Help yourself to anything in the fridge 🙈

[Sundancer77]

So, I’m babysitting at a lovely villa for a lovely family for the second time.
Mum WhatsApped me when out to see if all ok and said ‘Oh I forgot to say, help yourself to anything in the fridge’
Normal stuff..I’m not really hungry, it’s all normal holiday bits in there..Halloumi cheese, dips, wine, random stuff really you can’t eat..BUT..there’s one bar of Black & Organics salted caramel dark chocolate in the fridge..with only a few neat pieces taken so far..(Mum very gorgeous, obviously health conscious, perhaps this is her treat 😬) would you take a few pieces? I robs my couldn’t stop once I start.. I’m so desperately trying not to, but it’s calling me 🙈I probably wouldn’t be that bothered if I was at home, but here? I have to have it..ffs.

The haloumi and wine sound better!

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I wouldn't, no. Ive done a lot of babysitting in my time and I think 'help yourself to anything in the fridge" is just what people say to be polite and welcoming. I might have a drink or a snack but I wouldn't eat someone's special chocolate. And I wouldn't be impressed if someone ate mine!

I'd eat the whole bar....then replace it!

I used to babysit for a family who said this to me as they left. I took it literally and ate a delicious bar of lime and chilli dark chocolate that was in the fridge.
I was mortified when friends of theirs told me a week later that they were rather disgruntled that I'd eaten their fancy choc!
Don't start!

is it ireplaceable.id have ate it twice by now

I would for sure

Noooooo.
Help your self to anything.
Make yourself at home.
Let me know if you need anything.
Pop in anytime.

We all know these are things people say to be polite, but don't actually mean.

Nooooo, don't eat her special chocolate!

Don't bother OP, it is the most disgusting stuff you will ever put in your mouth, Green & Black is foul but that one is like cardboard with lumps in.

She probably keeps it to put her off eating chocolate.

As long as you leave more than half of what’s left I’d say go for it. The key is knowing whether you’re a person who can stop at that.

What do you mean you couldn't stop if you started? Don't start then, you can't eat a whole bar of someone else's chocolate. Have some self control and have a piece or 2 if you must.

Are they on holiday? Do you really want to ruin her holiday?! Don't touch the chocolate. Not even one square.

I always say it to my babysitters and I actually mean it. I have only ever had 3 babysitters though (I don’t use agencies) so by now I know what snacks they like and if they’re coming straight from work, I’ll also feed them dinner. I wouldn’t give a toss if they had some chocolate!
Eat some chocolate. Enjoy.

Nope, not gonna go there...had a cheese straw kids thing (😩 there are packs full) and a glass of water..rubbish, didn’t even want one though 🤷‍♀️😆Is definitely boredom, I wouldn’t do that in my own home.

Eating the whole bar might be a bit rude, but I don’t see anything wrong with having a couple of squares. She shouldn’t have said help yourself if she didn’t mean it. It wasn’t even like you messaged her and asked if you could make yourself some toast and she said help yourself, it was unprompted!

Try it and report back with whether or not it’s nice

Eat it all and put the packaging back in the fridge. Add post note saying ‘Ta Mum, love the kids’.

When she said 'help yourself to anything' OP, she probably didn't mean absolutely anything.

This reminds me of an au pair we once had who asked me to explain something she didn't understand about the previous family she was with - she left under an awful cloud.

She was told she could 'take whatever food she wanted' and was genuinely puzzle about the terrible fuss that ensued when she came across a very fancy uncut cake and decided to help herself to a very large slice.

Be very careful, anything means different things to different people.

It’s a test. As soon as you take a piece all the alarms will start blaring and a sensor in her handbag will flash urgent alerts. Go on try it and just see what happens (I would - for scientific purposes only, natch).

Sadly, I wouldn't. Ive babysat for similar ~wealthy~ couples in my college years, always trying to get me to drink beer/wine in the fridge, not once did I. Mainly cos I'd prefer to be sober minding babies, plus I always wondered were they testing me!
I'm now in a similar place to those couples, and never once have I offered alcohol to the babysitters
Chocolate, cheese, crisps, any other food they are welcome to, genuinely.
So, to answer the OP, eat the chocolate!

Don’t eat the chocolate, OP

She doesn't sound like the hearty help yourself to everything type. If she were, she'd have a kilo of dairy milk in the cupboard, plus some kit kats and a 6 pack of crisps.

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But she said to help yourself? I’d assume that she had bought the chocolate for me and just had a Few squares for herself!

🤣🤣🤣 NO ONE would do this! For a start it would be disgustingly rude to buy something for you and then tuck in....Unless she said 'I've got you some chocolate and it's in the fridge' I would assume that that, wine etc is off limits.

Jesus some people are weird about food. It's only a bit of chocolate. Calm down ladies.

If I told someone to help themselves then I'd mean anything is fine. Everything is replaceable.