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[quote=Anonymous]The kitchen is closed is rude for guests. IMO family are guests and its always easier and better to just treat anyone other than your kids and spouse as a guest. This way the guests are happy. You are not annoyed or upset that people are not following your family rules.

People who close the kitchen are signaling that they don't see the need to treat family as guests and just impose their own eating styles and rules on others. There is some rationale on closing the kitchen. It is far better for weight management to not graze throughout the day. In fact many people are now doing IF or some combination of breaking the snacking all the time habits to get their weight under control. However if I am the host, it is not my responsibility if you are fat.

For kids, particularly picky eaters, I always found that when my picky eaters were hungry when dinner was served they tried new foods and then liked them. This new food then could get added to something that they would always eat in the future.  If they could snack freely on cheese or carbs then they would not touch dinner because they didn't like it and refuse it at other times. If I am the host and these aren't my kids, its not my responsibility to make sure that they are hungry enough to try new foods.

It is a pain when house guests accidentally eat the ingredients that you prepped but this is easily solved by putting prepped stuff in a separate container marked don't eat or just put it further back in the fridge and then make snacks more easily available.

It is annoying when you make enough portions to feed everyone and then there is a bunch of leftover food because everyone ate sandwiches, cheese, bags of chips and a few tacos an hour before dinner. This can be solved by serving things that reheat well or can be sent home with others as left overs.

I get the messing up the kitchen thing. I swear that my kitchen can be spotless and my teens will go get a "snack" leaving the kitchen in a state where it looks like there was an earthquake and they had to evacuate immediately. However, when you have guests you are just stuck with constant cleaning and tidying up. That's the way it goes. [/quote]

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