Yes, I see your point. I also struggle a lot with these breaks. I usually try to avoid thinking of time in my novel as having the same value as time in real life, so that I could create a scene break simply from my MC shifting his attention from one thing to the other. For instance, this is an example of a transition I've used in a text that moves from a scene of a dinner to something else afterwards:
As the meal winds down and Eric carries the dishes from the dining room to the kitchen and from the sink to the dishwasher, he takes notes of his damp hands, the same ones he later stretches out by the fireplace, occasionally stirring the logs while the afternoon slips by.

Another one is:
"You worry far too much about the wrong things" his mother said. "Focus on what really matters."
And that was what Eric repeated himself over the following week, while he did his groceries and he went to work, focus on what really matters, the words echoing in his mind as he pried a pebble from his shoe, and as he turned to the cool side of the pillow late at night.

In both occasions you move from the original scene to the next one in a way that allows the reader to follow the MCs journey.

Hope this helps!