[jpetso]

You're not wrong, however the parent was specifically replying to a post that justified home cooking with financial considerations and didn't even go into the quality-of-life aspect at all.

I think the takeaway is that if you prefer coding over cooking then that's justifiable from a financial and time efficiency point of view. If you prefer cooking and the presumed family quality time over (even more) coding then that's also very reasonable.

[Jtsummers]

Unless you're spending all your waking hours maximally, the time savings of not-cooking versus cooking is not a well-considered trade off in the GPs post.

Just the transit time for a meal out is already going to cost them a great deal more productive time than cooking would. They don't mention Soylent or frozen meals, which are really the only viable way to spend your time more productively than either meal prep or eating out.

[chefkoch]

The whole math changes if you either don't live in silicon valley or cook for more than one person (or cook for more than one meal).