Steady Bites.

Everyday Habits

Food, everyday habits, and research worth making sense of.

Woman at a sunlit kitchen table assembling a salad in a glass container, adding cherry tomatoes from a bowl amid bowls of greens, sliced cucumbers and carrots, lemons, a green water bottle, potted herbs and a wall calendar marked Mon with a check.

Everyday Habits

Leave Monday Out of It

After a routine slips, restarting can become a bigger project than the habit itself. Make the next step small enough to take today.

A speckled green-and-cream ceramic cup and saucer hold steaming tea with three chamomile flowers floating, a small wooden spoon rests on the saucer, and scattered daisy petals, buds and leaves lie on the linen tablecloth with a vase of daisies behind.

Food & Drink Culture

Tea Can Begin With What You Like

A tea ritual can start with aroma, color, temperature, or company. It need not be a test of expertise.

Open refrigerator shelves filled with glass containers of salads, chickpeas, soup and muffins, jars of herbs and green sauce, a green crate holding lemons, a coconut carton and parsley, and a wooden cutting board propped nearby with simple illustrated recipe icons.

Everyday Habits

Give Leftovers a Job Before They Disappear

Leftovers become easier to use when they have a visible place, a future purpose, and a few flexible meal formats ready to receive them.

A packed lunch with grain salad, vegetables, and a sandwich

Recipes & Cooking

Build a Lunchbox Around How Food Travels

A useful packed lunch starts with logistics: what holds up cold, what can be prepared ahead, and what needs a safe temperature plan.

A woman seen through an open refrigerator holds a green insulated bottle to her face with a towel draped over her shoulders, surrounded by milk, eggs, butter, jars, and clear containers of strawberries and prepared food.

Health Research

Exercise May Matter Most After Weight Loss

A large European trial found that activity tracked more clearly with maintaining weight loss than with losing weight in the first place, but the result was observational.