DH's aunt brought him up and so is basically the equivalent to my MIL. MIL passed away quite a while ago . Aunt is lovely- kind, generous, always welcoming but the worst cook I have ever met. The last meal she cooked for us had so much salt in it I could barely eat it, and I eat everything apart from liver and kidneys (it also had kidneys in it but I could deal with that!). Plus some of the ingredients and the dessert were out of date which is an issue for me atm as i am pregnant. For some reason she thinks she has to cook us a proper meal every time we visit her,but I just can't face eating there so we are refusing meal invites with excuses and she won't accept our suggestions to visit us or for us to drop in mid afternoon etc.
So, should we be honest and tell her we don't like her food...or come up with some sort of kinder reason why we cannot eat meals there. We have tried arranging to take her out for meals/bringing food over only to find a meal being cooked when we arrive which is obviously awkward.