You or the nannie?

[AndraMaria]

I have a wonderfull nannie and I fully trust her leaving dd with her.
Lattely she is doing the food shopping for lunch time and dinner sometimes for ds when I'm at work. Do you think is ok to trust her with that?
Do you allow your nannies to do that are you better buy on your own?

in reality you trust her with the life of your child why not some food?

Are you asking if it's ok to trust her to do some food shopping for you?

I am a nanny

My boss buys in food at the start of the week but I use it as and when/how I like to - for example she will buy mince and chicken, on a regular basis and I choose what days we eat what and how I will cook it ie chilli/spag bol/burgers, or chicken casserole, chicken wraps, chicken pasta. I also can use other things in the fridge and cook what I like or try out something new with my charge.

If the fridge is looking empty or I fancy something different then I will pick up stuff at Tesco before nursery pick up (which she pays for)

My boss trusts me with her child's care, to plan activities, to make sure that if friends come to play nothing gets broken or children don't go where they shouldn't be, to ensure her child's health and safety/behaviour etc; so it make sense that she trusts me to cook food for her child.

Do you have any specific problems? ie she's spending lots of money when the fridge is fully stocked, she's choosing foods you wouldn't agree with, etc?

Thank you for replying.
Probably from my point of view was just a bit of guilt that I'm not 100% planning everything for her(buy everything for her,and plan the meals ahead), but that's why I trust her. So far is all good, no complains I can say, so as long as my kids are happy, I'm happy. :)

i used to do a weekly shop every week, where i would buy and choose everything that the children ate (breakfast / lunch / dinner / snacks / puddings)

I always cook from scatch (because i prefer to) but MB wouldnt have mind if i didnt cook every single meal from scratch... so it was much easier for me to just go shopping and get all the ingrediants i needed, for the recipies i had planned.

MB was busy at work, we never had time to discuss it, we could have made time, but didnt see the point.
(Also as a rule each week I would serve at least one potatoe, rice and a pasta based meal, AND, a meal with mince / chicken / fish / "proper meat" / vegetarian, so the children had a nicely balanced and varied diet.
Lunches were normally, soup, filled jacket potate, sandwich, other form of bread type product + "whatever we felt like"

Basically i did a shop every Monday, and if MB wanted something (anything at all sold in waitrose)she'd text me and id willingly buy it as well, while i was there, but it meant for 5 days a week they didnt need to think about feeding their children at all.

(I wouldnt plan their weekend food, but there were always portions of frozen home made meals if necessary, but MB / DB were both fab cooks, and they would almost always give the children whatever they were having at the weekend.

Ohhh thanks so much for this, I really apreciate. But can I ask you something... Do you ever give the children ready meals?

the closest i ever get to a ready meal is a pot of fresh pasta sauce (with only proper ingrediants that i would find in our kitchen) with pasta...

or covent garden fresh soup...
Waitrose fresh breaded fish fillets...
or free range sausages (not yet made my own sausages)

or yeo-valley childrens yogurts.
waitrose fresh custard (YUM )

but basically i cant remember ever using shop made "ready meals"

I WOULD howver have foil trays of home made lasagne / cottage pie / macroni cheese etc in the freezer which i might use in the same way as one would use a ready meal. (great left in the oven all day, with the oven on timer so tea is ready as soon as we come back from our busy day)

I also often baked bread (with bread maker) and made home made ice cream (ice cream machine), and almost always we had home made cakes / biscuits / puddings, as opposed to shop bought