Help me find teen snack ideas - so lame I know

[Anonymous]

My son’s favorites are granola bars, Zbars, spicy Cheetos, ramen, pizza bagels and frozen waffles. And any kind of cookie! We always have healthier options like yogurt, fruit, cheese, carrots, etc but if that’s all we have, there’s a lot of grumbling. We don’t have the issue of friends coming over often because he is often busy with his sport or homework. When he has free time the kids hang out at the shopping center near the HS or at one particular house with the “cool basement” (where I understand there is a steady supply of Dominos).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bagels and cream cheese
Box of variety bags of chips
Ice cream sandwiches
Hummus and pretzels
Tortillas, cheese, guacamole

Teens don’t want this as a snack.

I guess I’ll have to tell my teens and their friends that then.

Most teens want junk food, not bagels and cream cheese. Of course there are exceptions. Is your teen a girl?

It’s AN option not THE OPTION. And these are all super active boys.

[Anonymous]

Cheese-its
Pita chips and hummus and salsa
They like when I bake pumpkin bread and banana bread
Berries of all kinds
Cut up carrot sticks, celery sticks, cucumbers, bell peppers, etc. - They will dip in ranch or hummus
Mini peanut butter cups (TJ's)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doritos. Pockys. Hot Cheetos. Takis.

I refuse to give teens access to any foods that give them orange fingers LOL

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cheese-its
Pita chips and hummus and salsa
They like when I bake pumpkin bread and banana bread
Berries of all kinds
Cut up carrot sticks, celery sticks, cucumbers, bell peppers, etc. - They will dip in ranch or hummus
Mini peanut butter cups (TJ's)

No way do you a bunch of teens over on weekend nights and this is what they eat. Be for real

[Anonymous]

Oreos
Girl Scout cookies
Soft pretzel bites
Bell pepper strips and ranch
Clementines
Fruit snacks
Sun Chips
Pringles
Muffins

[Anonymous]

Doritos, Taki's, asdoeted box of chips, hostess or Drakes snack cakes
Ice cream (cones and bars) and Popsicles
Snack size chocolate bars, gummy candy

Frozen pizza , Microwavable burgers, chicken nuggets, TV dinners (hungry man or swanson)
Chicken Wings, corn dogs, Mac & cheese cups. Chef boy ar dee,

[Anonymous]

My kids liked sandwiches, quesadillas, taquitos, pizza in any form (pizza rolls, English muffin pizza, etc.), appetizers, leftovers, sliced apples and other fruit with minimal prep (bananas or oranges were fine but they wouldn’t tackle a watermelon, cantaloupe, or even peach or pear that wasn’t sliced). I sometimes made fruit salads (strawberry and banana, cantaloupe and blackberries, etc.).

Basically, it was more of a light meal than a snack.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bagels and cream cheese
Box of variety bags of chips
Ice cream sandwiches
Hummus and pretzels
Tortillas, cheese, guacamole

Teens don’t want this as a snack.

I guess I’ll have to tell my teens and their friends that then.

Most teens want junk food, not bagels and cream cheese. Of course there are exceptions. Is your teen a girl?

Both boys and girls at our house like junky snacks, but the boys are most likely to go for bagels and cream cheese and/or quesadillas when they want something more like a meal.

Costco also has big boxes of taquitos that they love. And weirdly, those huge croissants.

[Anonymous]

Cotton candy grapes

[Anonymous]

OP here. Thank you for all the ideas!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have teens over a lot. Both sexes.

The biggest hits are

Dino nuggets (even my college student loves these!)
Mini corn dogs
Pirate booty
Strawberries
Fresh choc chip cookies (I keep dough refrigerated or frozen)
Dominoes pizza and their brookies
Pineapple (fresh cut)
Waters, sprite, lemonades

What hasn’t been a hit:

Wings (shocker I guess too dirty)
Mozz sticks (I think they cool too quick)
Grapes
Tortilla chips and dips of any kind (queso, guac, or salsa)
Carrots and hummus
Popcorn
Any dessert besides cookies or brownies
Coke, Diet Coke, root beer, juices

So I tend to just keep my garage fridge stocked with foods I can easily heat up or I just order dominoes pizza and brookies.

Too funny, when my parents' house was the teen hangout spot for my baby sister & her friends, I remember them going through SO MUCH hummus with veggies (carrots, bell peppers, cucumbers). Also bag upon family sized bag of pretzels. And my mom was always baking cookies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cheese-its
Pita chips and hummus and salsa
They like when I bake pumpkin bread and banana bread
Berries of all kinds
Cut up carrot sticks, celery sticks, cucumbers, bell peppers, etc. - They will dip in ranch or hummus
Mini peanut butter cups (TJ's)

No way do you a bunch of teens over on weekend nights and this is what they eat. Be for real

These are for snacks, like after school. These are not for meals.

[Anonymous]

In high school we LOVED hanging out at my one friend's house because we knew her mom always had homemade cookies. I'm sure it was just from refrigerated dough or whatever, but something about a tupperware full of soft cookies made us feel like it was the best hangout place.

[Anonymous]

+1 to cotton candy grapes or any fruit. Also recently they have all loved rainbow goldfish