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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're really picky eaters, like I can count on my fingers the foods they want to eat.  And they want very specific brands of food -- only this brand of salad dressing, this kind of ketchup.  Worse, my FIL likes one thing, but my MIL doesn't so they expect two separate meals to be cooked for dinner.  True, we don't have to accommodate their pickiness, but we've been trained to be good hosts, and when your 80 yo MIL who's not a great driver says she's just going to drive to the store to get some food in a neighborhood she's not familiar with, we just give in and get her the damn food.  Having them over for dinner is always a big production.

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Mine literally only eat meat that is the done-ness of a brick and gag in horror when they see other people eating meat with any pink in it, etc.  They also don't like food to touch and won't eat about a million things.  She makes a big show about how she doesn't eat red meat poultry and throws away all the red meat in her thanksgiving turkey.

But really, it's MIL saying ewww and wrinkling up her nose at everything that bothers me. What are you, 6 years old? Can't other people eat their food in peace? She also asks for a million substitutions or removals when she's out.[/quote]

Did I write this?  I've got all the same stuff going on.  My MIL mainly only likes chicken and incredibly over cooked pork chops.  You can barely cut into those things they are SO dry and horrid, even smothered in sauce.  But even though she only eat chicken (mainly) my FIL won't eat any meat that has a bone in it.  So we can't get rotisserie chicken for take out, for example.  If we finally figure out a place to get take out (say we've all finally agreed to just get pizza) my MIL (who doesn't eat pizza) will need to review the menu and then ask what everyone is getting.  We are getting pizza lady!  Then she needs to order something else, fine.  But she acts like we're nuts for not getting a bunch on entrees AND pizza.  Then when the food shows up she's acts all crazy and thinks there's "way too much food here!".  NO SHIT.

When the conversations start about what to eat or where, I leave the room and drive her crazy by saying "I will eat anywhere".  She has huge lists of foods she doesn't eat, yet is overweight.  It boggles the mind.[/quote]

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