[dorwi]

For me cooking rarelly equates to preparing nutritients for my body. If that's the case for you, then it's nothing else than a chore. It can be done by you or by paying someone else to do it. And since aquiring a passable cooking skill is quite some effort (compared to for example ironing) cooked food is more expensive than for example hiring someone for ironing.

My advice would be to try to find additional benefits in cooking, like the social aspect, or its meditative nature, or self expression in it, or whatever other than preparing stuff to eat. Oh, and pay for cooking classes, they are worth more than it seems.