So, per the above instructions, I figured out that I should've had a box ticked that treated the expenses as income. Instead, all year, as I've incurred expenses and written invoices in QB (desktop 2018) it's been grouping them as Reimbursable Expenses, which is messing up my P+L on the expenses side of things.

I need to figure out how to fix this, first, and second, how to deal with the meals, per @Jack2019's above message about not wanting to be taxed on something that shouldn't be. 

As to the first concern: how should I go about this? I cannot seem to simply delete the Reimb Group from an invoice--it removes the expenses altogether, and then they're not selectable again under Time&Costs. Any ideas on how to fix a slew of invoices without doing hours of tedious work??

As for the second concern: perhaps I should create an Item called Meals, that's linked to the expense account for meals? That way, instead of showing up as income on my P+L, it's actually just a negative expense? Although then I have a mismatch between my P+L and the 1099 I get from this particular client... In which case, does anybody have any clever solutions??

Thank you!