Teenage boy’s appetite

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Never known anything like it. He’s like a hoover. On study leave just now and complaining there’s not enough food in the house - parents of teenage boys, what non-junk do you stock your house with?! He’s GF which makes life a bit harder.

Protein foods keep you fuller for longer.

Will he eat boiled eggs?

Snack plates with cheese and crackers, boiled eggs, fruit, nuts, bread sticks and hummus?

I have one of these, also on exam leave. I cannot fill him up - he’s over six foot tall and there’s not an ounce of fat on him.
I stock up on pasta, tuna, sweetcorn, mayo, eggs, baked beans, oats, lots of milk, bananas, chicken breasts, yoghurts and protein shake powder. He costs me a fortune.

When mine were on study leave last year (twins, one GF) I ended up putting in a few rules as we were just running out of food.
I have a snack cupboard with popcorn, crackers, dried fruit, tinned fruit etc. Then have yoghurts, fruit, vegetables, cheese, hummus, bread, eggs, milkshakes. Dc1 sometimes made a pancake batter and had them for a few days with a bit of fruit). I made a treat on a Sunday for the week eg flapjack, fruitcake, ginger biscuits (they took it in turns to request something).
So they knew no more than two snacks a day (plus fruit and veg), I also started making their main meal at lunch time to try and fill them up. When its gone its gone. They soon got into a routine.

Someone on MN kindly posted a link to this guide when my DS was similar but I agree, try and get as much protein into them early on

Eggs, many eggs. Lots of protein. Constant supply of bananas, kiwis and berries for smoothies. No junk whatsoever. I find the young folk are generally really health conscious, mine would never want crisps or biscuits anyway.

All great ideas, thank you so much for the input. I’m going to get him to sit down with me and help with a plan including lots of protein (he does like eggs and can cook them himself), gf pasta and fruit. He doesn’t do junk per se but ahem appreciates the home baking which is quite high in sugar.

Does he like nuts? A mixture of unsalted nuts he likes, with pumpkin seeds, and some dried fruits like goji berries, raisens. Make a large tub up that he can decant.

granola and yogurt

Yes nuts! Great idea re a pre-mixed jar, thanks

luckily it's a phase and they start to reduce the amount of food they consume at some point just as they get even more expensive (uni)

toasties are good. in toasty makers you can also make omlette or vegetable fritters.

yoghurt und tinned fish also go down well.

I didn’t. We had meals & there were certain snacks in. Everyone was allowed their fair share only. Anything else was bought with pocket money.

Things that have worked here for 6ft3 DS16: A pack of wraps, some decent sliced chicken, a lettuce prepped and in a big lunchbox in the fridge to last a few days, big pot of houmous and that does for a good few self-made snacks. Large Greek yoghurt (can do fat free but either way it’s high protein), fruit punnets to sprinkle on top. Loads of Weetabix and Tesco muesli (they do a good sugar free one) and they can layer them up with banana. I started making sourdough more often as I like it and it seems to fill them up more than sliced (but basically have both on the go at the same time). A supermarket Thai chicken soup in a tub would do for a couple of lunches. And yes, eggs eggs eggs, might have to get chickens at this rate. Good luck!

Also have one of these. Agree eggs, nut butters on rye bread are a favourite snack, frittatas - can be cut up and eaten cold. Pasta, porridge etc.

DS also on study leave and very gym focussed so heavily into protein. We have kilos of chicken breasts in the fridge and freezer, rice, vegetables, he makes his own batch-cook lunches. Protein shakes and smoothies which he makes himself, the odd treat I make like cake or brownies or whatever. Then he'll eat whatever we'll eat in the evening but it's usually fairly healthy and always home made. Tonight we had lamb koftas and salad and roast baby potatoes.

Oh yes the Greek yogurt like another posted mentioned! He gets through vats of that with blueberries and raspberries and granola!

Oh yes Greek Yoghurt. DS is home from Uni soon, must remember to add it to the shopping list!