[yamtaddle]

At full price it's cheaper to just order takeout. Less healthy, at the places where it's cheaper, but still. Then you don't have to cook or clean up the mess from cooking.

I've also, personally, found these kits to be no less work than cooking normally. Sometimes, more, because the recipe will be more complex than something I'd have cooked on my own. It saves you meal planning and ordering the ingredients from the store (or going shopping), which isn't nothing, but it's not really that convenient—it'd have to also be cheap for me to want to do it very often, and at full price, they're not cheap.