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To ask if anybody has weaned their teens off junk food and how?

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N0rdicStar · 26/01/2019 13:10

My teens have healthyish meals st home when they eat them.Not enough veggie meals maybe 1 or 2 times a week, also pick out the meat and leave the veg in the rest,happily go hungry, leave veg in packed lunch. They then spend all their pocket money on shite.

They hate breakfast and don’t get their 5 a day.

Just picked a healthy lunch on a 4 hour car journey and they’ve all just dived in to Starbucks and come out with Doritos, Reece’s on top.

I let them spend their pocket money how they like.£5 a week.

15,15 and 14. None overweight but a couple a bit spotty at times.

Thoughts? Any advice?

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RibenaMonsoon · 26/01/2019 13:17

I would try to pack veg in and make it so that I can't be left. Like grating carrot into bolognaise. Shephards pie with peas, loads of veg cut up very small. Homemade veggie soups etc. Are they taking multivitamins?

As far as the junk food goes, it's a tricky one if it's their own money they've spent on it. I remember eating a ton of crap as a teen.

Could you get them more involved in food prep? Explaining each component of the dish and what nutrient it contains, why its good for you.

Just a few things to try. I hope it goes well. Hang in there.

GetUpAgain · 26/01/2019 13:25

My teen loves (expensive branded) smoothies, will eat plenty of salad and fruit if reminded. I think if they eat 5 a day and drink plenty of water it's ok to have crap as well.

N0rdicStar · 26/01/2019 13:27

Mine don’t get their 5 a day though.😩

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GetUpAgain · 26/01/2019 13:27

P.S. meant to say I don't feel like I am getting it right with my teen, it's a continuing worry. Feel like I have to be on at him a lot.

mbosnz · 26/01/2019 13:45

I swear it was easier when they were picky toddlers! I don't argue about breakfast, I shove egg and toast in front of them. I also put a multivitamin (flurodix) in front of them and they know they might just as well eat and take the damned things.

Lunch - they don't take it with them to school, or any food for that matter, they say they don't have time. I think they tend to sneak a packet of sodding Haribos off with them in their pocket.

I tend to make them something when they get home - stir fried rice with veges went down well last week, as does chicken congee, or left over maccy cheese - and I get them to have two types of fruit or veges with it - eg, apple, tomato, cucumber, carrot sticks, grapes, etc.

They have started being a lot better about drinking water during the day, as their skin broke out something wicked, and whaddya know, when they started drinking more water like their unsympathetic Mum suggested, it cleared up.

Tea - meat and 7 veges, spag bol with carrot, courgette, mushroom, capsicum and onion in it, stirfries with copious amounts of veges, and takeout once a week, and a less vegeneurotic meal on Wednesdays, like maccy cheese - or a lasagne with a salad.

I think they have chips, coke, and ice-cream (for dessert) most, if not all days.

It's all a delicate balance of negotiations and nagging.

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