15 yr old DD crap diet

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My DD wont eat any food I cook - she will eat at Greggs or Macdonalds for lunchtime (they are allowed out some days but they seem to sneak out each day now) I pack her a balanced lunch - she brings it home or leaves it at school till its gone mouldy. In the evenings she refuses to eat the food I have made. She will take biscuits and every bit of chocolate in the house - even though I go to great lengths to hide it. Her skin is not good and she just looks pretty unhealthy. Any suggestions/advice. I get really cross with her - should I just ignore...?

I don’t have any suggestions but my DS is like this; chips at lunchtime; sweets energy drinks etc etc. Won’t eat healthy food. Hopefully a phase...

Make lunch money part of her pocket money. That’s the only way my brother stopped eating as much shit. So if she gets £10/week from now on that includes lunch.

She can't buy crap if she doesn't have any money. Tell her the compromise is if she eats properly at home you will give her money for lunch, if not she's on her own - she can take food from home but no lunch money. Her friends won't sub her for long. Also, it's annoying for the rest of the family but for now I would make sure there is no treat stuff in the house for her to find.

No treat stuff in the house, with reasons why.

Pocket money monitoring. I actually stopped it for a good while over this, especially after I discovered the daily cola and Doritos habit.

Teen to cook one night a week.

Good adult role models. Show rather than tell, for preference.

Thanks all - I will follow your suggestions. I include 1 treat in her lunchbox usually but that’s all that gets eaten so will have to stop that. That’s what I buy the biscuits etc for but have to hide them. Trouble is with money her dad gives her some as we’re not together and it is a privilege the school give them in year 11 to go out a couple of times a week but they seem to be flouting this. Will speak to ExDp about including it in pocket money (he puts it on her Henry card) . I like the idea of her cooking once a week too. Thanks all

I used to eat at the chippy and lunchtime or have a chocolate bar and save the rest of the money for Cider (I know) I think it's a stage most teenagers go through,I snapped out of it once I left school.

😂 Princess ! - I stopped having school lunches and we would go out and share a bowl of soup in a caff we were so skint back then! But I did eat the meals I was given at home. I guess the difference is they have more of everything now

Pa I forgot to post does anyone give their teenager vitamins - not as a substitute but an extra - if so should I concentrate on Vit B - it is her gcse year or multi?

I would tell the school about the sneaking out at lunch time. That’s really not great from a safeguarding point of view.

I’ve thought about that leekmunchingsheepshagger (are you welsh by any chance 😂) but the school are notoriously indiscreet and if it got back to her and her friends I’d prob be accused of ruining her life (again) it is a small school so I imagine they do “know “

I was the same. We all left school at lunch and would buy chips or fresh bread slathered in butter. I ate sensibly from about 18, but absolute junk before that. I would focus on food at home, get her to pick some things to make, or get that fakeaway recipe book where they teach you to make healthy versions of junk.

My junk rating DS cane back from university in his first term and told me he was "far less fussy now!!" when offered a rare consultation about dinner plans.