Do you cook your teens breakfast and lunch?

[Joyfullday]

Do you cook your teens breakfasts and lunches?

And what do they normally eat?

Do you keep snacks in the house? What sort?

Breakfast - self service cereal

Lunch - self service sandwich or whatever they can find.

Snacks - fruit, crisps

I only got involved with feeding in the evening once they were old enough to open the fridge.

My 2 girls make their own lunches 90% of the time. Will sometimes cook dinner. I make most evening meals as I am cooking for all of us.

Mine don’t eat breakfast. They never have and I also can’t eat in the morning so I don’t push it.

school days they will take cereal bars or nutrigrains to eat at break. Their school also does toast and cereal in the canteen at break so they’ll sometimes have that too. Lunch, they go to the school cafeteria or go out to the high street with mates. Our Subway is just around the corner from the school and do a meal deal for school kids, I think it’s about £3.50

weekend, they will make themselves toast/cereal/croissants/whatever is there when they feel like it. This is normally around 11am. Then they’ll make something mid afternoon if they are home. It really depends what is happening and who is where in a particular day. We’ve never been a family that sits down to lunch together

I always just try and make sure there’s plenty of snacks in. Peperamis, crisps, popcorn, sausage rolls, cheese, pot noodles, frozen chips, mini pizzas and popcorn chicken that they can throw in the air fryer. The frozen range from Greggs is popular in our house for chucking in the air fryer

i then usually make dinner most nights

Just stopped facilitating their meals. 14 and 16.

Breakfast is tricky at the moment. She doesn't like eating first thing and there's a battle over more sleep vs homemade, better food or grabbing something at school. If I've got time to make pancakes I will but if it's porridge, cereal etc she does it herself. She makes overnight oats occasionally.

Lunch- ideally would do it herself. If I'm in the kitchen sorting mine and younger brothers then I help because usually it's the same. On a weekend generally sorts her self out unless we're all doing something particular.

Snacks - fruit, normal snacky stuff, noodles, potato waffles, chips, soup, nuts, leftovers, Greek yoghurt and berries, cream cheese and avocado bagels, pastries, rice and sweet chilli sauce, cheese.

Also, and I'm sorry if I'm very off but this feels like a bit of an unusual level of worry over food for kids of this age. It's tricky because it's not as healthy as you would like but you need to give them the skills to be independent.

^^ I used to do pretty much the same.

An air fryer + freezer is a great combo for teens.

Made sure fruit bowl was full, yoghurts in fridge, frozen berries, and made healthy soups and pasta sauces for freezer too that they could zap themselves.

No, I only make their dinner. They will usually have cereal or toast for breakfast. Lunch they all sorts, pasta, egg on toast, chicken and rice. There's always fruit in the house, usually some crackers, yogurt, breadsticks, sometimes cereal bars, crisps, biscuits.
I do think teens need to be taking some responsibility for preparing and cooking their own meals, just like they do with cleaning their bedrooms, packing school bags. Mine also get themselves up in the morning and get the bus to school with no input from me.

Usually a brunch type thing on Sat and Sun.

Sometimes toast or a smoothie in the week but usually teens don’t want anything that early.

‘Snacks’ fresh soups, noodles, pizza, oat cakes, bread and ingredients to make a sandwich.

No… breakfast would be something easy like toast, crumpets, lunch would be sandwiches
My DD is now 15 (just) and generally does all the cooking now.. (I know I’m lucky!)

snack ideas - again things like crumpets, fruit, cereal bars, hard boiled eggs (boiled prior day).. salad bags, quiche,

Only if I’m doing something like an occasional fry up although it’s just as likely that one of them will make it. Dd12’s specialty is scrambled egg and avocado on sourdough with bacon. She’ll make it for me and her sister as well as herself a couple of times a month. Generally though we are up and out early and everyone just grabs something to go. Yes I always have plenty snacks in. Dc have made their own packed lunches since primary school so I always have plenty lunch stuff in

From 14 kids cooked their own breakfast and mostly their own lunch. Snacks, fruit, bread, nuts, corn cakes, avocado, peanut butter and Nutella. They seemed happy enough with that. And all those things feature in their own homes.

I provide one cooked meal a day. And have stuff in for them to fend for themselves for the other meals. They often cook pasta, eggs, heat leftovers… 16 and 13.

We mostly all do our own breakfast as at different times, except for Sundays when we'll make waffles or pancakes. DS17 has an enormous bowl of branflakes with blueberries, banana, chia seeds and Greek yoghurt AND a blueberry protein shake! DS often makes egg on toast. Lunch wise I make their packed lunches - usually pasta or rice salads with lots of chicken and avocado. They're both on a protein quest at the moment!

Yes - older DD has a full on sports training schedule one early start 3 evenings a week out training and then two matches a weekend - plus school! So I have to make sure she gets enough protein, nutrition. She still eats plenty of chocolate though!

I should say if she needs to she’ll make herself a smoothie or an egg etc! But I deffo need to teach them to cook. Youngest isn’t a teen yet and autistic.

I have 3 teenagers 18,16,14

I never make breakfast and very very rarely make their lunch. They have their own hands and arms!

Mine are similar ages to your and can cook basics. They can make scrambled eggs, fried eggs, fry up bacon, make French toast /eggy bread. There is always salad and fruit which they prepare to go alongside depending if it's a sweet or savoury dish. They also make packet noodles and add frozen veg like peas. They can cook a meal from a recipe bur they have very little time.

We very rarely cook for them unless its a meal we know they will eat we tend to all eat different meals.

Cook it? Never. My DD didn’t really eat breakfast and can’t remember but think my some made himself porridge or eggs. Lunch was a sandwich or soup they made themselves.
My friend cooked her son pancakes every day. I thought she was nuts.

DD is 17 and I haven't got her breakfast for years. She is capable of making a bowl of cereal, or grabbing crepes/pain au choc if she is running late.

Snack wise, I usually have yogurt, dairylea dunkers, fruit, crisps.

For lunch, I usually make us a cheese roll, or she will make them.

I usually cook tea every night, but am trying to teach her various simple things now before she goes off to Uni next year.

DD is AuDHD so we tend to eat a lot of the same stuff over and over.

No! My kids cook themselves breakfast and lunch. My 10y made us scrambled eggs on toast this morning. They are not MADE to, we just brought them up to be able to cook and appreciate good food.

Weekends yes to both: breakfast is bacon sandwich, avocado toast, eggs and bacon, sometimes pancakes or waffles but usually we lean towards savoury.

lunch we often eat out but if we’re at home it’s usually a roast chicken salad or a bagel.

in the week they’re at school / away so cooked breakfast occasionally if they’re going on school trips/big sports matches and no lunches. During the holidays I’m usually so excited to have a full house that I cook endlessly

my eldest used to complain we were “an ingredients house” and there was not enough to snack on but beginning of week we’d have biscuits, crisps, nuts and seeds - the boys hoover through it in days!

I make cakes (rock cakes, scones, muffins) and flapjacks a couple of times per month and there’s
always cheese/cold meats/salad/fruit in the fridge and pasta/beans/chicken peas/cereal/noodles in the cupboards.

All 3 of mine make thier own age 11-16. It's a life skill as they prep and make it.

Make them porridge on school days and before sports, also sometimes a bacon sandwich. Other days they get their own toast/cereal/eggs etc.

For lunch they may make themselves pasta and pesto, a jacket potato, sandwiches etc. Depends on what we are all up to.

Always snacks around - crumpets, yogurts, fruit, biscuits, Nakd bars, toast and cereal. They are growing sporty teens and eat a lot.

My boys are 16(nearly 17) and 24
And I haven't made breakfast/ lunch for them since they were 13. They even do their packed lunches. I work full time snd studying towards a degree so longs hrs.
But I always raised them to be very independent, iron their own clothes. Once they finished GCSES they did their own laundry. And each have chores one does the recycling the other the bins.

To add I do sort them their own food cupboards and make sure they can add things to shopping list that they want for lunches etc.