Cheap snacks to fill up teenagers

thriftlady_2

For their lunchboxes my two teen boys (well, the younger one isn't actually a teen till Sunday) take muffins or flapjacks.

For snacks at home you can't beat bread, bread and more bread -with hm jam. The eldest would eat cheese till it came out of his ears, but that's expensive.

Homemade popcorn is a good one too.

Butterfly_Brain

Luckily my teenage son loves fruit so I always have plenty in or granola yoghurt another fave - Farmfoods are doing 5 fo £1 at the moment.
Twinks, Flapjacks, Museli Bars, Cereal, Oat cakes, Crackers and cheese
Scones, Muffins, Weetabix cake, Traybakes and popcorn
Have a look at these sites they may help
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pymg1 and click on the links

http://www.bakerella.com/

http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/Cheap-family

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp?bmUID=1265286292331

Heldun

More great ideas, thanks. I've started to look all these up and I'm cutting and pasting recipes like mad.

Actually this will be good for my eldest as he can help me with the recipes, both snack and main meal, as he's going to uni in the autumn so the plan was to have major cooking lessons later in the year, but this will bring it forward a bit and will give him a good start on the OS lifestyle.

craftlady

Mine eats cereal - lots of cereal !!!!! 4 weetabix at a time. All ways have lots in. I now buy Mr S own brand and he doesn't notice the difference:D. Also he makes himself porridge in the microwave - value oats are great.

Genuisscuffy

Thanks for this its been a great help for me too - I've 2 teenage boys who are constantly starving and because I'm trying to cut down to save some money they are constantly moaning there is no nice stuff in the house!! When I ask what they want its "something nice!!!" such a help so will definately try some of the ideas here.

samanthaneww2d

microwave flapjacks take minutes to do and they are really good theres a recipe on here somewhere

Winged_one

I dono't have hungry teenagers, but a fast loafcake that I make is a Mary Berry recipe:

100g Chopped dried apricots (I usually use mixed peel)
100g brown sugar
100g margarine/butter (I usually use the soft baking Stork)
150g sultanas
175g SR flour
75g glace cherries - washed and quartered
3 eggs

Crack eggs into bottom of a large bowl, add everything else in on top and combine well. Pour into a 1lb loaf tin and bake for approx 60 mins at 160 C. Delish.

I keep looking for other loaf cakes but this does me in the meantime (poor OH doesn't really like all the fruit in it though, so I tend to eat it all to myself....blush).

valk_scot

Cake, crisps and biscuits aren't all that filling or satisfying and if you eat them in big enough quantity to fill you up then they're horribly fattening. My OH and DS could shift a whole HM malt loaf or similar between them in 30 seconds if I let them, so I don't leave home baking lying around tbh.

Bread and peanut butter, banana sandwiches, cheese on toast, sandwiches made with home made egg or tuna mayo, last night's leftovers portioned up in tupperware pots (very popular here!!), cereal and milk, fruit, veg sticks, bread and jam.

For "big" snacks they have beans on toast or baked potatoes or HM soup.

welshsue

The weetabix cake is fantastic. Made a couple a while back, really easy to make and delicious. They didn't last long in this house.

SunnyGirl

I know exactly how you feel :rotfl: For quick portable snacks I go for things like fruit, yoghurt, Twinks, hm muffins & sandwiches. For the '2 hours after tea and I'm starving again' snacks I go for things like digestive biscuits with some peanut butter on (only 3 or 4), cheese & crackers, hm soup & bread, poached eggs on toast, beans on toast, weetabix, toast (although DS2 will eat 5 or 6 slices :eek:) and more of the above. I always try to keep a big pan of soup in the fridge so that they can take a portion out & reheat in the microwave and I have had reasonable success with keeping cooked pasta in the fridge to be reheated too. They can put some grated cheese on it, stir through some tomato puree and garlic or anything else they fancy. I often have a bowl of fruit salad on the go too as they're more likely to eat fruit that way.

HTH