Saturday lunches?

[TheGiantBear]

For those with teenagers, what do you do for Saturday lunches? Personally I could just manage with a snack but teens seem to expect something much more substantial & I am loathe to do lots of cooking in the day!

Pizza
Hog dogs
Tomato soup with garlic bread or toasted cheese sandwich
Falafel or roast chicken wraps
Peato pasta
Scrambled eggs or beans on toast
Jacket potato with leftover curry or chilli

My dc were happy with sandwiches-

I would get them to make their own.

We do sandwiches, french toast or granola with fruit and yogurt as a sort of brunch. They help themselves to bread and snacks if that is not enough for them

Something on toast usually.

We just treated lunch like breakfast when I was a teen - open fridge or cupboard and make your own. Maybe offer anyone interested a portion of the same thing if you felt like it.

Nothing wrong with making them lunch generally if you want to, but why not make that your Sunday practice? Good training in self sufficiency and means you can relax.

They usually help themselves so a combination of soups, toasties, something on toast, pasta salad, cous cous, jacket potato with left overs, hot sandwiches eg fishfinger/ bacon /sausage.
Sometimes I have a specific leftover and one or more of them will eat that.
Ds usually works so takes a packed lunch.
Last weekend I filled the airfryer with mini sausage rolls, bhaji, spring rolls etc and they had them with green salad, coleslaw, veg sticks and dips which they really enjoyed.

I usually make a big batch of soup and some bread on Saturday morning. Or point ds at frozen Cornish pasty and beans, or there's usually a portion of chilli or casserole in the freezer he can combine with a jacket potato.

At 17 my ds doesn't really do small meals 😁

They make their own when they want it! Usually toastie, scrambled egg on toast, something like that.

If we have no early clubs then we usually do a large brunch to keep everyone going to dinner time.

If they’ve been playing sport then they usually have a sandwich or sausage roll.

French toast, rolls bacon or sausage whoever they get up. My son plays football on a Saturday so he is always starving before & after x

For lunches I always get people to make their own. I buy bacon, eggs, cheeses, ham, salad, veg, tuna etc and they make their own stuff. Sometimes noodles, pizzas or toasties but they always make it.

Mine aren't quite teens yet but pretty much always sandwiches or wraps. And as teenagers they should me more than capable of making their own

We usually eat our main meal earlier in the day - so the teen doesnt get hangry. In the evening, he can snack or cook for himself. Best thing I ever did was make sure he was more than capable of cooking for himself (although the clearing up leaves a lot to be desired lol).

As a teenager, I just sorted my own lunches on Saturdays and during school holidays. Would have been sandwiches, a jacket potato, noodles, eggs/beans on toast, an omelette, something like that.

Obviously they could do their own but we preferred to eat together until they were students and still often do when they’re home. We usually have beans/egg/cheese on toast or similar. Occasionally sandwiches.

give them access to the kitchen for Saturday lunch...

We do pasta, tuna melt bagel, noodles, avocado and poached egg on toast, pancakes, cold chicken fajita wraps. Something like that.

don’t teens just crack open a pot noodle for a Saturday lunch?

They are teenagers. Point them in the general direction of the kitchen and let them get on with it. And while they are making their lunch, they can get you something as well.

I'm another one who just expected my teens to make their own Saturday lunch, there would always be bread, wraps, sandwich fillings, eggs, tuna, beans, pasta so they made whatever they had the appetite for. It's a nice easy meal to get some experience cooking/looking after yourself. Jacket potatoes might be a good option to start with?

Mine have ‘a hot sandwich’ (neither will eat soup sadly)
minute steaks, chicken flatties, sausages / bacon / rotisserie chicken on a lump of bread.
We also fry mushrooms,onions, peppers, an negg and whack a load of cheese on top.
There’s often not much time between them getting up and having breakfast and lunch on the weekend if I’m honest.

Once mine were teens they got their own lunch which usually involved enough pasta to feed an army.

Oh brilliant so many ideas thank you’

Cook extra throughout the week and freeze the leftovers, they can help themselves!

Provide plenty of stuff so they can fend for themselves!