Does it really matter, my question was why would you not cook food yourself? I'm not offering a model that other people should copy.
From experience cooking daily for 8 people is not that much worse than for 2 people, it's just a different kind of project both have hurdles and highlights. Not going to lie, being able to take time off each day to take care of your kids really did help with time but it mostly it was to socialize and being less of a eat-work-sleep machine.
Ordinary day now is, breakfast 0600-0730, work things 0730-1630, cook and take care of kids 1630-2100, other things 2100-~0100.
From experience cooking daily for 8 people is not that much worse than for 2 people, it's just a different kind of project both have hurdles and highlights. Not going to lie, being able to take time off each day to take care of your kids really did help with time but it mostly it was to socialize and being less of a eat-work-sleep machine.
Ordinary day now is, breakfast 0600-0730, work things 0730-1630, cook and take care of kids 1630-2100, other things 2100-~0100.