Y'all I need some advice!

Setup: Beau has strange eating habits. He prefers mostly to eat one meal a day, but he will eat something lighter around lunchtime. His druthers in general are not to eat before noon.

When we visited my parents last year for Thanksgiving, we went to a buffet style restaurant. My parents are well into their 70s and prefer to be first in line at the buffet. Which means dinner is served at noon. Beau will eat something then, but not a huge meal. I eat more than he does (I am hungry in the mornings), but not a HUGE meal. I prefer 3 meals a day, though I usually eat 2.5 meals a day.

My mother is concerned that Beau isn't eating a lot, and that we need more to eat in the evenings - which is true. For a variety of reasons, I can't eat just one meal at noon at be done for the rest of the day unless it is a zombie apocalypse or something and I don't know where my next food will come from.

It also isn't great for my blood sugar to chow down like that at noon and nothing else.

They aren't budging in terms of T-day at noon, but now I don't know what to do on my end. We could find another place to eat, but I suspect most places close early for dinner (I could check into it though). It seems to me my options are:

a. go to their place the four of us, eat what we need to, and then figure out something in the evening. offer to pay so they don't feel like their $$ is wasted.

b. go elsewhere, but I need to eat in the morning, so I would still need to make myself something at some point.

c. cook a meal myself. "c" is not my favorite option (my mother probably won't want me messing up her kitchen), but I suppose I could do that if it comes to it.

Are there options I am forgetting. Hivemind, help.

juliana, I think that's a bit too geeky for her, but I enjoyed the hell out of it! snerk.

Steph, such fabulous pictures. I was grinning like a loon looking at them and I think I actually said out loud, "Oh, that's just amazing" at least once.

I should note, I will talk this over with Beau, but he has had MAJOR drama with his family about Christmas, so I'm afraid he is just going to say "fuck it" if I don't talk to him with some solid options planned.

There are a lot more places open on Xmas than there used to be. Maybe T-day also?

le n, maybe something like getting a frozen cheese pizza and adding toppings to fancy it up? Or Boston Market, or Chinese? The makings for yummy sandwiches?

So, my wee kitty Bella, my Little Miss Melancholy, is acting weird. She's off her food (which happens, like, monthly) but she's sitting funny and walking funny. She doesn't seem to want to sit all the way down, she's just kind of crouching. When I pick her up she growls and hisses, which is unusual. I guess I'm calling the vet first thing in the morning.

Oh no, smonster. Is Bella a climber? Not wanting to sit sounds like it might be an injury.

I hope it ends up being/nothing simple.

Plan something you can take with and sneak it into the movies in the evening? People go to the movies...I mean, I guess the question is, if you've spent from noon until dinnertime with them, why do they need to panic if y'all need to eat?? Alternately, don't go to a buffet, go somewhere you can take leftovers home, and then you and he can eat lightly and chow down later on leftovers?

I will fully admit that this T-day bullshit is making me roll my eyes, because what's the point in going to see them for T-day if we are all doing our own thing for T-day "dinner?" I mean, I could make myself whatever in the peace and quiet of my home.

bonny, she's a jumper. She is getting older (thirteen or so) but she's very always been small and agile.

28 Cats Having a Worse Day Than You: [link]. I could not stop laughing.

Ryan would like you to know that #25 is possibly the funniest thing he has ever seen.