Recommendation: A Little Breakfast Treat

Let the soft animal of your body love what it loves: carbs, fat and sugar

To get out of bed on Mondays is already a Sisyphean task. Last year I created a series of arbitrary rules to adhere to during quarantine just to give myself purpose — for several months I decided I’d eat the same jammy eggs and leftover roasted vegetables from dinner with wilted greens for breakfast, drinking is for weekends only, Friday afternoon after my meetings are over I can work from bed — to try to create some sense of order, or else I would simply never leave bed or get anything done.

I grudgingly followed my own rules a good 85% of the time, but sometimes I had to let the soft animal of my body love what it loves. It is on the days it is hardest for you to do something nice for yourself in the mornings that I suggest you make a low-effort treat of my childhood breakfasts for yourself: cinnamon-sugar toast. This joyful little snack requires few ingredients, but if you’re adhering to the cinnamon-sugar toast recipe of the late 1990s in Hershey, Pennsylvania, it looks like this:

• One slice of bread
• One pat butter
• One whimsical shaker of Dominos Sugar n Cinnamon

You toast your bread. You spread your butter or butter-like alternative across your slice of bread. You administer a few shakes of Sugar n Cinnamon — or just plain white sugar, and then ground cinnamon— to the bread-and-butter…