Family advice: My mother-in-law is torturing the entire family with her beloved "hobby." I'm the only one willing to do something about it.

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Dear Care and Feeding,

My in-laws recently retired and moved to the city where we live. The problem: My mother-in-law, “Hannah,” keeps bringing food over, and her cooking is awful . I mean terrible enough to be considered a weapon of mass destruction. Everyone in my family hates it. A couple of months ago, my 7-year-old burst into tears when she got home from school, looked in the fridge, and saw one of Hannah’s casseroles.

I’ve asked my husband to speak to his mother about not bringing so many meals over (I know he hates her food as much as the rest of us; he’s said as much for years). His excuse for not doing so is that he doesn’t want to hurt her feelings, so it loo