(Australian here) I took Home Economics and it was 80% cooking and 20% health and nutrition. Nothing about personal finance or money in there. That was in... 2001-2002ish.
Sewing? I went through home ec around 1991-2 in Australia and we hand-sewed a wallet-kinda thing and also machine-sewed our own hoodie. Tech studies was wood work, plastics and metal work.