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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here- I guess I'm asking, what makes my SILs want to prepare every single meal from scratch- like homemade pancakes (flour, egg, etc), homemade pizzas, homemade salad dressings, homemade noodles.  Dozens of pots/pans/ cooking utensils for every meal...

Why not just go the simple route?  the kids and dads don't care if they eat cereal or carryout or PB&J sandwiches, so why do they overengineer every meal?

I work full-time in an office, so I WANT to be OUTSIDE with the kids as much as possible.
Basically, I want a real vacation.  Not a new full-time kitchen job for a week.[/quote]

+100.     Me too.     We do simple help yourself breakfast, make your own sandwich or salad for lunch, and then a combo of eat out/order in pizza & bushel of crabs for dinner.    Other family's house grilled two nights for both households and we in turn funded the pizza and crabs.  I am with you OP.   No one recalls the "great time we had together cooking" at the beach.   [/quote]

Oh how funny…you say “no one,” and yet here I am, with great memories of cooking with my husband’s now deceased-too-soon aunt at the beach. We made a feast, and she always drank a little too much wine. Just the two of us, and everyone loved it and then cleaned up while we sat on the deck.[/quote]

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