I can’t believe this article on the Slate is resonating with me so much.

“Once, kids—well, girls—learned how to make a meal and keep a home by helping their mothers. Around the turn of the 20^th century, home-economics classes codified this knowledge, introducing future wives to nutrition, budgeting, hygiene, and, of course, cooking. But, as Helen Zoe Viet wrote in a 2011 op-ed for the New York Times, those lessons eventually so permeated society that ‘they came to seem like common sense. As a result, their early proponents came to look like old maids stating the obvious instead of the innovators and scientists that many of them really were. … Today we remember only the stereotypes about home economics, while forgetting the movement’s crucial lessons on healthy eating and cooking.'”

I wish we’d been taught how to make easy, healthy meals as kids.