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[quote=Anonymous]I think it would be difficult to arrive at a fair number for this.  Something that we do, in addition to having the AP add to our grocery list, which works fine, is telling the AP that if she wants to shop on her own at an ethnic/regional grocery store that carries more foods from her home country - and which we wouldn't normally go to ourselves, so those products are hard to add to our usual grocery list - she can do that and give us the receipt and we'll reimburse.  Not all of our APs take us up on this (since it requires them to take on the task of shopping!), but those who have accepted the offer have all been fairly reasonable in their expenditures.  We would re-evaluate if, say, an AP was doing this and asking us to reimburse her, e.g. $50 per week.  Our APs who have done this have generally gone shopping maybe once a month and spent an average of $40 on each trip, mostly on non-perishables that are staple foods from their country that they like to have around, with maybe some special treats as well.  Times that APs have spent more than that average would be when the AP has offered to make a special meal for the family from her country.  We also have enjoyed our APs' ethnic cooking, and are happy to add those foods to our grocery expense so that she can make favorite foods for the kids (and us if we are lucky!) regularly - and then we consider it a family expense, not just AP-specific.[/quote]

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