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Slightly miffed at In-Laws buying us food.

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Christmasbeach · 22/01/2023 09:21

MIL has always bought DP and his brother food since they both moved out. BIL stopped MIL years ago (apart from when she offers him steak/high end meat) but DP still accepts the occasional bag when she's insistent. DP does try to reject these bags but sometimes she'll sneak them into his back seat etc.

I joke with DP that she's playing ready steady cook with us as it's always bizarre items that she's found a good deal on. Usually it's a bag of biscuits/cakes/bread/microwavable rice/crisps with the occasional newly released burgers/seasoned meat. I've always found it slightly bizarre that two men in their thirties are treated like uni students but i've heard that other mums do the same. A lot of the bag of food is cupboard things that DP usually just takes to work for a free home if he's not interested in and if we're given meat he'll have it for lunch.

Now the bit i'm feeling a bit miffed at, if not slightly offended, is that since we've announced that we're pregnant she's been sending food for us both. By that we've received a lot more meat/things for meals but it's all asda essentials. Asda essential sausages, chicken thighs (the original packaging was damaged therefore she put them in a freezer bag for us), wafer ham, ready made mash potato etc.

She quite often makes digs that i'm too much of a health freak (because i've ordered pasta/vegetarian meals out) and 'she ate everything while pregnant'. She knows that I do care what goes into my body, I'm not a huge meat eater and I enjoy cooking. We really do not need hand outs as we're both on good salaries and buying us all this Asda Essentials has only came about after we've announced we're pregnant.

It's also very inconvenient too as we meal plan/do the weekly shop therefore we're either left eating a meal we don't particularly want to eat or unfortunately it goes to waste. I have tried being polite to MIL that either we don't have room in our fridge/freezer or we're not going straight home/there isn't any need as we do our own shops.

MIL has now made a comment to DP that i'm not appreciative. AIBU that as a pregnant professional I'm not exactly jumping for joy at the lowest end chicken thighs in a non labelled freezer bag that needed to be eaten that day?

OP posts:
VanGoghsDog · 27/01/2023 11:26

Dogs can eat raw chicken, bones and all.

Calphurnia88 · 27/01/2023 11:41

Idea for a programme. Food banks for dogs.

Slightly miffed at In-Laws buying us food.
Blossomtoes · 27/01/2023 11:56

VanGoghsDog · 27/01/2023 11:26

Dogs can eat raw chicken, bones and all.

And your point is?

Imthegingerbreadwoman · 27/01/2023 14:08

Can you just chuck the dodgy bits and give ither stuff to a food bank?

Hoppinggreen · 27/01/2023 14:27

Imthegingerbreadwoman · 27/01/2023 14:08

Can you just chuck the dodgy bits and give ither stuff to a food bank?

Brilliant!

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 27/01/2023 14:49

Calphurnia88 · 27/01/2023 11:41

Idea for a programme. Food banks for dogs.

Grin
chocolatebrownie123 · 27/01/2023 15:26

@Calphurnia88JET!!

pinkyredrose · 27/01/2023 16:20

deste · 26/01/2023 13:33

My husband had the misfortune to lose his job when his work closed down. My MIL helped us out by buying one 39p tin of meat.
Just be happy she is generous and thinking of the two of you.
No-one said you had to eat it. Hand it in to a food bank.

A 39p tin of meat? Sure it wasn’t dog food?

pinkyredrose · 27/01/2023 16:23

Zax · 26/01/2023 15:58

Or even better, why doesn't the OP accept it and donate it to someone who desperately needs it? That way, MIL would be happy, someone at the lower end of the food chain would be happy and the OP wouldn't feel the need to whinge on here anymore about something so damn petty!

Do you know what a food chain is?

Zax · 27/01/2023 16:29

pinkyredrose · 27/01/2023 16:23

Do you know what a food chain is?

Do you know what 'uncalled for self opinionated sarcasm' is?

pinkyredrose · 27/01/2023 16:52

Zax · 27/01/2023 16:29

Do you know what 'uncalled for self opinionated sarcasm' is?

Pah!! You should know! 😅

Zax · 27/01/2023 17:14

pinkyredrose · 27/01/2023 16:52

Pah!! You should know! 😅

You win, fair play. 😀
Yes, I admit that I used the wrong phrase (ow that hurt) 😉

pinkyredrose · 27/01/2023 17:18

Zax · 27/01/2023 17:14

You win, fair play. 😀
Yes, I admit that I used the wrong phrase (ow that hurt) 😉

Well played 😉

VanGoghsDog · 28/01/2023 01:59

Blossomtoes · 27/01/2023 11:56

And your point is?

Just responding to the person who said they would cook it and give it to the dog.

Why bother cooking it?

Rottweilermummy · 28/01/2023 05:57

Calphurnia88
I know not intended as mil bashing as such , but when you get someone posting about theirs doing something annoying, it's not going to be avoided , I was just saying lucky I didn't have all that.
Re perishable food I know food bank doesn't take perishables that's why I suggested soup kitchen too, although we have a community hub/ shop that does have a fridge people can take stuff from as well.. was merely a suggestion to op as a way to deal with the food that she didn't want, without upsetting her mil

thankyouforthesun · 28/01/2023 08:32

@Christmasbeach we had a similar but different problem several years ago now with MIL giving us loads of food she thought we should be eating. We don't like it or want it. I said nothing and stayed out. Husband tried various gradually less polite variations of no thank you until eventually he boxed it all up, put a bow on it and gave it to them for Christmas or their birthday or something.

phoenixrosehere · 28/01/2023 09:55

Rottweilermummy · 28/01/2023 05:57

Calphurnia88
I know not intended as mil bashing as such , but when you get someone posting about theirs doing something annoying, it's not going to be avoided , I was just saying lucky I didn't have all that.
Re perishable food I know food bank doesn't take perishables that's why I suggested soup kitchen too, although we have a community hub/ shop that does have a fridge people can take stuff from as well.. was merely a suggestion to op as a way to deal with the food that she didn't want, without upsetting her mil

was merely a suggestion to op as a way to deal with the food that she didn't want, without upsetting her mil

MIL would likely still be upset because OP doesn’t want it nor is going to eat it. MIL knows that OP doesn’t eat these things and has made digs in the past, dismissing OP’s chosen diet. MIL goes as far as sneaking food into OP’s DH’s car even though he has told her he doesn’t want it.

This issue is of MIL’s own making and choosing to dismiss and ignore OP choices of food. There is no reason MIL can’t stop buying food (she didn’t start until OP was pregnant) and ask OP if there is a way she could help and also accept that OP may not need or desire help at this point and time.

eastegg · 28/01/2023 12:11

Calphurnia88 · 27/01/2023 11:41

Idea for a programme. Food banks for dogs.

😂

LindorDoubleChoc · 28/01/2023 13:05

6 bloody days this thread has been going on for Grin!!

Zax · 28/01/2023 16:11

LindorDoubleChoc · 28/01/2023 13:05

6 bloody days this thread has been going on for Grin!!

I know, what a load of utter drivel.😁

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