Healthy snacks for kids

WantToBeSE

Thanks Mrs C.

My 14 year old has had today:

Breakfast (fruit, crumpets), Lunch (ham salad wrap x2), dinner (pie, mash and gravy).
Snacks: Fromage frais, tin of rice pud, mini breadsticks, bagel, fruit, peanuts, the list goes on....).

my 10 yr old is the same. They both swear blind that they are hungry.

parkgirl

Mine is 10 tomorrow and eats like a horse! Sometimes I think that there can't possibly be any more room left!!!!!!!

DizzyMum_2

Hello,

I feel your pain. I've 16 and 18 year old boys who do loads of sport and for years they've had hollow legs.

I don't tend to buy crisps and biscuits as if they're hungry enough they'll eat what's in. If I'm feeling nice I'll bake cakes but they've both been taught to bake so if they don't like what's around they can make something else themselves. Your 14 year old is certainly at an age where if he is really starving he can figure it out for himself given the basic ingredients and some training. My older one has never felt like putting the effort in but they get a hot dinner at school and I always make a full dinner at night so I know he's not going hungry - just thinks he is

So some of the things we do:
Noodles and those value bags of stir fry
Yoghurts
Toaster bags
Cereal
Hm smoothies
Jelly with fruit in (not very often)
Crumpets/drop scones/bagels
Loads of fruit
Popcorn

If they're that hungry they'll eat what's available.

HTH

DM

ciderwithrosie_2

Sounds like my 18 yr old. He came home around 7pm, ate a big plate of jerk chicken, rice n peas with grated cheese on top. 10 minutes later he had a bowl of ice cream, then a cup of tea, a cereal bar and a packet of skips, now he's just had cheese sandwich...Hollow he is!

WantToBeSE

Thanks everyone.
So this is normal eating behaviour for teens? I am glad to hear that!

i think i am going to chop up loads of carrots and cucumbers into sticks, and then make a huge bowl of popcorn and see how they get on with that.

They are so expensive to feed! My oldest is just so lazy, he wont bother to make anything, and then eat half a loaf of bread with jam/PB on. He'll eat 2-3 bowls of cereal a day, and not tell me that he has used all the milk..grrrr!!!

ciderwithrosie_2

Sorry, without trying to pry too much, do you not have a microwave because you don't like them or can't afford one? Only, it might help them make better choices of snacks, rather than several bowls of cereal or sandwiches as they're the easiest and quickest things to make.

I often make a big tub of tomato and hotdog pasta or tuna and sweetcorn or veg soup (blitzed smooth) and leave it in the fridge for them to heat up when they're hungry.

My boys are pretty lazy too and if it doesn't cook within 5 minutes, then there's nothing in the house to eat apparently!

bluebag

I can't offer much in the way of suggestions, but one of my friends had three boys and complained that the fridge door was open so often if was an air conditioning unit for the kitchen.

She used to buy a few of the biscuit barrel size packs of value biscuits and had to hide a packet with her contraceptive stuff if she wanted to have any of them ( it was the only place they wouldn't look:eek:)

She used to have a whole drawer of the freezer full of microwave stuff just for them as snacks. There was also an issue with crockery and glasses in bedrooms for weeks LOL.

WantToBeSE

ciderwithrosie wrote: »

Sorry, without trying to pry too much, do you not have a microwave because you don't like them or can't afford one? Only, it might help them make better choices of snacks, rather than several bowls of cereal or sandwiches as they're the easiest and quickest things to make.

I often make a big tub of tomato and hotdog pasta or tuna and sweetcorn or veg soup (blitzed smooth) and leave it in the fridge for them to heat up when they're hungry.

My boys are pretty lazy too and if it doesn't cook within 5 minutes, then there's nothing in the house to eat apparently!

I dont really like them, and also my kitchen is so tiny i cant actually find a place to put one!

bluebag wrote: »

I can't offer much in the way of suggestions, but one of my friends had three boys and complained that the fridge door was open so often if was an air conditioning unit for the kitchen.

She used to buy a few of the biscuit barrel size packs of value biscuits and had to hide a packet with her contraceptive stuff if she wanted to have any of them ( it was the only place they wouldn't look:eek:)

She used to have a whole drawer of the freezer full of microwave stuff just for them as snacks. There was also an issue with crockery and glasses in bedrooms for weeks LOL.

I have to put my chocolate in my knicker drawer, lol, or i come home to find it eaten!

WantToBeSE

So, i cut up some carrots, peppers, cucumber and baby plum tomatoes and out them in a container in the fridge.
So, they cant moan they have nothing to eat...hmmm, yeah. My 14 year old thinks i am trying to poison him instead
He just wants junk food (biscuits, crisps etc). It's OK to say that he has to eat the healthy stuff if he is hungry, isn't it? That's not mean/too controlling is it?

bluebag

WantToBeSE wrote: »

So, i cut up some carrots, peppers, cucumber and baby plum tomatoes and out them in a container in the fridge.
So, they cant moan they have nothing to eat...hmmm, yeah. My 14 year old thinks i am trying to poison him instead
He just wants junk food (biscuits, crisps etc). It's OK to say that he has to eat the healthy stuff if he is hungry, isn't it? That's not mean/too controlling is it?

No it isn't mean or cruel but my oh my you will have the mother and father of all moans. I couldn't do it... I am far too weak.LOL