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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former European AP here. I'm glad my host family didn't ask me to cook for them when I was living with them.
I left my own family and never cooked back home, my mom did all of the cooking.
Once I got there I had to cook pasta for the kid I was in charge of. I didn't even know how to cook that ... :)

I think it's fine to ask the AP if she wants to cook from time to time if she knows how ... or just heating up something easy and quick.

On the other hand, I never ever expected my host family to cook a meal for me, I would just fend for myself all the time.

Then as time went by, I made a few easy things to help out like lettuce and raw veggies in it, homemade dressing ... etc. But at 18 I would have been incapable of cooking a whole meal. [/quote]

This is what I don't understand.  I'm a HM, but when I was a kid (starting at age 11), I made pancakes, grilled cheese, mac n cheese, then started grilling at age 15 or so.  I could definitely make any boxed cake, brownies, nestle toll house cookies recipe, etc.  
Seriously, how do these 18-26 yo old girls have 0 cooking skills?  We've had 5 APs and they are all terrible cooks, and they screw up a boxed cake mix every. single. time.  So bad, I even asked my 8yo to participate in making the last cake (because I knew she could follow the 3 step directions)
An adult (age 18+) should know how to prepare a simple meal. I guaranty the APs real moms knew how to cook at age 18.  What happened to this?[/quote]

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