DB ate my food.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You shouldn't be keeping more than a single weeks worth of food there. Bring what you need on Monday. This is a bit off topic, but it would irritate me if you took over half my freezer.

You realize some families have more than one freezer, right? And some nannies eat 8+ meals/week at work? A much nicer way to make your point would have been, "On a related point, how much space do your LCs take up in their freezer? I could see myself getting annoyed if I had to keep half the freezer blocked off for my nanny all the time. It doesn't excuse eating your food (which he should apologize for eating and either replace or reimburse), but it does sound like they're normally very accommodating so I wouldn't waste any time being outraged. We all do stupid stuff like that sometimes."

+100 "don't eat my food, and don't take up space" You sound like a peach. I eat breakfast lunch at work every day, and sometimes dinner. If you aren't providing food, you should keep your mouth shut about nanny storing food at work.

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How is everyone ok with this being claimed as unintentional or an accident? The food was labeled and I am assuming that lean cuisines are not usually in the kids' diet. DB knew full well what he was doing and if there was going to be any attempt at replacement or reimbursement, it would have happened first thing on Monday. Ridiculous.

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Is your DB the passive aggressive type? Maybe, like another PP, he resents the space you took up in the freezer, and thought he'd show you that the freezer is his. If they were labeled, I'm not sure that I buy that it was just an accident. Why would you feed children lean cuisines?

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Anonymous wrote:How is everyone ok with this being claimed as unintentional or an accident? The food was labeled and I am assuming that lean cuisines are not usually in the kids' diet. DB knew full well what he was doing and if there was going to be any attempt at replacement or reimbursement, it would have happened first thing on Monday. Ridiculous.

Of course it wasn't an accident. DB didn't feel like cooking or going out and took the nanny's food because it was easiest. They should have told the nanny first thing and asked if she preferred reimbursement or replacement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is everyone ok with this being claimed as unintentional or an accident? The food was labeled and I am assuming that lean cuisines are not usually in the kids' diet. DB knew full well what he was doing and if there was going to be any attempt at replacement or reimbursement, it would have happened first thing on Monday. Ridiculous.

Even if it was an accident or unintentional the DB still needs to replace it. If I borrow your sweater but unintentionally stain it, of course I'll replace it. I wouldn't just shrug and say "Well I didn't MEAN to." Which is why I told the OP she should let them know the cost of all that food and ask to be repaid by the end of the week and in the future only bring lunch for that DAY.

[Anonymous]

DB may be lazy, but if he doesn't generally do shopping or cooking, he may have thought they were MB's, or that MB bought them for them for the weekend. Men don't necessarily get that "Lean Cuisine" is supposed to be diet food; maybe he just thought they were tv dinners for him and the kids.

I'm sure they'll replace them. At least let the people get home before you all start assuming they'll stiff her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is everyone ok with this being claimed as unintentional or an accident? The food was labeled and I am assuming that lean cuisines are not usually in the kids' diet. DB knew full well what he was doing and if there was going to be any attempt at replacement or reimbursement, it would have happened first thing on Monday. Ridiculous.

We're just going with the fact that he's a lazy ass who's incapable of preparing a meal. Having known these type of men, expectations aren't high. That doesn't change the fact that she needs to be reimbursed for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You shouldn't be keeping more than a single weeks worth of food there. Bring what you need on Monday. This is a bit off topic, but it would irritate me if you took over half my freezer.

I asked MB and she said it was fine. They have two freezer's, I put the meal in the deep freezer. I guess I won't anymore, but it was never a problem before...

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Anonymous wrote:I find it incredible that they ate 8 Lean Cuisines over a single weekend. How odd.

Of course they should apologize and replace or reimburse.

I'm suspicious about that... They weren't meals that I'd think DB or the children would want to eat. They may have been thrown out, and that's just what MB told me.

[Anonymous]

Your MB is a douchebag for not reimbursing you immediately.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your MB is a douchebag for not reimbursing you immediately.

It sounds like DB is actually the "douchebag". If MB was away all weekend and didn't know about it until nanny texted her, kind of hard for her to reimburse immediately. DB, on the other hand, should have let OP know and found out the cost of it and had it waiting for her this morning.

[Anonymous]

Eating LeanCuisines every day seems that a horrible food choice. Aren't nannies supposed to model good eating habits?!

[Anonymous]

I have to say, I can completely see my DH doing that. It's not because he's stupid it's because he's completely oblivious to things like that. He would never noticed it was labeled. It's not an excuse, at the very least they need to reimburse you but I find it totally plausible that's really what happened.

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Anonymous wrote:Eating LeanCuisines every day seems that a horrible food choice. Aren't nannies supposed to model good eating habits?!

Nannies are not role models that is the parents job. I eat whatever I want and so every other adult have this right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eating LeanCuisines every day seems that a horrible food choice. Aren't nannies supposed to model good eating habits?!

It might not taste great but to a child, it has all the elements of a healthy meal. They see you eating a protein, vegetable, and maybe a starch. She's not eating pizza. And its cheap and quick. If you want your nanny to model eating habits that YOU deem healthy, you might want to pony up the food.