It just seems like more work. The amount of time buying ingredients, cooking the ingredients, washing up after cooking in order to eat a meal seems out of wack to me. So I always end up cooking more for myself than I should because ultimately I'm sitting there thinking "there's no point going to all this effort for a tiny amount of food".

But realistically that's not what happens, I just end up buying a lot of store sandwhiches and takeaways instead.

Cooking to me seems like a hobby some people really enjoy or at least competent at, if you've got no interest in that hobby then it's easier to just swap money for food directly instead.

Is it a practice thing? My mom tricked me when I was a kid. I really liked omlettes. She plopped the Julia book and the tools and ingredients in front of me and I basically cooked omlettes for 2 hours till I got good at it and ate them. She did that for several other meals letting me perfect my technique.

Since then I've always been good at cooking as it holds no fear for me and makes sense.