with MILS inept catering plans

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we go tomorrow
is family get together - very nice
then she said "I have no food for monday, i dont knwo what we will eat"

dh says " not everyone is obsessed with food like your family"

i say "its impolite not to have SOMETHING sorted"

am i right or is he wrong?

ok, I can beat this

DH and I once travelled to fucking Australia to stay with relatives

on our arrival (24 hrs later) we were greeted with "hello, we are just off to our club, there are some beans in the cupboard, you will need to clear the junk out of the bedroom and blow the airbeds up...byeeeeee"

I shit you not

AnyFucker!

Beans, junk and fecking airbeds after a long flight!

Come on now OP, Pasta "n" Sauce pales now surely?

(although I still think there is no need to suffer it whem coq can be taken and vin)

DD1 once asked for "crudites" in Caffe Uno Not sure where she got it from as its not the type of thing she gets at home.

If her food is really that bad why dont you offer to do a casserole or something and take it with you. She would probably be grateful for the offer.

Some people genuinely dont enjoy cooking and arent really interested in food others (like me) love food but are just crap at cooking it.

Another ILs thing - I only really drink white wine. I'll drink the odd beer or whatever, but white wine is my drink and has been for years. MIL used to drink it but it disagrees with her, so they don't buy it. Ever. So we travel down and I stand in the front room (because there isn't enough room for everyone to sit down and nobody thinks to move) and FIL gets DH a beer and says "do you want a drink, Badger?". Now, considering I DO want a drink, but know they don't have what I want, what do I say? Do I ask for a drink and make them feel awkward for not having it? No, of course not, so I say "no, I'm all right" and stand there, drinkless, seatless, like a lemon, until we go out or whatever. It's just infuriating, and DH will say "are you sure you don't want a drink?" and I have to do that "no, really, it's fine".

And yes, I could bring it with me, but it's one bloody bottle of wine! I have four bottles of red wine in my house and I don't even like it, because my guests sometimes want it!

badger, take your own white wine, love

That's a reasonable response! I might just put some in a brown paper bag and swig it surreptiously

I just think people should go to some trouble when they have guests. Like, show they've made some tiny amount of effort to cater for them. Crap food, no drink - it's so thoughtless. Why bother inviting people round? Why not all just go out if you can't be bothered? I'd rather go to a restaurant or pub than be somewhere where I feel unwelcome.

Bagder- my mum asked me if I would like a lager shandy with my lunch-I reminded her that I don't drink lager and never have.
The alternative? half a glass of lemonade.

All this after her drinking Asti, white wine, buzzs fizz and brandy at my house the previous day.