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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My God.  How cheap can you be!  She is taking care of your children and you cannot give her lunch?  Unbelievable.[/quote]

This is ridiculous. We pay our nanny well, give her lots of PTO, multiple bonuses per year, and health insurance. We try to do little things to make her life easier like leaving extra spending money once in awhile, etc. Yet you think because we don't buy and prepare food for our nanny, we are cheap? That honestly has me laughing out loud.

I barely have time to get dinner on the table for my own family, let alone buying and preparing extra for someone else.

But, if it's important to you, you should definitely bring it up when negotiating pay etc. for your jobs.[/quote]

Nooooobody said prepare or even buy extra food. People are saying allow her access to what is there that she is feeding the kids. DRAMA QUEEN. [/quote]

I agree.
To specify to a Nanny that she is to bring in her own grub sounds cheap to me no matter how you word it.[/quote]

I never said specifying that she has to bring her own grub. I actually stock the coffee she likes, and she knows she's welcome to snacks. But, if she is to put together an actual meal for herself, that would definitely require extra work for us. I take meat out of the freezer in the morning, that is to be used for our dinner. Leftovers are for toddler's lunch, and my lunch if there is enough. Nanny doesn't like sandwiches so I couldn't just keep lunch meat for her. We eat mostly just meat and fresh veggies, so I am not really understanding what people are stocking for their nanny to cook her lunch. Do I leave out an extra pound of meat just in case she feels like cooking it? Do people ask their nannies for a grocery list?

It seems like it would be a lot easier for the nanny to just bring/stock whatever she would like. I was previously a nanny and would never have expected to be cooking my own meals on the job, let alone for my employer to have stocked the ingredients for me to do so. I brought a package of lunch meat, cheese, and bread to store there, and that worked great... or brought a salad from home.

Regardless, I don't plan on changing our set-up. We have a great relationship with our nanny, who indicates that she's very happy and wants to stay with us as long as possible, so we have found a balance that everyone is happy with. Clearly, the fact that I don't provide lunch for my nanny would be a deal breaker for many of you, which is fine. Different strokes and all.

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