On boxing day we hosted family members in our house. So my husbands siblings, their spouses and their children came to visit. I cooked fried rice, chicken with salad. By the time the food was ready everyone came to the dining and served themselves while the mothers served food for their children. Everyone seemed happy with the food except my SIL’s child who is 10 who started complaining that he was not eating the food. The mother asked him why and he started saying you know I dont like fried rice, give me something else. So she asked me if I there was any other food for him to eat and so I said no. I offered him to eat salad which he refused then I told him we could make plantain for him but he said no. I finally offered him noodles and he said he will eat it. So I got up from where I was eating and put noodles on the stove for him. At the same time I could hear him complaining it was taking too long. His parents said nothing. I got up again and brought it to him to which he took a few bites, said it tasted funny and said he was not eating it. I could not believe a 10 years old boy could be behaving so spoilt. Anyway I went back to my food and then I saw he got up to go join the other children watching TV. At this time everyone else was looking at him but no one said anything. When we were clearing the table and cleaning up in the kitchen my SIL now saw the wrapper of the noodles and said ohhh it's not Indomie. That's why he didn't like it! I told her sorry that that was the only brand I had in my house. She then said that if I know hes picky why would he eat a cheap brand of noodles. My other inlaws were looking at me to see if I would react so I told her that if she knows her son is picky with food why does she not carry the food he will eat around with her.  She then told me that that's just how children are and I should be more understanding and she would think I would have made something else for the children. At that point I just kept quiet if not I would have said something I regret. My house is not a restaurant and all the other children who came ate the food without complaints. So now yesterday she called hubby and told her we made her feel uncomfortable in our house because I told her to bring what her child likes to eat next time.
Was I wrong to reply her like that?

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