LOL, MAN! My neice is 15, she doesn't know how to cook a meal from scratch... AND NOW at her school, they do not even offer Home Ec. I took every cooking elective they had because my mom didn't teach me to cook anything other that spaghetti, goulash, chilli... OH, and of course the ulitmate staple, mac and cheese. I know how to cook so many different things now. I have a few Asian buds who have taught me simple dishes. Being married to a Mexican, his sister taught me to make beans, rices, fajitas, tortillas, flauta, enchiladas... well you get the picture. I got grounded BIG TIME in senior year... I kept skipping. Was totally bored with classes. I was in AP classes for a lot of them, and I was just not challenged. (WELL I AM CHALLENGED) I got caught because the same day I skipped, my idiot kid sister skipped to get wasted with her buds. ONLY she had been skipping all week already. SO, Dad calls the school for me, and finds out I am out too, and finds out that I am on the verge of failing senior year! I had to quit my job, lost my car and couldn't go out with friends. I had a semester of homework to catch up in most my classes, only art, PE, History were the only classes I was passing... Out of 7. LOL, SO, I ended up having an average 1.83 at graduation... Yah... Not kidding. LOL, SO, that month before the end of the school year where I was grounded, I had nothing better to do than to cook. We never had the same meal twice in that time period. I'd even send my dad to the liquor store that was next door, I know right, to get beer and wines for dishes I was making. LOL.
But yeah, more and more meals are already boxed up and ready to go. Just need to add water, milk, butter, and ocassionally the meat of choice... So very sad. No wonder they say that if WW3 or some other natural catastrophe were to hit, people would be SOL cuz they can't do anything to take care of themselves with out technology. I told my sons father that I would have them in boy scouts or some other club like that so they can learn skills. He told me they don't even camp like that anymore... Oh... Man...