Do you feed your nanny?
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Anonymous
| Ours always brought a lunch. I imagine they were not interested in what my kids were eating. I always let them know they were welcome to anything we had but I am not sure they ever ate anything. |
Anonymous
It really isn’t kindness - it simply the correct thing to do. If any employee cannot leave for a meal the meal must be provided by the employer. |
Anonymous
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We give our nanny a grocery card, so she cooks and eats with the kids and it’s great.
That said, I had a nanny who would eat my leftovers and i thought that was a bit strange. I’d come home and the leftovers I was planning to have for lunch or dinner would be gone. |
Anonymous
| We asked our nanny at hire what she wanted us to provide for her lunch and she said that she prefers to bring her lunch. We always have sandwich stuff, fruit, etc anyway. Funny thing is that my child always wanted to eat nanny’s lunch and she was willing to try anything if it came out of nanny’s lunch box so nanny started making our child lunch at her house and we reimbursed her. Our three year old eats salad, all vegetables, and all fruit now! |
Anonymous
| She brings some items and leaves them at our house, and she’s always welcome to eat our food too. She does a weekly shopping trip to TJs for us, and I encourage her to buy snacks that she likes on our tab. |
Anonymous
| We have had 3 nannies. 2 brought food and the current one eats what the kids eat from our fridge. Either works for me and they were always welcome to whatever we have. |
Anonymous
| Our nanny eats mostly vegetarian and prefers to bring her own food. |
Anonymous
| I make a point during my interview of stating that I eat 3-5 vegetables on every plate, and that kids are more likely to try things that they see adults eating. I'll nuke chicken nuggets if that's all they'll eat, but I'd much rather make a frittata with spinach, onion, kale and cheese to share with the kids. |
Anonymous
| My understanding is a lot of nannies prefer to bring their own food. We've had two nannies (consecutively, not concurrently!) and offered both carte blanche to anything in our pantry/fridge, with the option to add anything they like anytime to the grocery list in our kitchen for us to buy. But both have always brought their own food. Our current nanny stores things in our fridge which is fine and of course we don't touch them. I did notice she likes some kinds of fruit so always try to have those available, but that's been the extent of it. Probably best just to ask your nanny directly what they prefer. |
Anonymous
Hmmm...only in nanny world. I've worked in plenty of positions where I didn't even get to take a full lunch and I assure you, no one was providing food for me. As a nanny, I brought my own meals but was welcome to eat anything in the home (within reason). I always appreciated having a spot in the pantry where I could leave items I stocked for myself, and having some kind of water filtration system (Brita, built in, delivery ect) is a nice, often overlooked perk. |
Anonymous
| Our issue was my son wanting to eat the Nanny's lunch rather than his own! She would bring him a plate to share on Fridays. |
Anonymous
+1 It is common decency, not kindness. The nanny is working through lunch. |
Anonymous
Even fast food workers get a free meal while on shift. And when I worked for major corporations, the break rooms were stocked with free snacks including fresh fruit and protein bars. I could have made lunch from that daily. |
Anonymous
| The title made me picture the nanny sitting at the table with her head up, mouth open, waiting for the airplane to land. |
Anonymous
| No, the employer does not have to share food with the nanny, unless the pay is really low. I am a nanny and I bring my own food, always had and always will. Just prefer to have my independence, and to eat what I prefer, not what family would have. That said, i do work with young kids, and they do want to try my food and always welcome, and some parents learnt how to make "nanny's food" for their kids, but if I would be working with school age it would make sense to eat same foods, so the kids would probably have to eat what I like since that would be healthier, and I probably would not want to eat a peanut butter sandwich anyway, for my lunch. So, then we would have to figure out how to share expenses for our "common' lunch, with the family with older kids. I also keep my tea bags and some food supplies at my employer's but most days I bring couple of packed meals with me. with young children, I try to eat my lunch when they nap, if possible, but when they are toddlers, it's fun to share, |