Tell me about it. My fiancee’s daughter and grandkids were just here recently from you guessed it Kalifornia. We had to go to Trader Joes and buy all organic food. The kids can only eat some horrendous dried fruit compote for a dessert. No sugar (well I understand that) but everything in their mouths has to be organic from TJ’s or Whole Foods.
We eat a very healthy well balanced diet but we felt this quiet judgmental thing going on the whole time they were here. Which I found to be annoying and pretentious. We joke about it but this guy who did the survey is spot on as far as I’m concerned.
As if it would kill the kids to eat "normal" by your standards for the week or two they were with you. What a rude guest your fiance's daughter was, if you ask me! If you went to California and your kids had to put up with horrific dried-fruit compote as their sole dessert, hey -- it wouldn't kill them. As my dad would say, "It'd put hair on their chests." I doubt you'd be rude enough to insist on your own special desserts.
Harrrrumph!
I think my mom feels about like you do re our diet. But people should be allowed to eat and ESPECIALLY feed their kids as healthy as possible. They should have shopped with their own money on their own for the things they wanted. The polite thing for them to do is to laugh, shrug, and call themselves crazy So as not to offend you, her hosts.
What I wonder is why the kids couldn’t be “spoiled” a little at the grandparents and allowed to eat differently? Used to be considered polite to eat whatever the folks you were visiting ate, no harm in eating different once in a while.