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Cooking. I don't mean heating up prepared food. I mean taking raw produce, spices, herbs, and starches to make your own food. Doesn't need to be extravagant. Start with an omelette or maybe properly made scrambled eggs. Move on to other "easy" dishes like grilled cheese sandwiches and spaghetti. I am constantly amazed when I hear fully grown adults saying shit like, "I could never make anything like Beef Wellington." Yes you can, just try and fail a few times!
I feel that if people knew how much effort it takes to create their food products, they might be more hesitant to waste them. Even with things as simple as making bread! It's not just something that appears on a shelf, it's the result of whole process and should be valued as such.
It's great to learn because after a while you can start experimenting and making things you don't have a recipe for. I kinda have a "memory" for tastes so I can just think about how things might go together so I just kinda make up dishes now. I mean I'm sure I'm not making something unique, but it's all without a recipe. Or if you are lazy and are craving something you can just make it instead of having to go out lol I've made many "cakes" because I was craving something sweet but didn't have anything around just by knowing how it's done having done it before.
I always keep some easy prep boxed meals or whatever on hand for when I'm feeling really lazy.
Use those as a base and spruce them up with spices, veggies, meats, or even just swapping out one thing on the instructions for another to give some added richness or texture.
Half from scratch can be just as good as from scratch, especially when you're tired and hungry AF and you'll still have the satisfaction of making the dish "your own".
The issue is I don't want to