Help me be not irritated by the sort of food my parents always want, plus, what can I give them?

[FanjoandZooey]

I always feel totally annoyed when my parents come to visit because they only like to eat certain kinds of food and I get unreasonably peeved at having to go out and get them. For lunch, every day, they eat cheese, ham, bread, and a pack of that supermarket salad. We don't have meat so I get the cheese etc. If I provide anything else they leave it and just eat the cheese. If I don't buy the cheese and make something else, then next time they bring their own. The only other thing they would consider eating is homemade pizza, or something with pastry, which I don't like, or soup (too hot at the moment).

I am being childish but it really irritates me. When we go to their house eat this sort of food every time as well and that annoys me too. It makes us put on weight and it buggers up our digestion, to be honest. My mother is always on some sort of diet but sits and eats all this ruddy cheese and pastry and just stodge every day and I don't know how they stick it.

What on earth can I give them that we will all like, and how can I stop feeling so narky about it because I know it is ridiculous, really.

Oh and before anyone witty says "get them a takeaway pizza" I am barred, remember

White bread and cheese for lunch every day sounds a bit depressing.

And putting your nose up at almost any other option is rude.

but SHE doesnt haev to eat it d oes she

i dot a mixed lunch when ihaev peopel over
a bit of bread , ham cheese olives hommous etc etc
what IS the porblem

meanwhile can is alg my mil off?

ok she is haevign the dsses f ro a few days nest week
t ehnw e are going up to have " family barbeque"

she nad dh speak

" a hwell im not sure what to do for the bbq"
they never bbq you see...........

DH 2 WEll do youweant us to help you out"

her " yes"

me ( later) - " whyt eh hell does she arrange a bbq if she cant DO IT fgs"

dh " i think you are being unfair"

I would just give em what they want, and then when you go to theirs, take your own stuff with you if it upsets DP digestion.

Not worth getting your knickers in a tizzy for. As LGJ basically said - life is too short.

I've already said it's me being petty, cod

(but I do love it when you come on and say "oh fgs")

I did say why it annoys me - we don't eat like that usually, and they turn their noses up at any other option, so I have to give them that for as long as they stay, whether I like it or not.

They do eat brown bread, though. I am totally being silly, I just needed to whine (and sounds like it touched a nerve with a few others - ROFL @ "second cup of tea")

DH has just come back from Ikea and his first words were 'get the kettle on, am gagging for a cuppa'.

We are now on our second cup.

lmao at 'pouting and tutting flutty'

or flurry even!

what DO you eat for lunch thn?

Wet pizza. Obviously.

odd odd odd

lucnh here is soup sanrdwhich or salad

(I'm guessing you missed the "F&Z gets banned by local shite pizza place" thread yesterday?)

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