Food for 2 weeks for lazy 18 year old!

ceebeeby

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

I have to thank Guides and Scouts hor helping me in this (they're both Explorer Scouts now :T )

That made me laugh! I'm a Guide Leader and ... last term I did a day when we taught all the girls to do things like: polish shoes, make a cup of tea, make a basic meal, sew a hem / button, change a light bulb etc. It was phenomenal the number who had never even held a shoe brush or had no concept of how to even make a slice of toast ... they do now though :T:T (and I made sure their parents knew they did!!) :D:D

ceebeeby

Spirit wrote: »

Last point. Two of my nephews died together in a dreadful accident this year. Don't let this irritation over him not working this summer spoil too much, I am sure he is annoying but you love him, and life is too short.

Spirit

Oh, my, I'm so sorry to hear that! You're absolutely right - they're all angels in their own way, and I'm really grateful to you for reminding me xxx

SavvyStudent_2

I would leave:

Couple of tins of value tinned beans
Frozen bread for toast, marg in fridge
Block of cheddar
Packet of cooked ham
Bag of value pasta + stir in sauce
Oven chips + instant curry sauce
Value blocks of noodles @ 9p each (Not pot noodles!!)
Basic Tinned fruit + value creamed rice
Frozen veg
And a tenner for milk / further bread.

Might seem harsh but really, that's the way to learn about bare essentials. I know before I went off to uni (6 years ago!) my mum got me used to living on value everything, and I pretty much still do and it's fine! If he goes off to uni used to proper pot noodles and fancy microwave pizza the student loan will get used up pretty quickly...!

x

homeaway

This is what i would do. First hide some emergency money somewhere he wont think to look and only tell him where it is if there is an emergency otherwise if he is like my son an emergency is when he needs to go for a beer with his friends. Make a meal plan with him not for specific days but if you are away for a week then he has to cook for six days so choose six meals. Go shopping with him and make him choose the ingredients. Obviously he has to know how to cook the meals but you can teach him the basics before you go. He has to stand on his own two feet and i know it is hard but he wont starve. Dont forget to show him how to use the washing machine and make him have some practice before you leave and also show him how to use an iron. These are all skills that he needs to have if he is going to fly the nest some day.

oystercatcher

SavvyStudent wrote: »

I would leave:

Couple of tins of value tinned beans
Frozen bread for toast, marg in fridge
Block of cheddar
Packet of cooked ham
Bag of value pasta + stir in sauce
Oven chips + instant curry sauce
Value blocks of noodles @ 9p each (Not pot noodles!!)
Basic Tinned fruit + value creamed rice
Frozen veg
And a tenner for milk / further bread.

Might seem harsh but really, that's the way to learn about bare essentials. I know before I went off to uni (6 years ago!) my mum got me used to living on value everything, and I pretty much still do and it's fine! If he goes off to uni used to proper pot noodles and fancy microwave pizza the student loan will get used up pretty quickly...!

x

That would last my son two days..... possibly three, what about the other eleven or twelve days !!
Teenage boys eat HUGE amounts not little girly meals.

It worries me that people automatically assume that any money will instantly be spent on beer and or rubbish. My three boys like a drink but no way would they spend what is effectively someone elses money, emergency money is for emergencies ! If they were asked to account for spending then they would. If other people are finding their children are greedy and deceptive then this reflects on the way they have been brought up, probably just like their parents!!

stevenhp1987

At 18 I was forced into getting a part time job and paying my own way with regards to food. Really has helped me learn the essentials of budgeting. I personally would tell him to get a job or go hungry!

Nikkifran

I go to college 2 nights a week so my teenagers (both girls) have to fix their own tea on those 2 nights. I try to make it easy for them so tends to be: cheese toasties with chips and salad, pasta and sauce with a few hot dog sausages thrown in, couscous and salad with rest of hot dogs, etc etc. All cheap and cheerful and easy to make.

I'd just choose a fortnight's worth of easy(ish) to make meals, stick the list to the fridge and leave him to it. As others have said, if he's hungry, he'll work it out.

pelirocco

Mine have no problem cooking their food , its the washing up they dont like doing , so my advice would be just to leave him 1 plate bowl mug etc , we can come back from a weekend away to find they have used everything , even serving dishes to eat from

poet123

Goodness, some of these replies do sound as if they come from Victorian parents.

I have 4 lads and they are all different, all brought up the same way and still all different. Two are perfectly self sufficient, and if left for 2 weeks would be fine, cook from scratch every day, etc, one is middling, and the other is pathetically helpless!

He is also lazy,(he works on contract in a school so will be home all day during the holidays) when we go away for 2 weeks shortly, I will do what I do every week when we are home, an internet shop for basics and some ready meals, fill the freezer with ingredients for home made food (ready for us when we return if it is not used) and leave some "emergency money" for emergencies of whatever type.

Why stress? and turn the whole holiday into a learning exercise? He usually visits the fridge and sorts himself out if he doesnt want what I am cooking, or isn't here at mealtimes anyway, so there is no difference.

xx_Jo_xx

mae wrote: »

And I find it incredibly amusing when people comment on posts when they obviously haven't read mine properly. He CAN cook I have always encouraged him, he is just lazy, hence my post on not wanting to spend a fortune on convenience foods for him but was trying to be fair too.

Thanks for your post though

I agree - but I do have to ask??

Are you my mum........is this my brother that we are talking about????

Im sure it must be one and the same. My brother is more than capable, when it suits him!!!! He wouldnt help in the house, he would 'forget'! He would lose receipts, waste the money, and when he was hungry, he would open the fridge and cupboard and if something didnt jump out and smack him in the head that was instantly edible, he would complain there was no food.

I would get him bread/rolls and freeze some.
Sandwich fillings (and freeze some)
Batch cook and freeze in portions
I would hide some money in the house, but dont tell him it is there. Then when he calls you in event of an emergency, you can tell him where it is and to go and get it.

Everyone can cook pasta. Buy him some jars of sauce to go with possibly and things that can cook themselves in the oven.


And leave him to get on with it......enjoy your hol xxx