[dangus]

At some point if you want to cook you have to get off your ass and do it.

Recipes are just recipes on recipe web sites. NYT Cooking is a nice one. Food prep is just...making the recipes and putting the food in your fridge.

As far as easy meals literally hundreds of services exist for this. I recommend finding one that's local so that you aren't dealing with wasteful packaging and shipping. IMO the ones that fully prepare the meal are honestly better than ones that make you cook it.

Also restaurants exist and a lot of people literally just eat at restaurants/fast casual/fast food for every meal.

[jppope]

My problem is that I cook A LOT. I would like to optimize the activity because it is a non-trivial cost in both time and money. I hear your solutions but each is a trade off...

As a wise software developer once said... "Good, Cheap, Fast... you may only have two"

[dangus]

Yes, that's true. I don't know that a perfect solution will ever exist.

We collectively spend a lot of time and money on food, but the good news is that it's one of the joys of life.

Interesting little link: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2020/november/average-s...