Nobody can give you a better gift to yourself than what you can give yourself. The better gift is only what you need but can’t afford or have away the idea for various or no reasons.
Having a hot meal is something like a gift if you are poor or you are sick or you are not able to work.

In this cold winter, even then when I was a child, the maid did not come to work. Now I don’t have a maid but meals are needed to be prepared. My spouse prepared it. He are and I also ate it before he left for work.
Many people may say it is refined carb etc. but that’s what we eat in our everyday life. Fried rice with vegetables and eggs. It’s a feel good food, not do dangerous if we care to work out.