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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You people are ridiculous and being unnecessarily mean to OP. Your kids are probably the ones who would beg for other people's food because they have no home training.

OP, can you just talk with the other adults before you go? Mention what happened last time, and that you'd like to avoid a repeat of that. IF you all insist on not sharing for breakfast and lunch, they need to prepare their children, and you should be prepared to say no to greedy requests. I would call out there parents every time. "Oh Karen, it looks like Larla is hungry, what did you all bring for breakfast today?"

An easier solution might be to do more coordinating with the other families so that everyone can share and you dont have this problem. That doesn't have to mean you do all the cooking, just handle 1 meal each day. If you have the type of friends who let their kids eat all your food, didnt bring any extra themselves, and would sit back and watch you cook all trip, they suck and you shouldn't travel with them. [/quote]

Do you bring your own food to a party, pp? Because sharing a vacation home is sorta like that: communal fun.

[b]Question: how do multiple families cook meals separately when sharing a kitchen?[/b] Presumably only one person can use the stove at a time. So I’m supposed to wait 20 mins for you to finish with the stove?

Ridiculous. [/quote]

This is the problem I can't get my head around.  There are going to be three separate bacon cooking sessions?  Hard to go hiking if breakfast takes all day to make.[/quote]

THIS.

These people are clearly doing it wrong.

If you are at a beach house and everyone can wander in and out whenever without adhering to a schedule, that's one thing.

But if the group plans to go hiking at a set time, then everyone presumably needs to know what time they should be ready to roll. In that scenario, there's a game plan for breakfast and lunch.

While I've never vacationed in a forest, I have vacationed with multiple families at a remote lake house. Because everyone needed to be ready around the same time to go out on boats to the sandbar, we discussed the schedule each night so people knew what time to be showered, who was handling breakfast, who was handling packing lunches and coolers, who was watching the kids, who was doing sunblock, etc. We didn't resort to excel sheets. Everyone loosely discussed meals weeks in advance and brought food for the group, and then we ended up making a grocery store run at some point. Plenty of food, and everything was served family style.

Because we are people and not machines, there were some quirky/picky eaters. Those parents brought special food for those kids along with extra to share. NBD.

This really isn't hard.

Personally, I think the OP has a bizarre hatred of poor Johny. I suspect he's very popular, athletic and/or smart, and OP feels some weird inferiority when she compares her own kid. I can't think of any other reason why an adult would make an issue of sharing food and go to such lengths to personalize it to one kid. 
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