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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tend to forget how WASPy this site is until a food/hosting thread.  A holiday cookout is not the time to police how much your guests are eating.  You're not supposed to guess how much people are going to eat and then make exactly that much food and hide the rest.  It's a Memorial Day cookout, you should expect neighbors to wander over and people to tag along.  You're supposed to make a huge spread of food, make sure everyone has enough, and send people home with plates.  You should be thrilled if people go back for seconds and thirds.  If you run out of food you figure out how to fill the gap right now and make a mental note to make much, much more of whatever went fastest next time.

I stg my DH would commit seppuku if our guests had to resort to eating cereal to fill up after he shut the grill off.  The fact that this has happened in your house and you've decided the guests are the problem is bizarre.[/quote]

You don’t have to fill up at every meal. It is not like it is their last meal. Gheesh.[/quote]

Yes, athletic teens do have to fill up at every meal.  And then they will be very hungry again before the next meal.  But I know the almond moms on this site projecting their own horror at the concept of satiety onto teenaged boys at a holiday cookout don't even realize how broken their brains are.[/quote]

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