I understand. I did the same thing of buying stuff for meals, then throwing it away for a couple of months. I ended up making a list for 2 to 4 meals each week and realizing we were going to eat out/pick up rest of week. At least we weren't wasting food or money that way.
BTW , I WFH for nearly 30 years. I made REALLY good money for the first 20 or so, but then work was outsourced to India and elsewhere, and the bottom fell out of salaries. I used to make twice WFH for 20 hours than what i could make 40 hours in an office. When I went back to work in an office after 2020, i more than doubled what I made at home the last 10 years or so.
Even now that I have retired, I'm still not big about the baking. I've had things to bake 3 different baked goods for weeks, if not months, and none of them have been made yet. I'm just not that invested when it comes time to make them.
What I've been doing is making the weekly menu with 1 or 2 complicated things, 1 or 2 dishes Craig can make and the rest either easy to make or sandwiches or frozen. We have 3 freezers, 2 of which are pretty much stuffed, and the other I have been trying to clean out, other than buying staples like ground meat or chicken or shrimp on sale. Once I get the 1 cleaned out , other than the staples, I'll start on the other 2.
Just as an example, we had 2 pot roasts this week, 1 pork and 1 beef. I did part of both, Craig the rest. We had hot dogs and macaroni salad, homemade, plus we're having pulled pork, from the freezer, and mac salad. I made a double recipe of the mac salad in nearly the same time it took to make a single. A soup with roasted red bell peppers, which Craig did with a torch outside, and crab from the freezer. A steak salad, which craig cooked on the grill, plus the roasted red bell above. All i had to do was make the dressing, and cook the onions and mushrooms. The other meal is a multi course bento box that uses up freezer and pantry items, plus BOGO greens from Publix. It should be a good and tasty use of the freezer items and is the only complicated, active time consuming meal on the menu.
Just find work arounds to use up the freezer items, 2 to 4 times a week, and let the rest go.