Snacks for ravenous teens

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I have 2 teen boys (14 and 18) who are eating machines. Add on top of this; sport and working out down the gym, and it is a never ending conveyor belt of food.

It is not the meals I am struggling with. Their get their own breakfast (porridge/ egg and/or avocado on toast/ yoghurt and granola), lunch is at school or leftover dinner in the fridge, and one of us cooks dinner at night.

It is the snacks I can't get to grips with. They come into the kitchen and stare into the fridge, or open the cupboards and gaze and shout "there's nothing to eat". Or, when they get home from school they are ravenous and dinner isn't for a few hours.

I need snack ideas to cook/ bake or buy.

They eat a bit of fruit, but mainly whizz it up in a smoothie.

I just can't stand hearing that phrase one more time, "there's no food in this house".

I buy a large packet of chicken breasts & cook in some seasoning and leave it in the fridge & he can use it for sandwiches/rolls/wraps or he just eats the chicken breast on its own, I also make a large pot of home made soup in the fridge so that he can have that & if make pasta for dinner I will make extra for lunches or a snack

I hate the words ‘there’s nothing to eat in this house’ especially if I only went shopping the day before! Mine have started having a mini dinner when they get in from school. Nuts, cheese, fruit, crumpet, chocolate 🙈. Sometimes all these things. Keeps them going til dinner.

I play reduced roulette and stop at a supermarket at reduced time. I buy whatever joint of meat is reduced and cook it. So whole chickens, gammon, carve them up and in the fridge.
Even sausages. I under cook them on colour so they can be reheated for sandwiches, pasta etc