Cheap snacks to fill up teenagers

Heldun · 4 February 2010 at 12:45PM

Hi

My DH has just been made redundant and I am in the process of pulling together cheap and nutritious meal plans to cut down on our food spend. I've got many great ideas from this forum.

However, we have 2 teenage sons in the house who eat me out of house and home at the best of times (if you have teenagers you'll know what I mean).

I need ideas for cheap snacks to fill them up in between meals and for lunchboxes. I work part-time so don't have loads of time for cooking/baking.

We tried Twinks hobnobs a couple of weeks ago and everyone loved those so they're definitely on the list. If anyone has any ideas for things such as sliceable cakes, particularly if they have some health value, that would be great (I could only think of carrot cake, and we'd soon get tired of that if it were the only thing in the house

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I'm sure some of you will have some great ideas for cheap snacks, so I look forward to reading them.

Helen

ifonlyitwaseasier · 4 February 2010 at 12:48PM

ok go look on the grocery challenge thred for the weetabix cake recipe

maybe try breadsticks, homemade dips, maybe frozen fruit for smoothies

will be back later with more ideas

Heldun · 4 February 2010 at 12:53PM

Thanks for the quick reply. The weetabix cake sounds interesting. I'll check out that thread.

Chuzzle · 4 February 2010 at 1:00PM

Try making traybakes. I find they are the best thing for a large sliceable cake.

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipes/tag-1511/traybake-recipes.aspx

or just google traybake recipes.

Gingernutmeg · 4 February 2010 at 1:05PM

I really like All Bran malt loaf - it's cheap and easy to make and if you can leave it wrapped for a day or so, it goes nice and sticky. It's delicious buttered too. The recipe here uses brown sugar but I usually just use white, which is a bit cheaper too.

pinkcandyflossprincess · 4 February 2010 at 1:08PM

flap jack is easy to make and you can always just drizzle a bit of chocolate on or add in extra bits as you wish

Psykicpup · 4 February 2010 at 1:08PM

You could do satay chicken sticks as they are good cold or bags of cocktail sausages are about a quid, How about cheese scones?

Pink. · 4 February 2010 at 1:10PM

Hi Heldun,

I have one of those at home.

I try to keep some homemade soup and plenty of sandwich filling in the fridge eg tuna, egg mayonaise etc as I find when he gets hungry he's ravenous and wants it immediately. If you have a stick blender smoothies and milk shakes are easy to make and nutritious. Favourite filling snacks for him are:

smoothies (using value tinned fruit and orange juice)
milk shakes (banana is filling)
scones
hm pancakes
banana bread
muffins (sweet and savoury)
hm muesli bars/flapjacks
cheese on toast
pate on toast
sandwiches
mini hm pizzas
cheese and biscuits etc

These earlier threads may give you some more ideas:

Feeding Growing Teenagers

Healthy snacks for kids

Pink

Heldun · 4 February 2010 at 1:11PM

Some great ideas there - I'll go and look at the links. I guess if I can make 2 or 3 things at a time and freeze a couple at least I won't spend all of my time outside of work baking in order to keep my lads filled up.

Psykicpup · 4 February 2010 at 1:13PM

You could teach them to bake ...... save you some time in the kitchen in the long run but probably NOT moneysaving lol :eek:

ubamother · 4 February 2010 at 1:17PM

I don't have a recipe I'm afraid, but I'm sure it's widely available online - I had some fruit cake at a friend's the other day - it was gorgeous and moist and sweet - she said it was a dead easy, all-in-one, weetabix cake and it had no fat in it.

I make my boy savoury cheese, or cheese and bacon American muffins with half wholewheat, half white flour - I just googled around until I found recipes.
Potato cakes are good too - you can pre-make and freeze. I just pop them in a toaster bag to reheat from frozen. They're great with baked beans.
Big soup - loads of pulses, veggies etc is very filling

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