On 9/7/2011 2:39 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
> > wrote in message
> ...
>> I couldn't agree more, and what they simply MUST understand, is that once
>> socail services gets into it, finding him not clean/fed or whatever its
>> really downhill fom there, even if the day they find it is the first day
>> your mom just needed an extra hour of sleep and hadn't gotten him cleaned
>> up yet, Lee
>
> He is perfectly capable of washing, dressing and even fixing his own food.
> It's getting the food into the house that's going to be the problem. They
> don't like to keep much food in the house. I've had trouble with them in
> the winter. Can't get them to see that they really must have food in the
> house in case they get snowed in. They have gotten snowed in and had to eat
> oatmeal day after day because they had nothing else.
>
> They are both very stubborn though. And had I brought them a few bags of
> food they would have just given it away. And no doubt it would have been
> the wrong food for them. I had offered them the coupon I had for free eggs
> and was told they would only eat one kind of eggs. And they are very brand
> loyal. They don't necessarily eat organic food but they will not eat
> anything they deem to be of low quality. Frankly some of what they do it is
> IMO not high quality or healthy food. I just know I would not win if I
> tried to bring them food.

Have you thought of asking then what brands, and what varieties of
those brands, they want, so that you can make sure you only bring
them what they'll eat?