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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah sorry OP, but there really isn't a way to bring it up that won't be awkward.  Is she young?  If so, she probably doesn't understand how much feeding a family costs and the inconvenience of running out of food unexpectedly.  
Your not being unreasonable, but there isn't a a great way to approach it. Maybe as a compromise you could offer to pick up a few things for her (cereal, sandwich fixings, fruit...) and say "that way we don't have any mix ups for what DH and I want to keep around for our work lunches / dinner"  Then at least she probably wouldn't eat any of the other stuff.[/quote]
not OP, but this is why when I hired my nanny I said during the interview I don't expect her to be eating our food unless it's an emergency. There's not way to be not awkward about this. I don't see why OP should pay for certain things for nanny unless it's coming out of her cheque.[/quote]

I'm not saying that she does need to, but she asked for a less awkward way to handle it, and that's what I came up with.  The MB I work for is overly generous and has said to help myself to whatever they have and also offers to pick up things for me at the store.  They aren't very wealthy and work very hard and I really appreciate this. However, I don't want to take advantage of that generosity so I tend to eat only a small amount of their food (cup of coffee, bowl of cereal, salad etc).  That was where my suggestion came from.[/quote]

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