Feeding a hungry teenager!! Help!!

farmerswife75

Hi everyone!

I just need some advice really, we are a family of 5 and live on a farm. Our youngest 2 children are still at school but my eldest left in June and is now working on the farm with us every day. I make 99% of our meals from scratch, bake biscuits every day and try to not let the kids eat too much junk. My main problem at the moment is filling my teenager, he has cereal & 2 slices of toast for breakfast, a drink and a homemade biscuit or piece of cake at 10am, for lunch i make soup and sandwich/toasties etc and then ice cream or cake for pud. He has a quick snack of cake/biccy/toast with jam at 3.30pm before he helps with the milking and then supper at 6pm. After all that he's hungry again by 8pm!! What else can i feed him that's not going to add loads to my grocery budget??

Any ideas greatly appreciated!!

Jxx

lily117

Jacket potatoes? Porridge?

Fruball

I had this problem in the summer hols with my girls!

I offered them a roll with either ham or cheese if they were hungry.

Stodgy puds help to fill them up too

WantToBeSE

Hi FarmersWife

I kind of understnad, i have 2 kids (mine are 12 and 8) who eat everything in sight!

With your oldest, if he is working on the farm, he is burning a lot of energy with the physical work.
Have you tried feeding him more carbs (pasta, bread, potatoes) for dinner?

For breakfast, porridge (from proper oats, not ready brek style) is very filling, you can add peanut butter/mashed bana etc to it, to give it more flavour.

For lunch, could you make big HM pasties using whatever meat/veg you have?

Also, make sure he drinks enough water, as this can a-fill him up, b-keep him hydrated, c- make sure he isnt eating when in fact he feels thirsty.

hope that helps

vanoonoo

porridge or rice pudding with maybe a blob of jam x

POPPYOSCAR

What about a big bowl of rice?

My daughter loves this with some chopped up grilled chicken mixed in.

Skintmama

My experience of feeding teenage boys is that they need a fair amount of protein to keep them going - they are still growing into their twenties I believe! Eggs for breakfast with maybe baked beans and wholemeal toast?

Soups could be boosted with pulses and root vegetables. More fibre and complex carbohydrates keep one feeling full longer. However, there is no doubt that feeding an active teenage boy is expensive!

lostinrates

My mother used to make big pots of soup to which we were allowed to help ourselves. These were mainly vegetable, but this changed, sometimes blended, sometimes not. These would last a couple of daysw

I would say, he seems to be eating quite carb heavy diet. Could he improve this? For example, Could he add an egg to his breafast, maybe egg on toast? Or some baked beans? I think if he were eating some more protinous foods, or even fats, and possbly more emphasis on savoury rather than sweet food, he would feel full for longer and might even be a bit healthier.

Boys toiling need a lot of food, and tbh, that doesn't sound like much for a teenage lad farming. Also....is he drinking enough water? I notice few of my farming friends do....imo.

FrugalFranny

Copied from another thread I posted on

One I use a lot is 'toad in the hole':

Ingredients

Serves: 4 Adults
Serves: 1 very hungry teenage boy once maybe twice.
(Teenage boys have hollow legs!)

1 oz butter
5/6 pork sausages
4oz flour
pinch of salt
1 egg
300ml milk

1. To make the batter,sift the flour and salt into a bowl.

2. Beat the egg in and gradually add enough milk to form a stiff batter.Set aside for 10 mins.Then add the remaining milk,stirring constantly to get out any lumps (I like to add a pinch of pepper)

3. Melt the butter and pour into an ovenproof dish and add the sausages.
Put them into the oven at 200c/gas mark 6 for 10 mins,or until evenly browned.

4. Pour over the batter and then bake for 30 mins or until the batter is golden brown and has risen.

Don't forget the gravy!

The batter if very filling, the rest off his diet can be balanced out once the 'hunger' has been dealt with with the usual fruit and so on.

serve with some veg/mash to fill it out more

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Using basic/smart price brand everything except the sausages from A*da (I get mine from ice*and 20 thick pork sausages for about £1/£2ish) and what ever butter/buttery marg is on offer that week. The price should come to less than £1 for the whole 4 portions with the ingredients above, all you need is the bit's and bobs to start with in your cupboard.

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Quote from JackieO:
I always streeetched sausages by cutting them in half down the middle when making toad in the hole and it filled the family up and I had bangers left over for an other meal

Quote from Butterfly Brain:
I always slice sausages into pieces before I put them in toad in the hole or pasta etc, because it makes it look that there is more than there actually is.

Hope this helps

quintwins

I would do portions of sheperds pie, mash and casarole and stews for the freeze he can dip into when he needs them, to be fair he is a growning boy with a physicial job he's not just being greedy.

Heffi1

I found with my 6ft2ins son that he often ate because he was bored, but I also knew as he was growing he was hungry too, so I often made a stodgy pudding and asked him to wait for half hour to an hour after his meal before he had it, it meant I wasn't feeding him more, but later in the day and this also took care of the late night munchies