to assume that half a can of tuna is sufficient for a sandwich??

[Heymacarena]

DSS has been round for lunch four times this week and making himself a sandwich.

WIBU to request that he uses only a half can of tuna for his sandwich??

Personally j would struggle to chow through a sandwich made with 140g of tuna.

It's over £1 per can.

I understand they eat a lot.

DS is a year younger and takes packed lunch , most days his is cheese or pb and jam.

DSS could be having his fsm.

And I haven't really hidden the tuna, it was tongue in cheek comment.

SL nd I have joint money, but I am the person who does the shopping. Hence am aware of how much it all costs per shopping trip.

I don't know who SL is??
I meant DH.

A whole tin sounds fine to me. If it's working out to expensive I'd stock up on ham or if you are cooking sausages in the evening do a few extra ones and leave them in the fridge. My teens love leftovers in sandwiches and a sausage sandwich is cheaper than a pound.

Ok. Thanks for all the replies.

It seems that majority think that a whole can is the right amount.

Saves me from coming over as a cheapskate in rl at least.

Will source cheaper tuna for future use.

Well it's not that it's the "right amount" it's what your DSS can eat...and unless he's greedy in general or overweight I'd not say anything.

You sound really tight and keep banging on about the fsm.

He may not get enough to eat with the school lunch, if he is on late lunch there might not be a lot left.

Or is having a growth spurt.

Buy cheaper tuna, fgs.

I don't think the OP sounds tight, she hasn't been a teenage boy ( well it's unlikely) and is asking our opinion before saying anything to him.

I don't think you sound tight. I was shocked when DSS moved in and he just ate. And ate. And ate. He'd cook a full meal for lunch. As he lived with us we were able to ask him to use other things, until we had a word he was a) costing a fortune, and b) using things that would have been used for dinner for the family.

I hear that gobby

I need to know what is in stock for meal planning. It's annoying when all of a sudden there is no bread, milkl or whatever.

I can tell ds how much/what he can use, as he is my son. But I can't tell dss as he doesn't live here.

It's not enough. There's nothing worse than an under-filled sandwich!

Teenage boys have hollow legs. My DSS could eat more than DP at that age.
Make sure you have food available for him that you're happy for him to eat. What else does he like apart from tuna?

If he's eating a tin every school day then his dad is doing him a huge disservice by not stopping him

Mercury poisoning can be quite unpleasant.

If £1 per 140g tin of tuna is too expensive, then 50p per 70g tuna is also too expensive. So if you are saying it costs too much, stop buying tuna.

We can rarely afford tuna tbh, there are other more filling things that are cheaper to buy.

Wow. I think most parents would actually be quite pleased if their son were eating tuna. Rather that than a chocolate spread sandwich or just junk food. He is actually among himself a healthy, protein rich lunch.

It's a tin of tuna, it's not like he's sitting their filleting a whole salmon for his lunch and fwiw, I'd eat a whole tin, it wouldn't occur to me not to.

Hey, you'll have to have a word, or ask DH/P to tell him. We had to spell out that these are for lunch, those are for dinner. And I'll go batshit mental if there's no milk.

making not among

Half a can would be sufficient for a sandwich for a sedentary, fully grown adult who wants to maintain their weight.

I would expect an active growing teenage boy to need the extra protein and calories.

However, I don't understand why he is not eating his FSMs, surely they are hot and more filling than a tuna sandwich?

I use one can with mayo to make DH two sandwiches and myself a salad....half each. So one can between two slices of bread is excessive!

You need to read this thread

I use one of the mini tins (the ones that come in 3's) to make 1 sandwich.
My eldest used to like cold pasta, mayo and sweetcorn which made it go further.
Another tip is to give them the multi seeded wholegrain bread (from the bakery section)- it's much more filling than ordinary sliced bread. I used to get it reduced at 45p for a small loaf. It's really nice even with just butter.

I think half a tin is enough to be honest. Greedy little sod My ds likes -cat food- tuna. He has it with mayo and sweet corn. Lasts for 2 days worth of packed lunch.

Also beans on toast(perhaps with a bit of grated cheese or an egg) is a good way of filling a teenager up.

I would love to use a whole tin of tuna on a sandwich, but I can't afford it! We use 2 tins between 5 of us and consider to have it that thick a treat! If I could afford 5 tins it would be a different matter and the kids could have as much as they wanted, but we can't.
If you really can't afford it, how about you provide a couple of tins of tuna for a week along with some cheese/ham etc and then he can choose to either eat all the tuna in one go or spread it out a bit.

Half a tin is too little and a whole tin is too much in our house. I'm always chucking away small amounts of the stuff.

A miserly sandwich is horrible though and I would rather not bother and have toast instead. In an ideal world the filling should be packed in with a lavish hand.

Aren't you only supposed to eat a certain amount of tuna a week due to mercury levels?