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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My three adult (28-31 yrs)  nieces and nephews come over about once a month to hang out with my 18, 20 year old kids. 
I do a special grocery shop but it's never enough. They stay for 12 hours which feels really long. They live an hour away.

When the three of them come, we go through 48 soda cans, 8 bags of chips, ice cream, fruit trays, cookies. I end up doing two full meals since they are here so long. I do salads, order four large pizzas for them along with wings and garlic bread. Then I order in Chinese  for dinner. They will eat everything I put in front of them and it's a full time job keeping the food coming, lol.

I used to cook but it was way too much work. Last time I barbecued some burgers and they had THREE burgers in a sitting with buns and all the fixings plus sides.

Honestly, the visits are taking too much out of me. Are they extreme eaters? I feel bad even posting it but it seems they go hog wild when they are here.[/quote]

Okay. something seems really off. 48 cans of soda for let's say all seven of you? So that's more than 6 cans per person? And a bag of chips per person? I assume you don't mean the little snack lunch size?

Buy a liter of soda and then it's water after that. Water from the sink.

Each of the adult siblings had three burgers each?

I'm just finding all of this really hard to believe.

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The OP clarified that 2 of the 3 visiting cousins are obese. That kind of explains some of the extreme consumption of soda and food. It all sounds super unhealthy and gross--and a terrible influence for OP's kids.[/quote]

Um, OP doesn't have "kids" at home: She has adults at home. If they haven't figured out some good eating habits by now, I don't think cousins are the problem. [/quote]

My one son is a workout Fanatic and he watched his food big time. The other one is average.  I'm not worried.[/quote]

Your adult kids live at home, and apparently haven't figured out that they need to pay for their own Chinese take-out. You should be worried. [/quote]

They just turned 18 and 20. One just finished highschool last month. Where else would he live? The other attends college and is home for summer. College is 45 min away so he comes home on weekend during the year.

Why do you care? My kids are doing well thanks.[/quote]

I worked at a summer camp *making money and paying for my own meals* the summer after high school. I spent my college summers 1) working at a camp, i2) nterning at a newspaper, 3) running my college's student newspaper and then graduated with a job.

Your kids are mooching and not paying for their own meals and entertainment. Huh. [/quote]

My kids work FT for the summer. 
They aren't mooching. They tell me that they can make sandwiches. But that's not how I roll.[/quote]

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