Reply #26: Sounds like my MIL [View All]

[latebloomer]

who is now living with us (temporarily, please Goddess!)

We try to eat healthy food, organic when possible, not too much meat. She's a meat, potatoes and gravy kind of gal.

She cooks veggies for an hour in a huge pot of water, then lets them soak.

She can never get enough salt- I think we went through 3 times as much salt in the 15 months she's been here than in the 10 years before! I couldn't even eat some of her food, it was so salty. We asked her to stop putting salt in the food- we'd add our own if wanted. She was insulted.

She brings in crappy sausages, bologna, cooks grilled cheese in saved bacon fat, buys junky cake mixes. She makes cauliflower with cream of mushroom soup, and cake with Cool Whip. I have to tell the kids they can't eat it.

She loves to cook but I hardly ever ask her anymore.

Her mother was a dietician in the old days, and cooked like my MIL does. My husband thinks it's good because he grew up with it, but he knows it's bad for him.

Then she goes out on the porch to smoke every 20 minutes, and comes back inside in a cloud of reek- but that's another story.