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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, you need to feed them. It's nice if they take you out and/or offer to cook for some of the meals, but if they haven't communicated that ahead of time don't count on it happening. You'll just set yourself up to feel resentful or be left scrambling when it's the last day and there's no plan nor offer of help.

My advice is to make meals that have ingredient overlap to minimize having tons of leftover ingredients.  Cuts down on waste and saves space in what usually becomes a very full fridge.

Example menu for dinners:

Day 1 - Italian - spaghetti, chicken parm, eggplant parm (or eggplant meatballs which are much better imo) + side salad
Day 2 - Chili - beef, beans, tomatoes, mushrooms, bell peppers, onions (or whatever) + baked potatoes and cheese/sour cream/green onions. Easy to make a veggie portion on the side.  
Day 3 - Ratatouille + side salad (same as Day 1). Can use eggplant of zucchini from night one, onions, tomatoes, carrots from salads etc.  
Day 4 - Tacos - great place to use up whatever meats are left as a choose your own adventure protein, has an overlap with chili toppings, any extra veggies that weren't needed for tacos or ratatouille can be sautéed a fajita style

I'd recommend soups/sandwiches for lunches. That can be as simple or elaborate as your schedule and budget allow - deli meats + canned soups or 4 cheese grilled cheese + homemade tomato soups. [/quote]

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