Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does she cook 3 meals a day for your kid(s)? Is she eating some of what she cooks for them?
She makes lunch and sometimes dinner for the kids. They are typically done with breakfast by the time she starts. She will usually eat breakfast on the go type items I have for myself (store bought overnight oats, frozen breakfast sandwiches), not just make like a piece of toast. She sometimes eats the kids meal for lunch and dinner (whether she cooks it or I do) and sometimes makes her own thing like a frozen meal. I've offered that she's more than welcome to take over the bottom drawer in our fridge to bring food she likes for herself to keep here and she just says she's not picky (and is therefore just happy to eat our food).
On one hand it feels petty to care about, on the other it easily adds up to $50-100 a week and I've changed what I buy because of it (for example I used to buy myself some fancy soda thing from Trader Joes that's $1.99 that I'd drink as an alternative to an alcohol drink on occasionally...she'd have at least 1 a day whenever they were in the house so I stopped buying them entirely). If it was just a $2 soda a day, that'd be fine, but when its a $4.50 breakfast oats, a $7 frozen lunch, $5 in various canned drinks, half a container of $5 berries, a $2 ice cream sandwich, + dinner all in one day ...it adds up to a lot more than just a couple bucks a day.