Advice on upgrading benches

Hi fellow raiders!

I am loving this game although I'm limited to play time given I'm 41 and have kids/work. Scrappy is level 3 I believe and I have unlocked all of the work benches.

My next step is to level up the work benches and scrappy further (have lemons, some olives and prickly pears and know where to find them although the cat bed is proving elusive).

My question is what order would you look to upgrade benches first or do you suggest tracking all and just running raid after raid killing arc and looting key areas until I have enough to do them all.

I seem to fall into a bit of a trap whereby I load in and start looting and before I know it I have decent stuff and need to extract but nothing of value towards upgrading lol.

Just wondered if anyone had similar experiences and advice on what/where to focus on looting eg doing a loop just killing arc etc