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[quote=Anonymous]Live-in nanny here.  I understand how this would annoy MB/DB, especially with a live-out nanny who is supposed to bring her own lunch.

Let me offer a different perspective.  Part of my compensation is room and board, and I'm willing to sign a contract that states that it's "reasonable" costs for board.  The last family for whom I did a trial showed me where my food was stored when I arrived: on the floor in the pantry.  I was allowed 7 cubes of ramen, 2 boxes of corn flakes and 4 boxes of cheap mac and cheese per week.  I wasn't supposed to touch anything in the freezer or refrigerator, nor anything else in the pantry, and if I bought anything, it would have to be stored in the pantry as no food was allowed out of the kitchen.  (From the way the kids descended on everything in the pantry while I was standing there aghast, I assume that anything decent that the nanny got might have ended up being eaten by the voracious horde.)  That was their idea of reasonable.  I walked right back out the door and called the cab back because there was no way I was going to stay with a family who considered me living with them and eating with them such a huge inconvenience and expense.  Unfortunately, I've had other trials in which the family decided that they wanted to dictate my food choices (usually crap), but nothing else to that extreme.  I eat healthy food, and I'm there to reinforce manners and nutrition, so I eat with my charges 2-3 meals per day; I'm not going to make cauliflower/potato mash, grilled salmon and asparagus spears for my charges then sit and eat boxed junk while they eat whatever healthy options I made.

There are a lot of ways to approach this issue without making it a big deal.  Once it becomes a big issue, there's no going back.[/quote]

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