It works on perfect timing. Ha, ha, ha. That's the best part of it!
Well, it surely helps having friends that can build stuff. I have some of my handtools to craft stuff because my great grandfather was a shipwright. Although some of the tools have been disappearing over the years I managed to get my hand of some of them.
I gotta say your mom was a lady of vision. She knew hunger never ends, so people better be ready to face that problem.
Some would say that my mom knew that she raised at least one asshat son and the chances of him having somebody to cook for him all the time were not good so she taught him (them) to cook so they could stay alive :)
Again, that woman was a visionary! 😂