if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?

[Anonymous]

Only if one or both of us (me/DH) is sick.

[Anonymous]

I have an elderly relative who has full time care. The sitters will not cook, but will reheat. I go over once a month and cook and freeze as much food as the freezer will hold and also drop off things I make throughout the week (soup, quiche, pasta).

[Anonymous]

We have never had a home cooked meal from family.
Maybe 1-2 times a day for holidays but that is it. Not during births either.

[Anonymous]

I live far away from my parents, but my mom does this for my sister now during Covid about once per month. My sister works with Covid patients so this is one way they can connect without having physical contact.

[Anonymous]

My parents are nearby and once brought us chinese food takeout when I had our second child. That was nice.

My MIL lives far away (thankfully!) but even if she didn't she would never do anything helpful or considerate. She expects to be waited on and catered to even when she is visiting as I'm recovering from childbirth. I would never invite her over but try to be accommodating to placate DH.

[Anonymous]

I’m South Asian AMERICAN ... and my mom does this for me.

[Anonymous]

My mom loves to cook, so we get food from her several times a year. When our older DD was a newborn, Mom and my MIL both cooked most meals when they visited and left our freezer well stocked. It was very much appreciated, and I have returned the favor to them both several times when they were sick/recovering from surgery. In my family, that's just what you do.

[Anonymous]

Never, but I don't want them to. (both my parents and my in-laws are 20 min away)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom loves to cook, so we get food from her several times a year. When our older DD was a newborn, Mom and my MIL both cooked most meals when they visited and left our freezer well stocked. It was very much appreciated, and I have returned the favor to them both several times when they were sick/recovering from surgery. In my family, that's just what you do.

PP back with another thought...Maybe this is a cultural thing...my family is Southern. DH's family is from a small town in the Midwest

[Anonymous]

My mom does it about twice per week now. With the pandemic, she is bored out of her mind so cooking gives her something to do. I also bring her meals once or twice per week, the stuff that it doesn’t make sense to cook for one, but it’s not a big deal for me to make extra.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Never.

I take that back. My parents brought us carry-out lunch the day we brought DD home from the hospital.

ILs have never, and if anything, expect a full meal and dessert, always at our expense, provided for them whenever they visit.

[Anonymous]

My MIL use to when we were first married. She doesn't now though. I would think it was a nice gesture however there were insinuations her good little boy as she referred to him was not eating properly.

Pathetic.

[Anonymous]

I cook regularly for my parents and my mother in law. Either they come here for a meal (in the back yard now) or I cook up and bring over meals to them to eat together, usually holiday meals. My kid is a teen now and my parents/in laws are in their seventies and not well, so the care giving has shifted from taking care of the kid to taking care of the elders. It’s rough during Covid.

[Anonymous]

Every week when my in laws watch our kids for the day they drop them off and drop off dinner. It’s always appreciated.