Do you ask traveling guests to bring food?

[Anonymous]

We are driving 6+ hours with small children to have Thanksgiving at BIL's house. They have asked us to bring pumpkin pie and a casserole for the meal. I think it is a little weird since we are going to have to keep it chilled for a long time and have it crammed in a packed car. Am I wrong to think this is weird?

[Anonymous]

Put it in a cooler and go. What's the big deal?

[Anonymous]

Or you could do the logical thing and pick it up right before you arrive, from a nearby store...why would you pick it up 6 hours in advance unless they live in the middle of nowhere?

[Anonymous]

Pie travels nicely. The casserole not so much.

[Anonymous]

I think the casserole part is weird. I might suggest you could bring wine, but if you are driving, I wouldn't make you bring stuff. The travel would be enough.

Signed, the only person in my family to move away from WI.

[Anonymous]

I'd never ask anyone to bring food.

[Anonymous]

OP here, they are food snobs and I am afraid to pick it up from a local store for fear of offending them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or you could do the logical thing and pick it up right before you arrive, from a nearby store...why would you pick it up 6 hours in advance unless they live in the middle of nowhere?

Presumably OP is making these items, not buying them.

I'd say the pie makes sense, the casserole not so much. Can you ask to bring something that travels better? Rolls, wine, cranberry sauce?

[Anonymous]

Yes, it's a strange request. My FIL used to freeze food and pack it in his luggage with his clothes before a cross-country flight. It kind of wigged me out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, they are food snobs and I am afraid to pick it up from a local store for fear of offending them.

Here's what I would do. Make/buy the pie and then make and freeze the casserole. It will travel fine if frozen. It can act as the ice block for the pie. (Or do pecan pie which doesn't need the cold.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, they are food snobs and I am afraid to pick it up from a local store for fear of offending them.

Food snobs wouldn't be doing casseroles so I think you are safe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or you could do the logical thing and pick it up right before you arrive, from a nearby store...why would you pick it up 6 hours in advance unless they live in the middle of nowhere?

What kind of casserole are you going to be able to pick up the day of?

I'd never ask someone travelling to bring food.

[Anonymous]

Everyone brings something.

In our family you aren't told what to bring, you are only told to bring what YOU are good at making plus the drink of your choice.

I always have a few sides and a dessert but only drink water so if you want something special, bring it.

[Anonymous]

Hell no! But anyone we would invite WOULD bring something, because that's how everyone I know does life. That may mean they stick two bottles of wine in the trunk, but nobody I know would show up empty-handed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd never ask anyone to bring food.

+1. Especially one coming from out of town!!