Filling lunches for ravenous fussy kids

[Reluctantadult]

Need some help and inspiration! I'm getting bugged for snacks ever second second.

Anything based around egg, egg is filling, quick and tasty.

Beans on toast
Flatbread/pitta pizzas

Hollow legged teen boy here so breakfasts are wholemeal toast, butter, jam, fruit.

Snacks - fruit, two boxes of cereal bars per week but when they're gone, they're gone. When he's home for the summer I make trays of cheese straws, which he can help himself to. There's always toast & spread.

Lunches - omelettes,
frozen pizzas with salad,
sausage rolls & beans,
ploughman's,

Pate & toast with tomatoes, beetroot, cucumber,
Home made chunky soups
Pork pie & salad
Crab sticks

He's having a growth spurt - the food is never ending.

Why buy cereal bars as snacks? They're hardly filling or cheap?

Better getting flapjacks or whatever

Egg fried rice is popular here. We just use the packet rice and fry it with a couple of eggs and a little bit of soy sauce.
can also add veg.

@00100001 Because he likes them, and I can afford £2.20 a week, plus they have more fibre and are more filling that ordinary biscuits. He doesn't like flapjacks, says they are too sweet.

If we have fish fingers, I cook extra for fish finger wraps the following day. I’ve always noticed that they seem to stop the dc asking for so many snacks.
during the school holidays, the dc have peanut butter bagels with a chopped banana and that also does the trick.

Packs of chicken thighs and drumsticks (bone in, skin on) are very inexpensive and the v high protein fills them up for longer.

Soups with a lentil or chick pea base in all but the hottest weather. Also for the protein content. Quick and easy to make, I freeze in individual portions.

It very much depends on what they are fussy about!
Whole grains are more filling than white so if you can give them wholemeal bread, pitas or wraps they may sustain them a bit longer. I always find soup really filling, if you serve with cheese on toast that should fill them up.

Otherwise as others have suggested
Things on toast
Toasties
Fritata
Tuna pasta salad
Jacket potatoes with protein based toppings.

I’d really focus on whole foods and whole grains. Ultra processed snacks and foods just trick the body, and no nutritional value. Whole meal toast with eggs/peanut butter/mushrooms on top. Jacket potatoes. Egg fried rice. Make a big fruit salad with tinned fruit and whatever fresh is cheapest, so it’s immediately available. Natural yoghurt. If you do chose to buy processed snacks; buy a very limited quantity and allocate a certain amount per child-when they’ve eaten theirs, that’s it so their choice if they ration.

My teenage dc love the different noodles you can get. The spicier the better.

I also do drumsticks for them.
Marinade them for a bit before I freeze them.
At the moment we have: tikka, hoisin, 'nandos', harissa.
Younger one likes eggs and will make herself an omelette etc
Peanut butter with either celery or apples.
And crisps. They do love crisps.

Pastry sheet, coat in tomato purée, herbs and grated cheese

Roll up and bake

Slice

Pizza pinwheels
Very filling hot or cold

Is it hunger or boredom?

Popcorn for snacks instead of crisps & crap.

My 4 yr old is going through a big prawn loving phase. I cook a packet in some butter, takes seconds. With some microwave rice or just bread and butter. With some veg sticks.

They seem pretty bottomless!

I always try to use wholegrain bread / wholewheat pasta / brown rice. It has more protein and fibre than the 'white' versions so is more filling.

This summer I've been trying to keep a supply of sandwich fillings in the fridge - tuna crunch (which is tuna mayo with spring onions, red pepper and sweetcorn), egg mayo, cooked chicken, houmous and cheese. That way a protein filled sandwich is quick and easy to make.

Make sure they are drinking enough. Add some more protein and whole grains to main meals. Add a glass of milk instead of a processed snack. Cut out any sugary cereals. Try porridge for breakfast, it they will eat it.

One of my two fussy ones loves Spanish omelette/ tortilla. It's good and filling. He has it with ketchup

I’m not sure kids bugging you for shacks every five minutes are ravenous.

Quesadillas/ burritos filled with chicken or mushrooms or black beans plus cheese.
Stirfry noodles ( not instant) with veg and egg or prawns