teenagers meals

I'm really concerned for pensionpat's 14 yr old who she only feeds once a week. How has he reached this age without starving to death? I think I should ring child protection.

My eighteen year old is a bottomless pit - he moved out six months ago, leaving husband, nine year old daughter and I at home. My food bills have gone down by half. I certainly notice when he is home as i have to cook much larger amounts. He is also well known for coming in late (he will go out with his mates after supper on a weekend) and come in at silly o'clock and polish off anything left from supper!

at least hes in the shower, more regularly. he now stays in the week as well & over the holidays.we get on quite well.

What teenage boys eat does little or no long term damage to their health, no matter how high in sugar, fat etc or deficient in vegetables and fruit.

They do it for a few years when they are going through a growth spurt and after while it all dies down and they start eating more normally. They also grow up and mature and most then take better care of themselves.

Peaseblossom I do agree, Cadburys sold to Kraft ( margarine ) and you can taste the wax. My DS was a v fussy eater, bananas and crisps , now six foot tall. DGS is 8 months, when in high chair opens his mouth like a baby bird for everything, long may it continue.

I agree, they certainly are "crime" eggs since Cadbury was sold to the yanks! The chocolate is horrible now. Overly sweet with a pastey type texture. Not nice and smooth and creamy like they used to be. Same for any Cadbury chocolate now. The Americans can't do chocolate. Their Hershey bars are disgusting.

the ones with toffee in the middle are nice

Thanks for clearing that mystery up Jamila but how can one of those eggs be a crime, they are divine

Any of those chocolate eggs with the goo in the middle is a crime

i want to know what a Crime Egg is

maggiemaybe, "pot noodles too much effort"... Yup

I couldn't believe that he had a whole box because of the amount of sugar in these kind of cereals. I worked out he had nearly 112g of sugar in one go. He may be like a beanpole but if he carries on eating that much sugar he is a diabetes candidate waiting to happen, not to mention the damage to his teeth.

When I was at school.our school dinners were served in help yourself dishes on tables of 8, most of my friends had puppy fat issues, luckily I didn't, It was nothing for me to eat 8 portions of chips (only served on Fridays!) and 8 portions of dessert, usually pudding of some sort and custard. Teachers used to call me hollow legs and at 5 foot 5 inches I never went over 8 stone. Teenagers often have enormous appetites and often for the wrong sort of food. My son could eat a whole loaf of bread toasted to fill himself up with before dinner and not an ounce of fat on him.

In my experience, (2 DSs) teenage boys eat like locusts. If there is food in the house, it's not there for long. This generally lasts from puberty till they leave home.... It's entirely normal.

Re student diets. We paid for catered halls for DS. Big mistake, as he lived on chip naans for 3 years. Potnoodles would have been way too much effort

hi, l have suggested a cooked breakfast a few times, hes not bothered, but he did have 8 pancakes for breakfast plus a couple of waffles & a banana. he will stay over in the school holidays as well so l had better stock up then.years ago my son used to say, when he was a teenager also quite tall, he was still hungry & l never believed him, so this time l want to get it right.

I'm one of 3 sisters. My sister and I each have a son of similar age. Once they hit puberty, we could not believe how much they ate; we had no experience to draw on. One is sporty, other not so much, they are nothing alike physically, but they could both eat for UK.

I'm surprised posters are falling for it nanaK!

Sounds normal for a growing teenager....hollow leg syndrome

Having 4 boys who are all stick thin i am amazed at how little your grandson eats. One of my lot when he was still at home used to eat a pack of fresh pasta that is supposed to serve 2, a tub of creamy sauce and a whole stick of garlic bread for supper and often follows it with ice cream but at the age of 25 has a 28 inch waist. One stepson has 2 proper dinners every night. they cost me a fortune

Definitely a onesie and plimsoll wind up!

Outta here work, are you sure this is a 14-yo's intake? Sounds a bit like a p...take to me. Sorry if I'm wrong but all the growing lads I've known eat a lot more than that.

When my son was 14 he would eat cereal anytime of the day on top of his meals, it was his snack I used to find empty bowls under his bed loads of them. He was a sprinter when he was young but now he s a fully fledged ironman competitor doing hundreds of miles

When I visited DS2's family last weekeend, I couldn't believe the amount of food the GSs (9 and 11) managed to put away. The elder one is a beanpole and doesn't have an ounce of spare flesh; the younger is tall and sturdy - the shape of a front row forward. In the restaurant, he managed a large plateful of garlic bread plus the biggest pizza they had on the menu. Both of them get plenty of exercise.

ps what you said he ate in the OP doesn't sound enough for a teenage boy to me.

DS would eat twice that at that age.