Food at home games

[JJT]

I noticed a post further down the thread mentioning a playing a particular way when food arrived, but I'd like to ask those who have home games if you actually serve food to your guest if you don't order out?

I've played in 2 home games. In one, hosted by a man, he never, I mean never had anything to eat, and you had to BYOB, even water. In the other game, hosted by a female couple, they'd have the dry munchies like pretzels, cheetos and liquor even tho people still BYOB'd if they wanted other than that.

A couple of times I brought a crock-pot of cocktail meatballs or chili to the male-hosted game and the players fell on it like starving lions. That made me feel good, but unless everyone contributed to the food pool, I don't think I should be the one to provide if I'm not the host.

I was looking over on that homepoker site and they had ideas and a few nice recipes for feeding your guest, so is having food ready the norm or unusual?