Weekend Survival: Planning ahead

This weekend we are going back to my husband's hometown (Sparta WI - go badgers ...lower case.  gotta shout out, but I'm an Iowa girl, so its without much enthusiasm ;)).  We stay with his grandma and aunt when we visit.  I don't want to offend them, but I'm bringing my own food for the weekend.

I asked John about it and he said they wouldn't be offended.  That's good.  I don't want to cause any trouble, but this is kinda important.

Here's my plan:
I'm bringing a bag or 2 of frozen chopped broccoli.  This will be either soup for lunch (with the IP cream of chicken soup mix) or the side for dinner.

For lunch, I'm pre-making some pasta salad with the IP pasta and sauteed zucchini and yellow squash with some WF Italian sun dried tomato dressing.  We'll be going out for lunch one day but the place we're going should have good options (grilled chicken and veg)  I'll swap and have the protein at lunch and probably soup or pasta salad for dinner.

I think I am also going to pre make crispy cereal pancakes and bring those with some syrup packets.  They should be easy to heat up and it will look like a "normal" meal to every one else.  My usual waffles or smoothie wont work as I'm not packing my waffle iron and blender.  Then I might get some sidelong glances from the rest of the family :)

I'll bring along bars/crisps enough for snacks for the 3 days.

I don't know if I'll bring protein along (chicken or fish).  I might go with the flow on that and just make sure I can eat it (or run to the store and pick up something I can eat).  I'm less worried about that because there are more options, and its more readily available.

I think its a good plan.

The one thing I'm most worried about is I usually bring home-made bread to his grandma.  She loves it and can't make it herself anymore.  I don't want to not bring it, and I know if I told John I thought it would bother me he would say don't do it.  But I also don't want to disappoint.  Maybe that's all on me but still.  Hoping the pancakes and syrup kill the craving so the bread isn't an issue!!

Wish me luck.  This will be a test!