I'm having trouble keeping everyone fed.

[Anonymous]

I give my 3.5 year old 2 chicken legs. And he weighs 33 lbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I keep coming back to comment on this thread. OP seems to be hoping to garner support to convince her DH and growing teens that their food needs are excessive and that they should be satisfied with what she serves. I don't know what motivates someone to deny real hunger for healthy, non-overweight people especially growing teens.

An eating disorder.

[Anonymous]

I have just died laughing at this thread, every aspect: the fact that my two boys will start eating us out of house and home in a few years - which we knew, my husband has regaled me with tales of his teenaged appetite, the teeny portions OP serves and the way some PPs have described it, the long lists of what groceries other PPs kids burn through in a few days... Oh my god, this thread is great!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have just died laughing at this thread, every aspect: the fact that my two boys will start eating us out of house and home in a few years - which we knew, my husband has regaled me with tales of his teenaged appetite, the teeny portions OP serves and the way some PPs have described it, the long lists of what groceries other PPs kids burn through in a few days... Oh my god, this thread is great!

+1

I think it was the reference to serving a family of 6 "a" rack of ribs that killed me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op again

My eldest sons play soccer and ice hockey 3x a week. Anytime I try to give them a soup for dinner they freak out and basically refuse to eat it. Last week I made 10 chicken legs for dinner. Every last one was eaten in about 25 mins. When I feed them till they are full, it's like preparing a meal for an army. They managed to eat 10 potatoes worth of mashed potatoes the other day. I cooked a rack of ribs and they were still hungry after.

10 chicken legs for 6 people,including two teenagers? That is SO not enough food!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op again

My eldest sons play soccer and ice hockey 3x a week. Anytime I try to give them a soup for dinner they freak out and basically refuse to eat it. Last week I made 10 chicken legs for dinner. Every last one was eaten in about 25 mins. When I feed them till they are full, it's like preparing a meal for an army. They managed to eat 10 potatoes worth of mashed potatoes the other day. I cooked a rack of ribs and they were still hungry after.

A rack of ribs each? or one rack total? One rack is definitely not enough. 10 chicken legs? I would think teenage boys would eat 4-5 each, my 8 year old will eat 2-3. Seems to me you are not making nearly enough food, especially for an active family.

+1

This OP has to be fake.

[Anonymous]

OP healthy growing children need more fats as well as proteins and carbs.

Smoothies with full fat yogurt, mac and cheese with full fat cheese, milkshakes and ice cream, cream of soup casseroles with real cream and butter. Olive oil and sour cream and things like that.

[Anonymous]

Thanks! Dinner tonight was good! I made burritos with grilled chicken, peppers, onions and black beans. It was buffet style so everyone could use as many toppings as they wanted. They went through a whole bag of cheese and a little container of salsa. I made banana pudding for dessert. I think they were okay.

[Anonymous]

Just out of curiosity -- how big a bag of cheese? How many tortillas did you use and how many pounds of chicken?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have just died laughing at this thread, every aspect: the fact that my two boys will start eating us out of house and home in a few years - which we knew, my husband has regaled me with tales of his teenaged appetite, the teeny portions OP serves and the way some PPs have described it, the long lists of what groceries other PPs kids burn through in a few days... Oh my god, this thread is great!

+1

I think it was the reference to serving a family of 6 "a" rack of ribs that killed me.

Me too. Although I've never eaten ribs and have never cooked them so I have no idea how much a serving size is, it was the "a" that got me, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just out of curiosity -- how big a bag of cheese? How many tortillas did you use and how many pounds of chicken?

Those are random questions lol
It was a bag of Mexican blend cheese. The bag says it is 1 and a 1/4 cup. I know because I buy them all the time. I used 8 chicken thighs and cut them off the bones and grilled them that way. I used a whole onion and 4 big peppers. We had a bag of 10 flour tortillas.

[Anonymous]

They didn't even get 1/4 c cheese each. Sad panda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just out of curiosity -- how big a bag of cheese? How many tortillas did you use and how many pounds of chicken?

Those are random questions lol
It was a bag of Mexican blend cheese. The bag says it is 1 and a 1/4 cup. I know because I buy them all the time. I used 8 chicken thighs and cut them off the bones and grilled them that way. I used a whole onion and 4 big peppers. We had a bag of 10 flour tortillas.

For two adults, two teenaged athletes and two children you could buy two of those little bags of cheese, double the thighs, three more onions and triple the tortillas. You really aren't feeding them enough at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just out of curiosity -- how big a bag of cheese? How many tortillas did you use and how many pounds of chicken?

Those are random questions lol
It was a bag of Mexican blend cheese. The bag says it is 1 and a 1/4 cup. I know because I buy them all the time. I used 8 chicken thighs and cut them off the bones and grilled them that way. I used a whole onion and 4 big peppers. We had a bag of 10 flour tortillas.

Sigh. Still not enough. You have a REAL problem OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just out of curiosity -- how big a bag of cheese? How many tortillas did you use and how many pounds of chicken?

Those are random questions lol
It was a bag of Mexican blend cheese. The bag says it is 1 and a 1/4 cup. I know because I buy them all the time. I used 8 chicken thighs and cut them off the bones and grilled them that way. I used a whole onion and 4 big peppers. We had a bag of 10 flour tortillas.

Sigh. Still not enough. You have a REAL problem OP

A whole onion! I am dying.