@Sodamncold - do you think it would have been easier to learn the life skills from a parent, when you we’re younger, rather than being thrown in at the deep end when you went to university?
I do understand what you are saying about how much you value cooking for your children - but sometimes, as parents, we have to do things that are best for our kids, rather than doing things we want to do.
But as long as children are learning to cook (and to meal plan and understand good nutrition) I don’t think it matters which meals they get to cook. For example - if you teach your children to cook, but they never cook their own breakfast, they will still have the basic skills, and they will have plenty of good ideas about what can make a good breakfast, and will be able to apply those skills when they do have to make their own.
I do think it is better for children to learn the key life skills (cooking, cleaning, laundry, ironing, meal planning, budgeting) before they leave home - apart from anything else, it means that, when they do go to university/leave home, we can worry a bit less because we know they can feed themselves etc!
When my dad went to teacher training college (back in the 1950s), one of the other students had literally never done anything for himself. His mum told him when to change his clothes and when to have a bath - and he had obviously never had to do his own washing - and with no-one telling him to do these things, he just didn’t - and within a few weeks, the other students had noticed how smelly he was, and they had to draw up a timetable for him, and teach him these basic skills.