To tell my 15 year old son to stop eating biscuits ....

[FreshColeslaw]

and get up and cook/make himself something proper sometimes ...

Just this.

AIBU?

Why? in the real world mothers are principle care givers.

Bad day, still?

YANBU. Unfortunately the DC that up until one point were eating all the quinoa and mung beans in the fridge are able to go out with their debit card and buy their own junk food.

You can try and steer them away from it but it may fall on deaf ears.

He could also learn to bake and make his own biscuits, cakes, and pies

Unless they are sugar free, they're not of much more benefit to him than shop-bought biscuits. And will be more costly.

OP I do remember in my teens buying silly amounts of 'junk' food. I saw the light eventually. I don't want to say 'it's what teens do' as I know that's a bit blanket statement and not true of all teenagers, however I do think it's quite normal for some.

Me too Grilled. DS2 disappears to the park most Saturdays. I am not kidding myself he is choosing the healthy option food wise at lunchtime.

My ds15 is exactly the same , it's normal surely.

StillDrivingMeBonkers,

Oh, what a shame, I thought we were getting on so well, but your failure to use an Oxford comma while attempting to insult me has meant we just can't be friends. Never mind, I'm sure you'll get over it.

In the meantime, since you are clearly living in the 1950s, I thought you might appreciate a little lesson in old school grammar and punctuation.

'Perhaps you could roll your repetitive dirge up, grease them and shove them where the sun doesn't shine?'

a) You appear to have no idea what the word 'dirge' means. Look it up.
b) The singular object should take a singular pronoun. Dirge - it, dirges - them.
c) It seems unlikely that you actually meant this an an interrogative so we'll go with incorrect use of a question mark.

d) Hackneyed ending; poor effort.

By the way, there's a thing labelled 'Refresh the display' at the bottom of your screen. It might help you to read the thread before wading in.

OP I have the same issue with Dc1.
I ensure that there is something in the house for him to eat. There is always at the very least bread and butter and jam.
But the attraction of biscuits and sweets seem to be too strong to resist :(:(

I'm not sure what else I or you can do bar teaching him to cook so that making a bacon sandwich or whatever 1- seems. Normal thing to do to him and 2- he feels comfortable enough to do it wo thinking.
Maybe do some dry runs at the weekend when he will prepare his own snacks with you in the background??

I also found that when Dc1 is eating at the canteen, he is coming back really hungry hence the 'I'm going to eat whatever, biscuits are easy' rather than 'let's try and prepare something'.

Good panic is such a MN thing. As long as he is getting healthy meals and lots of exercise, a bit of junk food isn't the end of the world. He will grow out of it, and if he doesn't, he is nearly an adult anyway so it is his call.

*food panic

Hmm... I suspect that I would find looking at things this way very hard actually.
That's because I've had enough health problem to know that diet is ESSENTIAL to stay healthy.
That starting with a few biscuits and saying it's ok is also a slippery slope to then eating more and more crap.
And finally because no adult I know actually realises that they need to actually look after themselves for a very long time. Yu can away with murder as a teen or a 20yo. Not some much when you are in your 30s or 40s.
The problem being that most people don't actually realise that until they actually get ill in some ways (some never do)

If I can avoid that for my own dcs, I will. And for me, that means doing my best so that they don't fall into the trap of 'biscuits are fine when you have healthy diet otherwise' forgetting that lunch at school isn't healthy, that they also 'eat out' with friends at McDo etc etc etc.

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YABU at all. This drives me nuts. I've stopped buying anything where packets can just be opened and the contents eaten for this very reason.

Teens do this because it is quick and easy...

Doubt if he will cook from scratch, but can you help him make something similarly quick and easy but more healthy?

Bowls of fruit?
Cheese on toast? Just microwave the cheese for 30 seconds. Add tomato if feeling adventurous.
Vegetable sticks ( carrots mini tomatoes) and dips (hummous avocado)
Bread rolls and sliced meat/cheese for sandwiches?
Nuts/dried fruit
Cereal?

All much more expensive than biscuits though :(

At 15 my money went on cigs and MD 20/20 or Glens vodka

Least it's only biscuits

I was thinking that it could be worse Proud. I was out all night dancing in nightclubs at 15. Not a biscuit in sight.

Ladeez!

Well, a while after posting and my mini-rant at him - he got himself up of the sofa and managed to make himself (hold your breath) - bacon, beans and toast.

Then he asked me if I wanted a drink . I think he meant orange.

Teenagers ...

I hate being a nag though

My ds (17) and his gf made cookies from scratch last weekend when we were out, came home to freshly made biscuits ( and a clean kitchen!..) -amazing what revision avoidance tactics they will think of!-

Me too Proud
Biscuits are nothing.

I know Areyou, whatever were my parents thinking? It was brilliant though.

I made the mistake of taking StillDrivingMeBonkers seriously on another thread. Having read their posts here I've realised, as I should have beforehand, they're a wind up account.

YABU he is a teenager and that's what teenagers do (and most probably what you did too).