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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. Kids are in middle school. They come to me when they are hungry. I do not know that they are supposed to make their own food. They only know how to use toaster and grab cookie/chips. They can make peanut butter sandwich & make a bowl of cereal  themselves.  I have not shown them the proper way to use microwave, air fryer, stove or small oven. What age are they supposed to make their food and pick their food ( whatever they want, even junk food)? [/quote]

Now is the time (I would have recommended early elementary, but here you are) for you to teach them how to use the microwave, air fryer, oven, stove, etc.  Teach them now.

I highly recommend creating a system of having each kid cook one dinner a week.   Start with you helping them, but move towards them doing it independently.  By cooking the meal each week, I mean from idea all the way through cleanup.  So they are assigned Thursday, and they have to put on the family meal plan by the Saturday before, what they are planning on cooking for Thursday dinner, and what ingredients need to be on the grocery list.  Then do the prep/cook/cleanup for the meal.

You can help to start, and recommend easy meals (ex: pasta, jarred sauce, and frozen meat balls) but let them move up to more complicated meals as they get independent and gain more skills.  [/quote]

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