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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of this is older people who get set in their ways and need so much less food.  They forget what is normal.

We were staying with my parents once at a beach house, and my mom asked me if I thought the two potatoes she had cut up and roasted would be enough for our group of 12 (6 adults and 6 kids)  She was not kidding.  There were other components to the meal but still.  She likes the idea of hosting all of us and wants to be welcoming but it freaks out to see how much food a group of 12 needs to have on hand.

You either need to ignore and go about your business or stay in a hotel.  I would vote for the latter.[/quote]

As someone from an Italian family, I cannot wrap my brain around this.  [b]My great aunts, my grandmothers, my mom.[/b]..regularly cook(ed) enough food for an army at every family meal.  Leftovers are available for days. If you don't eat your fair share, you are chastised, goaded and guilt tripped (only sort of kidding about this).  Not that this is healthy, but I'd rather have too much than too little, I guess?  Makes me sad for people who have to deal with this over the holidays.  Food is central to these holidays; it brings people together.  Those folks must be so unhappy that want to withhold it.  [/quote]

Sad that you don’t mention any men doing cooking. What do they do? Wait to be served? Gross.[/quote]

Unfortunately no, the men did not do the cooking.  What do you want me to do?  I don't condone it.  That's just the way it is.  And it's like that in MOST cultures, including the US.[/quote]

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