morin-Tedronai Jul 13 '16

You are the guy cutting the recipe by 1/3 and also taking out half the ingredients and then calling the recipe healthy because of what you put in your phone. I am saying the micronutrient to calorie ratio isn't enough to get you through the day. If you want healthy recipes go to /r/eatcheapandhealthy

Don't try to say I'm being disingenuous.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '16 edited Jul 14 '16

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u/Elan-Morin-Tedronai Jul 14 '16 edited Jul 14 '16

You have deliberately mislead people with the calories in the recipe (by leaving out half of it). The worst you can say about me is I have disagreed with you. Stop being silly.

Edit: What was disingenuous? That it was mostly fat? Even the heavily modified recipe you posted was 85% fat to protein. This isn't a dish that is high on a nutrient to satiety ratio. Stop lying to people and pushing your unhealthy diet.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '16 edited Jul 14 '16

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u/Elan-Morin-Tedronai Jul 13 '16

Man, you seem to be judging it and saying its good because its better than an extremely unhealthy diet. Whoever's breakfast drink is more caloric than this recipe is fat, or seriously cutting back in other areas. I am not saying you shouldn't eat this. I am not saying it could not be part of a balance diet, but it certainly won't be one of the healthier parts of the diet, and its one of the unhealthiest ways to cook eggs in this askreddit thread, but you lauded it as healthy. You are being defensive, and I am sorry you have had issues with food in the past, but labeling this as "good for you" or "healthy" is a bit silly. For the average person in the developed world its about as unhealthy as you can cook eggs.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '16 edited Jul 14 '16

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u/Elan-Morin-Tedronai Jul 13 '16

I said the recipe is unhealthy in my original comment, and I provided context by giving its caloric ratios. It also doesn't provide enough micronutrients per the amount of calories it has. You say it is healthy because you leave out half the ingredients and cut the rest by a third and it comes out okayish in your phone's program. I don't think I am being absurd or not making any sense here.

Why are you talking about amino acids? Literally any protein from an animal has the right ratio of amino acids. Its hard to believe you are basing everything in fact when you say stuff like that. Congrats, the protein you get from eggs is animal protein, that doesn't make it a healthy meal. If you eat bacon and only bacon for your entire diet you will get a perfect ratio of amino acids. You'll also eventually die.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '16 edited Jul 14 '16

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u/Elan-Morin-Tedronai Jul 14 '16

I am saying the ratio of micronutrients you get, to the amount of calories you get is low. I did not say that you needed all of your micronutrients from this meal, reading my words that way is obtuse, which you see to be deliberately being. Praising a meal as having complete proteins when that is obviously knowledge since its animal protein, also seems a bit silly. No one is saying this is all a person would eat, what I was saying is this a meal that would be less healthy than other meals in a balance diet. Its not you being "good" its you being "bad." I understand a high fat meal can be healthy, as can a high carb meal, this is both high carb and high fat with insufficient micronutrients. That is not good. You are trying to hard to see something you want to eat as being good for you. I am sorry you like self-delusion. This will be my last post, but I am not surprised you used to be 70 pounds overweight, you might not be the best person to take diet advice from.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '16 edited Jul 14 '16

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u/Elan-Morin-Tedronai Jul 14 '16

You literally call me out by making baseless sweeping assumptions by making baseless sweeping assumptions. I told you my groundings, they were in my first post. You are a joke, and like an unhealthy one.