People always went on about teenage boys and food..... only NOW do I get it

[DrNick]

in the last six months suddenly.... I am doing two Tesco orders a week. I just cannot keep up with it. Previous portion sizes look like dolls house sizes.

they never stop!

I thought I had seen the worst of it, but DS4 is awful. He is never full. And he is skinny!

Cats I'd get on a plane for your cooking, you can't blame your DS

DS 16 next week has just eaten 8 big fat sausages with chips & most of a tin of beans. He will be looking for a pint of milk & a load of biscuits before bed. He had already had a milkshake & a cake at school before I picked him up at 6pm. I can remember my brother being just the same.

I can't keep my 14 year old DS filled. And if he turns sideways you wouldn't see him, he's so thin. I have literally no idea where he's putting it. However, he's grown a ridiculous amount since starting S3 last August.

Just had this conversation with DH.

Our son s 20 and has always eaten well - now he eats non stop, it is like a switch has been thrown.

What amazes me is that he will eat till he's absolutely full, even leaving half a mouthful on the plate, then half an hour or so later he's "starving" & eats a load more - how do they process it that quickly?

My DS is 13 and doesn't eat very much. Always knew he was strange.

I never got this, till the first time I left supper for the Inferiorettes plus charming 17 year old male babysitter. Had made huge vat of chicken curry, enough - I thought - for several tubs to freeze.

There was a scraping left in the bottom of the (large) casserole. And I'm quite sure the skinny lad felt the need for a snack later

And the milk. We used to get through eight pints a week. Now it's every two days.

Really understand hunger in boys but if you have let your boys eat...

12 roast potatoes in one sitting
8 sausages in one sitting.

That's bad for their health, surely?

As long as the diet is mixed & contains fruit & veg I'm pretty relaxed about it. Eight sausages wasn't ideal, granted - four were supposed to be for DH whom I'd forgotten was eaten out. It's usually more like 4 or 5 (!)

Eating out - oops

Lots of fat drained out of them & wasn't eaten.

So how do you fill them up?
DS is just 10 and professes to be starving - roast chicken, mountains of mad and broccoli for supper then asks what else can he eat? Slice of birthday cake, then he is after cheese & biscuits. I said he could only have a drink - milk or water. Was I being a bit mean?

The latest issue with food in our house is that ds1 is trying to put weight on for a rugby tour to canada, land of the really huge teenage boy aparently! he is excited that he has managed to put half a stone on, it's like the mirror image of teen girl weight anxieties!

sydlexic give him time!

plus3 mine eat a lot of cereal, especially the granola types with natural youghurt. I go to Lidl and buy buckets of yoghurt. It still only lasts a couple days.

DS2 eats lots and lots of Marmite on toast. When he comes in from school he likes Branston pickle and crisp sandwiches.

Cheese, crackers and apples is another favourite here.

When I bake half of it has gone before it gets in to the containers! if we nip into Tesco for something they don't ask for sweets like they did when they were little, they ask for a sandwich!

Mine load up on pasta, eggs and fruit.

Bread is a source of love as is bacon but after reading this they're not so gluttonous after all.

Yes Iam baking disappears before it's cooled down if I'm not careful!

One weekend morning you will wake up to find that your teenage son has multiplied in the night and there are others asleep in every corner

YY Witch I bake 12 muffins, put them on the rack to cool. When I go to put them in the tin, there are only 7 or 8 left!

Bloody kids!

Yep! DS1 will eat a full roast dinner and then an hour later he will be doing himself some noodles or pasta.

Last night I did Moroccan lamb and rice, DS2 has seconds. An hour later he is rooting through the freezer as he feels like having a plate of chips.

Argh this is one if my arguments against having 3 DC.

DH eats loads (v sporty). DS is 2 and eats almost as much as I do....Im pregnant with DS2. DS isnt even chubby tho - just lots of muscle like his dad.

God knows what our food bills will be like in a few years.

This sounds terrifying I have a 9.5 DS

When does it start?

I'm realizing this now... DS is nearly 6 and eats a whole grown up dinner plate of dinner every night. But he also eats a substantial meal at after school club (proper food like jackets or noodles or rice...). And pudding. On weekends he eats a chicken breast (or equivalent in other meats), a lot of roast potatoes, veg and Yorkies. And he is skinny. I'd say 50%ile on height and weight.

mine is getting worse at 15, 13 11

Oh god, when it was just DH and me, we never even got through a pint of milk a week, now the DTs are 1 (tomorrow) and we're getting through 8 pints a week! I tremble at my future food bills. I accidently ordered twice as many bananas (got about 25!) as normal and I just shrugged and thought, saves me buying more at the weekend. DS must eat 15 quids worth of blueberries a week. I am a mug. Should just give them fruit shoots and woody apples...

Oh and I,ve got all my family staying this weekend - 4 men, three of whom are under 30 and have not yet submitted to the civilising influence of girlfriends. I have put in a large order at the butchers.