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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tend to forget how WASPy this site is until a food/hosting thread.  A holiday cookout is not the time to police how much your guests are eating.  You're not supposed to guess how much people are going to eat and then make exactly that much food and hide the rest.  It's a Memorial Day cookout, you should expect neighbors to wander over and people to tag along.  You're supposed to make a huge spread of food, make sure everyone has enough, and send people home with plates.  You should be thrilled if people go back for seconds and thirds.  If you run out of food you figure out how to fill the gap right now and make a mental note to make much, much more of whatever went fastest next time.

I stg my DH would commit seppuku if our guests had to resort to eating cereal to fill up after he shut the grill off.  The fact that this has happened in your house and you've decided the guests are the problem is bizarre.[/quote]

This exactly.  I am as WASPy as you can get, but I was raised in the Italian culture of North Jersey.  If there aren't leftovers after you have people over, you haven't made enough food.  I ALWAYS want to make more than people can eat.

OP, it's very simple.  If your guests are raiding your fridge, etc. after the cookout, you aren't preparing enough food.  Since it has happened n the past, now you know, and you can make more.  [/quote]

Even if she does not prepare enough food it is not a valid reason to be rude. Learn some manners and thank the host for what you were served. No one is going to starve to death in a few hours.[/quote]

My focus is on the OP, not the guests.  OP claims that he (and it's definitely a he) is making more than enough food.  That is demonstrably false.  People are still hungry after the food is gone.  Yes, it's rude to raid someone's pantry without asking, but OP can avoid the entire problem by making enough.  [/quote]

If you need to eat 3 or 4 burgers you are rude. [/quote]

Not true for 16 year old male athletes![/quote]

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