Actually I am pretty sure I am NBU but thought I'd share this.
Am staying at my parent's tonight (and last night) as it was my grandfather's funeral today. I'm about 300 miles from home, and I have my 12 week old baby with me.
My mum has massive food issues, and has done for years. Dad used to really enjoy his food but has developed diabetes, and since retiring has been much more under the influence of my mum regarding what they eat. They both now have very small appetites - my mum always ate tiny amounts but now my dad does too. They also eat lunch at 12 and dinner at 5 - when I'm at home I normally have lunch about 2 and dinner at 8. No problem, though, of course I just fit in with their schedule when I'm here. My mum's small portions and lack of things to eat at theirs is a bit of a joke among my brother and our partners, but I always just make sure I have a few snacks packed in my suitcase in case I get hungry while I'm here.
This time, however, everything had to be booked very last minute and I just didn't have time, or even really think about packing snacks. No matter, it's only a couple of nights, right? So the funeral was today at 12, then arrived at a nearby hotel for lunch at 1. After the meal, my dad said to my mum, "have we got anything in for dinner tonight?"; to which my mum replied, "Son't be ridiculous, we won't want anything to eat at 5 after this enormous lunch." (It was a nice lunch, but by no means enormous, btw). My heart sank but I thought, never mind, I'll take the baby for a walk to the shop later and I can get something to eat. Except the shop is closed for refurbishment. No other shop for miles; no car and no public transport after 5 so no way to get out; breastfeeding the baby which makes me ravenous on a normal day.
AIBU to want to cry a little bit cos I'm so hungry and there's no food at all in the house?
AIBU?
To think that lunch is not enough?
everybodysang · 28/03/2011 20:02
I totally sympathise. My IL's could not be more different from my family with regard to food and guest feeding.
When we go for a planned weekend visit MIL makes a big thing about 'buying in' your kind of food 
, this usually consists of a small tub of coleslaw, bag of salad leaves and an M&S pack of ham. And this is in deepest winter.
Food is strictly rationed. Treat type food is bought near xmas and hidden in a box under her bed. MIL brings out items from said box rarely over xmas and then moans in February that she is not going to buy all this food next xmas because no one ever eats it 
.
She is paranoid about poisoning anyone and refuses now to cook meat other than bacon and pork chops. Sending FIL to tesco for a rottiserie chicken for roast lunch rather than cook one herself.
l really struggled when BFing my two, the later for 18 months. We used to arrive via the supermarket with extra food. One xmas DH and I arrived on xmas eve to find she had not much in. We offered to top up the groceries as our contribution. She insisted on coming to the supermarket with us and looked on in shock horror as we threw baileys, pate, chocolates, fruit, salmon, and all sorts of festive fayre into the trolley.
My Mum does however confess to liking her larder/fridge/freezer to be well stocked and being slightly 
when it starts to disappear. She thinks it comes from having very little as a child and having the comfort of a large stock of food.
OP even though the situation is delicate, l would find a way of getting some more food in, especially as you are BFing. My MIL was slightly miffed when arrived with a hamper of food to supplement her rations. But we explained we wanted to help out and contribute.
My Dad can be like this sometimes, he calls me fat when I want 3 meals, rather than two in a day (I'm a size 10, occasionally an 8 and my Dr says I'm not fat). The irony is he's the fattest person in our house, he's just getting funny with old age. It angers me when he does it to my Mum (since I've slimmed from a 14 to a 10 he doesn't pick on me as much) as she's trying to lose weight but everything she eats gets a 'shove it down you why don't you?' when he's in one of his 'moods' (we think he's autistic, it would explain some of his stranger behaviour, it would also explain why I'm autistic as well).
My Mum's parents eat at strict times like yours OP - lunch at 12, tea at 5. When I was 4 they refused to feed me as Mum and I didn't manage to get to theirs until 5 minutes past 5 so they refused to let us eat with them as we were late (bus back was delayed). And they wonder why we only see them every 3-5 years or so (they live 8 hour drive away).
OP I really hope you got some food. If it was me I'd have ordered the smelliest take away I could think of 
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Yes, I agree, I can't imagine it - even when we have "no food in the house", I'm fairly sure we could survive for probably another month - would prob have some strange combinations and not too many vegetables but still.
Actually I get 
when I think about bare kitchens - would love the chance to start again!
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