What do your 15 year old boys eat in a day?

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I'd like to get an idea of what's within the range of normal. So if anyone doesn't mind sharing. Breakfast lunch dinner, snacks. Please be honest if you could, not the edited healthy version.

I'm asking because I could do with a bit of perspective and also hopefully get some ideas.

I'm struggling to fill ds up but getting him to eat decent, filling food is difficult. I know the right things for him to eat but he's constantly taking everyone else's snack type food and nothing I've tried will stop him doing it.

There's a huge backstory of possible disordered eating. I don't want to go into explaining g it all because it's long winded.

@ChaliceinWonderland they are just getting ready for a huge growth spurt and new shoes every 3 months for a year

Breakfast: weekday - couple slices toast/bowl of cereal; weekend - scrambled egg/waffle with fruit and nutella/bacon sandwich

Lunch: weekday - small cheese sandwich; weekend - large bowl of pasta and pesto

Afterschool snack - (Comes home ravenous as has hardly had anything up until now): cheese and ham toastie/massive sandwich, large bowl of salad topped with cheese, carrot, bowl of fruit, packet of crisps, big handful of pistachios

Dinner - big helping of whatever we're having, or if left to own devices a jacket potato with cheese and beans

Supper - bagel or bowl of cereal or bowl of yoghurt, honey and oats, toast

Throughout - more sweets and chocolate than I'd like, but also large amounts of fruit and veg.

He's 14 1/2 and puberty/growth spurt hasn't really kicked in yet (boys go late in our family). Plays a lot of sport.

It’s only too much if he’s heavier than he wants/needs to be or gaining unhealthy weight. There’s literally no such thing as “too much” for anyone if it’s maintaining their healthy weight.

16yo DS
breakfast: bowl of ready brek with honey & blueberries/raisins
AND Egg & bacon & mushrooms OR wholemeal toast (2 slices) with crunchy peanut butter. Juice & coffee
Mid morning- snack bar (cereal/oaty bar/flapjack)
Lunch: packed would be sandwich with ham/cheese/salad, crisps, anothe snack bar, nuts, baby sausages
After school- 2 slices toast & jam or peanut butter.
Meal: full evening meal with carbs, protein, veg. If roast he'd easily eat 8-10 roast potatoes.
Evening snack- chees and crackers (about 10 ) or more toast and peanut butter, or one of those instant rice packets (he eats the whole thing which is 2 portions) plus pint glass milk.

He's active (sport twice a week) but some days he just eats and eats. He's over 6 ft tall, and on the lower end of BMI.

If I ate that much I'd be the size of my house. DS it just goes...

Weekend or school holiday day..

Breakfast... usually make him pan

Posted too soon.

Breakfast...I make him pancakes with Nutella

Lunch...chicken and rice and veg

Dinner... homemade chips, nuggets, veg

Cereal before bed sometimes

Will snack quite a lot on fruit, crisps, biscuits, chocolate.

On a school day

Won't eat breakfast but sometimes has a bowl of cornflakes

Takes a packed lunch but often comes back uneaten.

Comes home ravenous...has dinner and endless snacks and cereal all evening.

Today my very skinny 13 year old has ate:

• 2 bacon batches
• 2 sausage batches
• 3 egg omelette
• half an Easter egg
• 2 freshly baked scones
• 1 banana

At 2:45pm we still have a lot of food to go.

This is completely normal for a growing teen, why would you be worried?

Do you have disordered eating?

Interesting thread. My DS just 14. Is very tall and skinny. 6"3. Whilst I don't restrict his intake I do worry that his constant biscuit intake will give him bad eating habits of junk! Trying to encourage more toast, fruit and cheese but the 3 wagon wheels and massive bowls of cereals win! He is very active and plays sports most days. I never realised they would be eating more than an adult man!

Mines diet is shocking, always has been. He point blank refuses anything f healthy and would rather starve.
often skips breakfast unless there’s brioche because he gets up 5 mins before he has to catch the bus.
east cakes for break and lunch at school (won’t take a packed lunch due to lack of space in his bag)
comes home and snacks constantly. As in 5 packs of crisps if we have them, all the biscuits and choc bars, pitta with hummus, crackers and cheese, pizza out the freezer, scrambled eggs and beans. Usually fills himself up right before dinner, refuses dinner then more of the same at about 10pm.
he’s a night owl tok.
I despair 😞

Breakfast- weetabix, cereal, fruit, biscuit
Lunch - wraps, pudding, fruit
Snack, fruit, pizza
Dinner, meat, veg, same or more portion, pudding with custard or fish with veg, etc
Late night- rest of biscuits, fruit, anything to hand frankly.

Loads of water.

He is slim, lithe and I don't know where it all goes:) he is always hungry. There is always fruit or cake which I make. We love cake:)

Ds is recently 16.

Average day

Huge bowl of porridge and a smoothie
Tomatoes and cheese (or rubbish if school day)
Pie and biscuit (school day) or something like French toast / spaghetti hoops ok toast / toasties at home
Mini magnum
Crisps
Rice cakes and blueberrries and grapes
Adult dinner eg chicken, potatoes and veg
Biscuit
Enormous bowl of cereal
Pepper / tomatoes / strawberries

He's not overweight and is probably just over 6ft . He walks a few miles a day but otherwise no regular sport at the moment apart from gym 3 ish times a week.

I have scrolled through for my children but haven’t found them here so I’m posting for the benefit of anyone else who has 15 year old with sparrow-Luke appetites, unlike everyone else’s on here.

Mine typically eat:

No breakfast or maybe a bowl of bran flakes. No drink unless I heavily encourage them have one (then just a few sips). This morning I encouraged one of them to have scrambled eggs on toast with me though.

If at home - no lunch or maybe some toast. If school, usually cake and a smoothie for one of them and pasta with a bottle of water for the other.

I gather they sometimes buy a chocolate bar to eat on the bus home.

No snack when they get in from school. I usually do tea late, about 7.30, because I’m busy and no one is hungry anyway. Tea is a normal tea (I’ve been buying Gousto meals recently so there’s plenty of variety). Pudding is sometimes nothing and sometimes some choc from fridge or a proper pudding I bought as a treat.

They are both very slim, as you can imagine. I just presume everyone is different? I go with their appetites, I’m by no means restricting food. I hope there are other parents out there with children like mine.

*sparrow-like

Ds(19) seemed to be late to puberty compared to his friends and really sprouted between 15-17, he was constantly hungry but stayed slim. When he was hungry he would complain of not feeling well - dizzy, sore tummy, sick. A typical day could be -

Breakfast - 80g Porridge, large banana, protein powder, milk. Fruit juice.
School snack - roast chicken breast and salad wrap with bbq sauce
Lunch - 2 course school dinner (he says portions were tiny)
After school snack - protein yoghurt, maybe an apple or pancakes
Dinner - typical meat, two veg, carbs - could be roast chicken, chicken kebabs etc
Supper - bowl of cereal or cheese omelette or similar

He would also drink lots of water! Always had a pint glass of it in his hand. He only occasionally had sweets as the guy at the gym told him too many were not good.

He sprouted so quickly he has stretch marks on his back. Stopped at 6ft 3in and thankfully has now settled down to semi normal eating and portions.

Breakfast: two eggs on buttered toast, mug of milky tea.

Lunch: wholewheat spaghetti with home made beef meatballs in tomato sauce.

Snacks: hummus and carrot sticks, clementine, bag of crisps, cake, hot chocolate

Dinner: ramen noodle soup with chicken, tofu, egg and veg, orange juice

Mine is a gym bunny so not average I don't think but:
Breakfast: Bowl of cereal - usually 4 weetabix
Mid morning: smoothie made with porridge oats, banana, peanut butter, protein powder and milk
Lunch: chicken (about 300g) and rice, carrot sticks and an apple
Mid afternoon: yoghurt and a bowl of cereal
Dinner: whatever we're having. Favourites are cottage pie, fillet steak occasionally, salmon or home made curry.
Evening 'snack': enormous bowl of cereal

Ds is 14 and very slim. He does 3 hours of karate a week plus 3-4 hours in the gym.
He generally has:
cereal or eggs for breakfast,
a ham salad sandwich, fruit and yogurt for lunch
chicken, potato’s and veggies for dinner or something similar.
Snacks he’ll have a bagel, nuts, cereal bar, smoothies, sometimes cake if I’ve been baking, a banana or crisps.
He also has a protein smoothie if he’s been to the gym.
He’s very health conscious and doesn’t eat much chocolate or sweets and tries to actively choose healthy options.

This is not normal and definitely not enough food for teenagers. When my dd was in the grips of an ED she was eating more than you have described. I would suspect on that level of restriction they will be loosing weight/underweight.

The fact he's very slim says it all really. Diet isn't awful either, yes ideally not all the snacks but I don't know a teen who doesn't eat them tbh. Few people have a perfect clean diet

Christ yours bares no similarities to mine and his friends.
All skinny. But not very sporty.
one has 8 weetabix for breakfast.

weekdays;
breakfast bar (doesnt do breakfast first thing so takes that)
pizza or wrap for lunch
crisps
toast / noodles / home made pizza
cake and chocolate / biscuits / snack stuff.
dinner (usual sort of thing, meat and rice, meat and potatoes etc)
pudding of some sort.

After school, mine will cook himself a big wok-full of chicken, rice and stir fry veg most evenings, eat that then join us for dinner. In addition to the normal family breakfast, evening meal and school lunch.

In the morning he'll have breakfast but also blitz himself a big smoothie of bananas, frozen berries, oats, nuts and seeds, protein powder, peanut butter and milk.

If we go out to eat, he has a meal at home if possible first otherwise he'll be asking for two main courses and sides and the cost is ridiculous 😂.

Non school days is just endless huge meals. The few weeks last term when we had snow days off and strike days doubled my food bill!

one has 8 weetabix for breakfast

my ds once came home from school and ate 12...no joke. He didn't even realize, just kept taking them out of the box. I knew it was 12 because it was a brand new box and I counted what was left.

they are funny...he once ate a huge plate of chicken and rice, a big piece of chocolate fudge cake, then declared that he was starving and there was no food in the house

My 16 year old has 3 eggs scrambled and a tin of plum tomatoes for breakfast week days and weekends 2 sausages, 2 bacon, 1/2 tin plum tomatoes, scrambled egg and 2 hash browns.

Mid morning an apple or some grapes. Occasionally a bacon sandwich.

Lunch burger in a bun and salad Saturday, roast dinner Sunday and weekdays he eats at cafeteria at college so possibly a chicken wrap and yoghurt. Occasionally chilli and rice.

Dinner he will have breaded fish wedges and peas, salmon and baby potatoes and carrots, rainbow spaghetti Bolognese with chopped peppers in, steak, chips and peas, toad in the hole with baked beans, chicken breast wrapped with prosciutto and a jacket potato, curry and rice with naan bread.

Usually either raspberries, peaches, melon with Greek yogurt.

He might snack on cheese.

He tries to eat high protein and low carbs to help with his sports. He only has a very small amount of potatoes or rice with his meals.