The Bubbo > writes:

>My ex's mother would routinely make 3 meals a night. She had 4 kids, two still
>living at home well into their 20's. They were perfectly capable of making
>their own food, but if left to their own devices would eat only chips and cold
>cereal.

A former co-worker of mine used to brag about how once her kids were 8
and 10, respectively, she stopped cooking. Said they stopped having
dinner and everyone was on their own. She once admitted to eating a bag
of Milk Duds for dinner. Her husband routinely ate microwave popcorn
for dinner and her daughters learned to mooch off neighbors or eat
microwave mac and cheese. They had no food in the house when I knew
her, by the time the girls were teens. She always had someone bring
fast food home for her. Sometimes she would even take the free food her
daughters earned at their jobs at fast food restaurants and laugh when
they would call her at work and ask where their food went to.
I always felt really sorry for that family.

Stacia