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[quote=Anonymous]Hi everyone, I am interested in what are reasonable expectations of meal prep for a nanny.

We have a 16 month old. When we hired our nanny a year ago, she (like the other candidates) talked about preparing nutritious meals at home for her charges, and when he transitioned to solids she was initially quite gung ho about preparing purees (and a few other overly ambitious meals for a 6 month old).

Since that time she's swung far in the other direction. Our son is quite an adventurous eater overall, although its some extra effort to maintain this. We feed him breakfast, dinner (of course), and also directly choose and provide snack.

However, we have been expecting the nanny to handle lunch, and do not give much guidance. Instead we just ask her to give us a grocery list, since we shop each weekend. Since the puree phase, lunch has sort of atrophied to being the same food, day in and day out (meatballs prepared in batch and frozen with a little bit of diced veggie mixed inside, or even store bought when these run out). Occasional changes are all chicken or turkey - no other meat, fish, legumes, vegetables, etc., although we have all these around and explained that she may use anything in the house she wants, offer weekly to buy anything she needs, and give him these foods at other mealtimes. She also seems to have thrown in the towel in getting him to eat vegetables, which is a struggle but not insurmountable (we know since we manage it every night, with some pain).

Is it reasonable to expect our nanny to take the initiative in planning and preparing a somewhat greater variety of nutritious lunches? What *is* a reasonable lunch for a toddler, and a reasonable variety? Is it our job to just take charge here and dictate to our nanny what we want and how we want it? (From our perspective, we understood part of the benefit of having a nanny was to relieve some of these burdens relative to day care). [/quote]

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