Yeah, I guess the main difference for us is cooking/preparing our own meals is genuinely foreign for us. My wife does try to learn, but for me I prefer to do nearly anything to cooking. At best it's a novelty, I've never looked at ingredients and thought practically about how I can make them pleasurably ingestible.

It's more expensive, but I see the cost as a price to free up my time/energy for other things I find more interesting.

To each their own!