Anonymous
10/18/2020 21:30
Subject: Re:if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?
Every week when my in laws watch our kids for the day they drop them off and drop off dinner. It’s always appreciated.
Anonymous
10/18/2020 19:51
Subject: if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?
I cook regularly for my parents and my mother in law. Either they come here for a meal (in the back yard now) or I cook up and bring over meals to them to eat together, usually holiday meals. My kid is a teen now and my parents/in laws are in their seventies and not well, so the care giving has shifted from taking care of the kid to taking care of the elders. It’s rough during Covid.
Anonymous
10/18/2020 19:43
Subject: if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?
My MIL use to when we were first married. She doesn't now though. I would think it was a nice gesture however there were insinuations her good little boy as she referred to him was not eating properly.
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
Anonymous
10/18/2020 17:40
Subject: if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?
Never.
I take that back. My parents brought us carry-out lunch the day we brought DD home from the hospital.
ILs have never, and if anything, expect a full meal and dessert, always at our expense, provided for them whenever they visit.
I take that back. My parents brought us carry-out lunch the day we brought DD home from the hospital.
ILs have never, and if anything, expect a full meal and dessert, always at our expense, provided for them whenever they visit.
Anonymous
10/18/2020 17:33
Subject: Re:if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?
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Anonymous
10/18/2020 17:09
Subject: if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?
My mom does it about twice per week now. With the pandemic, she is bored out of her mind so cooking gives her something to do. I also bring her meals once or twice per week, the stuff that it doesn’t make sense to cook for one, but it’s not a big deal for me to make extra.
Anonymous
10/18/2020 16:47
Subject: if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?
Anonymous wrote:My mom loves to cook, so we get food from her several times a year. When our older DD was a newborn, Mom and my MIL both cooked most meals when they visited and left our freezer well stocked. It was very much appreciated, and I have returned the favor to them both several times when they were sick/recovering from surgery. In my family, that's just what you do.
PP back with another thought...Maybe this is a cultural thing...my family is Southern. DH's family is from a small town in the Midwest
Anonymous
10/18/2020 16:46
Subject: if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?
Never, but I don't want them to. (both my parents and my in-laws are 20 min away)
Anonymous
10/18/2020 16:44
Subject: if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?
My mom loves to cook, so we get food from her several times a year. When our older DD was a newborn, Mom and my MIL both cooked most meals when they visited and left our freezer well stocked. It was very much appreciated, and I have returned the favor to them both several times when they were sick/recovering from surgery. In my family, that's just what you do.
Anonymous
10/18/2020 16:42
Subject: Re:if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?
I’m South Asian AMERICAN ... and my mom does this for me.
Anonymous
10/18/2020 16:38
Subject: if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?
My parents are nearby and once brought us chinese food takeout when I had our second child. That was nice.
My MIL lives far away (thankfully!) but even if she didn't she would never do anything helpful or considerate. She expects to be waited on and catered to even when she is visiting as I'm recovering from childbirth. I would never invite her over but try to be accommodating to placate DH.
My MIL lives far away (thankfully!) but even if she didn't she would never do anything helpful or considerate. She expects to be waited on and catered to even when she is visiting as I'm recovering from childbirth. I would never invite her over but try to be accommodating to placate DH.
Anonymous
10/18/2020 16:36
Subject: if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?
I live far away from my parents, but my mom does this for my sister now during Covid about once per month. My sister works with Covid patients so this is one way they can connect without having physical contact.
Anonymous
10/18/2020 16:30
Subject: if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?
We have never had a home cooked meal from family.
Maybe 1-2 times a day for holidays but that is it. Not during births either.
Maybe 1-2 times a day for holidays but that is it. Not during births either.
Anonymous
10/18/2020 15:50
Subject: if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?
I have an elderly relative who has full time care. The sitters will not cook, but will reheat. I go over once a month and cook and freeze as much food as the freezer will hold and also drop off things I make throughout the week (soup, quiche, pasta).
Anonymous
10/18/2020 15:13
Subject: if your parents/in-laws are near-by, how often do they bring you home cooked meals?
Only if one or both of us (me/DH) is sick.