Offering NPs food.

Advice Needed

I sometimes get coffee on the way to NPs house and feel weird showing up with a Starbucks/Dunkin cup and not offering them any.. so I’ve offered a few times on the way via text if they’d like anything and they almost always take me up on the offer, aside from coffee, they ask for food too like pastry or bagel etc. I also sometimes don’t bring a lunch bc I’m out of groceries or whatever so I order DoorDash to their house and again, I feel rude not offering, so when I do offer, they sometimes take me up on it and order a meal from wherever I order food from.

I don’t mind covering it every once in a while but it’s starting to add up 😅 and the way I get paid, I basically text them my hours along with whatever stuff I covered for the week so I can get reimbursed. They probably do expect me to note the meals and coffees to my reimbursement lists and that’s probably why they feel comfortable taking me up on the offers, but I feel guilty offering them stuff and to be expected money in return when *I’m* the one offering. Ya know what I mean???

So anyway, do I start charging them for these expenses or is it on me to pay for them since I’m the one that’s offering? 😅 I’m already at ~$50 this week lol

Posted Jul 10, 2026, 7:25 PM UTC

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