how to quench permanent hunger in a teen?

[SlartyBartFast]

i offer toast and butter, he won't eat cheese, or peanut butter, marmite but is this like the toddler stage, only letting them, he is a skiny devil -
what else?

[Tortington]

pretty mucha nythng that is food rather than shit.

if he is skinny and does lots of excersise i wouldnt worry about it

i keep noodles in for snacks.

and theymake it themselves

[Lilymaid]

Breakfast cereal.
When they get older they go to university and eat dial a pizza.

[SlartyBartFast]

good ideas.

[pofaced]

Porridge for breakfast... with golden / maple syrup if necessary. Or scrambled eggs

[SmugColditz]

you say "Make yourself a jacket potato with beans."

[SlartyBartFast]

i can't see it frankly, he turns down the suggestion that he makes toast and butter.

on the other hand - we can but try, stick a potato in the microwave. cook some beans.
hey presto.
either that or his hunger will vanish.

[SmugColditz]

he's not hungry if he can't be arsed to make his own

[SlartyBartFast]

exactly.
lazy so and so

[SlartyBartFast]

so - these noodles - assuming they are not pot noodles?
what do you eat with them, ? are they just like pasta, but quicker, and eat with grated cheese or something?

[DumbledoresGirl]

What is he eating then if he can't be bothered to make toast and butter?

Or is he just wandering around aimlessly, moaning about his hunger?

I know what it is like though: my soon-to-be teenager seems to have developed the ability to snaffle entire packets of biscuits from under my very nose. I wish he would make a sandwich instead.

[CharleeInChains]

My 4yr old is the same!

All i hear from morning untill bedtime is 'im hungry mummy' grr!

[BlueCowWonders]

I had a phase of this and was advised (by a mum of boys...) that food which is slow to eat works best. EG a bagel instead of just toast, an apple instead of a banana etc. SEems to work for my ds

[SlartyBartFast]

he eats apples all day and will steal food from my lunch box supply - if he can get away with it - but no - apart from the apples, he wanders round complaining

[SlartyBartFast]

i always think bananas as being more filling?

[SOLOtsofBangers]

This problem has been playing on my mind recently with my 10yo. He is constantly hungry, eats loads, always healthy etc. I'm at a loss. He too is as thin as a French bean!

[SlartyBartFast]

guilt inducing isnt it

[SOLOtsofBangers]

Yes it is! Always feel like I should give him more, but he eats as much as I do or more anyway. He is 5'4" tall too , so very skinny looking!

[Cammelia]

My 11 year old dd is going this phase, the only answer is to keep feeding them

They really do need tons of carbs for energy.

[bagsforlife]

Lots of cereal,milk, bread,ham, cheese, biscuits, apples, bananas, crisps. My DS used to come back from school everyday with friends in tow and just eat and eat us out of house and home.

Now he's at university and most of his now rare conversations with me are about what food they have bought in the shared house! (Pasta, pasta and pasta mainly).

He's still pretty skinny though

[SugarBird]

My two eat vast truckloads of pitta bread, humous and fruit.

DS2 (14) is constantly ravenous and will eat anything that isn't nailed down atm, and often makes himself a sandwich around an hour after dinner. He's pretty skinny and is growing fast and very active so I don't worry too much about it (v expensive though!)

They do grow out of it eventually I'm told...

[Saggarmakersbottomknocker]

My middle one is unfillable - he eats porridge, bananas, cereal and pasta (those Dolmio microwave pouches) to fill up. But I agree if he won't make it himself he ain't hungry enough.

[Mercy]

I read a thread along similar lines recently.

One poster (Bellavita) made loads of oat/flapjacks, cakes, biscuits etc iirc.

I remember my friend's brother eating (or rather preparing) 2 tins of baked beans with 4 pieces of toast at around aged 13. And that was a snack

Rice pudding, apple crumble, bread & butter pudding?

[SlartyBartFast]

i had good plans to make his favourite pudding - apple crumble today. only to find my cooking apples covered in bruises

i could make cakes, flapjacks and stuff i spose.

[sunnydelight]

I have the same with my 15 year old and it drives me nuts. One way of coping is to let him eat dinner with his younger siblings at 6pm then again with DH and I at around 9, though tbh I quite like an adult meal for just the two of us with a bottle of wine Other than that it's bread, cheese, fruit, milk and the instant noodles you get at Asian grocers.