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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our new AP has been here for a less than a week and is asking for salmon as part of the grocery list.  She's a second year, so i'ts not like she is clueless about prices in the area (she lived elsewhere in the DMV).  She also asked for cilantro lime salad dressing and vitamin C tablets.  I will obviously talk to her about this to remind her how we agreed groceries work in our house (as detailed in our handbook)--but I do find this presumptuous. [/quote]

I'm a long time HM and you are the definition of miserly. You are nitpicking salad dressing and vitamin C?! Frozen salmon is not expensive at all. Hell if be thrilled if my AuPair was that healb conscious and wanted to keep her body from getting sick.

You're gross.[/quote]

I totally disagree.  If it's too expensive for your family then you say no.  Now, if you're eating filet mignon 5x a week and not letting her have what she wants then that's bad news.  But if you stick to a budget and told her this up front, you're not wrong (though, I agree with the above and would buy her frozen salmon once a month).   You will find people on here who say that if you don't buy your AP everything they want that you are, to use the above poster, "gross."  Ap is "on par".   That means they're like a member of the family, not above.

As a side note, our first AP began asking for more and more items every week and I bought then.  By week 5 it was a list of 11 items including specific kinds of protein water and specialty stuff we don't even buy because it's so pricey.  Also, we were throwing out some of what we did buy (like salad) because she decided she didn't want to eat it.  That was the end of the separate shopping list for our APs.[/quote]

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