What do your teens snack on?

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I really need some ideas of snacks for my kids when they get in from school. We have never been massive snackers but now they're teens it's always something unhealthy like crisps or chocolate. I'm not opposed to these if they would occasionally reach for a piece of fruit but they won't unless they're told! Any easy snack ideas or recipes for snacks? What do your teens like snacking on?

Cereal, absolutely mountains of it!

Fruit, yoghurt, cheese, cereal, toast, rice cakes, popcorn, crackers, homemade bakes, dried fruit, carrot sticks and hummus.
They usually have fruit with what ever snack yhey chose.

Homemade sausage rolls, flapjacks, brownies, cherry Madeira cake, ginger cake, choc chip cookies, mini pasties, samosas, onion bhajis, mini pizzas/calzone, mini quiches, bacon and cheese turnovers, fishcakes…I make big batches of a few different things from that list at a time, and there’s always the ingredients to cook something for themselves if they want to.

We have taken to stocking the freezer with chicken burgers. DS1 (13) is capable of cooking one in the air fryer without assistance and (particularly given his other snacks of choice are apples and tomatoes) I’m relaxed about him having them.

Cereal and milk
Cooked chicken
Wholemeal wraps/bread
Cereal and milk
Salad leaves
Half a cucumber or whole pepper
Cereal and milk
Oranges

Boiled eggs usually go down well

Air fryer plus freeze a good combination so they can cook their own chicken or fish goujons, waffles to eat with frozen berries and Greek yoghurt, or frozen chips with a fried egg.

Baked beans on toast.

They discovered at uni that if you buy a beef or chicken kebab from the barbecue section of the supermarket butcher, they cook quite well in an air fryer too if you take the meat off the skewers. And then they eat that in a wrap or pitta bread with some tahini or a scraping of humous, grated carrot, and cucumber.

If I was going to be out late and they were doing sport, I would make sure there was a big bowl of pasta in the fridge, something like fusilli or penne, for which I had made a basic pasta tomato sauce reduced down with some frozen ratatouille, finished with Parmesan.

Ditto batch cook chillis and lentil soups in portions in the freezer for microwaving.

Nancy Birtwhistle demonstrates on Instagram how to batch cook a load of baked potatoes that you can then freeze and pull out and heat up individually very quickly.

Cereal
Rice cakes with peanut butter
Cheese straws
Biscuits
Bananas
Apples
Grapes
Pomegranate seeds
Melon
Small French stick
Nakd Bars
Nuts
Crisps
Seaweed crackers
Crackers

Pepperonis, sausage rolls, toast, crumpets, fruit, yoghurt, biscuits (he can eat a full packet of cheap custard creams in about 20 minutes).
I offer him banana, sausage (roll or pepperoni) and a milk drink (hot chocolate, milk, milkshake) when he gets in from school. He will inhale the lot while hanging his coat up 😬

Ours live off cereal and toast.

No crisps or chocolate because I don't buy it. Peperami sticks, fruit, yoghurt and frozen berries, a protein shake. There is always plenty of eggs so an omelette or scrambled eggs with bacon, a jacket potato with grated cheese. There is always mince and chicken breasts. The eldest teen, 19 will cook a chicken meal. There is always toast or cereal if they don't fancy anything else.

Yes to crisps and chocolate but mine also eat

Almond butter/peanut butter on toast
Hummus and veg/crisps
Hummus and pitta
Hummus and crumpet
Flapjack
Porridge
Nuts
Stuffed dates
Beans on toast
Banana sandwich
Oats, dates, seeds protein balls
Yogurt and granola
Soup
Air fried seasoned chickpeas
Muffins
Fruit, nut and seed smoothies
Popcorn
Banana and walnut bread
Marinated tofu
Crackers and dips

Nothing healthy. All my focus on healthy eating when they were younger seems to have been in vain.
Now they eat crackers, crisps, peanut butter, pitta bread, croissants, cheese, biscuits, cereal snack bars, flapjacks, instant noodles, pizza. One loves breadrolls with ham/beef/chicken.

Tortilla wraps! Mine loved wraps and you can buy wholemeal, protein, seeded, garlic & herb so plenty of variety - they would fill them with egg mayo, tuna mayo, sardines, ham, beef, chicken, cheese, salad, whatever they found in the fridge!

I used to wash and cut up strawberries and mix with raspberries and blueberries and put on the kitchen counter top for them to snack on - they're much more likely to eat fruit if it's washed & cut up and it's right there. They can chuck it in a smoothie or have with a bowl of Greek yoghurt, honey and granola. Home made granola with less sugar and more nuts and seeds is good!

Chopped apple and hummus
Flatbreads with hummus or cheese or salami and salad
Cereal
Bagels/crumpets
Ritz crackers
Breadsticks
Dried mango
Tinned fruit) one is obsessed with the peaches).

An alarming amount of toast. I cook two whole roast chickens at the start of the week and my 17 year old gets through those as both meals and snacks throughout the week but he is very active so chicken is his go to. I buy 36 eggs a week and they’re done in 7 days, I reckon about 20 of those are him. Instant ramen he eats a tonne of too.