Reply to Cooking one dinner a week

Forum Index » Au Pair Discussion

Reply to "Cooking one dinner a week"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former European AP here. I'm glad my host family didn't ask me to cook for them when I was living with them.
I left my own family and never cooked back home, my mom did all of the cooking.
Once I got there I had to cook pasta for the kid I was in charge of. I didn't even know how to cook that ... :)

I think it's fine to ask the AP if she wants to cook from time to time if she knows how ... or just heating up something easy and quick.

On the other hand, I never ever expected my host family to cook a meal for me, I would just fend for myself all the time.

Then as time went by, I made a few easy things to help out like lettuce and raw veggies in it, homemade dressing ... etc. But at 18 I would have been incapable of cooking a whole meal. [/quote]

We never asked our au pair to cook for us- or clean up other than bussing her own plate. She unloaded the dishwasher in the AM on the clock. On the other hand I tended to cook foods she wasn't fond of (healthy and sometimes hit or miss on taste to be honest) she liked American fast food, so we gave her $$ to pick something up for herself if dinner was a bust or if we weren't cooking that night. 
She worked up to the 45 hours M-F, and I didn't feel like extra cooking beyond lunch for my son, or cleaning beyond picking up after herself and keeping the mess down was a fair expectation if it wasn't on the clock. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics