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[quote=Anonymous]13:47 again -- Also, making my kid something later is potentially an imposition if I'm staying at someone else's house -- I'm supposed to just barge into their kitchen and start fixing something?

We had a 4-year-old cousin stay with us for several days. There were meals my 5-year-old loves that her cousin would not eat -- not because of parenting or a superior family meal culture or because my daughter because has a more sophisticated palate, but because they are familiar, comfortable flavors to my daughter, and they were new to her cousin.

If the 4-year-old didn't like the pasta salad I made, I made instant mac&cheese for her.

Our situation was a little different, because she was staying with us w/out her parents and tended to get homesick at the end of the day, so it was more important to me to offer her comforting meals than it might have been if her parents were there. But still: She was a kid in an unfamiliar place offered unfamiliar food, and the lack of familiar food made her anxious. I think I'd be a pretty terrible hostess not to offer her a more comfortable option.[/quote]

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