Teen boys who are “starving”

[Anonymous]

What do you cook them that’s fast? Or what can they cook that’s fast and filling?

[Anonymous]

Fortunately mine likes leftovers, so that is a quick reheat.

He also loves wraps so I can make a quick chicken wrap in no time and I feel like that's pretty healthy. I buy pre-grilled frozen chicken and microwave it. If you are more organized you can grill a bunch of chicken breasts, chop and freeze, but I find all chicken breasts too woody right now.

[Anonymous]

Steaks. They make it themselves.

[Anonymous]

I keep a prepared protein (taco meat or grilled chicken usually), cooked rice, and beans in the fridge so my teens can throw together a burrito bowl.

[Anonymous]

I bake and freeze meat/bean/cheese empanadas that they can reheat quickly in the toaster.

But mostly they prepare themselves a somewhat crappy “first dinner” afterschool with frozen food from Costco: breaded chicken, pot pies, fried rice, TJ’s tamales, ramen. One cooks omelets a lot.

Also smoothies with Greek yogurt, fruit, and peanut butter.

[Anonymous]

I stock the house with ingredients he wants like Greek yogurt, frozen fruit and protein powder for smoothies, nuts, ground turkey and rice, tuna, chicken, sweet potatoes …he is in charge of making his own snacks with those things.

[Anonymous]

baked potato or sweet potato--can be topped with lots of different things.

eggs: scrambled, hard boiled, fried, etc. easy to add some veggies and/or turn into a sandwich.

fish sticks

peanut butter sandwich with many variations--PBJ, banana or apple, even kimchi (I know it sounds weird but I like it).

hummus and cucumber or baby carrots

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fortunately mine likes leftovers, so that is a quick reheat.

He also loves wraps so I can make a quick chicken wrap in no time and I feel like that's pretty healthy. I buy pre-grilled frozen chicken and microwave it. If you are more organized you can grill a bunch of chicken breasts, chop and freeze, but I find all chicken breasts too woody right now.

Use boneless, skinless chicken thighs. Organic is preferable.

[Anonymous]

We cook two pounds of pasta every weekend and store it in the fridge with some kind of sauce. My teens will microwave a bowl when they're starving after school.

Also frozen pizza, potstickers, ramen, boxed mac n cheese, string cheese and sliced deli meat, frozen burritos. Maybe not the healthiest options, but they are growing athletes and eat three solid healthy meals a day - one junk in-between snack-meal isn't the end of the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you cook them that’s fast? Or what can they cook that’s fast and filling?

At home? I cook lunch and dinner in first thing in the morning so there is always food available throughout the day.

Normally, I will cook rice, daal, veggi and protein(animal or veggi) at the very least. If I am serving, I will add the leftovers and fresh salad, rotis, yogurt etc also. Otherwise, kids heat and eat, if they are hungry.

[Anonymous]

Leftovers

Another Costco fan- black bean burgers, bag of meatballs or chicken nuggets. He can heat and eat