Food for 2 weeks for lazy 18 year old!

mae

Hi what would you stock up on for 2 weeks food for a lazy 18 year old.

We are going away on holiday and our son will be at home. He is a typical 18 year at the moment and the world revolves around him and he has no concept of the effort people put in for him.

Last time we went away I filled the cupboards with 'easy' food for him, which cost me a fortune.

I would have done this again but his attittude of I'm not getting a part time job 'its the holidays' had made me start to begrudge it!!

So I will fill the cupboards but of food he has to cook, is that peevish? Don't see why I should spend a fortune when he has the attitude of not needing/having to work over the summer.

He can cook IF he puts his mind to it.

So how much food and what kind of things would you stock up on?

I did think about just leaving him some money so he could shop for his own food too but I think he will just buy himself 2 weeks worth of supernoodles and cereal!! And maybe some beers and also if I did do this I would make sure it was a strict amount of money.

Thanks

buxtonrabbitgreen

I should get him plenty of eggs. They are easy to cook. Show him how to make omlette, scrambled egg, and fried egg before you go. Plenty of bread, frozen pizza, cheese and cheap noodles.

my ds has a job for the holidays. If you tell your ds that mine is making £300 per week he might change his mind. lol

Trinny

Hi there

If you have an idea of what he can cook then i would leave him the basic ingredients - and let him know that you have provided the things he needs to cook "the recipe" with.

Other than that - you could fill the freezer with shepherds pie, HM soup, Lasagne - if he is too lazy to defrost and reheat something then he is either going to have to use his own money to buy food or he is going to get pretty hungry.

Not surprised you begrudge buying all his favourites - he is an adult after all - not all kids are the same, but i was away in Uni at 18 and trust me i burnt things and undercooked things and scraped things into the bin until i got the hang of cooking.

I lived on eggs, toast and jam and cereal for a long time until i learnt

Have a lovely holiday

Trin

robpw2

go to places that have reduced counters and buy cheap ready meals and freeze for example co=op near me tonight has sausage and mash for 39p

i dont mean for all meals but just incase he wants a lazy night

also perhaps cheaper if you made a couple of meals and froze them

ceebeeby

I'd leave him nothing!!!!

At 18 years old he's an adult, and if you constantly provide for him, he'll never learn that he has to make his own way.

I seriously would wish him well, and go off and have a fab holiday. If before he goes he asks you what he's going to eat, point him in the direction of the sink bowl, washing up liquid and jay cloths and tell him he'll need to go and wash cars to earn the money for food!

I promise he won't starve to death!

Gigervamp

If he's like my boys, he'll live on bread and noodles! I have homemade ready meals in the freezer, but toast and boiling a kettle for noodles is easier. :rolleyes:

mae

Thanks everyone.

I don't think I could leave him nothing but I don't want to make it easy for him either or get a load of goodies in.

I bought him a student cook book I might tell him to have a look in it and I will buy him ingredients he needs as there is no way I am paying out for ready meals and junk food when he is not prepared to work or make an effort as its the 'holidays' :eek:

taplady

mae wrote: »

I bought him a student cook book I might tell him to have a look in it and I will buy him ingredients he needs

Thats what I was about to suggest too. It might do him the world of good having to cook for himself:T

southernscouser

Go easy on the lad. Wasn't so long ago I was 18 (well ok a decade :rolleyes:) and useless.

Leave him enough money for a takeaway pizza a day and he might even water the plants while you're gone.

Smashing

I'd leave a cookbook on the side, ensure there were some staples in the cupboard and leave the lazy git to it.
I have a funny feeling he won't starve.

mae

southernscouser wrote: »

Go easy on the lad. Wasn't so long ago I was 18 (well ok a decade :rolleyes:) and useless.

Leave him enough money for a takeaway pizza a day and he might even water the plants while you're gone.

Really? So how much money do you suggest I leave the little darling?
I'm open to suggestions