Knowing how to prepare & cook healthy food is a necessary life skill  That's sure what I always thought when I was growing up. It's pretty much how everyone I grew up with was raised. It blew my mind when I went off to school and saw how unprepared for life most of the other people there were. I mean forget cooking, I think a huge chunk of people weren't even really able to do their own laundry properly, clean dishes and just do general kid chores.