The Intentional Table

The Intentional Table

The Five Minute Breakfast Decision

Part Two of a Nine Week Series on Quick Nutrition Rituals

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Jonathan McCloud
Jun 17, 2026
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How did the warm water go? Not whether you did it every day. Whether you came back to it after the day you didn’t. That’s the whole practice.

Here’s what usually happens at breakfast: we open the fridge, stare into it as if it owes us an answer, and default to whatever requires the least thought. Or we skip it entirely because there…

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