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I'm back from the beach! update

dbrysondbryson
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So MIL wasn't that bad.  I brought down a bunch of food but she paid for the rest.  Boys had a blast playing with their cousins.

SIL set the menu and asked for suggestions.  I gave them.  She did not take any of them and then printed out several color copies of her menu plans and put them all over the beach house.  We ended up eating the food we brought plus fresh fruit.

Um, I've discovered SIL is nasty. More nasty than I knew.  What makes it worse is she has a Masters in health.

Her breakfast menus included such lovelies as biscuits and gravy with sausage and bacon.  I renamed it to "heart attack before you are 10".

What really bothered me is what she fed her kids.

They all drank about 4 Cokes a day.  For breakfast they had biscuits and gravy or biscuits and bacon and butter with huge glasses of Sunny D. 

For lunch, salami and pepperoni sandwich with real mayo OR 25 crackers with squeeze cheese and for dinner it was all fried.  Snacks revolved around different flavored Doritos.  

Please Jamie Oliver...come to their house and save these children.  Fruit and veggies, not slathered in oil and butter, are good things.

Gross. Gross. Gross.

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Re: I'm back from the beach! update

  • MLvKMLvK
    I'm glad you survived!  Funny how they wanted you to supply all the food then didn't ask for any input on what anyone eats.  
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  • Mrs.GuzMrs.Guz member
    Yay for surviving!!! And about the food...gross.
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  • rara855rara855 member

    So glad you guys survived.

    Squeeze cheese and 4 cokes??? I just threw up in my mouth. Home sweet home. It always feels a tad sweeter when you can be back to doing things your way. 

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  • ebearwifeebearwife member

    I am glad you had fun and the kids enjoyed their cousins.

    As for the food....YUCK!  Seriously, even low income families can easily navigate the grocery store for WIC choices which are clearly displayed.  High calorie breakfasts are not so bad since you generally burn off at least that during the day, but lunch and dinner need to be much lighter and no cokes/doritos combos.  Besides, aren't real cokes, doritos and Sunny D all pretty expensive?

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  • mingaling2mingaling2 member
    imagedbryson:

    SIL set the menu and asked for suggestions.  I gave them.  She did not take any of them and then printed out several color copies of her menu plans and put them all over the beach house.  We ended up eating the food we brought plus fresh fruit.

    Um, I've discovered SIL is nasty. More nasty than I knew.  What makes it worse is she has a Masters in health.

     

    UGH.  I guess it's a good thing that you had to bring your own food? ;)

     
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  • yellowtulips80yellowtulips80 member
    Ew. Sunny D is gross stuff. At least you had your own food!
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  • lindzedlindzed
    I am sitting here laughing so hard.  We go on our family beach trip next week and I am looking so forward to my aunt's homemade biscuit and gravy and the snack bowl filled with all the fun things I never buy for myself at home.  It's the one week out of the year I eat junk and don't feel guilty about it.  Don't get me wrong I have plenty of healthy treats for Adam and I always make sure he eats something descent before having junk, but if you looked at my families vacation from the outside it would probably look like what you just described.  I'm sure its totally different situtation, but I can't help but to laugh at myself for being excited about all the junk.  I'm going to need to start thinking more like you all or my baby weight is never coming off.
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