Section of the magazine
This section is about the meals that repeat rather than the ones worth photographing. The recurring question is how many decisions stand between being hungry and eating, and how many of them can be settled once, in a cupboard or on a shopping list, instead of every morning.
Entries in this section
Every entry carries the date it was written. The dates are the only figures on this site that we ask anybody to take on trust, and they are the reason the order below is worth reading in either direction.
16/07/2026
The only food habit that changes nothing about what you buy, cook or spend. A meal eaten in four minutes at a worktop and the same meal eaten in fifteen at a table are, in every way anyone notices afterwards, two different meals.
08/07/2026
A supermarket is an unusually bad place to do arithmetic. Ten seconds, the ingredient list rather than the front of the box, and the first three words, which carry most of the information because the list is written in order of quantity.
30/06/2026
The habit does not fail because it is difficult. It fails because it is counted, and counting is the first thing a busy day throws overboard. Cues survive where quotas do not: a jug on the table, a glass while the kettle boils.
18/06/2026
A breakfast that has to be invented at seven in the morning gets skipped. Four slots, one shelf at eye level, and three assemblies dull enough to be repeated: the template matters more than the recipe.
The habits in Everyday Nutrition run into two neighbours more often than into any others. The first is Habits and Routines, where the question of routine is taken up from the other side, and the second is Movement and Walking, which handles the walking end of the same subject. Readers who prefer to follow the dates rather than the sections can do that from the front page, where every entry is listed in the order it was written.