Healthy meal and snack ideas?

[Liesmorelies]

I am trying to work up the motivation to go shopping before the snow hits and now that the holidays are over and the treats pretty much gone. I have a teen ds who has got into a bit of an overeating habit over the last ear and it's starting to have an impact so I want to fill him up healthily to try and minimise his snacking.

Everything I normally cook isn't that great really - cheese-based sauces/pasta; sausage meals, freezer/beige meals; shepherds' pie etc. I'm in a rut.

His usual snacks are things like sausage rolls, scotch eggs, those meatball things from Lidl.

Any ideas would be great for meals and/or snacks.

I was a lot like this 6 months ago, I joined SW and that gave me a good grounding for what I should and shouldn’t be eat they also give you loads of healthy option meals. Put simply, if you use the adage, straight out the ground, straight off the animal, straight off the tree you won’t go far wrong. Simply cut out all high processed foods, if we want things like chips, we have homemade chips done in the air fryer they are suburb. Air fryers are a healthy, convenient way to cook loads of stuff. Sainsburys low fat sausages are really nice. As for snacks fruit and or high protein low fat yogurts. I buy Nestlé Lindahls Kvarg yogurts which are really good for you. Healthy eat is like dieting its 5% exercise, 5% healthy eat and 99% phycological. Without the right mindset you or DS will easily fall back on unhealthy snacking and through something in the oven out the freezer because you can’t be bothered cooking.

He seems quite meat focused. Does he eat much veg?
Could you swap cheese based sauces for tomato? Pack additional veg into dishes? Shepherds pie can take additional veg in the base mix, very finely diced mushrooms cooked along side the mince are hardly detectable. You could try adding lentils, or if not additional carrots. Mash can be improved by using a mix of sweet and white potatoes or adding mashed carrots or parsnips.
Tray bakes with chicken and veg are simple and can be really healthy, ditto stir fries.
Would he eat soup?
For snacks I'd look to. Replace the ultra processed meat with boiled eggs of some made chicken skewers made from chicken breast flavoured with peri peri, garlic, chilli etc.