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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone can stop offering solutions. Eleven pages of solutions. But OP doesn't really want solutions.[/quote]

OP here and hold on, this isn't fair.  I think you are confusing me with other posters.  My original question was what if anything I could ask for reasonably and I have only chimed in since then to add facts (e.g., explain why we can't use the kitchenette without displacing BIL and SIL from that cabin and that we will be too remote to stay in a hotel or sneak out to McDs every couple days) and to mention that I have previously dealt with the picky eating by bring food for my kids, which I would willingly do this time and keep my mouth shut if there were a place I could keep that food and feed it to my kids (as the educated celiac-ers on this thread have noted, cross contamination is a big issue, so it isn't 'keep the pb & j in your room,' it is 'no bread in the house').  I haven't been nixing the suggestions given.

In fact, I have been taking notes about brands and even tried some of them tonight (Bell and Evans nuggets were a definite no.  Annie's Mac was OK, not great.  And Udis bread I could not get past myself, let alone my kids!).  Please keep them coming!

And I have decided that if my good faith efforts to figure out how to feed my kids GF for 5 days doesn't pan out, I am not unreasonable to ask the parents for an accommodation but give them the choice of what it is (switching cabins, labeling our food clearly and using paper plates, permission to use microwave, etc). I think PPs who pointed out that Grandma may be the driving factor here may be right.

In other words, I have learned that while I should do my best to accommodate them, I am not the only mom out there who thinks it is too much to ask of us on our vacation to have our kids (the younger one is 4, BTW, so not exactly old enough to have empathy toward his 2yo cousin) not be able to eat any of the foods they typically eat for 5 days.  Hungry kids away from home in a different time zone is not a vacation.

Thanks to all.  I will continue to take GF suggestions for bread, pasta and nuggets (will try applegate next).  And yes, I will report back :-)[/quote]

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