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This is silly. People have home cooked for millennia because it's cheaper than outsourcing it. Although traditionally women were stuck with the task and not compensated for it. In some ways now we're seeing the end of uncompensated domestic labour and people reaching about for ways to replace it - robots? Temporary labour of strangers from the precariat?

Maybe a lot of the traditional home cooking stuff isn't as good as what you'd get from takeout. A subtle form of inflation. For really cheap stuff the early blog posts of Jack Monroe are a good read; https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/oct/02/jack-mo...

Home cooking benefits from amortisation. Cooking more servings is often only a little more labour, up to the size of your kitchen. You don't need to shop daily either.

I do my own cooking and it rarely takes more than half an hour of actual work, plus up to half an hour (longer for weekend roasts) of semi-unattended cooking time.