How to stop other travellers eat your food supplies?

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Anonymous wrote:Yay, DCUM. Let’s stretch it out two more pages by telling me I should just make a little extra.

My grandmother would be spinning in her grave if I ever denied a friend’s kid some food. Our problem is that we usually have too many leftovers.

See, mine would be rolling in her grave at the PITA controlling parents who insist on kale smoothies, and that would be the first and last time in the same vacation house.

OP, to some people, life is a PITA contest - the lazier the better.

Well then you sound like you had a trashy, low class grandma.

Not everyone is from a good family. Oh well. Trailer trash is all over

NP: I don't even understand what is happening here. Why would you call someone's dead grandma trailer trash? Please step away from the internet.

[Anonymous]

And “host” in a beach rental usually means the person who organized the rental. Not the owner.

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Anonymous wrote:Yay, DCUM. Let’s stretch it out two more pages by telling me I should just make a little extra.

My grandmother would be spinning in her grave if I ever denied a friend’s kid some food. Our problem is that we usually have too many leftovers.

See, mine would be rolling in her grave at the PITA controlling parents who insist on kale smoothies, and that would be the first and last time in the same vacation house.

OP, to some people, life is a PITA contest - the lazier the better.

Well then you sound like you had a trashy, low class grandma.

Not everyone is from a good family. Oh well. Trailer trash is all over

NP: I don't even understand what is happening here. Why would you call someone's dead grandma trailer trash? Please step away from the internet.

Why dont you try reading the thread before chiming in? My God, people are dumb.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I'd be happy to donate a few extra boxes of pancake mix so you can feed the other kids. You can make the pancakes the night before and reheat them in the microwave or oven. Or, bring a waffle maker and reheat the waffles in the oven/toaster.

LOL it's so true. We should start a gofundme so OP can scrape together the $10 required for her to be a good guest. I'm feeling generous so I'll pitch in 10 cents which should put a nice dent in things

Guests shouldn't be cooking for other people, the host should be cooking for them. Congratulations, you played yourself.

no one is hosting, they're all guests. Learn what words mean.

+1

It is EVERYONE'S vacation, not just the lazy family.

Everyone has positives and negatives. I will admit I am lazy. I want to be lazy on vacation. I have a housekeeper who also cooks for us at home. I still would make kids eggs and bacon even though I don’t even do this at home. I hate cleaning. I will still load the dishwasher and clear the table. We also host the most. We host people in our home and treat people out. I am also happy to contribute more financially. If I could, I would rather pay for the entire house rental and let other people deal with the cooking and cleaning. I feel this sounds rude so I don’t suggest it. My house preference is also usually double the cost of others.

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OP-are you traveling today? Please let us know how the trip goes, please!!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:OP-are you traveling today? Please let us know how the trip goes, please!!!!!

I hope OP brought some extra cereal.

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Anonymous wrote:OP-are you traveling today? Please let us know how the trip goes, please!!!!!

I hope OP brought some extra cereal.

She didn't... it was too much of a huge burden to tote around the .5 pound box of cereal. She'd rather just gripe about it instead

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Bacon stinks up the whole house.

I would be annoyed to share a vacation house with you. If anything I’d be happy friends’ are asking for some. Maybe that means fewer days of having the house smell like a truck stop diner?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It may seem like a silly question but it’s a real struggle for me.

We’re renting a large cabin/lodge in a state park for Labor weekend. There will be 3 families, total 10 people.

We agreed to alternate cooking dinners for the whole group. I explicitly said that I’m bringing breakfast and lunch food for our family only and don’t intend to to feed others for breakfast and lunch.

However, I said that too on our precious weekend together and my friend’s kids ended up eating literally all our breakfast food. Its awkward when our family is eating breakfast and the other kids ask if they can have some of it too and their mom doesn’t say anything. These are not little kids, they’re 11-13 years old.

Anyway, I’m trying to avoid the same situation. What would be an assertive way to handle it?

This thread is the BEST argument for my policy of only traveling with my DH and kids. Thank you!

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Bacon stinks up the whole house.

I would be annoyed to share a vacation house with you. If anything I’d be happy friends’ are asking for some. Maybe that means fewer days of having the house smell like a truck stop diner?

Haha, good point, bacon does leave behind a strong scent.

I don’t get cooking an elaborate greasy breakfast when everyone else is having simple healthy foods. Just bring simple foods that don’t have strong smells.

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I don’t cook on vacation (insert here the Onion article about Mom assuming all household chores in closer proximity to the ocean) so I’d be bringing cereal and fruit. DH and kids can help themselves and clean up after themselves; I’m on vacation. My kids would totally have puppy dog eyes if some other mom was cooking a feast but that’s my problem, not the other mom’s, if the plan we all agreed upon was to bring our own food. Why aren’t these other parents telling their kids to eat their own food?

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is the BEST argument for my policy of only traveling with my DH and kids. Thank you!

It seems like that would be the best policy for OP as well. She comes off as too uptight to have a good time with anyway.

We go to Delaware every year with 3 other families. Eight adults and seven kids. It's a communal effort to feed everyone. But, honestly, it's no more effort to pour cereal for my two kids or all of the kids at the same time. Grilling steaks for 8 people or making a big pot of pasta with meat sauce for the group isn't much more work than just feeding my own family. People make trips to the grocery store/liquor store/CVS/Wal-Mart as needed throughout the week, and we sort it all out at the end of the week. And if I'm about to take my kids to the ice cream shop on the corner, I'll take any other kids who are around as well (who may be the kids from the house next door). It's just weird to me that someone would rent a house with other families, and expect everyone to only eat their own food. It also seems really inefficient.

I've seen a few threads on here where people seem to have weird issues with sharing food, even with supposedly close friends. That kind of strikes me as a WASP issue, based on my experiences growing up. I grew up in a neighborhood with lots of white ethnic people, many of them immigrants. Food was always shared with guests, neighbors, kids passing through, and whoever else happened to be in the house at the time. For some reason, the more WASPy people had a more formal approach to food and eating with people outside of the family.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This thread is the BEST argument for my policy of only traveling with my DH and kids. Thank you!

It seems like that would be the best policy for OP as well. She comes off as too uptight to have a good time with anyway.

We go to Delaware every year with 3 other families. Eight adults and seven kids. It's a communal effort to feed everyone. But, honestly, it's no more effort to pour cereal for my two kids or all of the kids at the same time. Grilling steaks for 8 people or making a big pot of pasta with meat sauce for the group isn't much more work than just feeding my own family. People make trips to the grocery store/liquor store/CVS/Wal-Mart as needed throughout the week, and we sort it all out at the end of the week. And if I'm about to take my kids to the ice cream shop on the corner, I'll take any other kids who are around as well (who may be the kids from the house next door). It's just weird to me that someone would rent a house with other families, and expect everyone to only eat their own food. It also seems really inefficient.

I've seen a few threads on here where people seem to have weird issues with sharing food, even with supposedly close friends. That kind of strikes me as a WASP issue, based on my experiences growing up. I grew up in a neighborhood with lots of white ethnic people, many of them immigrants. Food was always shared with guests, neighbors, kids passing through, and whoever else happened to be in the house at the time. For some reason, the more WASPy people had a more formal approach to food and eating with people outside of the family.

Same people who don’t want to feed people at birthday parties.

I still don’t understand those who don’t feed their guests and I know money is not the issue.

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Bacon stinks up the whole house.

I would be annoyed to share a vacation house with you. If anything I’d be happy friends’ are asking for some. Maybe that means fewer days of having the house smell like a truck stop diner?

Haha, good point, bacon does leave behind a strong scent.

I don’t get cooking an elaborate greasy breakfast when everyone else is having simple healthy foods. Just bring simple foods that don’t have strong smells.

Bacon is the best smell...you bacon haters are fools.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, I'd be happy to donate a few extra boxes of pancake mix so you can feed the other kids. You can make the pancakes the night before and reheat them in the microwave or oven. Or, bring a waffle maker and reheat the waffles in the oven/toaster.

LOL it's so true. We should start a gofundme so OP can scrape together the $10 required for her to be a good guest. I'm feeling generous so I'll pitch in 10 cents which should put a nice dent in things

Guests shouldn't be cooking for other people, the host should be cooking for them. Congratulations, you played yourself.

no one is hosting, they're all guests. Learn what words mean.

Well, if there are no hosts, there are no guests. No assigned roles at all, so no one needs to live up to your ridiculous and idiosyncratic notion of what a "good guest" does.

They are all guests, as they are all staying at a rental facility. Just like someone staying at a hotel is a "Guest". is English not your first language?

If they are all guests, then I suggest the other families be "good guests" as well, and feed their children appropriately. And redirect when their kids beg food from other families (so embarrassing).