Food: meals, eating, diets, nutrition
by cv harquail
May 12, 2014
Including an Au Pair in your grocery shopping means more than throwing another package of chicken breasts into the cart. For any of us (all of us?) with budgets and cost constraints, including an Au Pair takes more than figuring out ‘how much’ more food we need to nourish an additional adult. It also asks us to gauge […]
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by cv harquail
November 8, 2010
Food and Your Au Pair Food and your Au Pair: Label it if you don’t want her to eat it Our AP’s appetite is so big, we can’t afford to feed her! Groceries: How much ‘extra’ can your Au Pair ask you to buy? Who pays for what? Locking the Refrigerator, and other ways to […]
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by cv harquail
July 3, 2009
As part of our conversations about grocery shopping, food, costs, and being ‘part of the family’, many of us have mentioned that we invite or allow our au pairs to add items to the family grocery list, which we then pay for out of our family budget. Usually, we do this to accommodate our au […]
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by cv harquail
June 21, 2009
What is it about Au Pairs and fast food? Maybe because it’s so ‘American’, or because fast food outlets are ubiquitous, or because they are always warm, dry and welcoming public places, fast food emporiums seem to capture the attention of many an au pair. Au pairs seem to spend a lot of time at […]
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by cv harquail
April 8, 2009
Our family tradition Sitting down together at the table for supper is one of my favorite moments of the day. During the week, when it’s just us girls, we all hold hands and sing grace before we eat. In that brief moment, everything is peaceful and undeniably happy. Then we let of each other’s hands, […]
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