This isn’t a direct answer to any of the questions you asked, but your post brought to mind this Tumblr post* that I recently read that made me feel better about not making fresh home-cooked meals every day, because that’s kind of an insane amount of time and energy to expect for a lot of people
(*epistemic status: it’s a Tumblr post, so for all I know it could be 100% lies)
This isn’t a direct answer to any of the questions you asked, but your post brought to mind this Tumblr post* that I recently read that made me feel better about not making fresh home-cooked meals every day, because that’s kind of an insane amount of time and energy to expect for a lot of people
(*epistemic status: it’s a Tumblr post, so for all I know it could be 100% lies)