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[dislal]

We have a relative like this. SHe has parties and BBQs and then there is no food. We always call to ask what we can bring and she says "no need" and of course we always eat before we go, and bring something along anyway. Then you get there and there is no food, they run out in the first hour and people end up ordering pizza. And guess who buys the pizza? The guests of course.

She also is like the "food police" and comments on people's weight and what they are eating, and after one comment like "Should you really be eating that?" I have hated going there, eating there, or being anywhere near there.The family jokes that she is trying to put us on a diet. But since her hubby and my DF are very close, I have to take one for the team. If she ever commented on what I was eating, I would tell her where to go and how to get there.

OMG it sounds like you are talking about my MIL I hate going there, because there is never enough food . If she is cooking by herself she will tell everyone by name to come and eat and of course my name is never mentioned We went over for a BBQ last year my family of five her my SFIL and my BIL and his two kids and she made 4 hamburgers and 6 hotdogs. She makes potato salad and it is in a regular size cereal bowl, so maybe three people can get some.

 

[KirstenB]

We always host a big Christmas Eve; heavy hors d'oeuvres/drinks party at our house for family. About 25 people. I'd be totally humiliated to not have plenty of leftovers!!! I try to send Tupperwares home with everyone, so they have lunch covered the next day. Seriously, each year I'm afraid I've underplanned, so add a bunch of stuff at the last minute.

 

[dismom2]

Bingo!! Was raised in a big Italian family.. Not enough food? Unheard of!!!!!!!!!!!!

Same here!!

 

[cheermom1]

WOW I'm so sorry op you are going through that - I can't relate though as both sides of our family always has way too much food and for some odd reason they think all the leftovers should go home with us

I wonder if it is b/c we have 5 kids???

I have tried to tell them no thanks but to no avail...

 

[IDoDis]

Every year at Thanksgiving and Christmas my mom makes the pies -- a millionaire pie and a pecan pumpkin pie for 10 people. NO ONE eats the pecan pumpkin, but everyone goes for the millionaire pie and there's never enough slices to go around. The people who get the last pieces end up having to share or settle for the pecan pumpkin. So why not make 2 millionaire pies? Every year we go through this, even after suggesting we should have 2 millionaire pies. I would offer to make one, but it would not be as good as my mom's. DH says if I buy one pre-made from Furr's Cafeteria, she'll get offended.

Tomorrow I'm going to order a millionaire pie from Furr's and keep it at home. We'll just eat pie when we get home from my mom's house.

 

[Lionqueen2]

This sounds like my MIL's house. There was always little food put out and you had to watch how big a portion you took to be sure there was enough for everybody. This was so different from my own family who felt that at the end of a meal there should be enough left to feed everyone one more time and no serving dish ever became empty without being refilled.

 

[golfgal]

My sister is the same way and NO ONE wants to go to her house for any parties/holidays. They NEVER have enough food. Her excuse is they don't want leftovers . Um, you don't even make enough food to feed 1/2 the people you invite so double what you make and you STILL won't have leftovers.

The last party we went to at their house was for my niece's First Communion. they had about 30 people there and they made this sauerkraut and sausage dish that had 5 sausages cut up in it (5 bratwursts basically), a small salad with one head of iceberg lettuce and one package of grape tomatoes and a loaf of french bread--that was IT. We went to McDonalds and brount back food for everyone that didn't get anything to eat-of course she was offended by this but we had been there all fricking day and were STARVING.

OP, maybe next year you could have your event catered, just collect money from everyone at Thanksgiving. If they don't pay, they don't eat .

 

[Darsa]

Every year at Thanksgiving and Christmas my mom makes the pies -- a millionaire pie and a pecan pumpkin pie for 10 people. NO ONE eats the pecan pumpkin, but everyone goes for the millionaire pie and there's never enough slices to go around. The people who get the last pieces end up having to share or settle for the pecan pumpkin. So why not make 2 millionaire pies? Every year we go through this, even after suggesting we should have 2 millionaire pies. I would offer to make one, but it would not be as good as my mom's. DH says if I buy one pre-made from Furr's Cafeteria, she'll get offended.

Tomorrow I'm going to order a millionaire pie from Furr's and keep it at home. We'll just eat pie when we get home from my mom's house.

You made me go and Google millionaire pie; sounds really good, I might have to try that!

 

[SaraJayne]

I'm guessing your family is not Italian!!!!!

Or German! It's a bit embarassing to see all the food spread out on the counter before the meal. Even though we're having 30 people for Christmas, DH has been joking we have enough food for 45+.

And then about an hour or so later (after the meal), all the snacks come out for the afternoon.

 

[jen0610]

I know with our family, it's the younger generation that is needing to get up to speed on what certain dishes will feed verses the number of people that are going to be there.

The one neice always wants to make the green bean cass. The only problem is she makes 1 dish size that is a serveing size of 6 for 15-20 people. The 1st year she did it, not everybody who wanted some got some, because like the OP, there were those 1st thru the line that heaped servings on their plates. The 2nd year, even though it was mentioned to her that she needed to double, if not triple her batch, I made sure that I had on hand enough stuff to make a double batch if need be. Sure enough, she only had the 1 dish serving. It's been 4 years now and she has gotten to where she will double the batch.

The other neice, the youngest and is really trying to make an effort, but she's a full time college student, trying to also work and help out her dad as he's unemployed - she always asks, how much do I need to bring. She always get what I tell her, if not a couple of extras.

DH's entire family LOVES beef roll up's. Since his sister doens't live in the area any more, it has fallen to me to make them. I had a huge dish of them at Thanksgiving. DH and DD barely got any, once the neices, nephew and dates got there. Our neice asked how many did I do, she just fell on the floor when I told here that was 4 packages of beef and that was 1 package more then I normally had done. Guess that for Christmas, I am going to have to bump that up to 6 or 7 packages of beef. And the thing that is really bad, I can't stand the things. Won't eat them, but I'm the maker of them.

 

[pickles521]

Jen - I gotta ask... What the heck is a beef roll up?

 

[jen0610]

Jen - I gotta ask... What the heck is a beef roll up?

This is how DH's family does it. 1 packages of cream cheese soften to room temp. Add a couple of dashes of salt, pepper, and Worcestershire sauce. Mix together. Take the slices of dried beef and seperate. Spread the cream cheese over the beef. Add as much cream cheese you like. For DH's family half of them have a thick layer of cheese, while the others just a light layer. Roll into a tube and cut into 1/3's. That's it. Depending on how thick of a layer of cheese I do, I can get almost 1 1/2 packages of beef done with one thing of cream cheese.

I have one neice that likes a stalk of green onion rolled up in the middle, so I make some of those for her, but I don't cut those up. Have also seen a dill pickel spear rolled up in the middle at at family renunion meal, but nobody in DH's family has asked for those, so I don't know about that difference there is in making them.

 

[OKWMom]

OP, I have nothing to say but bless your heart. I absolutely cannot relate to that at all. We're not Italian or German, but as southerners it is considered a sin to run out of food. Not only do we have more than enough to feed the people we invited, but if a National Guard convoy happened to break down on the road in front of the house we would have enough to feed them too.

 

[threecrazykids]

The only thing we ever run out of at the holidays is mashed potatoes. We add at least an extra 5 lb bag every year and it never fails we are scraping the pan. Now, everyone DOES get one heaping serving...but those guys who want another helping or leftovers? Good luck!

 

[marthachick]

OP, I have nothing to say but bless your heart. I absolutely cannot relate to that at all. We're not Italian or German, but as southerners it is considered a sin to run out of food. Not only do we have more than enough to feed the people we invited, but if a National Guard convoy happened to break down on the road in front of the house we would have enough to feed them too.

This is our family! Southern also!

 

[SC Minnie]

OP, I have nothing to say but bless your heart. I absolutely cannot relate to that at all. We're not Italian or German, but as southerners it is considered a sin to run out of food. Not only do we have more than enough to feed the people we invited, but if a National Guard convoy happened to break down on the road in front of the house we would have enough to feed them too.

When we go to my Mom's for dinner DH will ask who all is coming because there is at least 3 times more food than is needed to feed all the people that is there. We get sent home enough for at least 2 more full meals.

 

[mom23boys]

Bingo!! Was raised in a big Italian family.. Not enough food? Unheard of!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me too, there is never not enough food.

 

[DWGal210]

OP, I have nothing to say but bless your heart. I absolutely cannot relate to that at all. We're not Italian or German, but as southerners it is considered a sin to run out of food. Not only do we have more than enough to feed the people we invited, but if a National Guard convoy happened to break down on the road in front of the house we would have enough to feed them too.

You are too funny!

 

[mom2rb]

OP, I have nothing to say but bless your heart. I absolutely cannot relate to that at all. We're not Italian or German, but as southerners it is considered a sin to run out of food. Not only do we have more than enough to feed the people we invited, but if a National Guard convoy happened to break down on the road in front of the house we would have enough to feed them too.

Another Southerner here. I have never been to a gathering that ran out of food. Some years one dish will run out, but the next year there will be three times more of it.