The thing about convenience food, though... today I had a pork chop for dinner, right now I'm zero plant, so that and some heavy cream and butter was the meal.

Pan, flip once. Cooked in what? 8 minutes? At any rate, I was online, didn't notice the time. If I was eating plants, I'd microwave some frozen veggies and then quick fry them in the fat left from the pork chop. Hard work? Hardly. But given a similar amount of effort--it will seem like less effort if the food is more tempting. Mice and rats work harder for oreos than for plain chow, I'm pretty much the same.