Help hungry teenager!!!!

FOURCANDLES_2

Yes get baking make fruit cakes, sponges,rock cakes etc etc , venture down the pasta route, spuds are cheap baked spud with baked bean filling come on use your imagination and if he still moans he is hungry take him to the DRS as he may have worms.

crisispoint914

Thanks pennypusher. He does not eat cakes/biscuits/crisps his "body is a temple" (bluegh!!!) He eats sickeningly healthy lots of salads/omelettes/jackets he doesn't like rice/pasta type meals and has tried them several times. He just seems to be 'looking' for food constantly. He does eat lots of fruit, which I am going to local fruit shop today to see if it is cheaper.

Geebee

crisispoint914 wrote: »

Thanks pennypusher. He does not eat cakes/biscuits/crisps his "body is a temple" (bluegh!!!) He eats sickeningly healthy lots of salads/omelettes/jackets he doesn't like rice/pasta type meals and has tried them several times. He just seems to be 'looking' for food constantly. He does eat lots of fruit, which I am going to local fruit shop today to see if it is cheaper.

Could he perhaps be a bit bored?.. That is not meant as a snide question either. I mention it because obviously its the school holidays, and as you say, he eats lots of fruit, eats healthily so maybe he is eating as something to do?.

crisispoint914

Good point GB maybe not sure how to cure that though as never can understand the 'communication grunts' he now uses combined with the upturned lip

Geebee

We could make a fortune if we could solve that one!. They can have 50 things to do but still be bored. As for the communication thingy... again, if only we could solve it...

Seriously though, has he been this difficult to fill for a long while or maybe you've noticed it more the last few weeks?. I do know that when my son is bored, there seems to be no filling him but i know its not hunger. Tidying his room is a good one, he usually wants to go out and play then, no raiding the cupboards!.:rotfl:

purplerose

If he's into eating healthily maybe encourage him to do more exercise to help with boredom. I know the more I exercise, the less hungry I am. Maybe see if you can pick up a set of cheap weights or see if anyone on freecycle has any.

My mum usually makes a large dinner for my wee brother, he eats half of it and then eats the other half later on around 9pm so you could maybe try that? Like if he has a jacket potato for dinner, cook 2 potatoes and when he's mooching around the kitchen later in the evening for food you can tell him to heat it up. Also, I don't know about other supermarkets but morrisons have bags of apples and pears for £1 which we all snack on. My brother also buys bags of cheap nuts either already mixed or he buys the separate kinds and mixes them himself into a tupperware he keeps in his room and just takes a handful of them whenever he's in the mood for snacking.

alona1

Some suggestions, possibly mentioned above:

Pasta, Jacket spuds, toast, cereal, porridge, meusli. Use carbs. If he's bored give him some chores to help with or bits of DIY he'd find enjoyable. Good luck x

michael50

Good old faithful spaghetti bolognese always fills them up

VanillaDelia

Sounds like he needs a good old hearty meal, with plenty of Meat and Veg. I don't know about anyone else, but, when I have salads and Baked Potatoes, they never fill me up and I feel the need to raid the cupboards.

Hannah_10

Porridge- 17p
The cheapo range supermarket oats are actually BETTER for this than any other kind... Lob this lot in a BIG bowl... One level mug oats (about 2p), one level mug milk (about 15p), one level and one half mug of water (free-ish) and if you want a chopped banana (25p ish?) or some raisins (no idea- say 15p?). Leave it in the fridge overnight. Next day cover it and nuke it till it's warm, the overnight soaking cuts the need for all that tedious stirring on the hob nonsense. That feeds two people in physical work if you ask me, so one ravenous teenager then- for 17p plain or 32p-42p fruited. Also if you have cinamon try 1/4 teaspoon or so too, really works! Another advantage of this is it's almost self-washing if you do the oats, then the milk, then the water the mug has practically cleaned itself, one swipe of the cloth and you can stick it in the draining rack and the bowl goes straight in the fridge for morning.

Jacket spuds and beans £1
About 10p-15p a spud (pick them out lose, never buy the pre-packed ones as they're 3x more expensive) and a fraction of a penny to nuke it for 6-7 mins per side, add beans for 10p-40p a tin (depending how fussy you are). A quid gets you 4 jacket spuds and a tin of decent beans- if he can eat all that then he's eating for the sake of it!

Tuna pasta £1.15
You can get whole 500g dry bags of pasta for about 50p, so even if he's REALLY REALLY starving he shouldn't be able to eat 25p of pasta. Flavour with cheap mayo/salad cream for 20p a jar so about 5p for a massive helping and a tin of tuna (expensive at about 75p-£1 a tin currently, but you can put a hell of a lot of pasta with one tin and you can sometimes find it for 50p a tin and stock up) and a bit of frozen sweetcorn from the bag in the freezer (about 10p of cheap frozen sweetcorn is a small mug full). A spend of £1.15 should feed him till he's sick.

I am a strapping gert lass and as a teenager I used to work as a ranger, if you think I mean the parks and gardens type think again... I mean the woodland type, I was felling 30-60 foot trees all day and lobbing logs about. The above represents a typical days eating for me then, except I would have cooked the spuds in a bonfire fire on the job not a microwave as there was always a fire to get rid of the scrubby branches. 8am-5pm, then I used to cycle home 10 miles.

Another cheap thing in quantity is blackberry and apple crumble if you pick the blackberries for free this'll cost you 30-60p for the apples, then the only three other ingredients are butter (dead cheap), flour (also dead cheap) and sugar (cheaper than cheap). £1's worth of BIG crumble should feed 6... or him.