If anyone, especially my mother-in-law, threw away my pregnancy craving food, my head would spin around and she'd be calling for a priest. Don't f**k with a pregnancy craving. Just don't.

Not only is the MIL TA, but takeout salad for a pregnant woman isn’t even a good choice because if it’s been sitting out, shredded, for a long time, it can be contaminated. So she essentially threw out safe food and instead bought potentially unsafe food.

I've never understood this thing about people throwing out other people's food because they had a problem with it. I mean, she just threw out a brand-new rotisserie chicken? My mother was so about not wasting food that she would nag me about using the bones to make some broth. That mom is just crazy,

My ex-wife had cravings for pasta, passata and cheese, I cooked that every other night of the week during her pregnancy with our daughter. If my Mum had a) suggested that her diet was a problem or b) thrown out food intended for her then my Mum would’ve been on a long walk off a short pier. If she had suggested that I was choosing my wife over her then she would’ve been 100% correct. Even now I put the mother of my daughter ahead of some who think they are more important, she may be my ex-wife but she loves and cares for my daughter and my daughter IS the most important person in my life.

Throwing an animal, that was raised and killed to serve as food, in the garbage, is a crime on its own. Don't waste food. Especially don't waste food if it is animals.

When I was pregnant I ate a whole jar of gherkins which I had never liked before. Did anyone stop me? No. Did I pay for it with the worst heart burn of my life? Yes. But that was my call. Don't get between a pregnant lady and her cravings lol. That MIL is out of control and deserved for the pregnant lady to go full goblin mode. Rotisserie chicken isn't even that bad no matter what seasonings have been used!

My MIL has always been a pain. I visited her (a 200 mile journey) when youngest daughter was 10 days old - I had a university interview re a job 6 months hence, and stayed with her for 2 days. I was breastfeeding, and on the first evening she served a french onion tart, which I explained I couldn't eat as it would upset the baby's digestion. She was angry about 'wasting food' she'd spent hours cooking. I bought a salad. Next night, she cooked stuffed green peppers.....

I don’t believe in violence, but….i remember being pregnant and having cravings. I had gestational diabetes and couldn’t have a lot of carbs, but I craved spaghetti so bad. I finally found a recipe that was acceptable and I just imagine if my whoever threw that out I would react with tearful violence. You don’t mess with a pregnant woman’s food. It equates to stealing from a hungry bear

MIL is definitely the zAH. Dad is wonderful to support his wife. First of all, it is not MIL,s business what mom feeds her family. Second of all she is clueless Salad is lacking nutrition for a pregnant women. She and baby need protein, and there is nothing wrong with rotisserie chicken and sides. Pizza is not exactly a healthy food. I would have reacted exactly the same way!

Have you ever seen the mother on Everybody Loves Raymond? That my friend is YOUR mom. I'm sure you & your brother could use therapy as a result. Thank you for standing up for YOUR family & for getting another chicken as well. Set the boundaries in concrete as they need to be strong with a mother like that. We're root'in for you.

My sister had odd cravings when pregnant, but we often found a good reason for it. As when she wanted licorice and he had to go get some at any time of day or night. We found that licorice helped her keep up the potassium content in her blood that diuretic pills washed out. Besides how can chicken be bad for a pregnant woman? You must need protein to create a baby.

Change all your locks and don't give your mother a key, or she will "drop in" when your baby is born. Your wife doesn't need that.

It’s not about defining a choice unless you push him to that, but I kind of think when you make your own family, you ARE changing the most important woman in your life to wife instead of FOO. It’s a bizarre gaslighting technique to make it sound like a bad thing…isn’t it?

His mother won’t be happy unless she has him all to herself.

Op needs to go no contact with his mother for six months except for family therapy sessions.

Throwing away perfectly good food is what blew my mind- it's not like the craving was for something truly unhealthy or dangerous for the baby like steak tartar, raw oysters, caesar salad with raw egg dressing.. What the heck is wrong with rotisserie chicken? It's not deep fried or slathered in ghost pepper sauce???

Another cut and paste from Reddit that’s two years old?