Should I give my granddaughter an allowance? Advice needed.

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Today Carolina came for her Sunday literary workshop with me. As usual I asked whether she was hungry. Yes, she answered. Dis you eat any breakfast? No, she replied. So, while we were talking about different kinds of narrators, I got out some bread, then some cheese and finally some leftover meat and rice from yesterday. She devoured them. It seems to me that she is not eating properly. She didn´t have much time to cook during the year but she went to my daughter´s house for the weekend. But now, not only she doesn´t have much time because of her last examination defending her thesis, but also because she got a sickly kitten that needs her care. She told me today that the veterinarian was very expensive and that she had several genetic problems. I gathered that she is using the money she should be spending in eating on the kitten. Taday I filled her backpack with groceries from my pantry, but that will not help as the food I have is the kind that has to be prepared using a time she does not have. What do you think, friends? Should I give her some pocket money, so as to say? I know that my daughter has done a lot more than her share and the girl´s father help is to take her out to a restaurant once every 6 months to show her what a nice daddy he is. I need advice.