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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love relatives who serve paltry amounts of food at their own house (it is not a financial thing) but when they come to yours they happily inhale 3 meals a day plus snacks, happy hour, and dessert.[/quote]

My ILs are visiting you? They have no food in their house. They look at our fridge/pantry as a challenge to eat everything in it. I now only buy bananas and orange when they visit because if I have 3 containers of raspberries, 2 of strawberries, and one of blueberries, meant to last for multiple breakfasts for the kids, they will be gone on day one and I’d spend a small fortune in berries for the week. I also have to bag, staple shut, and label dinner ingredients lest I come home from work and find they roasted the chicken I intended to make for dinner and eaten it for lunch.

So say I make 20 baked chicken drumsticks, a large pot of rice, steamed broccoli, and salad for 4 adults and 2 young children who only eat one each. It will all be gone in one sitting because my FIL will amble back into the kitchen and see that there are maybe 2 or 3 drumsticks left and call “hey Jane, we need to finish these up, there are 3 left, I’ll eat 2 and you have 1.” Then, no more than 20 minutes after the meal they will eat heaping bowls of ice cream and 30 minutes after that MIL is in the kitchen looking for a glass of milk and a piece of fruit. They must save all their calories for visiting us because they are not heavy people. [/quote]

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