How to fill 16year old DS up !

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DS 16 has hollow legs ! There’s nothing of him but he’s always hungry - looking for ideas of what to leave around as snacks for him in between meals as he is always hungry an hour or 2 after eating, he eats a good size portion. I try to cook healthy dinners with protein, carbs and veg, fruit and pudd. He’s not keen on bread, toast or cereal ! The usual evening standby ! Any ideas ?

Sounds normal. I watched my DD aged 16 and two of her male friends of the same age, eat an entire loaf of bread and a load of ham once. DD is skinny and hungry but compared to those boys! I've never seen anyone eat like that!

Mine eats between meals....

Porridge
Chicken satay skewers
Yogurts
Rice pudding
Super noodles
Anything he can put in the oven himself..nuggets, pastry's (cheese and ham) hollumi fries, mini pizzas, mozzarella sticks
Cooked pasta with butter
Macaroni cheese (packet or oven pack)
Cheesy beans
Soup (chunky)
Hummus with pitta/veg
I've a bowl of mini peppers/mini cucumbers/baby tomatoes in the fridge he helps himself to those
Pineapple, melon, strawberries, mango, fruit salad
Salsa with nachos/pitta
Mushrooms in cheese sauce
Omelette/scrambled egg with mushrooms/ham/cheese
Biscuits/twix/ice lollies 🙄
Milkshake/juice

He's not a fan of bread/toast/crumpets/pancakes/croissants/brioche/scones which my other dc love

Cup a soups too

My 16 year old is the same. Permanently hungry, but he does like cereal!!
Also try:
Meat slices
Cheese slices
Bananas
Corn or rice cakes w peanut butter
Humous w veg
Bread products of any variety
Popcorn & the usual nosh

I sympathise - non-stop eating - just kicked in at 16 - ate normally before that, I double dinner quantities - an extra 4 portions -sometimes he just keeps eating till everything in the pot has been gobbled up...it's exhausting even watching him eat, sometimes the leftovers make it to the morning. He's trying not to eat lots of sugary stuff as he's worried about his skin.

He's very, very slim I don't know where it goes!

I am in a battle to get DS to not just fill up on sweets. He earns well so just buys tonnes of sweets. Argh.

God mine loves sweets. Haribos, maoam any hard sweets. I swear he was a wasp in a previous life. I don't buy the sweets coz they'd be demolished but if he buys them he packs them down quick.

I've 3 boys and dreading when the other two hit teenage years, shopping costs a fortune as it is

You literally asked what I wanted to ask! Although my ds is 14 - very fussy, refuses to eat breakfast and if he does it has to contain chocolate! Won’t eat fruit, is pretty ok with most veg so I try cooking relatively healthy dinners. All he’ll eat other than dinner is super noodles, pot noodles, sweet things, crisps, ... I forced (well ok encouraged) both him and ds into a weigh in this week. We’ve all out on lockdown weight as I’m sure many have so it’s going to be up to me to fix it and try work out a way for him to try new foods he refuses to try