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My mom hates cooking, so if I'm over there during the week, I usually cook. Or she'll bring ingredients to my house and I will cook/bake while she plays with LO.

All the time. They love my cooking. Sometimes it's nice to be cooked for so, people just get very excited. I'd try it!

I do, but maybe once a year at most.

My mom always cooks for us but my in-laws aren't big cooks and eat out all the time, so cooking for them makes me look like a total rock star! So I really enjoy trying to cook dinner at least once while we visit and if its a holiday, I take charge of the family potluck meal coordination.

Not often and usually it is pretty simple when we do- like grill chicken and corn and make a salad or two. It doesn't really bother me but I do put forth a bit more effort than I do for a typical weeknight dinner.

I do on occasion, but only when they're staying with us (they live a 3 hr flight away). It's hard because we eat different things - and they're more meat and potatoes than we are. It's tricky to come up with meals that I know how to make and that they'll eat!

A few times hen theyve actually been at our house, but I totlly feel the pressure! Both moms are great cooks!

I cook for my inlaws once a month when they come to watch DD and every now and then when something else comes up. I cook for my parents when they visit us because they usually stay at our place.

We usually go out to eat with my parents.

RANT: DH's mom is not a fan of our cooking, it's not good enough for her. A few weeks ago, she called DH at 5:30PM as we were on our way home after work. She mentioned that she was bored and wanted to bring our 5 yr old nephew over to our place for dinner. He said ok (while I glared at him, haha).

So DH and I scrambled to put together 3 decent dishes at the last minute. We made roasted cauliflower, beer battered shrimp, and a Chinese ground pork dish... and then when she arrived, she brought a vegetable dish, and proceeded to ONLY eat her own vegetables!! She took one bite of each of our dishes and then ate her own food. And our nephew who is normally a big eater, barely ate a few bites. When I asked him why he wasn't hungry, it was because grandma gave him THREE egg tarts (Chinese dessert) before they came. WTH. I was sooo pissed, and told DH that next time, we're just going to order take out! This still makes me mad, haha!

I cook for my parents fairly often. My in-laws are on the opposite coast but I cook for them when they visit us. My MIL won't let me cook for them when we visit them though.