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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][youtube][quote=Anonymous][b]How can I tell a family member to stop bringing their lousy food to potlucks.[/b] For mother's Day she brought two huge containers of lobster bisque from a grocery store with  plastic cups and spoons to serve it in. broke up some cheese crisps to drop on top & little paper container of heavy whipping cream. For a brunch, she bought 10 waffles from waffle house.  cut in quarters and put out some kinds of syrup in the bottles, can of whip cream, blueberries, cut up strawberries at my house, and put on a plastic platter from a dollar store.  Other things like crab rangoons & egg rolls from a Chinese restaurant with a bunch of chopsticks.  She "served" those in the takeout red/white containers.

This is all stuff she brings right from the grocery store or restaurants, still in the bags, wrapped up.  Everyone else makes food and brings it in nice containers.  Should I assign her items to bring or just tell her to not bother with her grocery store run?  With holiday tomorrow who knows what she'll show up with.[/quote]

[b]Or rather, how can I tell this family member to stop making successful food so my mom stops complaining to me about her meh dishes no on wan[/b]ts.[/quote]

And this is the real situation, isn't it OP? Your mom is either competitive or jealous or insecure or all of the above with this relative. And you are on team mom which is kind of you but it is a bad look for you to put down the relative as your mom is being unfair and immature.

When are family gatherings just about the food. For better or worse as seen by OP's post.[/quote]

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