buy a good food processor. It's life changing. Aint nobody got time to sit around for an hour of veggy dicing every time they cook a meal in life. Imagine if you cook from scratch 1 time per day and spend 30 mins average chopping veg by hand? that is 4 hours a week, 208 hours a year, or 10,400 hours over an average adult life of if you start cooking your meals at 25 and live to 75
Do you really wanna spend 433 days of your life chopping?