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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the interview you TELL tell the nanny she will be leaving you a list of the foods you need to purchase to feed her breakfast/lunch or lunch/dinner.  She does not / should not  depend of eating  the scraps left by  the children.  Nanny  may be a completely different ethnicity or race from  you and needs you to stock *her*  typical foods in the house.

Even at my firm when admins order food for us for a long day of client meetings they ask each of us what we want to eat. One time they made the mistake of ordering all non-veg food when 5 of us (out of 14, including  2 of the clients) ) are strict veg (no meat, no fish).  You need to ASK the nanny what she wants and have her write it down for you. [/quote]

We tried doing this for a while with our Indian nanny but found it difficult to find her preferred foods at the local Giant.  So we gave her cash to buy her own  food at  the Indian food store where she normally buys her groceries.  She stores them in  a cupboard we set aside for her. Our nanny works M-Th for us, 10 hours per day.  We absolutely felt we should provide *at least* 1 per day for her, but really 2 is fair-- she works without a break, pretty much.   We made sure we gave enough to cover 2. Who knows?  Maybe she sent it home to her family in India, but that's her choice. She would not eat any of our typical fare at our house. [/quote]

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