My JNMIL always criticizes my cooking. This is too sweet, this is too salty, this is unhelathy, etc. It’s actually her food that is too bland, unseasoned and boring, always swapping “good” ingredients with healthier versions, but I’m not complaining when someone took their time to make something lmao.
She also LOVES to make comments to my husband like “I’m going to make you (dish), I’m sure you don’t have that at home”, or “Is (my name) starving you?”. But she also blames me for his weight gain since getting married, make it make sense. 🤦🏻♀️
Anyway, there is one dish that I made after we got married and it was the first time he tried it. He devours it every time, he asks for it all the time, it’s a part of his personality now. But it’s a lot of work, so I only make it like 4-5 times a year. My JNMIL tried it and said it’s unhealthy and has a lot of calories. It’s not the healthiest thing in the world, but also not that unhealthy. It’s meat, pasta, cream and cheese ffs. My FIL also devoured his portion lmao.
Well, since the two of them kept talking about that, she aksed me for instructions and decided to make it. But she did it her way. It’s ok, I make food my way all the time. But she used “healthy” pasta, swapped cheese with vegan cheese (it’s cheeper here), ditched cream, used ground pork instead of chicken breast. Basically changed the whole dish. She also only seasoned it with salt and air lmao. It was… Ok. It was edible. Kinda hospital food. It was also falling apart because she used smaller amount of ingredients in a twice bigger sheet pan. But it wasn’t that bad. She expected my husband tell her it’s better than mine. But he didn’t. Then she asked him something like “isn’t it better than (my name)’s?”. He was like no, it isn’t. Then my FIL added fuel to the fire and said “Yeah I agree, (my name)’s is much better”, but he said it half jokingly. Well, she was upset and said “It wasn’t a competition”. Like… You were the first one to start a competition. And you asked them? We’re they supposed to lie?
She never tried to make it again.
Does anyone else have some competitive MIL stories? I wanna hear some of them.
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