That's absurd. If you don't like to cook or you aren't good at it, ordering food is not lighting money on fire.

That's like saying that you're lighting money on fire when you play video games or watch tv. You could have just went to the library and rented a book for free. It's the same logic and could be applied to almost any aspect of entertainment or really anything that could ever be considered "extra."

You're lighting money on fire by cooking all that food. Eat rice and chicken broth and take a multivitamin. You're probably getting more nutrients that way than most of America anyway. So anything extra would be lighting money on fire right? That steak cost way more than those eggs, that bread costs more than rice; light the money on fire.

See what I did there?

Just because there is a cheaper alternative out there does not automatically mean that the more expensive option is a waste of money...