What snack foods do you keep in?

[chaosmonkey]

Hiya, ds2 needs way more food than ds1, so i feel thrown! He is hungry all the time. He eats all of his dinner, then he eats 3/4 apples then toast...

He gets annoyed that hes not allowed more than this
I have agreed to have nuts/dried fruit/cheese in. He doesnt want more cereal unless it is sugary...

What do normal people have in as snacks for teenage boys? Kids say i am not normal as i am vegan and dont understand. Am single parent so dont have a male perspective!

Help! What do i need in my cupboard?

[Yeehaw]

I am going to buy a sandwich toaster. dd1 eats cereal by the bucketload. Last night she had roast lamb, potatoes and veg and then after had to have a cheese and tomato sandwich. She's bulked out a lot but not fat, she does loads of sport so she is very muscular.

[dementedma]

Ds likes pepperami sticks, wraps with cream cheese and salmon ( buy the cheap offcut bits), bananas, crunch corners,smoothies, home made banana and peanut butter ice cream (yuk), pate on crackers,ready noodles,soup.
He's only 12. Its only going to get worse....

[smokeandglitter]

Mushrooms fried in mustard are delicious - sounds weird but when I was a teenager and cooked for my hungry hungover friends they loved it!

[LoveVintage]

Mine eat non stop. In winter, I try to always have a pot of home made soup on the go. Also wraps and paninis, always have ham, cheese and beans in. Popcorn, tortillas, chocolate spread. Hot chocolate.

I do buy crisps and biscuits, and I do bake muffins etc but I try not to have too much in the way of "goodies" in the house as they just get scoffed. They too are skinny minnies. Elder DS is really good at eating fruit but younger always tries to hold out for the crap. Sometimes I feel like I spend more time in the supermarket than I do in my own home!

[madeofkent]

Anything they can grab fast. I even took photos of my DS just before he left to go to uni, sneaking into the kitchen and then looking at me slightly ashamed from the fridge! I told him that was how I saw him most often and how I would think of him - head in fridge!

When he's here, I cook a pack of sausages for him to have cold, twice a week. He has a camembert once a week and a large slab of cheddar, he has to lay off all other cheeses because otherwise we would never have any. A pack of sliced chorizo, I make a dozen rolls twice a week, he has peanut butter and chocolate spread, masses of fruit, I make individual flapjacks in bun tins and he has two a day. All this on top of granola for breakfast, soup, salad and bread for lunch plus sandwich, and a large evening meal. At uni with only a shelf and a drawer in the fridge he has to shop at least every two days. He also eats rice crackers and occasionally crisps, and popcorn. When he is home my shopping bill more than doubles. He eats more than me and DBH combined. Skinny as a rake - sickening.

[hellsbells99]

2 teenage DDs here. Generally they both make a mugshot straight after school. Toast, toasties, cheese/eggs/spagetti hoops on toast. Pancakes. Crackers with cheese. Loads of fruit. Crudites with dip. Popcorn. My mum's banana cakes. Maltloaf. Cereal bars. Nuts. Anything edible really!
We have proper meals too :)

[RestingActress]

I hard boil a load of eggs every few days and leave them in the fridge for DS to snack on when he gets ravenous, along with cold meat, cheese, nuts, and [boak] sardines straight from the tin. It's more expensive than carbs but being protein heavy seems to fill him up.

We always have loaves of bread in the freezer and seem to go through gallons of milk, I keep crisps, cakes and biscuits to a minimum as otherwise I end up eating them too, so there is always something that he can eat, but maybe not what he would always want to, so he can have a bowl of porridge to fill him up rather than 4 bags of crisps.

[havenlady]

Uncle Ben microwave rice (loads of different flavours).

[wordfactory]

Also - twiglets, pretzels, soup, bisucits..

[wordfactory]

I don't restrict food. Teens given three filling home made (usually) meals per day then they help themselves; crisps, microwave popcorn by the bucket, toast, brioche, bananas, paninni...

[TheDoctorsNewKidneys]

I ate a LOT as a teenager. My favourites were biscuits, toast, cheese and crackers, oatcakes, fruit, yoghurt, quick meals like pot noodles, couscous, pasta, scrambled eggs, french toast, bacon sandwiches etc.

Teenagers need a LOT of food, especially boys. Toast and apples really won't cut it I'm afraid!

[Goblinchild]

Healthy food
Ingredients to make unhealthy food, sometimes I use them, sometimes they have to bake or pop or fry stuff.
A willingness to let them buy their own snacks.

[chaosmonkey]

Oooh, and i did do gherkins, but they will eat a huge jarvin one go, and i got bored of carrying all the food from the shop! Maybe its time to start internet shopping...

[chaosmonkey]

Oooh, thanks for all the tips and ideas!

I dont insist on them being vegan. I buy them milk eggs and cheese and said i will buy some free-range meat if they cook and wash up themselves - but they dont take me up on that!

Lol at oreos. Is this some special thing? Ds1 and his mates buy them as birthday presents for each other...

Maybe i will get over the sugary cereal thing, despite not stopping eating at any time for last 4 weeks he is stupidly skinny.

Thanks Andy! I may use that line the next time i hear Muuuuummmmmm what can i have to eèeeeàaaat?

[DeloresDeSyn]

Fruit malt loaf is a great stand by

[TheBigBumTheory]

I am a cheapskate, so I don't buy crisps, biscuits, chocolate or anything they will vanish instantly. I think they will eat the plain stuff if they're genuinely hungry.

[LineRunner]

My OH and I have six teenagers between us. (Two households, thank god.) The teens are all pretty active and they eat so, so much food.

For snacks they can have:

Fruit
Salad
Pasta meals
Any leftovers in the fridge
Sandwiches (Nutella, cheese, ham, tuna, and coleslaw are popular)
Crisps (gone in seconds)
Crackers and houmous
Toast (plain or with jam)
Cereal
Milk
Juice

My DS who is 15 just grew about two inches in a week and he is, simply, pretty hungry a lot of the time.

[TheBigBumTheory]

Oatcakes with peanut butter
Toast
Fruit
Milk is quite good to kill appetites
Plain yoghurt
Porridge

I'd let mine eat these as long we're not having a meal in the next few hours.

Make sure they're eating protein early in the day- eg eggs for breakfast.

[17leftfeet]

I get microwave rice pouches

Dd eats them with tomato purée and a little bit of grated cheese

Oreos also go down well

[teenagetantrums]

I agree with the toastie maker, mine have beans and cheese in a toastie. They like those horrid super noddles. I tend to let them have dinner when they come in now, they are always starving by 5/6pm. We used to eat much later.

[BackforGood]

As well as meals, my ds eats probably two extra 'meals' over the day, from what his sister does.
He'll have.... a pizza, a ready meal, tin of raviolli/ spag and sos / pasta bol / mac cheese type things (he doesn't like beans for some reason). Yesterday he cut a load of cheese into cubes, covered it in salad cream and ate that. He likes any sort of pasta - mugshots for eg, or will have a pack of supernoodles.
Oddly, he won't eat cereal either, which is what I used to munch late in the evening when a teen.

[yourlittlesecret]

I just notice you won't let them have sugary cereal. I had rules like that when they were little but after about age 12 I gave up.They are skinny.

[yourlittlesecret]

I reckon the average teenage boy eats more than double what a grown man would need. As long as they eat three proper healthy balanced meals I allow them free range of junk and fillers.
Crisps, home made cake, flap jacks, tortillas,toast, crisps, pop, lots of cereals, milk shakes, bacon sandwiches, pasta and cheese.... loads more. This is on top of meals remember.
Do you make them eat vegan? I imagine that would make it a minefield?

[Andy1964]

I've no idea, before I get to the snack cupboard it's empty :(

[Claybury]

Homemade cake, vast amounts of ( fairly ) sugary cereal, apples, bacon and eggs ( teach them to make scrambled ) bagels, yoghurts, bananas. My DS 16 would live on cereal if I let him. I think it's just laziness.

What I don't buy is crisps, biscuits, soft drinks, commercially made cakes as these easy to over eat on and are unhealthy.