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[quote=Anonymous]Some gems:

1. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/607870.page
Post 9:
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Breakfast was fend for yourself bagels/toast each day, which is fine but not filling. [b]Lunch was never served (and MIL got mad when I suggested we go get food), because it would "spoil dinner"[/b]. So we ate bagels and dinner each day. By the third day I claimed having to go to the pharmacy and took DS for lunch.
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On the morning we opened gifts, we were to have brunch. DS (and therefor DH and I) woke up at 7. BIL slept in until 10. MIL decreed we would eat after gifts. She had purchased dozens of gifts for everyone, which was sweet...but it literally took 3 hours. DS had a melt down (hunger!) and she refused to let him snack. I started to pack him up to take him out for food, and she fussed at me for being melodramatic. She cooked breakfast for him then, and made the rest of us wait until 1:00 to eat.

My favorite part of being home is being able to eat when I'm hungry![/quote]

2. https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/60/607870.page
Post 14:
[quote]Staying at BIL's house, where MIL/FIL also live. BIL has three kids. BIL/wife wake up some time before noon and serve breakfast at 1pm. No food or snacks for anyone until "lunch" at 5pm. Dinner is around 10pm.[/quote]

3. [b]No one eats in this house[/b]
(the whole damn 28 page thread)
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/691252.page

4. A classic BKL minithread:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/45/814282.page
[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless your small children are infants they do not need to be fed around the clock, every few hours.  Of course the kitchen is closed!  Your mom will be treating you all to a fabulous bbq dinner soon.  Why you would need to fill up on gross gas station food is beyond me.[/quote]
Young kids can’t go from 7 am until 4 pm! Do you have little kids? I’m not for the snacking all the time but this is crazy. [/quote]

This is why there is a serious obesity epidemic.  Young children do not need to eat greasy convenience food.  If they are hungry between meals they should get an apple out of the fruit bowl, sit on the front doorstep and have a nice, healthy, nutritious snack.  They do not need a bacon, nacho cheese, funion burger.[/quote]

Do you seriously think small children should go from 7AM to 4PM with only an apple in between?  Do you not feed your children lunch?[/quote]

If I am serving a late lunch/early dinner bbq at 4pm, I would not expect to have a pre-lunch/dinner meal especially if I had just eaten a big bowl of cereal that morning.  If you really must eat, a delicious piece of fruit should be enough to sustain them until the bbq starts.  I always keep a well stocked fruit bowl on the breakfast bar - you don't need to enter the kitchen - just grab an apple, banana, orange or pear, go sit outside in the fresh air and enjoy!

The 4th of July bbq spread is a much heavier meal than one would usually eat.   I can't imagine eating a big, salty, heavily processed turkey sandwich from Panera only to turn right around and eat bbq just a few hours later.

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You have food issues. Please don’t pass them onto your kids. Eat normal portions and don’t gorge on dinner. 
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5. And the post that probably birthed the legend:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/105/691252.page
Post 12
[quote][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dinner time -- how's it going? Did everyone get a nice big Christmas dinner? Or were you fed a Christmas lunch that the hosts thought was so big at 2 pm that no one should need to eat again until Monday morning?[/quote]

I served light appetizers for lunch and then a big dinner at 3 followed by dessert.  After that, no more food - nada, zip. I'm still not that hungry this morning and my feet are sore from standing in the kitchen making that nice meal yesterday, so I'm not making breakfast this morning.  Burger King is only a short 5 mile walk away.

Signed,

The Host[/quote][/quote]

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