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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wasn't raised in a barn or a trailer park, but I did go on my fair share of joint vacations with other families and have done so with my own kids.  Sharing food is really part of that experience.  You are sharing a home, it would be super weird to have three separate sets of food for three families for such a short period of time (unless someone has a severe allergy or something like that)  In fact, it is one of the pleasures of a trip like this.  You or your child may discover a new snack or way of preparing snacks that she really likes.

I think OP has two separate issues: sharing food and boundary crossing.  I don't really get the former in a group setting but I can understand the latter.  It is definitely rude for a kid or a parent to help themselves to stuff or go in your bedroom without asking, but in a group environment , I'd let that go and move on.

Its your vacation too, why let little things ruin it?[/quote]
Yeah, the separate foods in a rental house is really weird to me. We've been going to the beach annually with three other families for about 10 years. [b]We just buy a huge amount of food and beverages, and the cost of everything gets sorted out and split after the week.[/b]

And one of the best parts is that you don't need to make every single meal for your own family during vacation. [/quote]

That's how reasonable people handle it, but I sense (and I don't remember if I already posted this or just thought it in my head) that OP has very different food habits than most people on vacation and that she wants to cook and eat 3 square sit-down meals a day, with her family and her family only, while others are more casual and are happy to grab yogurt and a banana whenever they wake up or send a dad out for donuts in the AM, and fix a quick sandwich or grab a burger at the beach shack for lunch.  [/quote]

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