There are entire cooking books centered around microwave cooking.
They don't waste your money and are generally a lot quicker prepared. And whether or not they waste your food is subjective. You can't do everything in them, but you can do a lot more than you think.

That is exactly the arguments a Republican shill would use.
Even if both options are fascist, one of them is clearly less fascist. And unless you make sure a third option exist, not voting on the less fascist option will give you the more fascist option.