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[quote=Anonymous]If you are at this friend's home, then I don't see a polite way to tell her to mind her own mouth and no one else's, but in a rental situation, I think you just go say in advance, "We're going to be mostly doing our own thing for meals this time."  Then, you go to a store on arrival and get what you need for your family.  Then you serve what you want to your family, and if friend objects that she would have been happy to cook for you, you reply, "How sweet, but as you see we are all set."  Then change the subject.  If she pushes it (and a few repeats of "We are all set on food." Don't make it clear, then you may have to call her out a bit.  "Larla, you seem very invested in my/my kids' food choices.  I have told you several times that we are fine with the food we provided, and I am asking you now to drop the subject."  Then any more objections are met with, "I am not discussing my family's food choices with you and leave the room."

Hopefully, she will get it quickly and be able to back off, but if this is truly an obsession, then she will not be capable of letting go and you may have to lose the friendship over it.[/quote]

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