Reply #41: I'll never understand that

[malaise]

We buy fresh fish every Saturday - clean and season it, put it in bags ready for cooking - takes 15 minutes to steam or 20 minutes to bake. We cut up vegetables when we buy them and organize them. On Sundays we cook a big pot of rice and peas, eat some and parcel and freeze the rest for meals during the week. We also freeze the left over beans for other meals. Some days we make chicken chili and we simply take the meat out of the freezer and leave it in the fridge until we get home. That takes 10 minutes to thaw in the frying pan. Then we add our frozen beans and season. We boil water in our kettle and add to brown rice which then cooks in 10 minutes.

I think it's more about organization that simply saying people don't have the luxury to cook a meal.