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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is all incredibly strange to me.  At my parents house and my ILs house, everybody is welcome to eat what they want when they want
  No asking necessary.  Do I want to eat what is at my ILs? Hell no! Do my kids? Hell yes!  Chocolate and peanut butter cereal ( who can eat anything that sickly-sweet for breakfast?), tons of candy and chips, and no fruits or vegetables.  I really don't get how they have lived so long (mid-90s), because I have never seen MIL or FIL eat any fruit or even a taste of a vegetable.  I have brought fruit with us, and always, always, always bottled water (they live in FL - don't understand how anyone can drink the nasty stuff that comes out of their tap!).

But no one in any of our homes (ours, my parents, my ILs) ever asks permission to get food of any kind.  We are close family, not guests.  Even my genteel, southern ILs would be offended if I asked.
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Who says people only ever stay with their parents or their ILs? Some people are staying with aunts/uncles, friends, friends of the family, cousins, the list goes on. Asking before you take something or use something in your host's home is a pretty basic standard good guest behavior. Doesn't everyone know that? Not asking is "incredibly strange" to me.

I once asked my mom if my DS could eat some blueberries (he easily can take down most of a pint in one sitting). She said no, she was using them to make blueberry French toast casserole the next day, but to help ourselves to bananas and other fruit. Good thing I asked, even in my mother's home.

-np[/quote]

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