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If you have a sporty teen son how much do they eat?

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PricillaPeli · 02/08/2021 20:29

My DS (14) does a lot of sport, including day camps in the holidays or at weekends. He's 5'11 and a healthy weight. He is still growing, has a big appetite, grazes constantly, and complains loudly when hungry. I wonder how his food intake compares to other sporty boys of the same age. This week he is doing camps and tournaments 8 days in a row. He has a large bowl of cereal for breakfast before he goes, and then typically for a camp lasting 9am - 5pm he will have:
Sandwiches - (4 slices of bread, maybe cheese, or tuna, or ham salad filling)
A wedge of tortilla or a scotch egg
A couple of yoghurt tubes
A pot of mixed nuts and raisins
A cereal/protein bar
A bagel with jam filling
A couple of Soreen slices
A pot of grapes
A pear and/or a satsuma
3-4 plain biscuits, e.g. hobnobs
A few sweets in a pot, e.g. jelly babies
A couple of juice cartons
Then he'll come home and have another bowl of cereal, a round of toast and raid the fruit bowl before dinner (e.g. pasta). And probably have more toast before bedtime too. Is this typical?

OP posts:
Ducksurprise · 04/08/2021 15:58

My sporty DS 15 has today had

8 wetabix and two pints of milk
6 egg omelet with four slices bacon (as that's all that were left) box mushroom and a whole bag of mixed salad and four slices of toast
Quorn bolognaise and brown pasta (made up in fridge by me as its cheap) portion was more than DH and I would have
Packet crisps and kitkat
Fruit bowl of shreddies with three bananas and raisins and another pint of milk
Packet of biscuits
Above is what he can remember
And tea will be half a chicken and loads of veg and a slice fruit cake
And then no doubt he will have something else . He is over 6ft and full of muscle, not skinny at all but not fat either, just muscle.

LazyDoll · 04/08/2021 16:04

What cereal is he eating? Sorry if I’ve missed that. My 14 year old starts the day with 4.5 weetabix and a banana which really fills him up. He also has a very large lunch and dinner. Today he had rice and chicken curry (dinner leftovers). But doesn’t tend to snack much in between meals. He may have wholemeal toast and peanut butter as an afternoon snack to keep him going til dinner or nuts and dried fruit if he’s been especially active.

AustinPowerful · 04/08/2021 16:09

My 14yo boy is like the Very Hungry Caterpillar and he's not even very sporty- just a few bike rides a week.

Absolute bottomless pit. I do try and make sure he's getting lots of protein in his snacks as this fills him up more than carbs - he would snack on sweet carbs all day long if I let him! So

Cold chicken skewers (left over from dinner) in a wrap or pitta
Hummus, crackers, dip
Cold mini sausages
Cheese and crackers
Full fat Greek yogurt and berries
Nuts
Scrambled eggs on toast
Omelette of whatever there is in the fridge- cheese, ham etc.

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