I'm not sure if it's just this family or not, but my girlfriend insists that this is normal in the Philippines.
Whenever I am at her parents' house, they eat a lot of food, typically having nine meals a day on average. I can't eat this much food and to make matters worse, they eat a LOT for each meal. Sometimes they will eat three entire platefuls and then eat again an hour or two later.
No matter what I say to them, her family think that the reason I am not getting through 9+ plates of food a day is because I don't like the food.
I have told them countless times:
'Thank you, but I am full'
'We don't have this many meals in the UK'
'I like it, but I am so full that I cannot manage another bite'
'I've just eaten'
etc.
Nothing I say to them will have them accept that the reason I can't eat as much as they do is because I am not hungry. They are adamant that it's because I do not like the food.
It's becoming incredibly silly because they're claiming that I hate foods they have seen me eat several times before. They're claiming that I hate 'Filipino' food when I don't eat things like hot dogs, doughnuts and burgers.
My girlfriend is finding the situation incredibly stressful as she is telling them herself that I like the food, but I don't eat as much as they do. However, no matter what either of us say to them, they are convinced that I hate almost every kind of food imaginable.
Has anybody else experienced anything similar and is there a way to make them realise that I genuinely cannot eat as much as they do?
Whenever I am at her parents' house, they eat a lot of food, typically having nine meals a day on average. I can't eat this much food and to make matters worse, they eat a LOT for each meal. Sometimes they will eat three entire platefuls and then eat again an hour or two later.
No matter what I say to them, her family think that the reason I am not getting through 9+ plates of food a day is because I don't like the food.
I have told them countless times:
'Thank you, but I am full'
'We don't have this many meals in the UK'
'I like it, but I am so full that I cannot manage another bite'
'I've just eaten'
etc.
Nothing I say to them will have them accept that the reason I can't eat as much as they do is because I am not hungry. They are adamant that it's because I do not like the food.
It's becoming incredibly silly because they're claiming that I hate foods they have seen me eat several times before. They're claiming that I hate 'Filipino' food when I don't eat things like hot dogs, doughnuts and burgers.
My girlfriend is finding the situation incredibly stressful as she is telling them herself that I like the food, but I don't eat as much as they do. However, no matter what either of us say to them, they are convinced that I hate almost every kind of food imaginable.
Has anybody else experienced anything similar and is there a way to make them realise that I genuinely cannot eat as much as they do?
