Nanny share - who do you split food costs if 100% at our house

[happyfeet2015]

what is the best way to do this? was thinking a meal plan for one week and costing this out so it is then an average for the other weeks/month

How many kids? One each - sounds fair but will you also want contributions to fuel/ washing up,liquid etc? We did nanny share 2 days at our house 1 day at their house and we had one kid they had 2. Didn't bother with food costs at the time but probably should have. We also split 'float' 50/50

2 kids so one kid each family. not too concerned with washing up liquid etc as we have the benefit of not traipsing to their house for drop offs and picks ups. good point re float

I think you need to round it up also to allow for other stuff

Ie three meals a day plus snack might be say ??40 a week average. But remember there will be days when others kids over for a play date and they eat lunch ( and their parents or nanny have at least extra tea/ coffee, maybe lunch also), plus nanny will also eat there, in summer ice creams, days of baking for Xmas so extra ingredients etc. plus herbs and spices and stuff you wouldn't buy weekly. so would round up to say ??45 in this example to allow for that.

Float wise - a good idea is to get costs of average playgroup/ swim entry/ Peking etc or whatever's use. And also round up a little. Whatever isn't used each week if you both agree put in a pot, and that will allow for the bigger days out throughout year ie trip to see Santa/ summer beach trip/ farm etc. It may also be cheaper to look at costs of annual passes nearby, a ??50 pass to nearby farm will work out cheap if nanny takes them most weeks

thanks all. we are thinking of drafting a side agreement between the families to cover key points. can you think of any other matters we should look to address in the agreement?

Do you not "weight" the contribution to the nanny's salary to take account of the heating, food, craft supplys etc caused by it being based at your house? So if one child each, you pay less as you are taking the hit of other things ( but benefiting from no drop off, I guess. What happens when your on holiday?)