My husband eats any junk food we buy in one seating, he cant help it, when he starts he can't stop and when he finishes he start complaining about how awful he feels lol. It is a running joke in our house. Our kids are small and they don't eat junk food at all. So we barely buy any junk food. When I do get something I really like, or the kids bring some candies from school, I hide it from him and we eat together later. He is aware I hide stuffs from him and we laugh about it all the time! |
Yet you depend on labor from third world so that you can get all uppity about junk food in your house. |
Where is the OP's Au Pair from? |
Have you tried labeling food? “Larla’s Leftovers for Larla only.”
Sounds like your AP would be the lunch thief at an office though and ignore the label. |
I'm the OP from 7/26.....I had leftover personal sized pizza from a restaurant and she helped herself to it last night. Grrr
No, it wasn't labeled but she has been acting like a vegetarian and my pizza had pepperoni on it. And it was personal sized. |
After 10 months of this kind of behavior and the cake incident, I would be inclined to “accidentally” leave out laxative chocolate in the kitchen without the box. |
No, she talks to the AP adult to adult It's like having a roommate who eats your food.
She really does sound like she has issues. Is she bulimic? |
Maybe you should talk to AP about portion control and that the food you buy is for the entire family to enjoy and share and that she should remember that and not eat the entire bag of chips or m&ms. She probably is just not thinking |
I understand this. We don't really have junk food in our house, but there is this chocolate bar that my husband and I both like. It is a specialty dark chocolate bar and is around $8 a bar. With my husband and myself, that bar will last a week, if not more (it is about the size of a regular Hersey bar but is thicker). With the AP, it last a day. She will eat the entire thing. I don't buy it often but if I do, I now hide it. I've also had her eat my leftovers from restaurants, and the personal sized bday cake that my company gave me. She has now taken up drinking our beer. I don't mind the occasional beer if eats dinner with us, but finding 4 bottles of beer in the recycling from one evening from her is not cool. We don't buy cheap beer, we like craft beer and my husband and I only drink a couple on the weekends. |
Starting to think this is a troll. |
Maybe it's because we have an au pair suite with a kitchen, but we take a list from the au pair, and buy her whatever junk she wants for the weekend. She eats from the fruit, veggies, starches, meats, cheese and we buy for the whole family. She has never once eaten any of the sweets/snacks we buy for ourselves without asking/being offered. When you buy her stuff separately, she perhaps feels satiated. Why not try that?
|
The only alcohol we provide our AP is the occasional glass with a weeknight dinner. She cannot help herself to our liquor or wine otherwise. This is in the handbook as a CYA. |
LOL. I’m having the same issue with my new AP. I took her grocery shopping twice already in two weeks and spent $400. She’s literally eating through all of our food too and doesn’t ask before she takes things. I’m getting very annoyed with her. She hardly works either. She was “sick” the entire first week she was here |
The solution is simple. Buy more because you are feeding an adult. Aren't you saving money by using an Au pair? |
Another cheap mom that counts every single snack she has in pantry….Not a bad example as AP isn’t a role model to your child and not of your damn business to control her calorie intake. Get a life! |