Okay, I have to brag a little bit. My daughter's grandfather (my ex's dad) died earlier this year. My daughters found out that their grandmother has been eating nothing but frozen dinners. Their Christmas gift to her was a little more than a month's worth of homemade frozen meals.
Wosnes, what a wonderful thing for them to do! You have every right to be proud of those girls.
I was taught to scramble my own eggs at age 6 and I had to drag a chair over to the stove to do it! I have 2 grown sons, and when they were younger I taught them both some basics, and they are both fair cooks.
My youngest son does most of the cooking for himself and his wife; the older son used to do the cooking, but now that he's the sole bread-winner, his wife does it. It's funny, but she did not learn how to cook from her mother. She's mostly self-taught, with a few pointers from me thrown in, but you know how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship goes. I have to tread lightly. My sons tells me that she won't serve sides! The way he relates it makes me laugh, but when he says, "What's for dinner", and she says "Pork Chops", that's exactly what she means! Pork chops only!
I eat lunch with several co-workers most days, but they look at me as if I have 2 heads when I bring in leftovers for lunch. "How in the world do you have time to cook every night?", they all want to know. Well, we get off work at 3:30! How is time an issue? Even when I was a single mom with 2 kids I cooked dinner. It doesn't have to take more than an hour, tops. And that's WITH cleanup.
I've offered to teach some friends/co-workers how to cook, but so far, no one has taken me up on the offer. They love to eat my food, but don't have an interest in preparing it.
I'll get off my soapbox now, thank you very much.
