Au pair eats our junk food so fast!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it ok to limit how much our au pair eats "treats"? For example, we do have some pop in the house but for us, it's only an occasional treat, like when we order pizza every couple weeks, and even more rare for the children. She has one with lunch and one with dinner, so the case that would last our family a month before she came lasts a week and we never even had any. Another example: we buy a box of donuts and pre-Au pair, they would last a week. She will eat them for breakfast every morning and sometimes as a snack or after lunch as well. We buy a bag of chips and she eats them all before we even think of having any. We have had a large bag of m&ms in our pantry for a month and had only eaten about a quarter of it. It was gone in a week after she found them. You can see we are not a "healthy food only" house, but I am shocked by HOW MUCH junk food she eats and how fast. And it's annoying because I feel like if want to have any around for the times when we want it, we have to hide it from her. If its there, she eats it...FAST. Also, it's expensive to replace it that fast. Finally, I feel like its a bad example for the kids to eat so much junk, but feel hypocritical saying anything because we did, after all, buy it in the first place. Advice?

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!

Kids are impressionable, and they would definitely look at an au pair as a role model.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:First world problems

That's right. You want third world problems, then go live there.

Yet you depend on labor from third world so that you can get all uppity about junk food in your house.

Right? If you want someone to model healthy American eating habits, you should hire someone who is educated and grew up with food security and access to food on a consistent basis. Instead you pay her a pittance and want to restrict her food options.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First world problems

That's right. You want third world problems, then go live there.

Yet you depend on labor from third world so that you can get all uppity about junk food in your house.

Right? If you want someone to model healthy American eating habits, you should hire someone who is educated and grew up with food security and access to food on a consistent basis. Instead you pay her a pittance and want to restrict her food options.

do people here realize they are getting worked up about a thread from 11 years ago? Quite sure the OP has long moved on from hosting APs and worrying about their junk food consumption.

[Anonymous]

So, where is she from? I was an Au Pair and constantly hungry because the junk food Americans ate, made me hungrier. I also made me fatter.
I ate their fruits though as I couldn't handle the junk they made for kids and themselves. They stopped buying fruit as kids barely ate them.
I changed families. The other family cooked home made food. My hunger disappeared.