Reply to AU pair food

Forum Index » Au Pair Discussion

Reply to "AU pair food"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]NP here. We don't have an AP yet but are thinking of getting one. Honestly cooking for AP (or any additional adult in the household) is one thing that I'm dreaded for. Cooking is not my strong suit, and I only started taking it seriously since my older child started eating the same food with us. Before our kids were born, we ate a lot of carryouts.

We made an effort to eat a veggie/protein heavy diet. So cooking for an extra person does mean a lot of additional time to prep (washing and cutting) the veggies and meat. If you eat a carb heavy diet, then you probably think it's just as easy as putting more pasta/flour/rice in.

In addition, I came from a culture that we cook mostly smaller dishes (relative to Western oven-cooked dishes such as casserole or roast meat) with pots and pans. For example we cook stir fries a lot. So cooking for another adult probably means cooking an extra dish, instead of just adding ingredients to the same dish.

That said I understand the AP expect some sort of "family experience". I think if we end up getting an AP, we'll probably meet somewhere in the middle, like find an AP who's comfortable cooking, and we take turns to cook (maybe we cook 3-4 dinners a week, the AP cooks at least 1, and we eat carryouts/leftovers for the remaining days). 
[/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