To ask the nanny if she would like her own fridge / cuboard and seperate food

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Hello,

We have had the same nanny for about two months. Its all going pretty well (third time lucky) and she is lovley and the our three children get on really well with her.

We eat a unprocessed / organic diet that is very healthy but I understand it is alien to most people who eat a "normal diet". I know that she has a normal diet and I don't judge her for that but she may be unconfortable with some of the food in our house and although we've said to just help herself to anything I dont think she realises that some of it is very expensive (she ate two packets of crackers that cost 8 pounds as a snack!).

Would it be offensive to get her her own fridge and cuboard space? She is not live in.

thanks

M

....except crackers.

To be fair I watched a normally placid female Oxbridge professor and mother of two go into a kind of existential meltdown when her AP ate the Green and Black's chocolate ice cream carton contents in its entirety.

Now hats he first time I've heard anything about deserving an update in a random's internet thread.

Deserving praise? Sure
Deserving a raise? Always
Deserving rest? Recognition?An award? Absolutely.

Deserving an update on an intently thread by a complete stranger who knows where? Crazy speak.

And ladies and ladies ..... I CAN actually spell but perhaps I deserve to be mocked for my awful spelling.

Hats off to your spelling, then.

To be fair I watched a normally placid female Oxbridge professor and mother of two go into a kind of existential meltdown when her AP ate the Green and Black's chocolate ice cream carton contents in its entirety.

I would say I have an awful feeling I know who you are talking about, Boffin, only I don't think she ever had an au pair that I can recall. . In fairness, though, the person I am thinking of was hospitalised for anorexia in her teens and still has massive food anxiety and that is exactly the kind of thing to send her into a full-blown panic.

If the nanny is busy, I would imagine that they need to sometimes need something quick to eat. I should imagine that a lot of the food you it doesn't lend itself to quick eating.

I agree, and said this further up the thread. It was certainly my experience when I babysat as a student for a vegan wholefooder. She would phone and ask me to stay late, the children would be asleep, so I couldn't run out to buy anything, and the cupboards were full of brown rice and dried pulses and tahini, none of which lent themselves to a quick snack.

I am tempted to speculate on the update.

a) it turns out OH ate the crackers
b) the dog had them
c) the OP had forgotten she ate them
d) the nanny replaced the crackers in the meantime
e) the crackers had been taken by aliens

I bet others can come up with much more interesting scenarios than the real OP update.

Cotton. I think Boffin may have been looking in the mirror 😁

Of course.

I didn't know you could buy pink salt!

I was going to give an update on this, not sure if most of you deserve it quite frankly.

Ah go on, go on. You'll have everyone's undying respect if you do given the piss taking you have had!

I was very disappointed not to find pink (or any other coloured) salt in my last trip to the supermarket. Granted, I did not check the special foods section.
But they did have a special Flower of Salt from a local nature reserve.

I'm ignoring all the weirdness about coloured salt

pink salt is a bit like organic olive oil.

as far as our bodies are concerned they are simply salt and fat and should be consumed sparingly.

But they did have a special Flower of Salt from a local nature reserve.
Are they calling duck poo "Flowers" these days? :)

I bet Himalayan sea salt is also full of fossilised sea creatures too.

I wouldn't worry about the poo. Salt is a natural preservative.

Had loads of pink salt in B&M yesterday!

but if you were consuming enough of the pink salt to get the benefit of any lurking other minerals, you'd die from hardened arteries, entirely defeating the purpose of the extras.

Oh MNHQ, it wasn't that bad!!

I read your reply without reading your name boffy - and knew it was your reply

You can buy pink Himalayan salt from Tiger!

Blondes, let it be known for the record that (for once) the chocolate ice cream incident did not involve me (being more of a Pralines and Cream kind of girl).

It was actually a mum I know who is so tolerant it's incredible, but this wanton scoffing of the ice cream was a FINAL STRAW that almost BROKE HER EMOTIONALLY.

I think we have all been there

Cotton, she definitely had an AP as I met her several times, I sincerely doubt there are any eating disorders in the case of this mum, and as I have said, I don't actually like chocolate ice cream very much .... !