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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If someone ate a portion at a meal, that’s a portion, not a “double portion.”

If we say our au pair can host a guest (and our au pairs have had many guests ranging from au pairs trying to rematch to random friends from home country to au pair’s nuclear family members) then we buy enough food for everyone. After all it’s a guest in my home.

You didn’t buy enough food to accommodate your household. Your bad. [/quote]

To be clear, the guest single handledly ate about a pound of meat. I have teenage boys. The guest ate more than either of them, and she hit the same leftovers twice. They did not join us for prepared meals, so it’s not like I made five pork chops for six people. This is more like I made fifteen pork chops, five were consumed for meal one, and guest helped herself to seven of the remaining chops over the course of the next day. We have a well stocked pantry and freezer and even a well stocked refrigerator from which one might prepare themselves a meal. But I don’t have several pre-made family dinners just sitting there waiting for random consumption. If these girls chose to dine with us, fine. But the helping themselves to what is effectively everyone else’s dinner really bothers me. I think you would be surprised by how much this guest truly ate. With TWO HUNGRY TEEN BOYS plus a husband, I would have expected the leftovers to serve everyone for dinner plus have some leftover even beyond that. But I suppose if you fill your plate ONLY with the main course, and have none of the sides, that equation might change. Which is what the guest did - ate only the main course and nothing else, but now I have no main course for half my family. [/quote]

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