How to stop other travellers eat your food supplies?

[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.

Racist

[Anonymous]

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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.

Because I'm worried about you and your anger issues.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Because I'm worried about you and your anger issues.

Are you? Maybe see a therapist if it's that preoccupying for you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Racist

This is crazy. I am a WASP and no one in my family would ever THINK of denying food to anyone. In fact, it's a WASP thing to argue over the check every time and insist on paying- this always happens at the end of all my family or friend dinners. We are a bit more formal in general, so yeah- my family would probably raise eyebrows if, say, my grandmother had her maid passing around hors d'oeuvres and someone stood up and grabbed a bunch. WASP culture is just more formal because it derives from English culture aka stiff upper lip and cultural stuff like that. It's not like Italy which is very informal and everything served family style. But never in a million years would anyone in my family think of only packing food for themselves and leaving everyone else out. It's so gauche.

Educate yourself before speaking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Racist

This is crazy. I am a WASP and no one in my family would ever THINK of denying food to anyone. In fact, it's a WASP thing to argue over the check every time and insist on paying- this always happens at the end of all my family or friend dinners. We are a bit more formal in general, so yeah- my family would probably raise eyebrows if, say, my grandmother had her maid passing around hors d'oeuvres and someone stood up and grabbed a bunch. WASP culture is just more formal because it derives from English culture aka stiff upper lip and cultural stuff like that. It's not like Italy which is very informal and everything served family style. But never in a million years would anyone in my family think of only packing food for themselves and leaving everyone else out. It's so gauche.

Educate yourself before speaking.

NP here and honestly I did not know this was not a WASP thing. We are southern European and would absolutely never think to not share food. It's just not done, and you learn this very early on in school. No matter how small a chocolate bar one kid has and how large the group of kids present, that bar is getting split as evenly as possible.

So is there a particular group that is more individual about their food? My DH, who grew up in Maine, will eat snacks frequently and it won't occur to him to offer any to me or anyone else. He cooks for all of us regularly but just didn't grow up with the habit of offering whatever he was eating to whoever was present. I, on the other hand, cannot be sitting at a table or on the sofa and eating anything without offering it to those present.

And friends' kids who were vacationing with me? Are you kidding? I could never dream to try to "reserve" food away from them. I understand it's cultural and might work for some, but I wouldn't know where to start.

Now, are there moochers in sharing cultures? Absolutely. If we knew friends were not contributing similarly, we'd stay in separate dwellings and not spend time together over meals. But in my experience this happens so rarely it's not worth worrying about.

[Anonymous]

OP, 2 things:

I think you think brunch is relative to the size of the meal or how many people will eat it. This is incorrect. Brunch is literally food from breakfast and lunch (say pancakes and ham sandwiches,) that is eaten in between normal breakfast and lunch time (say 10:30 or 11.). So one can technically make brunch for one or two people or even breakfast for 30. The number of people is totally irrelevant.

Bacon and eggs is less healthy than Aldi just add water pancake mix.

Can someone please bump this in a week so we can catch up with OP?

[Anonymous]

Whoever said this thread had potential: good one! Shall we reference this as the traveller bacon thread from now on. OP is traveller bacon lady.

[Anonymous]

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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’ kids 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.

It’s like curry... It’s a strong smell. And it’s downright annoying to have to smell that as you eat cereal for example. Plus, you’re going to be smelling bacon all day if you cook it in the morning. Most houses do not have range hoods that vent outside. Why can’t OP get a BLT at a restaurant?

Make some normal food for breakfast!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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?

I don't cook on vacation as its a vacation. But, we rarely go on vacation, would eat out, would take the other kids with us (even when their parents wouldn't take mine) and I'd never let someone, especially a child go hungry. But, then again we aren't selfish enough to vacation now so its a non-issue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Bacon stinks up the whole house.

I would be annoyed to share a vacation house with you. If anything I’d be happy friends’ kids 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.

It’s like curry... It’s a strong smell. And it’s downright annoying to have to smell that as you eat cereal for example. Plus, you’re going to be smelling bacon all day if you cook it in the morning. Most houses do not have range hoods that vent outside. Why can’t OP get a BLT at a restaurant?

Make some normal food for breakfast!

The suggestion that bacon is not "normal" breakfast food - especially on vacation - is so absurd I don't even know where to begin with it. On our annual ski trip, I buy a pound for each breakfast we're cooking. There are never any leftovers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Bacon stinks up the whole house.

I would be annoyed to share a vacation house with you. If anything I’d be happy friends’ kids 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.

It’s like curry... It’s a strong smell. And it’s downright annoying to have to smell that as you eat cereal for example. Plus, you’re going to be smelling bacon all day if you cook it in the morning. Most houses do not have range hoods that vent outside. Why can’t OP get a BLT at a restaurant?

Make some normal food for breakfast!

The suggestion that bacon is not "normal" breakfast food - especially on vacation - is so absurd I don't even know where to begin with it. On our annual ski trip, I buy a pound for each breakfast we're cooking. There are never any leftovers.

Cholesterol city!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Racist

This is crazy. I am a WASP and no one in my family would ever THINK of denying food to anyone. In fact, it's a WASP thing to argue over the check every time and insist on paying- this always happens at the end of all my family or friend dinners. We are a bit more formal in general, so yeah- my family would probably raise eyebrows if, say, my grandmother had her maid passing around hors d'oeuvres and someone stood up and grabbed a bunch. WASP culture is just more formal because it derives from English culture aka stiff upper lip and cultural stuff like that. It's not like Italy which is very informal and everything served family style. But never in a million years would anyone in my family think of only packing food for themselves and leaving everyone else out. It's so gauche.

Educate yourself before speaking.

Nah. Wasps are all about the alcohol and no food receptions. It is so sad! Their parties are thumbs down.

[Anonymous]

There are many literary reference to the abstemious nature of food culture in the British Isles including distrust of rich food, strict portion control, not expressing too much enjoyment of food, not askiing for or offering additional food. In my Irish-American family, I was trained never to ask for food and to always leave a small amount of the food (no matter how small the portion) on my plate out of politeness. It was wild to eat with Italian or Jewish friends and constantly be offered more, expected to eat a large amount, and expected to say how good the food was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Racist

This is crazy. I am a WASP and no one in my family would ever THINK of denying food to anyone. In fact, it's a WASP thing to argue over the check every time and insist on paying- this always happens at the end of all my family or friend dinners. We are a bit more formal in general, so yeah- my family would probably raise eyebrows if, say, my grandmother had her maid passing around hors d'oeuvres and someone stood up and grabbed a bunch. WASP culture is just more formal because it derives from English culture aka stiff upper lip and cultural stuff like that. It's not like Italy which is very informal and everything served family style. But never in a million years would anyone in my family think of only packing food for themselves and leaving everyone else out. It's so gauche.

Educate yourself before speaking.

Nah. Wasps are all about the alcohol and no food receptions. It is so sad! Their parties are thumbs down.

You're not invited to the good ones so you wouldn't know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Racist

This is crazy. I am a WASP and no one in my family would ever THINK of denying food to anyone. In fact, it's a WASP thing to argue over the check every time and insist on paying- this always happens at the end of all my family or friend dinners. We are a bit more formal in general, so yeah- my family would probably raise eyebrows if, say, my grandmother had her maid passing around hors d'oeuvres and someone stood up and grabbed a bunch. WASP culture is just more formal because it derives from English culture aka stiff upper lip and cultural stuff like that. It's not like Italy which is very informal and everything served family style. But never in a million years would anyone in my family think of only packing food for themselves and leaving everyone else out. It's so gauche.

Educate yourself before speaking.

Nah. Wasps are all about the alcohol and no food receptions. It is so sad! Their parties are thumbs down.

You're not invited to the good ones so you wouldn't know.

Oh yes, I just love WASP food. There are so many notable restaurants that serve WASP cuisine...said no one ever. Face it, PP, WASPs just aren’t known for their food.

-WASP on one side, Italian on the other.