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I rarely cook a meal for just myself. Either I cook for my housemates, or one of them cooks for me. It saves a lot of time, because cooking scales sublinearly. It's also cheaper and tastier (I put more effort in if I'm cooking for others).

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Also, if you live alone (or have a diet incompatible with your housemates), try cooking for several days at once. Cooking and meal planning are skills you're guaranteed to be using for life, so put in the time to become at least moderately competent at them.

That's a good one. My wife usually cooks our dinners for the week on Sunday all at once and freezes some of it. Mon/Tue we eat left-overs, Wed/Thu/Fri we eat what was frozen (and to keep from eating the same thing over and over, we mix up the frozen stuff).

She used to spend an hour a night making meals, now she gets the week done in a couple of hours (she is a stay-at-home mom and the only one capable of making a meal that's edible in my house).

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