to not want my nanny to eat a whole box of chocolates in my fridge?

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I have had a box of Guylian chocolates (not that it's particularly relevant) in my fridge for a couple of weeks, and my brother was here yesterday, so went to open the box - to find that all bar 8 of them had been eaten. I immediately accused my husband, as he is known to be a bit of a secret treat eater, but he absolutely swears blind that he only had 2.

She's also finished two enormous bags of crisps this week and most of a packet of biscuits. I don't begrudge feeding her breakfast and lunch as her contract states, but is it unreasonable of me to expect her NOT to eat my 'treats'?!

Doh - meant to say after supper on Tuesday.....so she'd eaten them all in a day

you need this

put into this wraper and leave open in the fridge with the first two chunks taken

Surely she can have some of your choccies but to eat the whole box? I mean come on, you would notice it was only you eating them!!! I would find that so cheeky!

I like your thinking Ivy (even though I can't get the second link to work

Thanks Melted Chocolate - I wouldn't have given a monkeys if she'd had a couple of them, but to eat almost the whole box in one sitting and not say anything is a bit cheeky (I think)...usually she does say, oh, I'm really sorry, I got carried away with x,y,z, and that's fine - generally I am fairly relaxed about most things, but I think that it was teh quantity in one go that annoyed me!

But.you.don't.even.like.them. That's like me getting upset when the cleaner finishes off the Bovril!

She didn't eat the whole box. There were 8 left. They aren't big boxes to start with.

It's the principle that I'm p'd off about, sobloodystupid - not the bloody chocolates.

Anyway, everyone obviously thinks I am being unreasonable so I'll just simmer about it quietly!!

Now see this is what happens when you dont read a whole thread.

You dont like them? Actually you did say they had been around for a few weeks....

Why are you then annoyed? (not judging, just asking)

I think i might be a wee bit annoyed if i had not said she could have them (but i would have prop TOLD her to eat them if i wasn't that fond)

Sorry to probably be re-asking questions but have you generally got a help yourself thing going?

You need one of these to keep your chocolates in.

hmm this is tricky - I wouldnt have expected the chocs to be still there anyway, so wouldnt have been disappointed....

my sister used to buy "her" special food, which would sit on the shelf next to the family's food, and we were scolded if we dared eat any of it.
personally, I find this a bit mean.

That's not to say I don't buy private chocolate - I do - but the family doesnt see it. Occasionally the children give me little pieces of theirs, because, touchingly, they believe that I hardly ever eat chocolate. Bless their little hearts.

I think keeping choc in the fridge is odd - surely should be at room temp?

YANBU. One simply can't get the staff these days, can one?

aibu by stealth!!!!

at first i did think poor nanny, chocolates in fridge for 2weeks, and had one every now and again

but eating nearly the whole box in one day does make a person nanny greedy

my db tells me to help myself to choclates they have - though they are the horribles ones that no one likes fudge/strawberry cremes/coffee etc

This thread has made me weep with laughter.

Hilarious thread! I wish I had a nanny who would come and eat my chocolate so that I wouldn't eat so much.

Firstly, everyone who says chocolate should be room temperature can get bent - cold chocolate is where it's at.

YANBU though - a box of chocolates that doesn't belong to you is obviously one of those things that you don't touch, no matter how long it's been there.

Personally, even if someone said 'help yourself to whatever's in the fridge' I wouldn't have whatever I fancied! You can't get away with taking that literally unless you are under 5, imo.

Hope you don't now find out that your husband was the choco-thief!

You need a nanny who can't eat dairy! Then your chocolates will be safe forever...

And Lynette - I've been slimmer than all bar one of my employers and I'm not particularly skinny! In fact one of them asked me if I was sure I could cook because all the thin nannies she's interviewed so far said they couldn't and all the fat ones did. And when replacing me I was privvy to watching one employer bin CVs with photographs which showed a more than averagely sized nanny and come back after one interview with the words 'well she was a little on the large side so we can cross her off the list'.

Maybe once she started she couldn't stop and ate them by mistake. I once accidentally ate a box of chocs I'd bought MIL for mothers day. It can happen.

this is a bit like the cleaner/cuppa thread

one just cannot get the staff these days can one.

LOL at that mouldy "anti theft" sandwich bag

frakkinaround, you have just blown my theory longitudinal study of nanny/employer body mass right out of the water! Or you could just be in the 10 % on nannies who happens to be slimmer than their employer.

OP are you sure you don't have that sleep-walking to the fridge thing? Are you sure you didn't eat them yourself in the dead of night? Seen any suspicious sea-shell markings on your pillows of late?
surely CCTV around your fridge can be the only fair way to settle such gluttonous episodes in future.

YABU unless she fed the chocs and crisps to your children instead of a meal.
Honestly. You would think she can do worse than have a snack now and again - this is the person you trust you children to.
Why would you keep those chocolates in the fridge anyway?