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[quote=Anonymous]We often have family gatherings at our house, as we have the space to do it, and a central location for everyone to gather. Generally, it's about 10-12 people over at our house for these gatherings. Every single time, we get stuck with all the leftover food from any and all gatherings. MIL especially loves to cook a ton of extra food that she knows will not get finished, plus bring over 3 different desserts which hardly get touched (she typically will bake a giant cake, plus pick up a costco pie and a plate of costco cookies.) The other families also bring over more food and desserts.

Like clockwork, when it's time to leave, everyone just leaves their food here, even though DH and I practically beg them to take it with them! It's always, "Oh no! We don't want those brownies in our house!" "We can't be eating all that pie." -- You get the idea.

It's just DH and I at the house, we do not have children. We don't want this stuff at our house either - we can't eat it all and we dont' have room to store it all in our fridge. We try not to eat junk food outside of holidays or get togethers/special occasions. We have told people not to bring over so much food & that we can't keep it but it falls on deaf ears. We just had a get together last night for the UFC fight and our fridge and freezer is now overloaded with leftover deli meat, an aluminum baking pan with baked beans, various dips, lil' smokies, potato chips, ice cream, 3/4 of a costco apple pie, and nearly an entire bundt cake.

Just venting. And thanksgiving is coming in two weeks...

Anyone else have this happen?[/quote]

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