Not sure why you're getting downvoted (/sigh) because you're not wrong: from a strictly cost-of-time POV, an engineer making food is a pretty poor use of time.

Not sure why you're getting downvoted (/sigh) because you're not wrong: from a strictly cost-of-time POV, an engineer making food is a pretty poor use of time. Now that doesn't mean you need to or even should work an extra hour (or whatever) either. You can use that for free time and it's still a net benefit. Now, if making your own food makes you happy and you want to do it, do that. Of course. But having the option not to do that. How is that bad?