[contingencies]

I've found that paying people to provide you with good food saves tonnes of time: shopping, prepping, cooking, cleaning, garbage. Hotel buffet breakfasts or similar are a good solution. This is by far the most time efficient daily hack. Also good are floor cleaning robots. Not owning a car is great too, if you add up all the time doing parking/registration/license/insurance/whatever. Software... well, mostly just avoid closed source stuff where oodles of invested time winds up wasted when they arbitrarily mothball the product, close the cloud or deeply alter the interface without consultation. Keep documentation with code. Keep all code in a revision control system. Oh, and write less code. The less code you have to maintain, the better.

[nicbou]

I found that finding a restaurant, going there, ordering, waiting, eating, paying and returning home consumes more time than cooking at home.

[subjectsigma]

Do you just never cook for yourself? What service/method do you use?

I would love to reduce my cooking to weekends/whenever I feel like it, but I've had a really hard time finding a cheap, healthy, and sustainable way to do this. I always feel like I'm paying a more money to eat something that's not that great for me and tearing through gas/one-time-use plastics doing so.

[contingencies]

Often cook, love cooking but don't cook every day. Most days if a meal is consumed at home it's either cold (salads, something with-or-on bread), really quick (soups), or zero-prep (fruit or nuts).

Breakfast is usually at a nearby hotel which covers 2/3 daily meals and associated coffee. Got a deal going so executable at less than walk-in expense, with zero lock-in (turn up or nay), transferable so also good for meetings on occasion. Heaps of fresh fruit, bit of protein, veg, coffee. Would be hard to match for cost let alone time at home.

My view is to look at quality food like insurance and invest in your health, or do the maths on the time. It's worth it.

[roshan4074]

May be you should keep a watch at https://whatscookin.us.

Its a community meal sharing app. They are almost in production. I was a contributor there sometime back.

[fred_is_fred]

I could see money, but how much time are you spending on registration/license/insurance? Registration is 5 mins a year paying online, license is in person every 15 years and online every 5. Insurance is just a bill I pay. Perhaps it's more work in other states?