Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For lunch, we usually have beans and rice, chicken with rice, angel hair pasta with red sauce, or macaroni with pesto. Keep in mind that DD is 1 1/2 and will not eat sandwiches or many other things, so I kind of cook with her in mind. Also, nanny is from central america and wont eat sandwiches for lunch.

Today, nanny refused to eat lunch (not in a mean way), complaining that she cannot eat beans and rice or pasta today because that's all she eats. I asked her in the past what she'd prefer and all she can come up with is chicken. When I ask her what she ate for dinner it's usually eggs, cereal, and rarely beef or pasta. I also note that she gets most of her groceries free with food stamps. She also goes clothes/toys/home shopping every single weekend and wears new clothes almost everyday, so I don't think money is the issue here. Honestly, I don't have the money to be cooking her a beef or chicken dinner everyday for lunch (I cook all our lunches homemade), and even if I did have that kind of $$$, DD cannot eat a dinner essentially twice a day because the nanny wants to go home and not cook anything or not buy meat for dinner I guess. I suppose I do not necessarily know her entire life circumstance because I don't have a cam on her when she leaves, but this quadry is getting frustrating and she has no ideas as to what to do for lunch other than beef or chicken.

What's your opinion? I'm open to everyone's non-snarky thoughts.

There is a reason she is a nanny. If she really doesn't like it, at any time she can go back to night school, work her way towards that elusive degree.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For lunch, we usually have beans and rice, chicken with rice, angel hair pasta with red sauce, or macaroni with pesto. Keep in mind that DD is 1 1/2 and will not eat sandwiches or many other things, so I kind of cook with her in mind. Also, nanny is from central america and wont eat sandwiches for lunch.

Today, nanny refused to eat lunch (not in a mean way), complaining that she cannot eat beans and rice or pasta today because that's all she eats. I asked her in the past what she'd prefer and all she can come up with is chicken. When I ask her what she ate for dinner it's usually eggs, cereal, and rarely beef or pasta. I also note that she gets most of her groceries free with food stamps. She also goes clothes/toys/home shopping every single weekend and wears new clothes almost everyday, so I don't think money is the issue here. Honestly, I don't have the money to be cooking her a beef or chicken dinner everyday for lunch (I cook all our lunches homemade), and even if I did have that kind of $$$, DD cannot eat a dinner essentially twice a day because the nanny wants to go home and not cook anything or not buy meat for dinner I guess. I suppose I do not necessarily know her entire life circumstance because I don't have a cam on her when she leaves, but this quadry is getting frustrating and she has no ideas as to what to do for lunch other than beef or chicken.

What's your opinion? I'm open to everyone's non-snarky thoughts.

There is a reason she is a nanny. If she really doesn't like it, at any time she can go back to night school, work her way towards that elusive degree.

Anonymous wrote:Food stamps qualifying information:
http://www.dss.virginia.gov/benefit/foodstamp.cgi
http://www.dss.virginia.gov/files/division/bp/fs/intro_page/income_limits/income_limits.pdf

http://www.ehow.com/about_7466036_qualifies-food-stamps-virginia_.html

A one-person household must not gross more than $1,174 or net more than $903 monthly. Four-member households' gross income limit is set at $2,389 and their maximum net income is $1,838

Anonymous wrote:For lunch, we usually have beans and rice, chicken with rice, angel hair pasta with red sauce, or macaroni with pesto. Keep in mind that DD is 1 1/2 and will not eat sandwiches or many other things, so I kind of cook with her in mind. Also, nanny is from central america and wont eat sandwiches for lunch.

Today, nanny refused to eat lunch (not in a mean way), complaining that she cannot eat beans and rice or pasta today because that's all she eats. I asked her in the past what she'd prefer and all she can come up with is chicken. When I ask her what she ate for dinner it's usually eggs, cereal, and rarely beef or pasta. I also note that she gets most of her groceries free with food stamps. She also goes clothes/toys/home shopping every single weekend and wears new clothes almost everyday, so I don't think money is the issue here. Honestly, I don't have the money to be cooking her a beef or chicken dinner everyday for lunch (I cook all our lunches homemade), and even if I did have that kind of $$$, DD cannot eat a dinner essentially twice a day because the nanny wants to go home and not cook anything or not buy meat for dinner I guess. I suppose I do not necessarily know her entire life circumstance because I don't have a cam on her when she leaves, but this quadry is getting frustrating and she has no ideas as to what to do for lunch other than beef or chicken.

What's your opinion? I'm open to everyone's non-snarky thoughts.

A one-person household must not gross more than $1,174 or net more than $903 monthly. Four-member households' gross income limit is set at $2,389 and their maximum net income is $1,838

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Guess you have to decide if not buying a few rotisserie chickens at Costco or a package of chicken thighs from Safeway is worth changing nannies. Twenty years agp we paid our nanny $400/week plus healthcare benefits and two weeks vacation. What do you pay your nanny?

I wouldnt feed anybody an old rotisserie chicken. I prefer to eat fresh, and I am postulating (if that's the right word - I know you DCUMers are so crticial about verbage and spelling on here!) whether buying fresh chicken during my weekly shop over the weekend to prepare on Mondays might work for that day, but that's assuming the nanny would actually cook it. I will ask her though. As far as pay goes, she is compensated well, has paid vacation etc.

Careful, OP. Your inner bitch is starting to show.

P.S. It's verbiage.

Anonymous wrote:A couple of things stand out.

1) Why are you cooking meals for the Nanny and your baby? Shouldn't she be doing that?

2) I can understand being on Food Stamps, latest article says one needs about $88,000 to live in DC. I imagine that's probably too steep of a salary to pay a Nanny to watch one child.

Have her bring her own food or feed her some salads. Lettuce is pretty inexpensive, add some tuna and it's a meal!