>too hard
roughly chopping random vegetables and throwing them in a pot is hard?
>too much time
using a pressure cooker for 45 minutes while you watch youtube videos is too much time?
roughly chopping random vegetables and throwing them in a pot is hard?
>too much time
using a pressure cooker for 45 minutes while you watch youtube videos is too much time?
Also, who is buying the veggies, who is cleaning up after your 5 minutes of eating?
Don't forget you also have to wash, peel, top and tail, clean, sharpen knives, etc..
A full dinner from when you get up to make it to when you sit down with everything washed/put away is more like 60 minutes in a best-case scenario. 7 hours a week. 364 hours a year. Feels like a crime to use so much time on basic survival needs that have been solved.
Soups, stews, pasta, chili, all freeze very well. All doable in about an hour start to finish including cleanup, if you're efficient. You cook the largest batch possible and freeze it in meal sized portions. I can get 4-6 portions out of a single stock pot - that's 10-15 minutes of work per meal. Well worth the time invested to have meals which are prepared exactly the way I like them sitting in my freezer, ready to nuke and eat. It's also a cheap way to eat healthy.
For me it's not about survival, that part's easy - I like variety and I like having control over my macros (or at least knowing what they are). I also order delivery and eat out regularly but I can't imagine not having this extra tool in my toolbox.
I'd immediately buy pre-diced items and would have to find a recipe that could be made in less than 15 minutes, and even then that's pushing it.
My solution was soylent/equivalent. 8 years on I'm still drinking it.
By the way, asking someone whether they're mentally unwell because they think differently from you is generally considered impolite.
I can cook, I just loathe it.