what to feed teenage boys for breakfast

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Anonymous wrote:My teens make their own eggs in the mornings in the summer if they choose. Buy a lot of bread or bagels and have butter and cream cheese. You’ll need more than you think you will. I have 3 teenagers and we go through about a loaf of bread a day, if that gives you any indication.

Assuming no allergies, you could also have some peanut butter or almond butter or something on hand for the bread/bagels too.

I’d also recommend that you have a fruit bowl out or show them the fruit crisper in the refrigerator. Sometimes my kids will eat eggs and toast and then pop back into the kitchen 30-40 minutes later for a peach or a handful of strawberries.

My kids would LOVE if I made bacon on a regular basis but it is such a pain in the ass. It’s more of a special occasion or weekend thing around here.

I buy the bag of precooked bacon at Costco. 45 seconds in the microwave on some psoer towels and it’s ready.

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Anonymous wrote:A dozen bagels + 1 box of munchkins. Done.

Painful. Who the hell can just eat sugar and carbs like this for breakfast and not feel terrible an hour later.

People who burn a lot of calories every day. Like athletes and....teenage boys.

It isn’t about how much you burn. It’s about the fact white carbs + sugar alone is a straight up blood sugar spike. Notice I said you would FEEL TERRIBLE, not GET FAT.

You're a middle aged woman right? No brothers? No sons? Because that's what you sound like. Teenage boys burn those calories and will burn the carbs and will not feel terrible. I'm a father and I was a teenage boy, had a host of teenage males friends and have sons. I can tell you that you are wrong or at least, the ones you are talking about are statistically rare. Teen boys will not feel terrible eating a ton of carbs and sugar for breakfast.

Yes they do.

I am a man. You always feel like absolute trash after eating pancakes, waffles, and bagels, because all it is is basically eating a desert for 'breakfast'. Just a giant bolus of sugar and then subsequent crash hours later.

Back when I played varsity sports in high school, I always made sure load up on protein - spinach/ham/cheese omelettes, cottage cheese with nuts and fruit, eggs and toast, even natto.

Westerners, and Americans in particular, have an extraordinarily strange concept of what defines breakfast food. It makes zero sense why Americans consider what is tantamount to eating a giant slice of cake, a huge bowl of ice cream, or a plate of cookies to be adequate food for a proper meal.

Omelettes, as many eggs as possible, hams/bacons, cottage cheese, yogurts, nuts, even peanut/nut buttter spreads, etc. are all way better than empty plates of useless carbs covered in more sugar like pancakes and waffles that make you feel like you want to vomit hours later.

No large baguettes and rolls for breakfast anywhere in Europe. Ever.

+1. This is why no breakfast pastries are found anywhere in Europe

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Anonymous wrote:quesadillas
grilled cheese sandwiches

For breakfast?

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Anonymous wrote:Dad here, former teen boy. When I have overnight guests, If I cooked the night before, I’ve usually got leftover meat from dinner. Chicken,,steak, pulled pork, even fish, doesn’t matter.

In tepee morning, dice X number of potatoes and X/2 number of onions. Microwave the potatoes for a few minutes to get them started. Sauté the onions. If you have any bell peppers, them too.

When the onions, maybe peppers are softened, add the pre-microwaved potatoes. You’re going to need a decent amount of oil or fat because the potatoes absorb some. I save bacon fat.

Cook this all together in the skillet. Use a metal skillet that can be scraped with a metal spatula. I like cast iron. You need the toasted crispy portions of the potatoes. This is not a job for a delicate nonstick pan with silicone spatulas.

Add some combo of salt, pepper, Old Bay, Tony’s Creole shaker, Worcestershire, to taste.

Add the chopped up ,eat leftover from last night.

Now eggs. You can scramble a dozen and pour the whole thing and mix all together for an egg scramble.

For a smaller group, you can make little holes in the potato hash in the pan, and crack individual eggs in there to cook on their own, yolks intact. That takes more space, so you’d be working in a couple pans here.

Or you can do eggs entirely separately, either to order, or all scrambled.

Add grated cheese to the whole thing at some point while it’s hot enough to melt it.

Very popular.

+1! I do this when I’ve got a pile of boys over. Always popular.

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Steak and eggs cooked to order.

Toast, bacon, and sausage patties.

Fruit & doughnuts.

Milk, juice, and water.

This is a typical male athlete breakfast.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm going to have a four 16 year old boys staying with me. My son is not a breakfast eater so typically breakfast for him is just a banana or a bagel and cream cheese. Are bagels and fruit okay to serve? Or will the other boys be starving? Ideas?

They will be okay if you take them to a good breakfast restaurant immediately after serving these appetizers. Otherwise, you can expect some pretty negative Yelp reviews.

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Anonymous wrote:Steak and eggs cooked to order.

Toast, bacon, and sausage patties.

Fruit & doughnuts.

Milk, juice, and water.

This is a typical male athlete breakfast.

Sorry, I forget to mention hash browns with the steak and eggs.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm going to have a four 16 year old boys staying with me. My son is not a breakfast eater so typically breakfast for him is just a banana or a bagel and cream cheese. Are bagels and fruit okay to serve? Or will the other boys be starving? Ideas?

And then, after breakfast, its playtime with Barbie dolls ?

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you are an @ss

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know who all these people are suggesting bacon - it's horrible for your health. We do eggs, sourdough toast, bagels, fruit, cream cheese, lox, steel cut oats.

Oh my God, calm down Cassandra. Two strips of bacon have less than 180 calories, and after you cook a ton of fat is already rendered out. At least it has protein, versus sugar laden bombs devoid of anything useful like pancakes, waffles, sugary cereals, etc. If it is something like Canadian bacon, even better. Awesome source of protein with low calories.

I think people are referring to the increased cancer risk not the fat content.

Did you really stop eating bacon because of the slight increase in cancer?

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I have a group of teen boys fairly frequently in the summer. Our hits have been egg casserole with sausage and bread (make the night before and bake in the morning), waffles, scrambled eggs and bacon, and French toast casserole (also made night before and baked in the morning). They also love pop tarts with all of these - I had never bought pop tarts before, but another mom suggested it.

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My son makes himself a grilled cheese sandwich every morning.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know who all these people are suggesting bacon - it's horrible for your health. We do eggs, sourdough toast, bagels, fruit, cream cheese, lox, steel cut oats.

Oh my God, calm down Cassandra. Two strips of bacon have less than 180 calories, and after you cook a ton of fat is already rendered out. At least it has protein, versus sugar laden bombs devoid of anything useful like pancakes, waffles, sugary cereals, etc. If it is something like Canadian bacon, even better. Awesome source of protein with low calories.

I think people are referring to the increased cancer risk not the fat content.

Did you really stop eating bacon because of the slight increase in cancer?

DP. Colon cancer rates in people under 35 have skyrocketed . Yes, it absolutely did make me stop eating processed meats, which are correlated with colon cancer.