I’m not minimizing anything. I regularly eat the stuff I listed, and it is not more than 1 hour of work per day on average, especially due to leftovers.
>Most people fall in the middle and expect their food to be boiled, baked, fried, etc. They will most likely not want to eat just salad 24/7.
> Plus people want varied diets so they need a wide range of different tasting foods, most like 10-20.
Right, so the problem is people want to eat unhealthy foods. The problem is not lack of money or time.
There is a range of food processing going from raw vegetables to hyper-processed fast food.
Most people fall in the middle and expect their food to be boiled, baked, fried, etc. They will most likely not want to eat just salad 24/7.
And once you start boiling/baking/frying, you're adding a lot more processing time just for the food itself, let alone cleaning everything afterwards.
Plus people want varied diets so they need a wide range of different tasting foods, most like 10-20.
Cooking well is really hard and very time consuming (and potentially costly!) to learn.
Healthy living enthusiasts as well as cooking enthusiasts (sometimes the same group, many times different groups) REALLY love to minimize this aspect.