buying food/drink for visitors

[nappyaddict]

we are quite limited in what food we have in the house cos i don't like to have a lot of junk about.

i only drink water, milk and decaffeinated (sp?) tea and my mum has the decaff coffee. because of this we don't buy squash, fizzy drinks, juice etc. we also don't generally have biscuits, crisps, chocolate, cakes.

if you don't actually eat something but it is often something you might offer someone when they pop round do you buy them or not bother and go for the if they don't like it they can lump it school of thought?

I have workman / builder tea and coffee - everyone else gets what I have.

oh and I bought a packet of rich tea whne they fitted my kitchen as I thought deep down it might meant they did it nice.

I don't drink tea or coffee but have them in the house for random visitors but it rarely gets used so ends up getting chucked out as its 2 years out of date or something

I don't usually offer cakes/biscuits either
(thoughtthat might be why no one comes )

Have what we usually have and that is all I offer. If we are having people around for a meal I will get in other things.

my dh is a floor layer offer him a cuppa and he says he's more likely to go the extra mile offer him two your his favourite customer

since he has been diagnosed coeliacs he finds people offe rhim biscuits all the tim enow he cant have them

oh booby I was right to get them biscuits!

Always looks after your builders and tradesmen...pleased to hear it pays off.

Back to original thread - I stand firm and try not to pander to everyone else but we do have quite a wide range of stuff.

Oh Builders are diferent I always offer them biscuits so they work harder and they come back

im terrible i have never have normal bread or biscuits coz im dieting and dh is coeliac it does my not so dnephews heads in lol

other wise im not to bothered

don't mean tradesmen always give them treats, i just mean general friends/family who might pop round. i always get the impression my cousin thinks i am mean for not giving her children strawberry milkshake and coke like she always offers my son!

we have cofe in for when my mum sits for us. we rarely have fizzy in so don't buy that especially. sure there are some biscuits going soft somewhere - can you tell i don't get those either!! if i have made a cake (very rare) then i will offer that as usually i end up throwing some of it

coffee

I am typing whilst talking to a 2 yo and listening to dp waffle

I personally do make sure I have a wide range of stuff for visitors.
Am slightly obsessed with making people feel welcome so despite me not drinking normal or herbal tea-we have it in the house.We only have skimmed milk but have some uht full fat in the cupboard.We don't eat biscuits but will always have some around just in case.

DP and I only drink wine or vodka but we have bottles of whisky,gin,vermouth,malibu,bacardi etc etc.

As for workmen-they always get spoiled.

I have specific things for specific people that we don't eat/ drink (earl grey tea, decaf coffee, gin) if they are regular visitors enough to warrant it. I'll buy juice or bicuits or whatever if I know people are coming. If they just drop in - tough!