No one eats in this house

[Anonymous]

You don't need to eat constantly OP. Are you overweight?

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O.k. just backtracked a bit and saw that they had all gone out to a restaurant for lunch and the in-laws were too full to make dinner. Restaurant portions are huge these days. If Op didn't bring home a doggy bag that means that Op had plenty of food at lunch to last through the rest of the day. If Op did bring a doggy bag home that would be dinner.

Sounds like Op wanted to eat that entire huge restaurant meal AND have a stick to your ribs sort of dinner. That's a lot of food!

How can you possibly know what OP had for lunch?? She could have had a salad-which is what I often do, in which case she would probably be hungry again by 7pm

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Anonymous wrote:Dinner time -- how's it going? Did everyone get a nice big Christmas dinner? Or were you fed a Christmas lunch that the hosts thought was so big at 2 pm that no one should need to eat again until Monday morning?

I served light appetizers for lunch and then a big dinner at 3 followed by dessert. After that, no more food - nada, zip. I'm still not that hungry this morning and my feet are sore from standing in the kitchen making that nice meal yesterday, so I'm not making breakfast this morning. Burger King is only a short 5 mile walk away.

Signed,

The Host

Wow. You do not have to eat. You do not have to cook. But let others in your kitchen. You may have stuffed yourself silly, but others may have not. And How hard is it to put out some bagels and cereal?

Yikes. Do you warn your guests in advance? If you can only host if your guests stuff themselves beyond comfort (so they can last 20 hours) you should just stop hosting.

I just cleaned the kitchen and would like the morning off after having just treated everyone to a wonderful holiday meal. Lunch is not that far away. If you must eat before that - Burger King is open 24/7. Be there.

Honestly if hosting family is such a chore for you don’t do it.

Expecting others to eat Burger King (which is gross) because you want to close your kitchen for 20 hours is bizarre. Would it be so hard to have some clementines and bagels/ cream cheese for your guests? Taking a break from cooking is one thing, expecting your guests to starve or eat fast food on Christmas is another.

I made a lovely, abundant meal on Christmas Day. The morning after Christmas I brew coffee and take the the morning off. If someone did not eat enough at the big meal, that is hardly my doing.

Kitchen reopens at lunchtime.

So you're promoting everyone to engorge themselves at lunchtime to carry them until lunchtime the next day?

It just doesn't work like that!

Plus, I'm that person at a holiday meal who takes 1 spoonful of everything to try it and then goes back for seconds of the times I really like. I don't stuff myself and eat a holiday meal like any other meal, expecting to eat again in 5-6 hours.

You do not need to eat heavy holiday food every 5 hours. You are a grown adult, eat normal portions.

That's... that's literally what I said I do.

I eat normal portions.

There's no way 1 slice of turkey, a few spoonfuls of sides, a dinner roll, and then dessert an hour later is going to hold me 20 hours. It's just not happening.

I've never been one to gorge myself or overeat. I eat until I'm full and then I eat again when I'm hungry.

Your MIL doesn't want to slave half the day making a wonderful meal, setting a beautiful table only to see you take little dips and dabs of the food that she has so lovingly prepared for you. Nor does she want to hear 3 or 4 hours later - "What's for dinner? I'm starving!"

Burger King is only a few miles or so down the road and it's open 24/7.

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Burger King PR person—your shtick is weird.

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Anonymous wrote:Dinner time -- how's it going? Did everyone get a nice big Christmas dinner? Or were you fed a Christmas lunch that the hosts thought was so big at 2 pm that no one should need to eat again until Monday morning?

I served light appetizers for lunch and then a big dinner at 3 followed by dessert. After that, no more food - nada, zip. I'm still not that hungry this morning and my feet are sore from standing in the kitchen making that nice meal yesterday, so I'm not making breakfast this morning. Burger King is only a short 5 mile walk away.

Signed,

The Host

Wow. You do not have to eat. You do not have to cook. But let others in your kitchen. You may have stuffed yourself silly, but others may have not. And How hard is it to put out some bagels and cereal?

Yikes. Do you warn your guests in advance? If you can only host if your guests stuff themselves beyond comfort (so they can last 20 hours) you should just stop hosting.

I just cleaned the kitchen and would like the morning off after having just treated everyone to a wonderful holiday meal. Lunch is not that far away. If you must eat before that - Burger King is open 24/7. Be there.

Honestly if hosting family is such a chore for you don’t do it.

Expecting others to eat Burger King (which is gross) because you want to close your kitchen for 20 hours is bizarre. Would it be so hard to have some clementines and bagels/ cream cheese for your guests? Taking a break from cooking is one thing, expecting your guests to starve or eat fast food on Christmas is another.

I made a lovely, abundant meal on Christmas Day. The morning after Christmas I brew coffee and take the the morning off. If someone did not eat enough at the big meal, that is hardly my doing.

Kitchen reopens at lunchtime.

So you're promoting everyone to engorge themselves at lunchtime to carry them until lunchtime the next day?

It just doesn't work like that!

Plus, I'm that person at a holiday meal who takes 1 spoonful of everything to try it and then goes back for seconds of the times I really like. I don't stuff myself and eat a holiday meal like any other meal, expecting to eat again in 5-6 hours.

You do not need to eat heavy holiday food every 5 hours. You are a grown adult, eat normal portions.

That's... that's literally what I said I do.

I eat normal portions.

There's no way 1 slice of turkey, a few spoonfuls of sides, a dinner roll, and then dessert an hour later is going to hold me 20 hours. It's just not happening.

I've never been one to gorge myself or overeat. I eat until I'm full and then I eat again when I'm hungry.

Your MIL doesn't want to slave half the day making a wonderful meal, setting a beautiful table only to see you take little dips and dabs of the food that she has so lovingly prepared for you. Nor does she want to hear 3 or 4 hours later - "What's for dinner? I'm starving!"

Burger King is only a few miles or so down the road and it's open 24/7.

Yeah, it's time for you to stop hosting. I don't expect people to gorge just because I spent a lot of time cooking.

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Anonymous wrote:Dinner time -- how's it going? Did everyone get a nice big Christmas dinner? Or were you fed a Christmas lunch that the hosts thought was so big at 2 pm that no one should need to eat again until Monday morning?

I served light appetizers for lunch and then a big dinner at 3 followed by dessert. After that, no more food - nada, zip. I'm still not that hungry this morning and my feet are sore from standing in the kitchen making that nice meal yesterday, so I'm not making breakfast this morning. Burger King is only a short 5 mile walk away.

Signed,

The Host

Wow. You do not have to eat. You do not have to cook. But let others in your kitchen. You may have stuffed yourself silly, but others may have not. And How hard is it to put out some bagels and cereal?

Yikes. Do you warn your guests in advance? If you can only host if your guests stuff themselves beyond comfort (so they can last 20 hours) you should just stop hosting.

I just cleaned the kitchen and would like the morning off after having just treated everyone to a wonderful holiday meal. Lunch is not that far away. If you must eat before that - Burger King is open 24/7. Be there.

Honestly if hosting family is such a chore for you don’t do it.

Expecting others to eat Burger King (which is gross) because you want to close your kitchen for 20 hours is bizarre. Would it be so hard to have some clementines and bagels/ cream cheese for your guests? Taking a break from cooking is one thing, expecting your guests to starve or eat fast food on Christmas is another.

I made a lovely, abundant meal on Christmas Day. The morning after Christmas I brew coffee and take the the morning off. If someone did not eat enough at the big meal, that is hardly my doing.

Kitchen reopens at lunchtime.

So you're promoting everyone to engorge themselves at lunchtime to carry them until lunchtime the next day?

It just doesn't work like that!

Plus, I'm that person at a holiday meal who takes 1 spoonful of everything to try it and then goes back for seconds of the times I really like. I don't stuff myself and eat a holiday meal like any other meal, expecting to eat again in 5-6 hours.

You do not need to eat heavy holiday food every 5 hours. You are a grown adult, eat normal portions.

That's... that's literally what I said I do.

I eat normal portions.

There's no way 1 slice of turkey, a few spoonfuls of sides, a dinner roll, and then dessert an hour later is going to hold me 20 hours. It's just not happening.

I've never been one to gorge myself or overeat. I eat until I'm full and then I eat again when I'm hungry.

Your MIL doesn't want to slave half the day making a wonderful meal, setting a beautiful table only to see you take little dips and dabs of the food that she has so lovingly prepared for you. Nor does she want to hear 3 or 4 hours later - "What's for dinner? I'm starving!"

Burger King is only a few miles or so down the road and it's open 24/7.

Food is not prepared "lovingly" when it's followed up with people not being allowed into your kitchen for 20 hours.

[Anonymous]

DP. If I go into the kitchen to get a glass of water, after I leave the kitchen MIL heads in there, takes a look around to see what I was up to, then gets a dishcloth and dries the sink off completely.

One day we had one meal period, besides breakfast of Cheerios. That meal was a tray of Chik filet nuggets, no sides or other items.

At my ILs, there is lunch, or there is dinner, but there is not going to be both. MIL is very thin and harbors a lot of anxiety around food. She used to smoke to keep her weight down, now she just eats very very few calories every day. Just 2-3 glasses of wine for dinner. She talks about fasting a lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Dinner time -- how's it going? Did everyone get a nice big Christmas dinner? Or were you fed a Christmas lunch that the hosts thought was so big at 2 pm that no one should need to eat again until Monday morning?

I served light appetizers for lunch and then a big dinner at 3 followed by dessert. After that, no more food - nada, zip. I'm still not that hungry this morning and my feet are sore from standing in the kitchen making that nice meal yesterday, so I'm not making breakfast this morning. Burger King is only a short 5 mile walk away.

Signed,

The Host

Wow. You do not have to eat. You do not have to cook. But let others in your kitchen. You may have stuffed yourself silly, but others may have not. And How hard is it to put out some bagels and cereal?

Yikes. Do you warn your guests in advance? If you can only host if your guests stuff themselves beyond comfort (so they can last 20 hours) you should just stop hosting.

I just cleaned the kitchen and would like the morning off after having just treated everyone to a wonderful holiday meal. Lunch is not that far away. If you must eat before that - Burger King is open 24/7. Be there.

Honestly if hosting family is such a chore for you don’t do it.

Expecting others to eat Burger King (which is gross) because you want to close your kitchen for 20 hours is bizarre. Would it be so hard to have some clementines and bagels/ cream cheese for your guests? Taking a break from cooking is one thing, expecting your guests to starve or eat fast food on Christmas is another.

I made a lovely, abundant meal on Christmas Day. The morning after Christmas I brew coffee and take the the morning off. If someone did not eat enough at the big meal, that is hardly my doing.

Kitchen reopens at lunchtime.

So you're promoting everyone to engorge themselves at lunchtime to carry them until lunchtime the next day?

It just doesn't work like that!

Plus, I'm that person at a holiday meal who takes 1 spoonful of everything to try it and then goes back for seconds of the times I really like. I don't stuff myself and eat a holiday meal like any other meal, expecting to eat again in 5-6 hours.

You do not need to eat heavy holiday food every 5 hours. You are a grown adult, eat normal portions.

That's... that's literally what I said I do.

I eat normal portions.

There's no way 1 slice of turkey, a few spoonfuls of sides, a dinner roll, and then dessert an hour later is going to hold me 20 hours. It's just not happening.

I've never been one to gorge myself or overeat. I eat until I'm full and then I eat again when I'm hungry.

Your MIL doesn't want to slave half the day making a wonderful meal, setting a beautiful table only to see you take little dips and dabs of the food that she has so lovingly prepared for you. Nor does she want to hear 3 or 4 hours later - "What's for dinner? I'm starving!"

Burger King is only a few miles or so down the road and it's open 24/7.

Food is not prepared "lovingly" when it's followed up with people not being allowed into your kitchen for 20 hours.

Eat what is put before you and you won't go hungry.

[Anonymous]

There are really THIS many inlaws with food issues -- who eat 1 meal a day; are constantly fasting; yet drinking 3 glasses of wine per day?? I thought more than 1/2 of America was obese now? I figured the problem for the DCUM crowd would be heavy casseroles and no vegetables for a week, when you are white people who've gotten yourselves used to meals consisting of kabobs and hummus bc you've lived in DC too long.

I know elderly folks tend to eat much much less -- but are all your inlaws really in their 80s? It doesn't sound like it if they have the energy to be running into the kitchen behind you, throwing jars of PB at you -- usually 80+ yr olds aren't so agile. I know of folks in their 80s+ who will make 1 sandwich and split it for lunch or will heat up 1 frozen dinner for 2 people.

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Anonymous wrote:There are really THIS many inlaws with food issues -- who eat 1 meal a day; are constantly fasting; yet drinking 3 glasses of wine per day?? I thought more than 1/2 of America was obese now? I figured the problem for the DCUM crowd would be heavy casseroles and no vegetables for a week, when you are white people who've gotten yourselves used to meals consisting of kabobs and hummus bc you've lived in DC too long.

I know elderly folks tend to eat much much less -- but are all your inlaws really in their 80s? It doesn't sound like it if they have the energy to be running into the kitchen behind you, throwing jars of PB at you -- usually 80+ yr olds aren't so agile. I know of folks in their 80s+ who will make 1 sandwich and split it for lunch or will heat up 1 frozen dinner for 2 people.

The PP who said it's due to a generation of women with eating disorders that didn't talk about them and don't see anything wrong with passing on that mentality had it spot on. Most of these people are talking about (I'm guessing) MILs who are in their 60s to 80s. A lot of these are women who grew up not eating, worshipping the sun, and smoking to keep their weight down.

[Anonymous]

Toasted PB and cream cheese sandwich is both a meal and a dessert. Add in some soup and that is a feast.

[Anonymous]

My in-laws cooked one meal a day for dinner and for sustenance put out a candy/cookie buffet all day long.

All you can eat cookies and toffees and fudges MADE WITH MARGARINE. All day long. I died. I'm dead.

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Anonymous wrote:My in-laws cooked one meal a day for dinner and for sustenance put out a candy/cookie buffet all day long.

All you can eat cookies and toffees and fudges MADE WITH MARGARINE. All day long. I died. I'm dead.

Died and gone to heaven!

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Anonymous wrote:You don't need to eat constantly OP. Are you overweight?

That goes without saying. However, those with food and control issues seem to really cleave to this mantra. Something tells me your 'constantly' may just be within the realm of normal.

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Anonymous wrote:You don't need to eat constantly OP. Are you overweight?

Go back to your kale, hangry lady!