We've just got in from being away for half term, and DM has brought us a food parcel...

[IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads]

What would you put in a food parcel for 2 adults and 2 teens to tide them over til tomorrow? DM has always had a disordered relationship with food, but this is one of her "best" efforts! I appreciate the gesture - which she insisted upon - and I have enough experience of her "meals" * to have got milk, bread, ham and a few bits in on the way home. To which we can add her food parcel of:

1 bottle wine
6 pack individual Mr Kipling type apple pies
2 bags of marshmallows
1 box Christmas chocolate biscuits

Apparently we'll all be very tired (we are, very early get up for flight) and need the sugar. She genuinely thinks that this is the basis for a good, light evening meal. (And yes, she's type 2 diabetic!).

YANBU OP . Milk, bread, cheese, ham would be my parcel. My MIL once brought me a whole raw chicken in a food parcel. I’d just had a c-section and travelled home 70miles from the hospital with a newborn after a GA. I still can’t work out the reasoning.

How lovely, my neighbour bought me an orchid so I will have something nice to come back to next week.

My parcel I would do would be probably same as yours and few bits for the children, would put in loo roll also.

Did she promise then run out of time or could only get to the corner shop?

I guess it's the thought that counts. Don't get your hopes up if she offers to do it again!

Such a lovely gesture. I love treats! More fun than bread, milk etc

Good grief - some of you sound totally joyless. I would be more than happy tucking into the food left by OP's Mum. OP already stopped on the way home and got some supplies, so what is the issue?

Thank goodness I don't know people in real life who couldn't possibly eat something they don't consider "food". I also agree that it is pretty awful to come onto MN to ridicule your mother.

I still want to know what was in OP's fridge and freezer. Maybe Mum left something there and OP thinks it was something she put there. Or maybe Mum looked and thought they have plenty for a meal there, I'll just get a few treats. Yes fresh milk and bread, maybe bacon and eggs would be what I'd leave but I'd assume people had a meal on the flight/on the way home.

As a grown adult with your own kids you are lucky to get anything. Always best to receive gifts gracefully.

I've never bought or eaten marshmallows and I can't think of when I would think they needed supplying Is that weird?

Well, yes it is weird. The very fact that marshmallows are sold, and have been for many years, shows that many people do buy or eat them. If you are saying that if someone provided marshmallows for you, you wouldn't eat them simply because you never have in the past, then that is even more weird.

I wouldn't eat them @ithinkthatmaybeimdreaming, no, and I definitely wouldn't serve them up to children and call them dinner.