Friend not doing an evening meal as “we had a big meal earlier”

[Bupo]

So I’m staying with a friend who invited me to stay. She lives in a nice town that many tourists visit.

This evening I asked if there was any meal prep i could help with for dinner. And friend said something along the lines of “oh I assumed you wouldn’t want dinner as we had a massive meal earlier”.

She’s not wrong. We went to KFC as a few of the restaurants we tried were too busy. It’s literally been years since I last went. I had a burger and two chicken wings. The chips were raw so I only ate a couple.

It’s not the lightest meal but surely most would still expect to eat/feed a guest. She’s not weird with food and a normal not-big-not-small size.

I had about 4 tablespoons of leftover rice and curry for breakfast.

I’m about to go on a “walk” to coop

If I've gone somewhere like KFC for lunch I probably wouldn't eat a full meal in the evening. More likely a light supper similar to what I'd usually eat for lunch. So toast or eggs etc or maybe cheese and biscuits. If you had such a small breakfast why did you have such a small lunch? It sounds like a miscommunication as to when the main meal was going to be. She ate her main meal at lunch time and you assumed this wasn't the main meal of the day so ate accordingly.

I'd just be making cheese or eggs on toast.

Ridiculous , get a life

Actually we don't , due to severe financial constraint but would make sure some was bought and available should we have guests!

85%;have said you are NOT being unreasonable … ridiculous… 1/folk are starving all over the world 2/ in the uk theres a recession and people are going hungry all overthis country,missing meals and trying to eek out the pennies to make basic dinners to get through and you are moaning cos you have missed your dinner.. this is why i think a young person has wriiten this or someone overpriveliged. How many are having both dinner and tea? how many are missing meals or giving their meals to the children.. ive been there, mortgage and bills first then whatever left for food and that used to be a paltry psinful amount..that was before the recession and exorbitant prices, whoever wrote this get in the real world please

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Wth? Someone over-privileged for wanting dinner? 😆

E x p e c t i n g dinner from someone else then whining about it when nothings forthcoming,who,s making your dinner,who,s making my dinner! make your own dinner honey. Tis a ridiculous post

But not as ridiculous as your response!

Jesus 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

She’s in someone’s else’s house, she can’t just get up and start making dinner 😆🤣

so she can,t go to greggs and buy a sausage roll either? Get a grip

Have you bothered reading OP’s posts?

She was going for a ‘walk’ at night to get something to eat.

Oh thats great,problem solved,we can all sleep easy now

I'd do this too.
I might do a slight hint and say 'I might call at the shop and get some crisps and a sandwich,do you want anything? Maybe then host might think Oh god I'm not hungry but I didn't ask if OP was! And offer her to make her own or offer to make a sandwich. Or if she was hinting that op should provide, say 'yes please I'll have XYZ'.

It doesn't seem like that's the case though. It sounds thoughtless. She'd eaten more than op at lunch and didn't note this, and assumed she'd not want anything else
Poor hosting. I'm not a kitchen goddess but even if people are just staying for one night to go to a gig or something I make sure I've got food in that they like, and I'm always ready to cook it for them.

You ok, hun?

it doesn’t do anyone any harm to miss the odd meal every now and then

Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

Who are you decide that?

As a guest to my house, you wouldn’t be missing a meal. I wouldn’t be that person to decide that you were.

But I guess hosting standards vary.

When I was bringing up our DS we did 3 meals a day but we don't now.

I do feed quests but it's usually one meal as we don't have my sleepovers.

So you would have guests to stay and just not bother making them dinner because it doesn't do any harm to skip a meal? Nice

Actually eating regularly is something I do need to do. Skipping meals interferes with my medication and can cause issues.

Not great with my medication though.

Exactly and its probably healthier than sugary cereals!
I always eat rice the next day its fine if its been in the fridge. Years ago before I had learnt about rice being a dangerous food I have even eaten it after it was left out all night and was fine.

@LovelyLeitrim

it doesn’t do anyone any harm though. If you have particular medication that needs to be taken with food then that’s different but for most of it it does no harm at all, and can actually be a good thing (I’m thinking of all the health benefits associated with intermittent fasting)