She Actually Told Her Mother-In-Law That She Doesn’t Like The Food That She Cooks, And Then Her Mother-In-Law Accused Her Of Not Being Grateful
I think it’s safe to say that we all know one family member whose cooking skills are not so great.
However, in many families, the mother or the matriarch is one of the best cooks, and it’s a sort of unspoken rule that you should never say anything bad about her cooking.
One woman faced some heat from her husband’s family after admitting that she didn’t like her mother-in-law’s cooking.
She’s 23-years-old and immigrated from another country to America when she was 12. She married her 21-year-old husband and has been spending a lot of time with his family. She’s currently pregnant and in her first trimester.
“There are a lot of things my husband and his family do differently than mine, things that I’m not quite accustomed to,” she said.
It’s been taking her a while to adjust to his family, especially the food they eat, which is mostly prepared by her mother-in-law.
She explained that her mother-in-law tends to prepare foods that she finds bland and under-seasoned.
For instance, mayonnaise goes into the majority of her dishes. Once, at a family gathering, she prepared a pasta dinner that had a bunch of ketchup in it.
Her mother-in-law also has a habit of creating strange combinations of foods that her husband and his family enjoy. However, she can’t really get behind it.
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“Each time she offers me food, I always make up some kind of excuse to avoid eating it and try to be as polite as possible about it,” she explained.
Things have gotten more difficult for her after becoming pregnant. She wanted to avoid eating over at her mother-in-law’s house as much as possible since her food makes her nauseous in her condition.
She worried that if she had to continue eating her mother-in-law’s food so early in her pregnancy, she would get sick at the dinner table.
Her husband, who grew up on his mother’s food, doesn’t think it’s that bad and became frustrated whenever she refused it.
Recently, her distaste for the food was revealed, and her mother-in-law was extremely upset when she found out.
She called her mother-in-law directly after having been invited to her house for dinner again and told her that because she’s pregnant and not accustomed to the food she makes, she doesn’t think she’ll be able to stomach it.
She offered to teach her how to make some dishes from her home country, but it was too late. Her mother-in-law was too upset, told her she was ungrateful and said she’d never cook for her or her husband ever again.
A couple of days passed, and she felt awful for making her mother-in-law angry. However, she did not want to go on pretending that she liked their food for the rest of her marriage.
So, she decided to reach out to her again and invited her to tea.
At tea, she apologized to her mother-in-law, telling her that just because she doesn’t like her food, it doesn’t take away from how much she loves her as a person.
“She took it extremely well this time and apologized for insulting me,” she recalled.
“I ended up suggesting that we take cooking classes together, and she loved the idea. I think the little bump in the road gave us a stronger bond, and I am glad we were able to patch things up.”
It’s so nice to hear they were able to patch things up for the sake of their relationship. And hey, maybe the food at family gatherings will be enjoyable for all involved from now on!
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