Food shopping, cooking and eating - how on earth do people manage?

[Peasepuddingbloodycold]

After about 12 years of working from home and/or part time work I'm going to be in a situation were both DP and I are working full time out of the home, with a commute. I can't get my head round how to fit in the shopping and cooking of healthy, appetising meals on a budget.

Years ago, the last time I was in this situation, meant doing a big shop out-of-town every Sunday morning. Now I'm in the habit of walking to the shops at the top of the street and bringing home a couple of bags of shopping two or three times a week. Picking up whatever we fancy.

I just can't see how we'll manage to prep and eat healthy meals at the end of a long day at work and commute (in the dark). We're surrounded by takeaways and whilst DP is happy to live on vegetables I'm an emotional eater who is already overweight :(

Do you really want the job? It sounds like the lifestyle change is really stressing you out! I feel for 11 year old you 💐
Or can you reframe it somehow? You can make the choices and you need never cook with mince or a slow cooker! (I felt much the same about tuna and pasta for a long time!)
One takeaway a week? Toasted sandwiches? I think you can put almost anything on a plate, surround it with salad and call it a meal. If you have weekends off you're only looking at 4 midweek meals.
And get that shopping delivered!