Unable to fill up my teenager - they are always hungry. What can I give them ?

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I am aware my ever hungry, fast growing, skinny, sporty teenager is always hungry. I dont want to just resort to cheap carbs as it does not seem healthy.
Any ideas ?

That is what their bodies need now, they are growing. Just make sure they have lots of milk, veg, protein and then pasta and bread and cereal. As long as the basics are there let them fill up.

Mine if left to his own devices will live off coke, crisps and pasta.

When my son had porridge for breakfast, he didn't want anything at break time. When he had cereal, he did. Start to measure him now - my son grew six inches in one year and throughout that year he had an extra meal per day, at 9 pm. After that year, it calmed down a bit!

I think if they are working off the carbs, and you minimise the actual processed, refined sugar, it is ok.

My DS has a lot of pitta and houmous at the moment. It's ridiculous how much he gets through as snacks. Also bananas, crumpets, tomato soup... as snacks.

We have endless bowls of cereals and biscuits etc but it all seems just so sugary.
I try hummus , peanut butter with crackers or wraps etc but the sugary carbs always win in the end.

I am thinking of just doing a 4 th meal for supper.

DD always has 4 or 5 meals a day

Snack is a chicken or bacon wrap, only one 'meal' is cereal, one is bread & one pasta

Dried fruit features heavily in her diet but protein is the most important thing I think. Protein at every meal

Cereal needn't be sugary though.

Mine tend(ed) to fill up on noodles or bowls of the instant pastas or ds liked to have a tin of raviolli.

Nuts, nut butter, string cheese, Greek yogurt, smoothies, trail mix.

ds eats a lot of cheese toasties, he makes them in the george formby grill. Yes to crumpets, he also loves things like malt loaf and hot cross buns, they're easy to grab and eat.
I ration biscuits severely and have to keep finding new hiding places for them.
I also limit the sugary cereals and the granola type ones too, but there is always plenty of porridge, weetabix/shreddies and obviously milk.

Oh yes cheese -there isn't a meal that doesn't have cheese

Malt loaf is a favourite & custard (made with less sugar) is great too

Bacon sandwiches. Use white bread if necessary. Also jacket potatoes, filled with baked beans and cheese.

Oh yes beans, I had forgotton about beans. Cheese toasties is a good idea too.

The problem is I have 1 super skinny teen and 1 podgy younger sibling so I have to covertly feed the teen !

Nuts make a really good snack. DS particularly likes the crispy chilli coated peanuts

Eggs. Scrambled egg on toast as supper at 9pm.

Chicken. In wraps, on a proper dinner, as a pizza topping.

Pasta. Lots!

Nuts, cheese and loaf cake (banana, carrotetc) for snacks.

Malt loaf. Cheese slices. Cereal bars. Crumpets. Bagels. Brioche. Bread in all forms. Milk. Cereal. Mine are very lazy so can't be bothered to heat up baked beans (obviously will eat if it's heated up for them) but will make cheese on toast.

George Formby Grill "turned out nice again"

The toastie machine has made a reappearance in the kitchen, first time in about 20 years

Nutella and sliced bananas in a toastie.

God, that sounds delicious!

DS had a bowl of gnocchi and pesto as a snack after college today, then proceeded to eat a huge bowl of vegetable chilli and brown rice two hours later!

Mine used to have a ready meal when he came home from school and then supper with the family when I was home from work.

I also used to stock up on fruit and yoghurt and rather than buying expensive cooked ham slices, started to buy a little gammon joint and slice it so there was always ham available to go in pitta bread or sandwiches, etc.

Another trick was making huge bowls of pasta. I used to do a tomato one with: tin of tomatoes, onion, garlic, green pepper, basil and a bit of stock simmer for half an hour and then stir through the pasta and chill. I did a fishy one too: pack of smoked mackerel, snipped spring onions, juice of a lemon, plenty of Helmans and stir that through a big bowl of pasta.

I think the mega spurt lasted for about 18 months to two years. Like another poster I think he grew about 9/10 inches in that period.

Oh, and lots of French bread.

Toasted bagel with grilled halloumi and red peppers from a jar is another favourite.

Any ideas for a hungry teen allergic to milk, eggs and nuts?

Chicken noodles, egg fried rice, pizza!
My house stinks at about 9pm

Porridge (made with water) and honey; roasted veg and cous cous. Mine is lactose intolerant and has Hazlenut flavour alpro with cereal. But that's sounds hard balloonslayer*