Personally, I'm not trying to save time in the cooking process; I'm trying to save time and hassle in the ingredient-buying phase: deciding what to cook, figuri

Personally, I'm not trying to save time in the cooking process; I'm trying to save time and hassle in the ingredient-buying phase: deciding what to cook, figuring out what ingredients I need to buy to cook that, finding them in the shop, working out what to do if it turns out that the supermarket is out of spinach, etc. Plus my closest supermarket doesn't have much in the way of stock, so I'd have to go further to get the kind of stuff meal kits tend to want.