Snacks for teenagers ...

ktb

pigpen wrote: »

For a child as active as the OP's sounds be NEEDS the carbs for energy.

Do you have any medical/biological proof that this is true? I fear if it was, mankind would have died out a very long time ago, when in fact we are all still here because carbs are NON-essential to human survival and therefore we were able fulfil all dietary requirements from the other food groups - including plenty of natural, saturated fats. This is for humans out hunting too - so plenty active - and living outside - so using vast quantities of energy just keeping warm!

claire21

Malt loaf perhaps

merlot123

My son age 14, 6 foot 1, size 12 feet! build like a rugby player sounds very much the same as the op son, my son doesn't like fruit (neither do I, not eaten any for 30 years, but my DD eats lots of it!). I make tuna and pasta, a homemade soup or a tin if i cannot be bothered, I forgot this isn't the os board!, a cous cous salad, or a few sandwiches for when they get home from school. My son would eat constantly if I let him snack on crisps and biscuits, so I ration the quantity I buy a week.


We eat as a family at 7pm.

Spendless

I read this thread with interest as I have a similar problem with my nearly 13yo DS. I find eggs filling, so on Monday I left out a plate of various bits for DS to snack on, some ham, sliced boiled egg, carrot sticks, salsa. He gets in whilst I'm picking younger child up from school and I came back to find he'd made himself an egg mayo sandwich out of the sliced eggs and left the rest as he'd 'no idea what that dip was'!! Teenagers!!!

valk_scot

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..

4.30 is almost a late lunch rather than dinner! Doesn't she get hungry again by 8-ish? If I fed mine dinner at 4.30 they'd want dinner again with us at 7.30, and supper too.

After school snacks in this house are soup, bread and low fat spready cheese or peanut butter, toast and HM chicken liver pate, weetabix and milk, boiled eggs, wraps and hummus, cheese salad. (My DD loves this last.) There's plenty of fruit if they want that too and there's milk or fruit juice + fizzy water for drinks. I don't leave crisps and biscuits out for kids to help themselves, they're not food, they're treats.

pigpen

ktb wrote: »

Do you have any medical/biological proof that this is true? I fear if it was, mankind would have died out a very long time ago, when in fact we are all still here because carbs are NON-essential to human survival and therefore we were able fulfil all dietary requirements from the other food groups - including plenty of natural, saturated fats. This is for humans out hunting too - so plenty active - and living outside - so using vast quantities of energy just keeping warm!

The dietician said so and the consultant and NHS recommendation etc.

berries/fruit contain fructose = carbs, foraged by cavemen
milk contains lactose = carbs , drank by baby cavemen
Seeds, nuts, grains, vegetables all contain carbs.

Granted a lower percentage than breads and pasta but still carbs.

I do so love the lynch mob mentality on here that picks out an individual sentence and nitpicks just because someone else disagrees. It gets very very boring after about a millionth of a second.

My point was.. (for those who can obviously can not read very well!!) recommending a restricted diet for a growing lad is a) medical advice ergo forbidden and b) not to be done without medical advice. The OP didn't say he was overweight she said he is bigger than his skinny siblings.. I never said it was rubbish or ridiculous or wouldn't work.. I did say it sounds unnecessary.. you don't all need to be so defensive I don't actually give a toss what anyone eats so long as I am fed.

Have any of you ever tried to prevent a teenager scranning bread and cereal?

I've tried reducing the amount mine ate (due to his diabetes and the stupid treament he was on at the time) it was nigh on impossible. Apparently being restricted to 1 bowl of cereal (3 weetabix) and 4 slices of bread a day meant there was nothing to eat in the whole world and he may as well be dead. It is totally unrealistic to expect a young man to completely change his eating habits and introducing new 'alien' food is really difficult.

Mine are ravenous by 7pm if I feed them at 4:30pm .. we used to have bread and jam before bed as my stepmother always did food at 4:30.