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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know why being able to make a decent meal is such a thing these days. We've only been doing this for 300,000 years. If your college aged kids can't make a good meal, you failed. That's both for boys and girls.

There is a lot of culture that goes into food. It's what creates communities. Teach your kids how to cook. Every 18 year old should know how to make a basic omelette. Very cheap. Pretty simple. It's not rocket science.

And if they can't, that just bad parenting or laziness. Would judge accordingly if a 20-something can't do the basics. [/quote]

We don't eat eggs, so no point in learning how to make an omelette. But what everyone needs to learn is how to buy/get food economically and use it before it goes bad. The real crime is all the people who buy food and throw it out because it has rotted before it could be used.[/quote]

You should still know how to cook eggs.  I am a vegetarian and have been for 30+ years but I still know how to cook meat.[/quote]

It seems dumb to me to focus on a specific food.  At 18 I knew how to make many many dishes from scratch but not an omelette because I didn’t like them.  I like them now and sometimes make them but only if I have fresh salsa.  I think an omelette without salsa is basically inedible.   I think so long as they know how to make half a dozen well balanced meals, that’s a good start.  And I actually think what is most important is not necessarily knowing how to cook things but knowing that this is a knowable skill.  My brothers didn’t cook much as teens but they saw my parents cooking so knew it was a very achievable goal.  You can Google basically any recipe and figure it out.  If you like to cook fresh food and have a budget, you’ll figure it out if you need to.  [/quote]

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