Boiled Egg Diet: How Many Eggs Should You Have in a Day? Boiled Egg Diet: How Many Eggs Should You Have in a Day? The diet has several versions, and one of them looks like a recipe for self-destruction - where you're supposed to have boiled eggs for all your meals! NDTV Food Desk Highlights Eggs are a good source of protein and fat How many eggs should you have in a day? We now live in a world where it is almost impossible to escape the pervasiveness of processed food items. Not only ready-eat-meals but most of the raw ingredients that go into cooking our final meals are also processed in nature to some extent. This has led to a departure from the processed to what can be naturally procured and included in the diet. As more and more people struggle to maintain a healthy work-life balance, little attention is given to the daily diet. This facilitates fad-diets to make inroads into our lives. While little is known about the actual efficacy of most of these popular diets, they are exceptionally alluring in making some of us fall as their prey.