If you don't like chopping, cook things whole (steaming, boiling and baking come to mind), tear with your hands, smash (eg. chinese chopper side-smashing of cuc

If you don't like chopping, cook things whole (steaming, boiling and baking come to mind), tear with your hands, smash (eg. chinese chopper side-smashing of cucumbers is a fun thing) or use a food processor (insta-soup). The main problems with pre-cut ingredients are that they are cut in one way only (thus you have no control over form), they are compromised in texture, aroma and flavor, they are more vulnerable to pathogens, they degrade faster and they tend to be repackaged in single use plastic which is really terrible for the environment. Being packaged, they can be difficult to inspect and thus often used as a means to dispose of subpar ingredients by penny-pinching retailers. Further, they're also more expensive.