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I am being eaten out of house and home

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Quattrocento · 20/12/2010 21:51

Currently hosting 8 10 year olds for a two-night sleepover. They came around late last night. So far they have eaten:

Breakfast
16 eggs (scrambled)
16 sausages
tomatoes
mushrooms (surprising?)
loaf of bread
Three bottles of orange joice
Water
No leftovers

Lunch
Roast chicken (enormous)
Mini sausages
Roast and mashed
Stuffing
Peas and carrots
Gravy
Three bottles of apple juice
Water
A sponge cake and custard
No leftovers

Dinner
The most enormous quantity of pasta (cooked in the stockpot)
Bolognaise sauce (two pans' worth)
3 bottles of apple juice
Water
Apple crumble and custard
No leftovers

Supper
4x pizza
Chicken nibbles
Water
No leftovers

They might develop the munchies later on, but seriously, is this normal?

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StayingFatherChristmasGirl · 21/12/2010 09:47

My MIL tells the story of when she first sent her dses (dh and dbil) to stay with her parents. After one day her mum rang her up in horror to ask if they normally ate that much - they'd got through a whole loaf of bread and that usually lasted her and her dh the best part of the week.

Apparently when she sent them home she said they'd been great company, but she'd rather keep them for a week than a fortnight!!

StayingFatherChristmasGirl · 21/12/2010 09:49

A horrible thought has occurred to me.

What if it snows really really badly where Quattro is, and she is snowed in with all those boys, and their parents can't get to her to collect them.

10 boys for a 2 night sleepover is risky, but 10 boys for an indefinite sleepover, and we will have to be organising aircraft to drop in emergency supplies of wine, chocolate, valium, eggs, milk, bacon, bread etc etc!! And Quattro would definitely lose her last remaining marble.

Laquitar · 21/12/2010 11:15

I didn't even read the food list. For me the shocking thing is that you have 8 of them for 2 nights!
You would have to pay me a million to do this. I admire you.

Laquitar · 21/12/2010 11:16

Staying

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Quattrocento · 21/12/2010 11:21

That's the stuff of nightmares.

Well I'm surviving just. I am trying to kick them out of doors to play nicely in the snow.

Unfortunately they cannot be prised out of the living room. They all managed to bring their laptops of course, but only one of them managed to remember a toothbrush.

I did the pancakes thing for breakfast, but after they'd eaten them, the boys looked at me soulfully and said 'But we always have a full English chez Quattro'

So today's breakfast consisted of:

Pancakes
16 sausages
8 rashers of bacon
16 eggs (scrambled)
Mushrooms
One loaf of bread
Two bottles of juice (none left now)
Three bananas and a pack of grapes

They're going after lunch. Which reminds me, I have NO FOOD LEFT!!!

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StayingFatherChristmasGirl · 21/12/2010 11:27

You still sound relatively sane, though, Quattro!

GrendelsMum · 21/12/2010 11:34

Oh, they sound terribly sweet. I bet they're having a wonderful time.

annielennox · 21/12/2010 11:41

Sorry Quattro but htis is just the beginning; teenage boys eat like this and more every day. My Ds1 is 13, thin as a stick, and plays a lot of sport: he has a full English for breakfast every day plus 3 or 4 weetabix, filled baguette for lunch plus 3 or 4 pieces of fruit, cereal bars etc, big snadwich or 4 weetabix and toast on return from school, eat a roast dinner (6 potatoes, 2 york puds etc) then will do toast and cereal or bacon snadwich before bed. I've stopped buying juice - he would drain the carton before anyone else had any. At this age they are growing so quickly they need all this fuel; 10 yera olds are stocking up in preparation!

annielennox · 21/12/2010 11:42

Sorry pants typing; DC3 on my lap

Gogopops · 21/12/2010 12:17

Didn't you think that they would need to be fed when you invited them over?

The amount of food consumed doesn't sound massive to me. However, why go to the trouble of a cooked breakfast (and a very sumptuous one at that)and give yourself more hassle - wouldn't cereal and toast be enough? Also, what's with the dinner AND supper?

And they're staying another night??

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Quattrocento · 21/12/2010 12:32

That's my point - what is this with dinner and supper?

You'll be relieved to know that I found the odd crust for their lunch ...

They are sweet really. ATM they are clustered around the piano singing ... Odd creatures, boys.

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ilovecrisps · 21/12/2010 12:47

Ok so spill the beans is it a birthday?

I'd like you for a friend I could add a couple of boys to the mix a 2 day sleepover this close to Christmas everyone must love you

mine are younger though but they do eat less

how does it feel to make that many adults so happy?

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Quattrocento · 21/12/2010 12:52

No, it's not a birthday. DS just asked, and he doesn't ask for much (or in fact anything) so I tend to say yes.

Also they are singers and the schedule on the run up to Christmas is horrific, so I thought it would be nice for them to do nothing but play.

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ilovecrisps · 21/12/2010 13:00

Ahhh
That explains them gathering around the piano

Are they by any chance choir boys?

I've always secretely wanted mine to be choir boys

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Quattrocento · 21/12/2010 13:23

Aye, they are choirboys. They have stopped being angelic now and started shooting one another all over the house. Roll on choir practice and Evensong tonight.

Is the sun over the yard-arm, do you think? Surely it's okay to open a bottle of wine?

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ILikeMilk · 21/12/2010 13:24

I had some kids over for a playdate the other day. Four 8 year olds, including mine. They ate 3 large pizzas, 12 fishfingers (asked for more but there was none left), 4 potato faces each, chips. Followed by a strawberry doughnut and an eclair each and two bags of crisps each. I was amased, did not expect them to finish it all.

ilovecrisps · 21/12/2010 13:26

Midwinter today

def OK to hit the vino

harassedinhertinselpants · 21/12/2010 13:31

My ds's are 21 & 19, and I always said I went back to work to feed them.... it's true too!!

That amount of food sounds about right op, just wait until they're a bit older and going through growth spurts!

sleighBELLasringing · 21/12/2010 13:37

Like Annie says, just wait till your son hits 13. Mine has hollow legs for sure... He never ever stops eating.

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Quattrocento · 21/12/2010 13:51

What? Am I going to spend the next five years cooking constantly???

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StayingFatherChristmasGirl · 21/12/2010 14:02

Worse still, they seem to manage to eat like birds (three times their own body weight every day) and not put on any weight! ON PURPOSE, the little blighters!!

duchesse · 21/12/2010 15:20

Quattor- my DS gets by perfectly adequately on three square meals a day plus about 6 sandwich and coffee/hot chocolate breaks in between. We get through 1 lb of sliced ham in two days, just on snacks... Fruit and vegetable consumption has dramatically decreased in recent years, in line with the state of his complexion.

spanieleyes · 21/12/2010 15:39

I have two teenage boys. The eldest veers from eating absolutely nothing to eating for England-a whole loaf as a "toast snack" between meals is common. The youngest wanders round the house at 2 in the morning eating everything left over-half a chicken disappeared last night

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