How much do teenage boys really eat?

Savvy_Sue

Mine always ate twice as much as their cousins ... but one of them was quite fussy!

The youngest was a grazer: he preferred to eat little and often and would often not finish meals in one go but return for a second attempt later. Now he eats full meals: whenever we go out for a meal we just KNOW he will ask "Are we having a starter?" :rotfl:

He still grazes ... but he's 21 so not exactly a teenager any more.

hulltiger1969

marisco wrote: »

Was he ill as a baby? My youngest was very poorly when he was born and for a long while after. He had to have alot of oral medication and it got to the point where he would not allow anything to come near his mouth, except for a bottle.

My gp had to prescribe a special formula milk that provided him with all the nutrients etc that he required. We had dieticians involved with him for years as he would not be weaned no matter what I tried. I can still remember the worry and concern when all he would do as an 18 month old was suck yoghurt off the end of a dummy.

He will be 8 in October and has thankfully overcome all his problems and issues and now eats like a horse. I can really empathise with people whose kids struggle with their eating habits. It is incredibly draining to worry over them and try to find a positive way forward.

Not really apart from an opration on his bowel at 18months, he was a great eater up unto age 7, he ate all the right things, then one day, didn't like anything that was put in fron of him, he finds any excuse under the sun not to eat :mad: I am just starting down the road of GP again ( 2nd appt next week) they are just weighing and measuring him upto now, hoping he has something to improve appetite...

busiscoming2

My DS2 is 16 and he eats quite a lot.
Breakfast is a large bowl of shreddies with as much milk.
For packed lunch he takes a round of sandwiches, fruit, yoghurt and HM cake with the occasional bag of crisps.
When he comes in from school its anything from a pile of biscuits (if Im not around) to toast and peanut butter.
Dinner is whatever we have plus he has a yoghurt afterwards.

Some evenings he will have another sandwich, piece of cake or take a trip to Tesco for carp! Other days that's it and he eats no more till breakfast.

I find he goes in spurts, I suppose when he is growing.

Mr_Toad

I do hope he's not like my son.

As a teenager he was one of the most efficient food eating machines I've ever seen.

He would eat everything he could get his hands on.

Breakfast 2 weetabix often followed by two more and he'd drink a whole carton of juice if you'd let him!

He'd eat an evening meal that would leave most people rolling on the floor vowing never to eat again. Then there was the second evening snack at 10pm. This was half a loaf of toast bread spread with Marmite.

He was at 14 nearly 6 foot without an ounce of fat on him. He was a rugby player and loved his sport. Any attempt to get him to eat normal portions left him 'starving' he always seemed to need calories.

He ate very little junk as we didn't buy much but believe me it would have been cheaper than the amount of fruit he used get through between meals.

Sometimes he'd come home from friends starving after being given 3 fish fingers and a couple of spoons of baked beans or a quarter of a pizza for tea by their parents.

Savvy_Sue

BTW, I'm astonished at anyone who can eat 3 weetabix for breakfast ... and not spend the rest of the day in the loo!!! :rotfl:

pigpen

LEJC wrote: »

But then if the OPs daughter is eating a cooked breakfast before she goes to school...then it may be that she's actually not hungry when its the allotted lunch hour therefore bringing her lunch home.

Mine are bins and eat all day long!

valk_scot

If the visiting boy does a lot of sports then be aware he'll be starving when he comes in from these and will want an instant snack. If it's a running around type sport like football then he'll probably crave carbs so have cereal and bread/toast type things availible. If he's going to the gym to do weights then a protein snack is more appropriate, like boiled eggs or cottage cheese or beans on toast. Beans on toast covers both carb and protein bases, actually, and it's quick and cheap. Good for a fast breakfast too btw.

Oh yes, and milk. Lots of milk......

kjmtidea

This thread has made me laugh, I have 4 boys - although none of them are teenagers just yet! The amount they can eat whilst still staying stick thin is amazing and I am very jealous, although they are far sportier than me.

Breakfast is usually porridge or cereal - a box of cereal a day so that's 125g each, i'm on Slimming World and I get 35g :rotfl:.
Lunch is either 2 rounds of sandwiches or 1 sandwich and a pot of pasta/cous cous. Yogurt, fruit and biscuit.
Dinner will be a huge plateful of whatever we are having - pasta, roast, fish etc. We only have pudding once a week though.

On the evenings that they do sports then they will have toast/cereal/fruit/leftovers afterwards.

BLUEBIE

Thanks for all your replies, think I was worrying over nothing :-)

Any other advice about living with boys would be welcome though!!

xx

Savvy_Sue

kjmtidea wrote: »

leftovers

What is this 'leftovers' of which you speak? :rotfl:

Seriously, I always used to do a roast on Sundays, and do what I considered to be FAR too many roast potatoes and veg on the grounds that I could do something entertaining with them on Monday. Somehow by the end of the day, any roast veg left to cool had mysteriously vanished ... into the boy who had already had two huge platefules at lunch time!!!

And I gave up cooking double quantities of any other meal: it was seen as an open invitation to have seconds or thirds ...