Is it possible to fill my ds stomachs!!

[slipperandpjsmum]

Last night I made what I thought was a large meal, of which they ate plenty. Less than an hour later they can into the living room "is there anything to eat we are starving". Its costing me a fortune!!

How do you fill your ds up? And how much is your weekly food bill trying to achieve it???

If they are teenagers - no. Sorry. Your food bill will be the size of the GDP of a small country until they move out.

I only have one ds he is 17. This is a real pain atm. Him and an assortment of his mates from time to time clean the cupboards out. He will not entertain fruit yoghurts etc unless absolutely desperate. I have taken to buying a stock of aldi cheapo small pizzas god knows what is in them! Plus small packs of pancetta also from aldi. These seem to do teh trick. Not worth spending £££ as it doesn't touch teh sides. All main meals are super healthy so I have decided to pick my battles and let him fill up on this 'junk'. masses of toast also good. If you have a blender bananas and value vanilla ice cream for really filling shakes.I sympathise though crisps evaporate and biscuits too

Four teens here ( well three in term time as eldest back for uni holidays) and it's terrifying how much food they go thro! Makes no difference whether they are boys or girls either.. 8 have to of each and they a
L eat amounts that would make me I'll, while remaining slim.

My food bills are terrifying even tho I am shopping at Aldi and haven't seen the inside of a tesco for ages!

' I' have 'two' of each ... ' ill ' I am not illiterate, honestly..it's the iPad!

I've long since stopped trying to 'fill' my son, he's now grown up and left home but still eats everything in site when he visits!
( he ring to say he's visiting, I tell hubby, hubby says I guess that means you're baking from now till he arrives).

When he was a teenager I bought loads of bananas and cereals, made scones and flapjacks and traybakes nearly every day and made snacks of houmous or avocado dip (homemade) to have with carrots and celery.

Tis true though, they are forever hungry!

btw.... 'having a bowl of cereal' meant filling the biggest bowl he could find before the mixing/serving bowls and having half a box of cereal at a time!!

I have 2 ds's. One nearly 15, and one 11. Every time I look at them, they've grown again. And, this week, they both have size 8 feet! I'm pretty sure that by next week one or both will have size 9s.
It's worse because they're on holiday, but they've gone through a pack of 8 croissants this morning, 2 yoghurts each, a couple of bananas, and a large family pack of crisps. They're still in their pjs!
I'm making spag bol for tea - find pasta pretty good for temporarily filling 'em up, but I think I could probably end up spending close to £100 this week. It's terrifying really, and its the constant grazing that is expensive. Fruit bowl empties every day, yoghurt, crisps, nuts and cheese vanish mysteriously, and whole loaves of bread can disappear in one lot of "snacks" for ds2 and his friends! They all love toast!
They're both taller than me, and skinny as anything, as are most of their friends, I feel like a little bowling ball in a Lowry painting

Yes cereal which lasted a week now 3 days! Big bloody salad bowl full too. Cheap tortilla chips in oven with grated cheese is good too.

I posted on another thread that I once told DS "apples don't grow on trees you know"

I couldn't keep fruit in the house.

Mine eat good evening meals followed by fruit and yogurt but 8pm they have helped themselves to toast and they always have cereal and milk at bed time.
Two of them are well over 6 ft now and really skinny.
The youngest is 15 and catching the others up fast. He fills up on tinned rice pud and custard.....yes I know it's not good but it could be worse! He has a retainer for his teeth I swear it's out of his mouth most of the day because he's always eating.

It is perfectly usual for my nearly-17yo son to eat, as well as meals, every day, 8-12 weetabix/half a box of cereal, 2-4 packets of noodles, 2-6 packets of crisps, several bananas, and whatever he can find in the way of bread, beans, pizza, ready meals, biscuits, cheddar cheese, ham, bacon, eggs, left-overs...

For snacks I buy: cheap packets of noodles (11p from Morrisons or Sainsburys); cheap 12" pizza (59-79p); cheap cereal (whatever is on offer at £1.50/box or less); wholemeal bread because I find it fills 'em up better and they only go through a loaf every other day rather than every few hours; any fruit that is discounted; tins of unbranded beans... I don't currently buy ready meals, because they're expensive and I got fed up with cooking an evening meal, then having my eldest make 2 microwave meals between 10pm and whatever unearthly hour he went to bed... Apparently I am a 'cheapskate'.

Interestingly, my 12 year old has adjusted his 'taste' in food, so that he has become vegetarian and now likes food my eldest won't touch: salads, olives, rice cakes, oatcakes, fancy cheeses like brie, all kinds of fruit... I assume this is a kind of curious 'self-defence' which increases his chances of ever being able to find a snack left for him to eat!

I'm so glad someone else's used the salad bowl for cereal

We've started to do an extra weekly shop at aldi (for rice pud and custard!) and we spend £80 there in addition to our normal shop at asda. We cancelled the milk from the milkman because he was too expensive. We get through 10 pints of semi skimmed plus skimmed for drinks every day.

I totally agree with flow

My DS is only 7yo, like a rake but can eat and does eat more than me.

Cerealbars, cheap noddles, sausages with beans, the cheap choc chip cake bars and biscuits etc are all great for inbetween meals. I also keep a tub of chopped cucumber, carrot and pepper in the fridge. Have breadsticks, soft cheese etc. all Tesco value

Sounds like a load of crap but meals are always very healthy and balanced and because he is so active he needs the calories.

Nagy yes DS' brace spends more time next to him while he is chomping, than actually in his mouth.

Healthy meals (although he eats 3x everyone elses portion size) then pretty much grazing his way through the rest of the day.

I am starting to get a little concerned as he is getting a bit chubby, as I have been overweight all my adult life - any advice?

He does loads of excercise btw

Maybe don't provide pizza or other very high fat food SamBrick.
Let him fill up on fruit and pasta.

[bugrin] @ 'apples don't grow on trees'!

He did say "I think you'll find they do mum"

I have never ever been allowed to live it down.

When I was a teen, I used a pint-sized plastic cup (slurpee style) for cereal. Often had double servings.

Watching thread with interest. I have 2 young DS' they are 6.5 and 2.5. The older one is growing by the week! I feel like I'm always in the kitchen catering for him! I'm quaking in my boots at the amount of food they will both get through when they're teenagers. Some great tips being shared.

Sambrick- is he having a growth spurt maybe? They tend to grow out then up.

yes - they eat loads don't they?

My DS is 14 - he is just about to get breakfast - which will no doubt be a mixing bowl full of Ready Break (yukky, but he likes it and it isn't that expensive) - and at least 4 slices of toast.

DSS come at the weekend too - one of them eats more than I have ever seen anyone eat before. Skinny as a rake too. I plan lots of home made curries, chillis etc. Can fill 'em up on rice and pasta. We will probably have a roast on Sunday - but the bulk of the plate will be potatoes and yorkshire puddings. They aren't expensive to make either.

I have to admit to being slightly in awe at the amount they can shovel in - and be so damn slim. I have about a quarter of their amount - and am not as slim...

I do try though not to let them have too much chocolate and biscuits - 'cos that doesn't even fill you up. Although the glutton fest is this weekend so...

I'm still waiting for my growth spurt... I grew out years ago, but I haven't yet grown up

Yes two more here. DS1 is 6'2 and 10.5 stone. Never stops eating. We have the cereal thing here too, he fills a big bowl until it overflows with several of the 15 types of cereal in the cupboard.
I can do a huge Sunday roast with 5 yorkshires for DS1 and an hour later he's on the cereal.
Oh and the drinks. I buy Aldis 2 litre bottles of coke , lemonade etc and they just guzzle it. Yes I know it's unhealthy and they should be drinking water but....
I bet we were all so careful when they were little to avoid the junk that they fill up on now [busmile].

Sounds like my DH with the cereal secretsquirrels. I refuse to buy the expensive brand boxes as he can get through a box in a 2-3 sittings!

Flow4