The chopping, prep, cooking part and eating I enjoy. It's the work involved in buying ingredients, bringing them to my home, as well as cleaning up the kitchen

The chopping, prep, cooking part and eating I enjoy. It's the work involved in buying ingredients, bringing them to my home, as well as cleaning up the kitchen and doing dishes (even with a dishwasher!) afterwards that are the real inconvenience. Selecting which ingredients to buy and what dish to prepare also take up a lot of mental bandwidth. I don't like ordering/eating out excessively because it's too expensive, often unhygienic, with poor quality ingredients. I grew up on high-quality home cooked meals so I'm simply not used to it.