And I suppose if you don't know how to turn on the oven then the whole endeavor looks like marathon running (and winning) looks to a bed-ridden person. But your goal is not to be a professional chief in 5 star restaurant, it is to cook some soup from whatever is in the fridge, boil some pasta, fry some eggs and chop up some greens. Cook enough to last a week and you are set.
Ask your first generation immigrant coworker to teach you what they cook (or ask them to introduce you to their parents :)).
Compare a fresh head of broccoli to a package frozen; with fresh, you've got to clean it, trim it, clean up after your trimming, and finally cook it. With frozen, snip a bag open and you're on your way. Much simpler, but of course now you're using something that was shipped from afar, wrapped in plastic, and held in a freezer and it won't even taste as good when you're done!
Now compare ordering delivery from your phone. Compare shopping, storing, chopping, wiping up etc. to building a Blue Apron dinner. In terms of convenience, it's not even close. This is coming form someone who prepares 2-3 meals per day for my family.
For example it took me 1-2h (including cleanup, but not counting shopping) to prepare 7 liter pot of stew from random veggies and some meat. It will last us whole week in lunches to take to work. Another day we'll make a pot of soup (our old one wasn't done yet) and that would be all dinners for a week. Takes 3 minutes to reheat each day, no delivery can beat that, unless you live above fast food place or something.
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