I think our new (been here a couple of weeks) AP isn't eating properly. There is no evidence that she eats breakfast or lunch, she does eat fruit (about 5 apples and a mango - and she requested we bought her a pineapple this week, but that's not touched yet) and a low fat yogurt during the day. I cook for the kids and her in the evening so she is eating then at least, but that meal is vegetarian (because ds is veggie) and she tends to eat a child-sized portion).
Now, she may have stuffed her bedroom to the gunnels with chocolate and cakes or something, but she is always freezing cold.
I have joked before on MN that our house is not warm (generally 19/20 degrees in the living room) but when I get home AP has got the central heating on and the log fire blazing and she is sitting right next to the fire wearing a fleece (and sometimes a scarf!)
I don't want her to be cold but we have gone through an extra £80 of oil in the last 2 weeks plus coal/wood for the fire which we only have on at weekends...and today I have just realised that our little fan heater is missing from the spare room so she must have taken it into her room and is using that too...so our electricity bill is going to be horrendous.
My gut feeling is that I can't do much about the apparent lack of food but I can get dh to do the meter readings now and next weekend, work out how much more power we are using and add it to the oil bill then point out to her that since an AP is a luxury rather than a necessity for us, that if she needs to be at 25 degrees plus all the time that we cannot afford to keep her... and to point out that she needs to eat in order to be warm.
(She isn't skinny but she is slender (but then so was I at 19) and it is not her first time away from home for any length of time).
Oh, heck, not sure what to do, want to treat her as an adult but I am worried that she will pass out when looking after the kids or something.