Mayonnaise on everything

[Anonymous]

You could suggest some new mayonnaise meals to at least get some variety.

I recommend herring under fur coat!

[Anonymous]

My MIL cooks her food very spicy. My mouth can handle it but not my digestion. I'm a wreck for days. I don't want to tell her to change something because no one else seems to mind and I really don't know if she has the skills to do it differently. I eat sparingly and pack meal substitutes that can be kept at room temperature in the room I'm sleeping in.
It works for now.

[Anonymous]

Grab a bag of lemons on the way. I pound citrus water when visiting relatives to help cut the inevitable grease. It helps some. Loading up on greens and offering to make a salad to compliment the meal also good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grab a bag of lemons on the way. I pound citrus water when visiting relatives to help cut the inevitable grease. It helps some. Loading up on greens and offering to make a salad to compliment the meal also good.

*Complement

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Anonymous wrote:Grab a bag of lemons on the way. I pound citrus water when visiting relatives to help cut the inevitable grease. It helps some. Loading up on greens and offering to make a salad to compliment the meal also good.

*Complement

Oh yeah… I spelled it wrong. Thank you so much for not bothering to respond to any other aspect of my post - cool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:18:41 Boy aren't you a witch! OP was just venting. It was interesting to read. Ignore the hater OP.

Why do you insist disagreeing equals hate

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:18:41 Boy aren't you a witch! OP was just venting. It was interesting to read. Ignore the hater OP.

Why do you insist disagreeing equals hate

Because it’s DCUM. Assimilate and say what everyone else is saying or be branded a troll forever, especially if you ever dare to stick up for a MIL even in a tangential way.

[Anonymous]

I agree with saying that you have stomach issues and will eat something low fat. Then make it up yourself.

[Anonymous]

Just speak up. While she may love to cook for you, I’m positive she doesn’t want to make you eat things you don’t like.

Just say the Mayo is giving you stomach trouble and you need to stay away from eating Mayo. Done

[Anonymous]

Cooked mayo is hard to identify, its just eggs and oil anyways.

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Anonymous wrote:1) Why didn’t you just make your own sandwich?

2) Tell her you are having tummy issues with mayo, and that if possible, you’d like to make your own sandwich or a can of soup or something. She can’t know unless you open your mouth and speak up. I hardly think she’ll ding you if you frame it as tummy issues vs. not liking it.

3) Tuna casserole does not contain mayo, on any planet. Make your point without exaggerating.

4) Pack some granola bars, make an excuse to run an errand and go get yourself some food. You are not hapless. [Excuses.] No really, pack food, bring food, get yourself food. [Excuses.]

Re: #3, it absolutely usually does!

https://www.hellmanns.com/us/en/recipes/creamy-tuna-casserole-recipe.html

Dude, your source is HELLMANNS, so of course they have a recipe for tuna casserole with mayo. No one actually makes it that way.

Where are you from that tuna casserole is made without mayo??

https://www.food.com/recipe/best-ever-tuna-noodle-casserole-199579

https://thecookinchicks.com/best-ever-tuna-noodle-casserole/

it's de rigueur.

A) “De rigueur” is canned soup version.

B) Doesn’t matter either way: OP is acting like MIL is shoving food down her throat. Nope! OP and OP alone is responsible for what she will and will not put in her mouth. “Betty, I love your tuna casserole, but my stomach is acting up and I’m just going to make myself a smoothie tonight.” (Or a can of soup and crackers, or whatever.) Or push dinner around your plate, say you need to go to the pharmacy, and hit a drive-thru on your way home. Or start packing granola bars and protein drinks. Stop with the “poor hungry me” act. Grow up and eat what you want, and stop making fun of your MIL online.

Yes, the "I'm sick to my stomach" ruse isn't transparent at all! And totally has legs. Come on. Or escape to a drive-thru and come home reeking of grease?

Nobody is making fun of anyone, except perhaps mayo.

No one “reeks of grease” after hitting the occasional drive-thru. Grow up. Regardless, OP gets to open her mouth and do what she needs to do to feed herself. And so what if MIL guesses that she doesn’t like her food? Oh well! That’s life! “My stomach is acting up and I’m going to eat a little differently tonight” has zero impact on MIL unless MIL is looking to be hurt and to fight. My husband hasn’t felt well at my parents’ house before and has done his own thing (versus eating chili one night) and no one thew a fit or challenged him to a duel.

Grow up.

What nasty forum did you wander in from, PP?

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Anonymous wrote:1) Why didn’t you just make your own sandwich?

2) Tell her you are having tummy issues with mayo, and that if possible, you’d like to make your own sandwich or a can of soup or something. She can’t know unless you open your mouth and speak up. I hardly think she’ll ding you if you frame it as tummy issues vs. not liking it.

3) Tuna casserole does not contain mayo, on any planet. Make your point without exaggerating.

4) Pack some granola bars, make an excuse to run an errand and go get yourself some food. You are not hapless. [Excuses.] No really, pack food, bring food, get yourself food. [Excuses.]

Re: #3, it absolutely usually does!

https://www.hellmanns.com/us/en/recipes/creamy-tuna-casserole-recipe.html

Dude, your source is HELLMANNS, so of course they have a recipe for tuna casserole with mayo. No one actually makes it that way.

Where are you from that tuna casserole is made without mayo??

https://www.food.com/recipe/best-ever-tuna-noodle-casserole-199579

https://thecookinchicks.com/best-ever-tuna-noodle-casserole/

it's de rigueur.

A) “De rigueur” is canned soup version.

B) Doesn’t matter either way: OP is acting like MIL is shoving food down her throat. Nope! OP and OP alone is responsible for what she will and will not put in her mouth. “Betty, I love your tuna casserole, but my stomach is acting up and I’m just going to make myself a smoothie tonight.” (Or a can of soup and crackers, or whatever.) Or push dinner around your plate, say you need to go to the pharmacy, and hit a drive-thru on your way home. Or start packing granola bars and protein drinks. Stop with the “poor hungry me” act. Grow up and eat what you want, and stop making fun of your MIL online.

Yes, the "I'm sick to my stomach" ruse isn't transparent at all! And totally has legs. Come on. Or escape to a drive-thru and come home reeking of grease?

Nobody is making fun of anyone, except perhaps mayo.

No one “reeks of grease” after hitting the occasional drive-thru. Grow up. Regardless, OP gets to open her mouth and do what she needs to do to feed herself. And so what if MIL guesses that she doesn’t like her food? Oh well! That’s life! “My stomach is acting up and I’m going to eat a little differently tonight” has zero impact on MIL unless MIL is looking to be hurt and to fight. My husband hasn’t felt well at my parents’ house before and has done his own thing (versus eating chili one night) and no one thew a fit or challenged him to a duel.

Grow up.

What nasty forum did you wander in from, PP?

The forum where it's completely unnecessary to make fun of or complain about MIL, when OP and OP alone is in charge of what she eats, when and how much. Just because OP won't take responsibility for what she ingests doesn't make MIL a bad hostess.

[Anonymous]

Can you offer to cook as a “thank you” one of the nights when you visit? If she isn’t comfortable with people cooking in her space, can you insist on treating her to dinner out or at least a takeout meal that you pay for?

For lunch, make your DH be the first one in the kitchen and have him get going on the sandwiches (or have him tell his mom everyone can make their own sandwich).

I would just eat the rest of the dinners if it was only a few nights.

[Anonymous]

Next time, talk about your recent doctors visit and how they said to avoid things like mayo (add some other stuff). And then suggest you make your own sandwich and avoid the pasta salad. Maybe bring some ingredients to make a fresh green salad so your can eat a very small portion of the mayo-laden dinner and eat salad to balance it out.

[Anonymous]

If you are visiting her, why not take her out to eat?