&gt; <i>I really don&#x27;t understand the mentality that eating and&#x2F;or cooking is a &quot;waste of time&quot;. Not picking on you specifically it is a common idea and part of the idea behind products like Soylent. I prefer to enjoy the moments of preparing my food and eating it.</i><p>I think it&#x27;s best summed up as &quot;people enjoy different things.&quot;<p>An example for you: I&#x27;m a cyclist. I love to assemble and work on my bikes, because I derive enjoyment from the process of working on the things I will use. This is incredibly similar conceptually to a cook who enjoys cooking their meals; it&#x27;s not a &quot;waste&quot; of time for either of us, because in each case we derive satisfaction from the act of working on the thing we will eventually enjoy.<p>I also really enjoy eating (good) food. And so you might think that I would share the same interest in food preparation that I have in bicycle maintenance, but I absolutely do not. I cannot stand cooking, for reasons that I could not really articulate. It simply does not quite manage to tickle the right parts of my brain.<p>Left to my own devices I&#x27;d probably subsist mostly on &quot;good enough&quot; food that requires little or no preparation (such as nuts and fruit). I understand Soylent from this perspective, and the intermittent fasting &#x2F; one meal a day thing makes a great deal of sense to me as well.