What to cook for lunch for DP's parents?

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Okay, so this is a bit petty. Kind of wanting to cook nothing at all and tell them to go to McDonald's on the way, kinda want to cook a 7 course Michelin star lunch- can't decide 🤭😂

DP's parents are a bit impossible. Not just with me and DP but it's a family wide thing. Everything I cook for them, they'll sit there and say something along the lines of "that roast dinner was good, but next time try coating roast potatoes in something or other" or "I couldn't finish because the soup was too rich, ask (DP's sister) for her recipe, it's much nicer"

And they say it all with a smile on their face, like it's just normal to say things like that 😂 I think it's rude, but after 5 years of knowing them I've gotten used to it.

I do think I'm a good cook and everyone who I've cooked for seems to enjoy, apart from them! I feel like I'm in front of Gordon Ramsay every time I make them dinner🤣

Anyway, cut a long story short, can someone give me some good ideas for what to cook for lunch. I know it shouldn't bother me but it does! Also, I rarely cook lunch for people so my mind has gone blank!

Thanks 😊

I am relentlessly polite. However, I make exceptions for people who are outrageously rude. Frankly, if they are rude to me first, I feel that gives me permission to step outside my normal boundaries to say what I really think. If they dish it out, they need to prepared to hear it back.

Get them something they have to make themselves. E.g. some naice bread and bits and pieces (cheese, ham etc) for sandwiches. Leave them to it.

Also practice the phrase, "Did you mean to sound so rude?"

Thanks everyone for the suggestions and advice! I'm just going to buy some picky things, meats, cheeses, quiche etc... and if they're not happy with it then they can call too Tesco on the way home and get themselves a meal deal 🤣🤣🤣

@ByeByeOldName your comments made me chuckle, I'm so glad I'm not the only one- why are people like this? 😂😂😂 defo going to get creative with the alphabet spaghetti 🤣🤣🤣

Sympathies. I did a Mexican style casual lunch for my in-laws once (wraps, chilli, chicken, mango and chilli salsa, sour cream etc) then unwittingly did a similar meal a couple of years later. In the immortal words of MIL 'Oh this again! Your signature dishes I suppose. So simple.'

Lunch at theirs (thankfully rare now they've moved further away) is always a dry roast with half a hundred weight of vegetables and a stodgy pie for pudding. I smile sweetly and drink a lot of wine.