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[quote=Anonymous]My ILs and parents are very weird w/ food too.

ILs will eat breakfast (a bowl of oatmeal or yogurt and granola) and then have nothing else to eat until late afternoon when they'll have some very light (like a salad but not a big salad w/ protein in it just a regular house salad type salad) dinner. That's fine. But when we visit we need to eat more than that so we bring our own food and make our own separate meals and then get all the comments from them about how we "just ate" and "you're eating again?!" and "wow that's a big meal. Guess we'll have lots of leftovers tomorrow!" They are always hovering around us in the kitchen when we're preparing food for ourselves/the kids, going behind us asking what we're making and turning the stove/oven off when we had something cooking, cleaning up a prep area we're still using, washing dishes we are still using, etc. It's so annoying but we just grin and bear it. We always offer to make dinner or lunch for them too and they always turn it down. I used to get offended that they don't like our cooking until realizing they really just don't have much appetite and don't really enjoy eating.

My parents don't eat breakfast or will get up at 8 and just have coffee and then around noon, they'll eat a bowl of cereal. Then they don't eat lunch. Or at 3pm they'll have a yogurt and handful of nuts or an apple. At least they will eat a decent sized dinner at the typical dinner time 6-7. That's all fine for them it just doesn't really work for us. We have young kids so when my parents visit and we're trying to get out of the house in the morning to go to the museum or wherever, we always encourage my parents to eat breakfast before we go. They don't because that's not part of their "routine" to get up and eat and go somewhere before lunch. Then they'll complain about being hungry while on our outing. We'll come home, the we and the kids will eat lunch and my parents will comment about how we're eating such a big lunch and they're just having cereal, as if they had no other choice.

TL;DR: my parents and in laws have weird food hang ups and habits. It doesn't matter to me except I'm not going to try to adapt to their habits/food schedules and we continue doing things our own way when we visit w/ them and just ignore their comments. [/quote]

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