Cheap, cheap, cheap.....

Op, get yourself an etiquette book.

I was calling the poster(s) responding to you a sock puppet.

Wrong again. I'm 16:02 and very definitely not a sock puppet. Feel free to check with Jeff.

I am a nanny with a 4 month old charge. My MB always asks what I would like for the week to add to the grocery list. I am in their home all day and they treat me as a family member when it comes to food. I am welcome to anything in the fridge and do make myself lunch each day. This has been the same case with both of my previous families. The last family I was with (I was with them for 5 years) provided me with all 3 meals a day since I was there 7-7 most days. Now I only work 8 hours a day (8-4) so I just have lunch at the house. Usually a sandwich and fruit. Sometimes leftovers from MB and DB dinner the night before. They encourage me to eat whatever I want and but food for me. I have found this to be the norm in the nanny industry in my personal experience.

I was calling the poster(s) responding to you a sock puppet.

Rude nanny here - Not a sock puppet or troll as Jeff can tell you...

I do prepare meals that the kids aren't eating. I get to work at 6:30am, carpool the kids then come home to stay with the newborn. During the first nap I usually make breakfast. Today I had an egg white omelette and turkey bacon. I brought the bacon, the rest was my employers. I eat here all day and they encourage it. Maybe it's because they're well off but I think even of they weren't they would still offer... Maybe not salmon, but a meal at dinner. I've been with the family four years and it's never been an issue. Except in the beginning, when MB told me I didn't eat enough and started asking me what I wanted from the grocery store. When she orders takeout she also orders a dish for me.

Sock puppet...

I went to whole foods this morning to buy salmon for the kids and got myself a piece as well. I eat dinner every night at work on my employers dime, as they expect me to sit down with the kids and eat dinner as a 'family'. But then again, I work for considerate and gracious people, so I would've expect the cheapie cheapie MBs on her to understand.

Entitled and rude. What a peach you are.

Anonymous wrote:I went to whole foods this morning to buy salmon for the kids and got myself a piece as well. I eat dinner every night at work on my employers dime, as they expect me to sit down with the kids and eat dinner as a 'family'. But then again, I work for considerate and gracious people, so I would've expect the cheapie cheapie MBs on her to understand.

Would you expect to be allowed to prepare yourself a meal if you were not feeding the kids though? That was op's question. Her nanny will only be caring for an infant.

Anonymous wrote:I went to whole foods this morning to buy salmon for the kids and got myself a piece as well. I eat dinner every night at work on my employers dime, as they expect me to sit down with the kids and eat dinner as a 'family'. But then again, I work for considerate and gracious people, so I would've expect the cheapie cheapie MBs on her to understand.

How would YOU like someone eating the food that you buy for yourself and your family; felt entitled to it?! Bet you would fall right into that "cheapie cheapie" category if the roles were reversed!

Anonymous wrote:I went to whole foods this morning to buy salmon for the kids and got myself a piece as well. I eat dinner every night at work on my employers dime, as they expect me to sit down with the kids and eat dinner as a 'family'. But then again, I work for considerate and gracious people, so I would've expect the cheapie cheapie MBs on her to understand.

Your employers are wealthy. If they are making you work through dinner, they should feed you something. My nanny gets to have her dinner at home and watch her favorite tv shows.