MIL always had weird eating habits, but they're even weirder now. She consumed almost a pound of hummus yesterday, and I have to hide cream cheese, as she likes to cut a big slab off the bar and just eat it--no bagel, no toast... She'll pour salad dressing, gravy, and sauces in a bowl and eat them like soup, too. When you object to any of this, she really doesn't get it. Her point is that if she likes the taste of something, why not just drink it?
It's a hard question to answer. It's all about customs and etiquette, and what seems "right" and "wrong" to me.
The real issue for me, personally, is that I get all tense and irritated when she takes something out of the refrigerator. I'm forever jumping up to make sure she's not spooning food out of a container with a spoon that she's put in her mouth, etc. I've caught her doing this a few times, and my assumption is ALWAYS that she's about to do it again. She finds this insulting, of course. But if I (or my kids) suspect she's done this, we just can't eat the item ourselves, so it's all hers!
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