...to really, really not want to eat my MILs dinner?

[Galdem]

She is making some sort of steamed salmon thing. It has been on the hob for about two hours. The broccoli/green beans have been boiling for an hour. AN HOUR. It smells like school dinners.

I know I have to be polite/grateful and eat it. She is just trying to be nice. But I feel so, so, so sick at the thought of eating it. Could I feign sudden sickness?

The only time i've ever been to DP's mothers for dinner i walked in to that smell of veg that had been cooking days ages. She does that very yorkshire thing of serving a big yorkshire pud before dinner so she asked DP if he wanted one, he said yeah, so anyway never asked me, DP said storm likes them too, do you want one storm? me; oooh yes please (thinking at least i wouldnt go hungry if the veg was inedible). half an hour later she served DP a huge yorkshire pud and me a slice cut from her equally large pudding....

MIL's not a bad cook. My mother, on the other hand:

1. makes the worst pastry known to humankind. She's always lovely about mine, so I drop hints but she still makes hers with self-raising flour and that awful white vegetable fat stuff

1. Uses said dreadful pastry to make deadful fruit pies with undersweetened fruit. She is convinced that these are very popular and that she's "known for her pies". The latter is probably true

1. doesn't initially overcook vegetables; but then keeps them warm in the oven for ages, without even a bit of butter to stop them drying out

1. basically has three flavours of main course: (i)the chicken oxo flavour; (ii) beef oxo; and (iii)dry with tomato ketchup.

1. Buys fabulous local meat at vast expense and then completely incinerates it

1. Despite all the above makes a fab treacle pudding which I can't match.

Meals are also helped along by my father's belief that a bottle of wine serves six quite adequately

I am suffering bad morning all day sickness today and the thought of broccoli being served up looking like a wet sick is making me want to vomit. My mother is guilty of doing this as are most people I know, now I think of it. Ew.

Wet SOCK not wet sick (although might be right)

My late Mother in law could not cook, in fact she couldn't even make a decent sandwich. She had a husband and five children none of whom have a clue about cooking either. One SIL eats ready meals and eats out, all she has in her fridge is bread and milk, her brother is the same,and her sisters kids have all left home because they can't stand their Mothers cooking.
My DH can burn water, and in all our years married it has been hard work to get him to do anything in the kitchen.
I on the other hand love to cook but get seriously pissed off with the amount of DH's family who miraculously turn up on a Sunday when our dinner is being served!