Do you cook for yourself? Cooking is one of my biggest time sinks. It takes me like 45 minutes to whip up some eggs and pack a lunch for the morning. Dinner is around double that between cooking the dish, eating it, and cleaning.
What is your commute like? I can bike to work in 15 mins but now its too cold and icy for that, and it takes 45 minutes to drive through rush hour and park (and I'm bent over with the parking pass situation near work). Lately, I've been using the bus, which is hundreds of dollars cheaper than maintaining the parking pass, but no faster. Somehow, I live only 1.5 miles away.
Yes, I cook for myself, and for my wife. I don’t have a commute (or more properly, I work from home, or fly somewhere to do on site work with clients). My wife does commute so I do all our cooking.
I keep the time down with a combo of simple meals, batch prep, and Costco.
Have you considered meal prep? The majority of cooking work is duplicated across meals so if you can batch it up on the weekend it saves a lot of time during the week.
What is your commute like? I can bike to work in 15 mins but now its too cold and icy for that, and it takes 45 minutes to drive through rush hour and park (and I'm bent over with the parking pass situation near work). Lately, I've been using the bus, which is hundreds of dollars cheaper than maintaining the parking pass, but no faster. Somehow, I live only 1.5 miles away.