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[quote=Anonymous]When we stayed at my IL's during a construction project we pretty much hit the same bizarre controls (bizarre when you accept guests but then believe you dictate amount and timing of meals that is so far removed from average expectations. My DH talked to them about how we were pretty much 3 meals a day people and the kids often had AM and PM snacks but in the end - we couldn't take the monitoring and ate lunch out most days and often used their 'dinner' as a light appetizer and also went out to dinner. For our situation where we were going to be with them for 2 months - we needed to recognize that they would have been driven crazy to accommodate us (on top of having to deal with how much water and electricity we use!!!) When we've shared vacation homes we are much more direct and tell them our plans to eat the times and amounts we do (and none of us overweight and we are all active) and that while we understand that they'd be on different schedules we would keep kitchen cleaned (though made a point that bulk of clean up was after meals - another issue) and that we'd be quiet if there was late night snacking. When we have guests - like the rest of my family - we ask people ahead of time if there are particular things they like to have on hand and then make a point to have these and a generous selection of options available[/quote]

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