Snacks for teenagers ...

pink_princess

Have a snacks bowl of nuts and seeds out for him. They are healthy and filling.

Carob coated raisins etc are a great way to start introducing fruit against.

splishsplash

• Bowl of veg soup, toast and an apple (I make the soup more filling with a handful of fried off chorizo and a handful of grated cheddar)
• Wraps with cheese/chicken/peppers cooked in the toasted sandwich maker
• Pancakes with savoury fillings (cheese sauce with chopped up whatever you like)
• tuna rice and beans - cook some rice, stir in a tin of tuna and a tin of beans, a dollop of mayo and some pepper, stir through until warmed up and serve with some naan bread.
• frittata/omelette/quiche or any kind of pie

My son is 15, a healthy weight and just under six feet tall. He's always starving after school (4pm), despite having a hot lunch every day at home and a healthy breakfast, so I tend to have all of the above hanging around - otherwise he could eat a packet of biscuits in about three minutes flat. He gets home at 4, eats a healthy portion off the list above, we have dinner these days at about 6pm, and he'll eat again about 9pm - cereal/toast/a bar/biscuits or something. He's like a bottomless pit. I know if there isn't something lovely and there, ready when he comes in the door (or something he can stick in the microwave for a couple of minutes) he would go for junk food/crisps/sweets.

jellyhead

geoffky wrote: »

We have our daughters dinner ready for her..I thought that was normal..
She does not get in until 4.30 due to a hour on the bus..

Some people work until 5 though, and in my family we like to eat together, so we eat just before 6, when my husband is home from work and my son is home from college. I wouldn't want to feed 1 child, or 1 child and myself at separate times to my husband and eldest. We enjoy eating together at the table.

peachyprice

geoffky wrote: »

We have our daughters dinner ready for her..I thought that was normal..
She does not get in until 4.30 due to a hour on the bus..

My children have never had dinner ready when they come in from school, I certainly wouldn't be cooking twice an evening so that they could. We all eat together around 6.30-7pm.

jellyhead

Would he eat fruit if it was in a home-made muffin? Blueberries are the favourite here - on their own they're pretty tasteless but when you cook them they go lovely and jammy. Home-made muffins can be healthier as you can use some oats, cut down on sugar etc. or use grated courgette or beetroot, or carrot.

I know it's processed, but my teenager likes to eat porridge when he gets in, but not the proper kind, he likes those microwave sachets that you add milk to. Or a bacon sandwich - teenage boys like bacon

My youngest had a snack tonight because he had a sports session that ended late, and he is a bottomless pit (and he is chubby despite doing lots of exercise and eating a lot more healthily than his friends do). I gave him a scrambled egg and some prawns. He also ate a persimmon. I'm not sure how healthy they are, but he chose it in preference to the bag of crisps that we had hanging around from a picnic 2 weeks ago, so I suppose it was better than the bag of crisps

Crisps are a nightmare, once you eat them it's hard to stop. I don't buy them unless it's for a picnic, because if they are in the house they siren-call you into the kitchen and before you know it they're gone

lovesabargain123

Thanks everyone some fab ideas.. He loves soup , don't know why I hadn't thought of it. Ive also suggested paled lunch and he's made his own for tomorrow without even asking for help. X

pelirocco

pigpen wrote: »

And increase cholesterol so increasing risks of heart disease. saturated fats .. those from animal products (cheese cream meat) are not good and recommended you only have them in low quantities. 30g or less is recommended for an adult man, 20g for a woman, if he is having proper well balanced meals the rest of the day the chances are those allowance is used up.

Any restrictive diet should be discussed with a dietician especially for a growing child otherwise they may quite quickly develop malnutrition. For a child as active as the OP's sounds be NEEDS the carbs for energy. I'd reckon it is more the chocolate bars and bottles of pop on the paper round and suchlike that are an issue, unfortunately there is little you can do about these at this age but one day the paper round will stop and remove the trip to the sweetshop twice a day!.

There is also the argument he is going to have another growth spurt soon and will need those stores to enable him to grow healthily. I'm sure at 6ft the OP is delighted with the prospect. My OH was a 'bit chunky' at 14/15, as were my brothers. 1 brother, now 6ft3, didn't eat and ended up being treated for malnutrition (he currently weighs 9 stone!!!), OH and the other brother are 6ft4 and 6ft2 respectively and thin as rakes now.

Not at all , read the research

Lunar_Eclipse

I think he probably needs more of a meal after school than a snack to be honest. Some fruit just won't do the trick. Protein is the priority.

Jacket potato with beans, tuna pasta or rice salad, cheese on toast, beans on toast, flapjacks, protein based sandwich, hearty soups, nuts etc might be good options.

Alternatively, how about his main evening meal earlier & a lighter supper later. My 11 year old is starving and needs her biggest meal of the day at around 4pm.

victory

My DS snack of choice at the mo is scrambled eggs on toast, a banana and cold meats, he doesn't do sugary stuff or crisps just scrambled eggs:D

jenhug

My girls come home from school ravenous, so dinner is always ready by 4pm. then they have a light snack before bed. If they are desperate for food between coming through the door at 3.30 and being fed at 4, there is fruit.