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Offer to go grocery shopping for them, take them out to dinner a few times, bring fresh flowers home with you after work, take them to a movie. Help out in the kitchen, especially cleaning up.
Your in-laws sound like nice folks. Enjoy their company!
If it is your in-laws. I would not classify you as a house guest. You would be family. In my house family is family, they are welcome to anything I have. By bringing in your own food to me is a sign of you not considering them family in my book. Just act at home, but I would make sure I do my share of the house keeping like you would your own home.
A long visit? An offer to pick up some groceries, help out with chores, and take your hosts out to dinner somewhere nice.
But, above all, don't treat your host's house as if it were a hotel. Clean up after yourself, respect their things, don't force them to entertain you constantly, and pitch in with a few chores here and there.
we stay with my in-laws regularly when we are in Switzerland and every visit my husband and I cook dinner for them. So I go grocery shipping for everything incl wine etc and they love to try new stuff. In the past it has been curry, mexican and Thai. I usually go for a long walk everyday and pick up things from the grocery store on my way back, It might only be milk or bread to have that evening or some special cheese that wee can share with a glass of red with supper. They really appreciate it. I always do my own laundry and instead of sitting in my room I sit in the winter-garden / conservatory on the lounger if I want to read and they tend to wonder in and out and we chat then or if they are making a coffee they offer one and I join them for it. I am studying so I do remind them that I do have a heavy reading load so they don't think I am just being rude. Every morning we discuss our plans for the day and they invite me if they are going to a nearby town etc - sometimes I going them - sometimes I say no that I have to do extra work as I am falling behind. Everyone is happy.
My FIL always buys lots of things I like that they don't normally have in and I always buy them things from wherever we live that I know they have a hard time finding, or something like a really good wine they wouldn't normally buy themselves....
I always send a bunch of flowers when we leave too.
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