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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I personally would accept gracefully and then when packing the car, I would take the food out and walk around the building and put the leftovers in the outside garbage bin, the go back. This way you've accepted gracefully, she won't pout and you won't have to take it anywhere other than around the side of the house. If you can't even walk it around the house to the outside garbage bin, then you do have a problem, but it isn't your MIL.[/quote]

No, no, no. People need to stop enabling manipulative behavior. Pouting is the height of rudeness. The OP shouldn't have to sneak around to throw out the food. Politely declining is perfectly fine. If someone is rude enough to not accept a polite decline then there is not need to feed their rudeness.

Being gracious does not mean enabling rude people. [/quote]

In theory I agree that polite, but firm refusal is the best option, but sometimes it takes less energy to accept and then dump.  After a week or two at the beach with a long drive home still ahead of me, sometimes accepting and dumping is the way I have to do it.   (I am not the author of the original comment.)[/quote]

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