Lunch

Chicken + rice, plain

Name: Chicken + rice, plain
Prep time: 7 min
Cook time: 7 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 1 servings
Cuisine: American

3 hours before kickoff, on a day where the stomach is already nervous. Deliberately boring.

Steps

1
Plain white rice, no oil, no seasoning
1 and a quarter cups cooked jasmine rice. Nothing on it. This plate exists because a nervous stomach and an unfamiliar flavour is a bad combination an hour before a match.
2
Chicken cooked dry, salt only
About 5 oz of chicken breast in a dry or barely oiled pan, salted, cooked through, sliced. No sauce, no butter, no garlic. Fat and strong flavours are the two things most likely to come back on you.
8:00
Common mistake: Adding a sauce because it looks sad on the plate. Sad on the plate is the entire design here.
3
A banana on the side
Eaten with the meal or kept for 45 minutes before warm-ups. Easy carbohydrate that nobody has ever struggled to digest.

This is the plate for a first tournament, an away game, or any day he says his stomach feels funny. It is not meant to be the everyday meal.
Low fat and low fibre is the whole point. Both slow down how fast the stomach empties, and full is the worst way to start a match.
3 hours is the target. If it slips to 90 minutes, halve the chicken and keep the rice.
Boring is a feature. Every ingredient here is one he has eaten a hundred times.