Seems like the "Lunchables" and "Crustables" phenomenon, IOW, toddler food or school lunches.

Too bad it's spreading, and too bad they like it.

Yet, due to various constraints, I find much of my diet is just like that. I wish it were otherwise.

I often use them as meal substitutes and usually pick up a bag of them every time I go to the market.

I absolutely HATE cooking and will avoid it at all costs

You will find about 10 people (average a night) post interesting meals they make. Some are very creative. So yeah, people do cook.

I'm one of those people who makes a different recipe just about every night. My prep time is sometimes as much as two hours! However, that two hours is good for a lunch the next day, maybe two. My deal is that I like healthy meals and also that use my garden produce, since that is my big thing in life, gardening organically.

The RG can cook up a fabulous meal that you'd pay $70 for in a restaurant in only 15". However, he travels a lot so the meal prep lately is all on me.

It just never occurred to me how important this issue of time in meal prep is--in your case because you don't like to cook, but in a lot of cases, just no time.

There are cookbooks called the 3-ingredient, 4-ingredient, and 5-ingredient cookbooks. Different chefs like Jamie Oliver put them out. Most big name chefs have a book like this published. Those are pretty simple recipes with good ideas.

I think this is what the speakers on this news story are talking about. How can you have good food but not spent a lot of time in meal prep? And it's also interesting how certain cultures, like Chinese, have more intensive time requirements for their meals.

Takes about five minutes. Cleanup is easy. Otherwise it’s fruit and nuts and cereals and raisin toast with honey

Do you buy and cook them? Grow them?

I like fresh broccoli steamed for a couple of minutes.I’m not very good on keeping up with my vegetables, I do eat a lot of fruit. Mostly salads

I've always found that the midday meal should be the big one, a big meal late in the day can mean feeling bloated and weighed down and interferes with sleep. These days, my supper is extremely spare. I prefer apple to avocado, but that's just me.

avocados are for lunch! With leftover tuna salad in the hole, or just some oil and vinegar.

but not so much for one. For one I just do really simple stuff. I don't really have access to the lunchable things. But there are things like that in Munich that are prepared or partially prepared. I just haven't tried them.