Hi, please give me your recipes for filling up a unfillable teen boy. My ds1 is 13 and constantly hungry, he's stick thin, very active but underweight. Because he was a micro preemie he has yearly dr checks and this morning the dr basically said he's great but in the underweight category.....he eats me out of house and home! But he said it's nothing to worry about but some more calories would be good considering how active he is.
Typical day he will eat
Breakfast 2 weetabix, banana and seeds (he usually goes for a run about an hour later) smoothie
Whole grain toast and fruit when he gets back
Mid morning snack can be anything plantain chips are a current favourite.
Lunch usually something like a large couscous salad, eggs and cheese. Or three bean salad and tofu.
Afternoon fruit and yoghurt, often more toast.
Dinner two portions of whatever were eating. So tonight it's veggie bolognese, pasta with carrots and garlic bread. Sometimes he will have more fruit, sometimes biscuits and peanuts.
Evening he will have porridge, eggs and beans, crumpets.....something like that for supper.
Any ideas where he can squash in some more calories?
I only cook with full fat stuff, no reduced sugar etc I'm vegan but he isn't. He doesn't like fizzy drinks but does have water, fruit juice and milk.