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[quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]One thing that I would be aware of is communicating to your au pair which foods are up for grabs for lunches/snacking/etc and which foods you are planning to use in the future.[/b] It could become challenging if she feels like she can't eat from the fridge because she doesn't know what your plan is for the food. A common way to solve this is by putting a meal plan of some sort on the fridge itself so that everyone knows what ingredients are available and which are not.

I think that every family's general choices around what food to eat and when/how to prepare that food are most often fine for the AP program as long as you

1.) Include her in family meals the same way you do other members. 
2.) Give her access to basic ingredients to prepare food if she wishes too outside of those basic meal times. 
3.) Give her space to store and prepare food for her personal consumption. (This could be a shelf in the fridge/cupboard that nobody else uses so that she can store her own foods in a way that preserves them from being eaten by other people. [/quote]

This. Communicate that she shouldn’t eat something prepared because it’s for dinner on Tuesday night. Don’t have the scenario where you’re upset that she ruined all your meal planning by eating leftovers for breakfast and lunch, so it’s gone by dinner.[/quote]

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