Jack Reacher's Rules

“He had no prejudice against fast food. Better than slow food, for a traveling man.”

Don’t eat before you go into an Army postmortem.

You need protein and fats and sugars, it doesn’t matter where they come from.

Eat when you can, because you never know when you will next get the chance.

Be friendly with the cookhouse detail.

“I’m a big guy … I need nutrition.”

Eat and plan.

Always eat a perfect breakfast: pancakes. Egg on the top, bacon on the side, plenty of syrup. And plenty of coffee.

Before a night of action and stress, go for empty calories, fats, and complex carbohydrates: pizza and soda.

“His threshold of culinary acceptability was very low, but right then he felt as if he might have been pushing at the bottom edge of his personal envelope.”