nothing better than gangly 15yo tucking into 5 weetabix straight after huge dinner?

[lightlypoached]

AIBU as a mother to think there is nothing better than watching your 15 yo gangly, long-legged lovely boy tucking into a giant bowl of cereal just after demolishing a giant dinner of pasta?

It is always great to see kids enjoy food but personally I would not want them eating five Weetabix.

Surely they should have eaten other more nutritious meals that day that didn't leave them hungry for crap like Weetabix ?

I apologise then @SneakyGremlins, your parents were very wrong. I'm sensitive because one of mine is obese (have posted on weight loss chat) and am constantly battling family telling me I'm being mean, "let her have it", "she loves her food" etc. Apologies

Mine isn’t quite that bad but can certainly polish off alarming quantities of weetabix for ‘supper’.

He is also a rake and is half man-half boy. Still wants his bedtime teddy thing but is shaving!!

@getback I apologize too, I'm obviously slightly biased! It meant when I ended up elsewhere it was tough to manage my own eating habits. And tough to eat enough for my growing self

Plus the girl-teen’s appetite has slowed down as she’s finished growing. She eats normally.,

Haven't rtft but boy does this bring back memories of when DS was a teenager. He got through so many boxes of Weetabix and so many pints of milk every week in addition to the large portions of healthy meals I seemed to be endlessly cooking. I also remember DD2, a year younger than DS, constantly whinging about how much he ate. It really is a teenage boy thing.

It is an odd post. Odder still after the huge amounts of food listed we are all reassured that these boys are rakes/snakes/gangly/thin. 5/6/7/8 weetabix for anyone is ridiculous.

We all know parents rarely recognise their own children as overweight. We're regularly told on MN that we don't know what normal weight is anymore, especially when someone comes on to comment about a celebs or a royals weight.

Happy to post a pic of my boys if you don't believe they're not overweight

Surely they should have eaten other more nutritious meals that day that didn't leave them hungry for crap like Weetabix

Crap like Weetabix?! Ingredients: wholegrain wheat (95%). 😂 ANY thread on here about food is never a let down!

Although I agree - I think research has shown that parents don't recognise when their children are overweight. Mine def aren't though - they are called "too skinny" often. I've posted about this before under different names. They aren't skinny - they're normal.

Well said Grems.

And yet another lovely intentioned thread succumbs to the food police.

I'm with you OP . I have two teenage DS in the house. Both very sporty definitely not over weight who will devour a bowl of cereal at anytime of day regardless of what meal they've just had !

They regularly clear my fridge out of eggs , salmon , chicken and bacon and milk.

Both strong and healthy.

Can't comment about teenage girls eating as don't have DD

getback DS1 has cystic fibrosis. When he and DD1 were at school, other mothers would constantly say "don't you feel bad not giving DD1 all the Mars bars and Monster Munch DS1 has?" "No" I'd say "because she'd be overweight (nobody used the term obese back then). DS1 would starve to death if he didn't have them."

Some people just need a good kick up the twinkle. There is, actually, something a bit harmful about the sort of virtue signaller who just has to piss on everyone else's parade, you know.

5 weetabix and a giant plate of pasta ?
No veg ? Protein ?

No veg ? Protein ?
The OP clarified 'I neglected to mention the meatballs and pile of Parmesan and salad with olives......!'

Weird thread. I'd be pissed off if mine ate that much.

It always makes me when a load of posters are agreeing with the OP and happily sharing their own thoughts and experiences and one poster arrives to brand it "weird" or odd. Surely it's you that would be the "weird" one?

My teenaged DD eats me out of house and home. Sporty and the size of nothing. Vast quantities of boiled eggs, croissants, yoghurts, French stick and jam, melon, grapes, I could go on but she eats me out of house and home and it’s lovely

Some people just need a good kick up the twinkle. There is, actually, something a bit harmful about the sort of virtue signaller who just has to piss on everyone else's parade, you know

Absolutely - it's bloody Weetabix, not five Gregg's sausage rolls dusted with cocaine!

It always makes me hmm when a load of posters are agreeing with the OP and happily sharing their own thoughts and experiences and one poster arrives to brand it "weird" or odd. Surely it's you that would be the "weird" one?

Think whatever you'd like, but this thread is hella weird. (And frankly, some of the posts are bordering on creepy.)

Creepy?

Creepy?

Yup, the way the OP talks about her son

*Sorry, posted too soon.

The way the OP talks about her son is a bit off. I can't be the only one thinking this.