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[quote=Anonymous]I used to be a coordinator for au pairs and I would hear this a lot from people that had male au pairs.  They just had no idea that a 19 year old could eat 3 pork chops for dinner and consider it normal.  And our au pair had a gas card and it turned out every time she filled our car with gas she and her friends were getting 5 dollars worth of snacks from the gas station.  Kids that age are just hungry!

We eventually concluded that if you're not wealthy enough to be able to build in that extra margin (i.e.  an extra 25 bucks a week for groceries, etc.)  then you probably can't afford the nanny or the vacation or whatever.

We took our au pair on vacation and had the same issue with ordering on the menu.  But again if you can't afford to take an extra person to a restaurant, then perhaps you should make more meals at home.

Also, the rationing of food is not good hospitality.  You need to be able to have some slack in the equation -- a few extra granola bars, what have you.  I remember being at my MIL's and being pregnant and ravenous and finding out that all the food was being rationed and there was exactly one potato per person, etc.  It felt terrible and made me feel oddly guilty for requiring more and kind of crazy.

If you can only afford one potato per person, then maybe you shouldn't be having guests is the long and short of it for me.[/quote]

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