[DeWilde]

My thoughts as well.

You don't need to spend an entire day in the kitchen to prepare yourself a few meals with unprocessed or minimally processed foods: frozen or fresh veggies, dairy products, eggs, raw meat, or fish with about 20 mins of cooking, frying, or boiling and you have yourself a few meals.

Its actually cheaper than eating out and if you apply meal prep on a weekly basis, like I do, it doesn't even take too much of your time.

[kragen]

of course it's cheaper than eating out, it's like an order of magnitude difference usually

the weekly approach is especially efficient. one tip i've seen but never tried is to use a deep freeze to interleave different weeks, so within a given week you might cook three dishes but, by eating food you'd frozen over the previous 7 weeks, eat 21 different dishes