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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you or your partner cook? If so, does your teen like anything you make? If yes, then I'd teach them myself. Once they leave, they'll want to make what they like/remember anyway.[/quote]

Yes.
Yes.
Tried.
Maybe I'm asking the wrong question. Maybe I should go to the parenting forum and ask how to enforce teens taking responsibility for cooking dinner once a week.[/quote]

Shut down your Wifi and take their phone until they produce the dinner, if that is your goal.

But.

I cook with my teen.  He likes to experiment and I try not to complain about the mess too much when he doesn’t clean it all perfectly, though I do require him to clean it decently.

Think this through.  Are you going to allow them to cook whatever they find in your fridge and pantry?  Do you require them to menu plan and add ingredients to a list?  What level of healthy do you require?  Shortcuts OK?

I grew up cooking family dinner from the age of 7.  I did a lot of deer steak and hamburger with sides of Mac n cheese or potatoes, always a veggie but usually frozen or canned.  That’s about what you can expect from a kid.[/quote]

They choose the menu (we're a basic meal family, usually a main course and maybe a salad or roll or side). I make sure we have the ingredients. I show/guide them through it. One kid always picks baked ziti (we don't do "real" baked ziti with  the various cheeses, just pasta and sauce from a jar and shredded mozzarella on top!). The other has chosen the chicken casserole they like. I've taken them through the process 3 times. Once, chose mac n cheese; so again, I took them through the process.

Oh, the ziti one has done stromboli, too.

Not particular and doesn't seem too demanding to me. The casserole is the most complicated with multiple ingredients and cutting and chopping, etc.[/quote]

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