it’s the hidden costs of time and knowledge are a factor to be accounted for.

I don’t believe this is true, it’s a coping mechanism that people use to keep from learning new skills. It’s also a very popular cope to claim “it’s more expensive” to cook at home because you typically have to buy more ingredients than you’d use to make a single serving of some food item.

If people want to stay ignorant and economically and nutritionally disadvantaged it’s not something I pity. I can’t but help feeling disgusted and scornful toward people with these attitudes. Cave people made bread.

I think the problem occurs when you realize its not just bread, it's almost everything at the store. For a working couple with children, they now have to make everything at home, which is not possible if both parents are working.

Although I'm not one of them, I don't think you can call something that many people do "not possible".

Of course it’s possible. It takes about five minutes to prepare a chicken.

Also you can prepare a meal in a crockpot and let it cook all day.

You can prepare and freeze meals.

It takes another thirty minutes to do the dishes and clean the kitchen.

So just eat your unhealthy processed foods, no skin off my nose.

I actually cook every day, but I acknowledge that many people don't have the energy to do that.