Nanny food bills

luckily was my last day for the week

but told mb and believe woofa didnt get supper that night

Good god. Thatust have had a messy eventuality!

woofa would fight you for it, he devoured 500g in a matter of seconds once

stupidly left block on side and went to answer phone/door etc and whosh it had disapeered [hgrin]

I'm pretty sure I could knock back £200 of cheese!

when i did my employers shopping was £150/200 a week depending if nappies/wipes/washing powder

not organic fruit/meat but 2 adults (3 if include me) and 3 kids - woofa was separate - he can eat £200 eachday by his self if left near meat or cheese

My employers spend that too. Or I do on their behalf (I do the orders) this week came to £220. For 2 adults, 6 year old and baby.

So yeah... But it could easily be much less. It's organic that does it! X

I don't spend it - but my employers. We order from Ocado and my employer (Mother) only buys organic fruit and vegetables, meat and fish from the butcher, free range chicken and eggs etc. Add a few bottles of wine, nappies, wipes etc. and it adds up to 200 quid a week.

Ours is around 150? for 2 adults and a toddler. Bit we eat a lot of cheese and I buy organic veg at the market and we have fresh vread every day which is easily 10?/week. It used to be double that where we lived before....

I will, however, be raiding Lidl as soon as our car arrives and cutting costs that way.

YOU SPEND WHAT?!?!

Basically three with the dog :D My employers and I are trying to reduce our shopping bill at the moment, we spend around 200 GBP a week for three adults and one toddler. Far too much!

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I didn't say it was easy to feed two four £30. But doable!

An ingenious combination of Makro for meat, coupons, only buying sale brands, buying large quantities and freezing and just generally being really tight

Cleaning products obviously don't need to be bought very often. Ditto toiletries and the "reduced aisle" at Morrissons mean we eat like kings for pennies! (the joys of a freezer) helps if you can shop on a weekday morning for this

NotaChocolateRaisin

30GBP a week? How do you do it?

After thinking about it £30 a week is tons! That's how much OH and I spend on a weekly shop and that includes all 7 meals, toiletries, dog food (most expensive bit the sensitive-stomached sod), cleaning products etc.

Tell her to feck off.

last year's au pair asked for smoked salmon "for her toast" and always had fresh berries on the list in the winter.

The trouble is - you can't really vet for 'consideration'. She'd never done her own grocery shop in her life and hadn't a clue about costs/seasonality etc.

It was pointless trying to engage though; we just didn't buy stuff we didn't think was appropriate.

Sounds like my aupair.

She never mentioned any of her allergies (was asked) etc but when started she couldn't eat this and that and if she could she didn't like it or didn't even want to try it.

Our contract said aupair will be offered normal family food.

Once I made a mistake taking her to the supermarket with me and she was like a little child demanding all organic fancy foods.

Btw as a nanny she should be cooking for your little one, maybe can do batch cooking and then you defrost it? May work out cheaper then jars for you

I think you have made a good decision.

If this nanny doesn't work out - you can add 'food' to the list of things you need to discuss at the interview.

I've always done the food shopping for the family as apart of the job and just bought some things that I want as apart of that (within reason and always to share with the children. I'm not eating venison every night...although...)

Yes. You have the right idea... She is taking advantage of you .

It sounds like you have plenty of tasty food to offer her and with everything available I'm sure she could make a nice meal. I think it's cheeky asking you to hand over cash so she can do her own shopping, if there was any change I'm sure she would pocket, it seems a bit strange asking for cash instead of asking you to pick her up some specific things when you go shopping. Prehaps buy her some organic chicken, fish or burgers once a week but other than that she should be buying her own food if she doesn't like yours. I understand she's live in and it's meant to feel like her home, but she is there to work, not to be mothered, Celine already mentioned that.

Blondes - food all week for a live-in :) Though most nannies aren't there much at the weekends.

Also, it depends on the age of the children and the type of food the family normally eat, (if) she's live-in so it's 'home' as well, she needs to be able to eat what she would normally eat, not whatever the family normally eat and sometimes that doesn't become apparent until you have moved in.

I assumed was a live out nanny in the thread

If live in then yes food sometimes is paid for tho £30 seems a lot as assume nanny would eat with children breakie and lunch so only 5 meals in eve needed

Or do you pay for food at weekends for live in?