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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why everyone is criticizing. I also close my kitchen after meals. I make hearty meals - there’s no need to go into the kitchen every couple of hours. I agree with the previous poster who said this is why there’s an obesity problem in this country.

Well, I trust I est less at your “hearty” meals, because, under the idea of Everyone Is Different, I simply don’t have the crocodilian ability to gorge myself like you do. I will eat a few bites of your meal, feel full, and need a snack or similar later.

I’ll guess you’ll hate being in our house, where we feed meals and snacks freely.

Aside from that, why do you welcome people into your home? Are you hoping to starve them into submission?

I’m not even going to get into how your own opinion of food fuels obesity.

I don’t gorge during meals and neither do any of my guests, who all love coming to my lovely home. We are able to function quite nicely without eating constantly and getting fat as a result. Good day to you.

So you all sit around and feed each other adjectives all day[u]?

No. We sit around and converse and enjoy each other’s company without constantly stuffing our face and dirtying up my kitchen!

Laughing. out. loud.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why everyone is criticizing. I also close my kitchen after meals. I make hearty meals - there’s no need to go into the kitchen every couple of hours. I agree with the previous poster who said this is why there’s an obesity problem in this country.

The one relative I have who does what you do this is massively obese. This is a control issue.

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.

I love Burger King lady’s stepford wife writing style. Expert troll!

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why everyone is criticizing. I also close my kitchen after meals. I make hearty meals - there’s no need to go into the kitchen every couple of hours. I agree with the previous poster who said this is why there’s an obesity problem in this country.

Well, I trust I est less at your “hearty” meals, because, under the idea of Everyone Is Different, I simply don’t have the crocodilian ability to gorge myself like you do. I will eat a few bites of your meal, feel full, and need a snack or similar later.

I’ll guess you’ll hate being in our house, where we feed meals and snacks freely.

Aside from that, why do you welcome people into your home? Are you hoping to starve them into submission?

I’m not even going to get into how your own opinion of food fuels obesity.

I don’t gorge during meals and neither do any of my guests, who all love coming to my lovely home. We are able to function quite nicely without eating constantly and getting fat as a result. Good day to you.

So you all sit around and feed each other adjectives all day?

No. We sit around and converse and enjoy each other’s company without constantly stuffing our face and dirtying up my kitchen!

Yep, you sound like a lot of fun.

I’m happiest when my kitchen is a mess, and my guests are full on blini, smoked salmon, crème fraîche, and some concoction we came up with the booze in the bar and whatever I had in stock for a mixer.

So, you do you, OP. I’ll continue to let my guests raid my freezer for cookie dough ice cream at midnight, and join them for a chat and being able to live life without any constraints.

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Anonymous wrote:So, maybe I’m wrong, but I interpreted the post about the closed kitchen to mean that the MIL was in there preparing the food for the big dinner and didn’t want other people in the kitchen while she was trying to work. I assumed she had a small kitchen and didn’t have space for other people in there while she was cooking.

This is the only way I’ve heard that expression used- just that the cook needed to use the space and there was no room for other activities in the kitchen during the prep for the big meal.

No, the way the phrase has been used by notorious DCUM posters and difficult in-laws is different. They declare that the kitchen is closed at a certain point (like after breakfast) and no one, including house guests, are allowed back in the kitchen at all.

In the post referred to in the OP here, the MIL served breakfast and then said the kitchen was closed until the big BBQ at 4:30. It sounds to me as though she was preparing the big BBQ in the kitchen. I have a small kitchen myself, so I totally get not wanting people underfoot while I’m trying to cook.

Fine and dandy. But the host in question GOT PUT OUT that we went out for lunch. Do you get it?

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why everyone is criticizing. I also close my kitchen after meals. I make hearty meals - there’s no need to go into the kitchen every couple of hours. I agree with the previous poster who said this is why there’s an obesity problem in this country.

It’s you, Burger King Lady. Don’t front.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why everyone is criticizing. I also close my kitchen after meals. I make hearty meals - there’s no need to go into the kitchen every couple of hours. I agree with the previous poster who said this is why there’s an obesity problem in this country.

Well, I trust I est less at your “hearty” meals, because, under the idea of Everyone Is Different, I simply don’t have the crocodilian ability to gorge myself like you do. I will eat a few bites of your meal, feel full, and need a snack or similar later.

I’ll guess you’ll hate being in our house, where we feed meals and snacks freely.

Aside from that, why do you welcome people into your home? Are you hoping to starve them into submission?

I’m not even going to get into how your own opinion of food fuels obesity.

I don’t gorge during meals and neither do any of my guests, who all love coming to my lovely home. We are able to function quite nicely without eating constantly and getting fat as a result. Good day to you.

So you all sit around and feed each other adjectives all day?

No. We sit around and converse and enjoy each other’s company without constantly stuffing our face and dirtying up my kitchen!

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Anonymous wrote:My mom is like this. She was like this when we were kids. I grew up in an affluent neighborhood, my parents had plenty of money, but I was always hungry. I can remember going to people's houses and finding out that they had things like left overs and family style meals where you could choose how much you ate, and being amazed. In my family, my mother would buy exactly what she thought we should eat for the week. So, if we were having chicken on Tuesday she'd buy 5 chicken drumsticks, one for each family member, and 5 small rolls, and measure out exactly 5 1/2 cups of frozen vegetables. She'd boast about how her kids always cleaned their plates, but that was because we were hungry!!

This is so sad.

Did your mom grow up in poverty, or have an eating disorder? I have a relative like this, and she has both (poverty in childhood & an eating disorder).

My mom grew up super rich on the Upper East Side. We lived an UMC lifestyle, but I think that she interpreted that as poverty, and some of the anxiety about "waste" came from that. She's also a borderline alcoholic, which compounds the issue because if we all get the same amount of food, but you drink 3 glasses of wine with yours, it explains why we're still hungry and you aren't!

One thing we did come to terms about is drinks. My mother feels very strongly that one should never ask for anything that isn't served with a meal. Like if she thinks there's enough salt, it's rude to get up and get the salt shaker from the kitchen to add. She also thinks that this applies to beverages. She frequently served meals where the only liquids at the the table were pre-poured glasses of milk for the children, and wine. The first time I got up, went into her kitchen and helped myself a glass of tap water, she was horrified that I had judged her meal in that way. We've gotten past that, at least.

Even in a hotel, you may have either set meal times, or restaurant hours. BUT, the hours are usually pretty open, OR otherwise, you could still grab a snack, beverage 24/7.

Hotels know what they’re doing. They make everyone comfortable by being open to food almost any hour of the day... even if it’s not a hot meal.

#thekitchenisopen

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why everyone is criticizing. I also close my kitchen after meals. I make hearty meals - there’s no need to go into the kitchen every couple of hours. I agree with the previous poster who said this is why there’s an obesity problem in this country.

Well, I trust I est less at your “hearty” meals, because, under the idea of Everyone Is Different, I simply don’t have the crocodilian ability to gorge myself like you do. I will eat a few bites of your meal, feel full, and need a snack or similar later.

I’ll guess you’ll hate being in our house, where we feed meals and snacks freely.

Aside from that, why do you welcome people into your home? Are you hoping to starve them into submission?

I’m not even going to get into how your own opinion of food fuels obesity.

I don’t gorge during meals and neither do any of my guests, who all love coming to my lovely home. We are able to function quite nicely without eating constantly and getting fat as a result. Good day to you.

So you all sit around and feed each other adjectives all day?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why everyone is criticizing. I also close my kitchen after meals. I make hearty meals - there’s no need to go into the kitchen every couple of hours. I agree with the previous poster who said this is why there’s an obesity problem in this country.

Well, I trust I est less at your “hearty” meals, because, under the idea of Everyone Is Different, I simply don’t have the crocodilian ability to gorge myself like you do. I will eat a few bites of your meal, feel full, and need a snack or similar later.

I’ll guess you’ll hate being in our house, where we feed meals and snacks freely.

Aside from that, why do you welcome people into your home? Are you hoping to starve them into submission?

I’m not even going to get into how your own opinion of food fuels obesity.

I don’t gorge during meals and neither do any of my guests, who all love coming to my lovely home. We are able to function quite nicely without eating constantly and getting fat as a result. Good day to you.

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Anonymous wrote:So, maybe I’m wrong, but I interpreted the post about the closed kitchen to mean that the MIL was in there preparing the food for the big dinner and didn’t want other people in the kitchen while she was trying to work. I assumed she had a small kitchen and didn’t have space for other people in there while she was cooking.

This is the only way I’ve heard that expression used- just that the cook needed to use the space and there was no room for other activities in the kitchen during the prep for the big meal.

No, the way the phrase has been used by notorious DCUM posters and difficult in-laws is different. They declare that the kitchen is closed at a certain point (like after breakfast) and no one, including house guests, are allowed back in the kitchen at all.

In the post referred to in the OP here, the MIL served breakfast and then said the kitchen was closed until the big BBQ at 4:30. It sounds to me as though she was preparing the big BBQ in the kitchen. I have a small kitchen myself, so I totally get not wanting people underfoot while I’m trying to cook.

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why everyone is criticizing. I also close my kitchen after meals. I make hearty meals - there’s no need to go into the kitchen every couple of hours. I agree with the previous poster who said this is why there’s an obesity problem in this country.

Well, I trust I est less at your “hearty” meals, because, under the idea of Everyone Is Different, I simply don’t have the crocodilian ability to gorge myself like you do. I will eat a few bites of your meal, feel full, and need a snack or similar later.

I’ll guess you’ll hate being in our house, where we feed meals and snacks freely.

Aside from that, why do you welcome people into your home? Are you hoping to starve them into submission?

I’m not even going to get into how your own opinion of food fuels obesity.

Anonymous wrote:This thread, which was already poised to be entertaining, just took an interesting turn. Let me get some lunch.

Wait, you didn’t hear? THE KITCHEN IS CLOSED!