Dinner is served: take your pick from meal kits, heat-and-eats or private catering

There's nothing new about the concept of "home meal solutions". We just used to call it cooking. Ah, cooking – that quaint tradition of shopping for food, preparing a meal in your own home and then cleaning up. Remember that?

Like mending our own clothes, cooking is fast morphing into a problem in need of a fix. Mealtimes? Just another hurdle to be cleared in the race to stay one step ahead of the robots eyeing our jobs; just another slice of the time pie that's getting smaller by the week.