To think this doesn't constitute 'Sunday lunch'

[Doobies]

I probably am but am so starving hungry and pissed off I don't care....

Myself, dh and ds eight months visited dh's brother and his wife today. They normally come to us as they have been renovating their house (it's all completed now) and I always cook a Sunday roast. They live a good hour and half drive away so I think its appropriate to have a nice meal ready for them.

Anyway, they invited us over and said they would cook Sunday lunch which I assumed would be a roast dinner type of thing and ds could pick bits of it. It took us two hours to get there and when we arrived finally at three this is what was waiting for us:

2 mini quiches between the four adults

A bowl of bagged salad leaves

Four slices of ham and four sticks of cheese

A French stick

And, I kid you not, a turkey burger thing cut into four pieces.

There was nothing there that ds could eat because he has a dairy intolerance.

I could have cried. I was sooooo hungry and there was barely enough to go round. Am I expecting too much? They have invited us again in a month but I don't think I can bear it....

Tell me to get a life. I think I have low blood sugar....

I wouldn't go again to be honest use the baby as an excuse, I do think thats a very long round trip with a baby for the day and it will get worse as he gets older.

If you normally cook a roast on Sunday (I do) whether or not you have guests then continue when they come if you can be bothered to invite them.

can't believe you didn't take your own food for the baby without checking there was anything for him to eat. I've learnt that relatives just don't cater for allergic kids, offering cake as pudding to my egg allergic children (that includes their grandma)

SDTG can I come round for cake too??

I've learnt that relatives just don't cater for allergic kids, offering cake as pudding to my egg allergic children (that includes their grandma)

So true - though OP had option of bf for this visit.

Also OP as Lo gets older watch out for the deliberate feeding of food that cause allergies be apparently sane people with very bizarre beliefs - they are surprisingly common.

sorry - by not be .

Of course you can, SPB - the more the merrier! If I could get James round as well, I suspect there'd be quite a queue!

Oh dear, when I serve my crusty bread, nice ham and quiche lunches, I also usually make my own lentil (and carrot) soup and serve that as a starter. It turns out I am a social laughing stock (I'm not stingy on the portions though)...

I think the lunch was fine just slightly low in quantity but not really anything to moan about.

Did you tell your in laws what your ds can eat?

OK but I mainly like chocolate cake
and I like a BIIIG piece

I can do chocolate cake - and I NEVER do small slices. Small slices of cake are an Abomination and should be Shunned at all opportunities.

Damnit, now I want cake.

YABU and a bit mean.

They did make an effort.

That was enough food for a light lunch (half a quiche, salad, bread, cheese, ham.Don't know why you would say mini quiche unless it was a bite size one).

Up to you to take food for your dairy intolerant son unless you had spoken about their menu first to check.

Ok,I would prefer a 'proper' roast, but could cope and be appreciative if offered something different.

hang on doobies... you say you were invited to lunch, but you didn;'t get there till 3PM? is that right?
so you set out at 1pm, to have lunch?

is it possible that they thought you weren't coming? or that they ate earlier because you hadn't turned up? did they know you wouldn't be there til mid-afternoon?

and why were you still starving at 9.30pm at night? surely you ate when you got home???

I need to point out that it was half of a MINI quiche

that is tiny

It's interesting your DH saying they just don't eat. But have you noticed them not eating when you serve up delicious roast dinners?

Yeah, there's a real difference between half a quiche and half a mini-quiche (which I took to mean those individual, not bite-sized ones, that you might take for your lunch at work. A whole one, of course!)

To call that 'Sunday Dinner' must be a misdescription at best. Report them to Trading Standards. But seriously, YANBU. If you were led to believe a ROAST was on offer then you have every right to be gutted.

What Choccy says.... do they tuck into your roast with gusto, or do they just pick at it and look outfaced by all the food?

Greythorne Why is Thai green curry unsuitable for BLW?

Wordsonascreen-who the fuck pissed in your pudding?

fliss
I knew someone would pick me up on that! I don't know, I wrote that because I don't really like TGC and so assume babies don't! Plus, I always think it is such a huge phaff top make, most people cheat and put ready made pastes in, which might have some unsuitable E numbers. But honestly, I don't really know. [embarrassed]

but i kind of stand by it...

coconut milk has a laxative effect that might not be brill for little ones, but more than anything, I think TGC could work for older babies, but at 8 months, even a BLWed baby would have to have some appetite and taste range to handle TGC

(wanders off with prejudices intact)

How big is a mini quiche?

They vary in size a lot. I would say the m&s small quiches easily have 2 decent portions?

Are wd talking bite size? Or 7 inch?

YANBU - crap, rude lunch! I reckon you should offer them the same when they come to you! They are happy to eat your generous lunches and then they come up with that?! Do to them as they do to you!

"6 adults, 3 children and 11 brussel sprouts" - but this was 10 sprouts more than any sane adults and children could possibly want.

YABU and YANBU- lunch to me is a light meal as you described. I'd never have a roast dinner for 'lunch'. I would serve a roast dinner from 5pm and on.

However, if someone was coming a distance I'd probably make more effort (still can't imagine I'd ever prepare a roast for lunch though), especially if they usually come to you and you go all out. You like a big lunch, maybe they don't and prefer a lighter meal.