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What do you do?

Forum Opinion Poll
eat, swallow, grin, & bear it 24 24.00%
eat prior & pick at your plate 43 43.00%
host at your house 3 3.00%
bring a dish you like to eat 23 23.00%
Go for dessert! 7 7.00%
 

With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

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butterfly22
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With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?



So, How do you handle the situation?

Message edited 10/19/2005 1:55:16 PM.

Posted 10/19/05 1:33 PM
 

momAGAIN
so outrageous

Member since 7/05

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TJ

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate your SO parent's cooking?

omg this is crazy that you said this my fmil is the worst cook ever!!!!!! last year she made baked ravioli and when it came out of the oven it was raw!!! i was starving. her turkey on thanksgiving lets just say spackle and drywall omg so nasty. I have no family here so i dont have a choice i guess being from a large sicilian family there was always a ton of yummy food, so not the case now!!!! i think i might eat before we leave the house...this stinks i always looked forward to the food on holidays now i dread it!!!Chat Icon

Message edited 10/19/2005 1:41:58 PM.

Posted 10/19/05 1:41 PM
 

SoinLove
Making big changes

Member since 5/05

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Kristin

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

I'll usually bring a dish that I enjoy, because it's also a nice gesture, but I'll also swallow, grin and bear it with a few of their dishes. Chat Icon

Posted 10/19/05 7:26 PM
 

sunny
Life is good!

Member since 5/05

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Stephanie

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

I am a picky eater, so I always eat before I leave the house just in case.

Posted 10/19/05 7:33 PM
 

CathyB

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Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

I'm allergic to mushrooms and cinnamon, so I PRAY it has one of them in it and then I don't have to eat it. Otherwise I try to load up on salad and then act like "Wow, that was stupid of me, I'm not so hungry now." Chat Icon

Posted 10/19/05 8:03 PM
 

nferrandi
too excited for words

Member since 10/05

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Name:
Nicole

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

My MIL is a great cook, but she makes many things that I just don't eat. She always tries to force me to eat them, so sometimes I'll try it (usually for th 5-7 time) or otherwise I'll just say "I don't like that." But no matter what, there's always plenty of food I do eat.
When we go to my mom's for holidays I never have any problems. She knows what I like and what I don't like, so even if she makes a dish that everyone else will eat but I won't, she always has something else for me and my sister- who's even pickier than me.

Posted 10/19/05 9:47 PM
 

Disneygirl
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D

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

I usually choke down a few bites than play with the rest.

Posted 10/20/05 7:35 AM
 

GenLCSW
Baby # 3 is here!!!

Member since 7/05

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Genna

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

I eat before and then just pick at the food hoping that it looks like I am eating!

Posted 10/20/05 8:38 AM
 

Shelly
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Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

This is why Ihate having thanksgiving at my sister's MIL's house. Not only does she cook poorly- but she buys the worst shows when she caters it. There isusually one dish that I can eat so I just focus on that... or I say I am stuffed and/or not feeling well.

Posted 10/20/05 9:49 AM
 

AJsMommy122
Stop 2 smell the roses

Member since 5/05

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Name:
Maxine

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

Usually I would bring something I like... but my MIL makes SO much food and would find that really rude. So I eat before and then pickChat Icon

Posted 10/20/05 5:39 PM
 

dengal
Dad of Twins

Member since 5/05

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The 80's Man
Let's Go Mets!

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

Eat before (or after) and pick

Posted 10/21/05 4:50 PM
 

steph4777
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11726 total posts

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Stephanie

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

I'm dreading Thanksgiving bc of this. My MIL is not the greatest cook.

Posted 10/21/05 6:31 PM
 

Summer05
LIF Adult

Member since 5/05

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Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

We usually eat before we go.

Posted 10/21/05 6:58 PM
 

juju
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Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

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Message edited 10/4/2006 10:36:49 PM.

Posted 10/23/05 9:15 AM
 

edsprincess
LIF Zygote

Member since 10/05

14 total posts

Name:
Aimee

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

I would offer to bring something! Eat a nibble of theirs.

Posted 10/23/05 10:37 AM
 

nancy6485
So in love

Member since 10/05

3363 total posts

Name:
Nancy

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

Posted by SoinLove

I'll usually bring a dish that I enjoy, because it's also a nice gesture, but I'll also swallow, grin and bear it with a few of their dishes. Chat Icon



I Agree!!

Posted 10/29/05 4:10 PM
 

mrsmck
Be a big girl!

Member since 5/05

4898 total posts

Name:
Donna

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

How about making it a pot luck dinner? Everyone brings so mething and no one has to suffer w/yucky food.

Posted 11/1/05 1:47 PM
 

Ambersmom
Straight up nasty

Member since 5/05

7740 total posts

Name:
Sharon

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

Feign a stomach virus and stay homeChat Icon

Posted 11/1/05 2:20 PM
 

TAD
LIF Adult

Member since 5/05

1199 total posts

Name:
Terri

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

i normally fake a cold or jsut pick depends on where we are going we float on thanksgiving to everyones house.

Posted 11/1/05 2:55 PM
 

iffer042373
5 weeks till I'm a big sister

Member since 5/05

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Jennifer

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

Oh I so know what you mean two years ago I was at my inlaws for thanksgiving and hated the food now we have to go there again this year I didn't like her stuffing or the turkey there was no salads and no cranberry sauce for me to eat instead and fill up on and thats how it will be this year again I bet so I think I will have to make an excuse to go to the store and grab something to eat and just pick at my plate

Posted 11/1/05 3:48 PM
 

Christine
2nd verse same as the 1st

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Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

I would eat before hand and bring a dish I enjoy eating and take very small portions of a couple things offered.

Posted 11/2/05 7:04 PM
 

LILady
LIF Infant

Member since 5/05

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Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

My brother hates my stepmothers cooking and he always stops somewhere beforehand to get some food to eat before he arrives there. Unless I am cooking something to bring there ...All her food is sooooooooooo dry!!!!! and bland.

Oh well...Chat Icon

Posted 11/4/05 10:52 AM
 

pkashansky
LIF Infant

Member since 10/05

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Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

Have a napkin in one hand and a fork in the other stick it in your mouth and spit it out in the napkin.....J/K good luck!

Posted 11/4/05 11:05 PM
 

puppylove
LIF Adolescent

Member since 10/05

561 total posts

Name:
Summer

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

My MIL and Mom are both good cooks. But usually I always offer to help who ever is making dinner that year. That way I can add my ideas, Mom and MIL awalys love the help. If your helping to cook, it's easier to have something that you like at the table. It works out good.

But if I am in a situation where I have to be at a place where I don't like the food, then I take a nice portion and eat it with a smile. The cook works hard, and I wound't want to hurt her feeling after she worked so hard.

Besides I'm no prize winning cook myself, so I totally understand when people get it wrong. Chat Icon

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Posted 11/6/05 4:38 PM
 

officiallyamrs
LIF Toddler

Member since 7/05

421 total posts

Name:
Melissa

Re: With holidays coming, what to do if you hate a hosts cooking?

i make sure i go not hungry and pick at like salad and stuff she cant screw up and then pick up food on the way home

Posted 11/14/05 6:27 AM
 
 

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