Feeding my ravenous tween. Guidance?

[Anonymous]

PP here, he also loves the chicken dumplings from Costco. Those are easy to nuke and clean up!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a tween swimmer. OMG. He eats the following by the truckload:

hard boiled eggs
rotisserie (or roasted) chickens
peanut butter sandwiches
watermelons
milk

He is 5'5 and pushing 82 lbs....

Omg. My almost 7 year old is 55 inches and 75lbs. All muscle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks PPs! All great suggestions. He is unstoppable, and his 10 yr old brother is clearly starting to ramp up as well. Goodbye vacation budget, hello grocery budget!

Well, the budget part is what it is...

I make sure there are leftovers from dinner to reheat, and extra breakfast.

I try to avoid keeping the worst of the unhealthy snacks around but....

If you can get them to eat whole milk yogurt as part of the increase (preferably a variety with less sugar) you will also give them calcium for their growing bones.

My son's doctor had us switch out of low fat milk into whole milk for him.

[Anonymous]

Either make enough dinner that there are left overs that he can reheat or have simple foods that he can fix for himself: PBJ sandwich, cereal, eggs, some frozen dishes, etc. The emphasis is that these should be things that he can handle himself (and clean the kitchen after he is done).

[Anonymous]

Thanks to all of you I made 24 hard boiled eggs and kept the in the fridge for my tween to snack on. He’s inhaling them this week.

[Anonymous]

My kids do better with a second dinner. In colder weather I just do soup and bread for one of the dinners.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids do better with a second dinner. In colder weather I just do soup and bread for one of the dinners.

My 14 yo DS does this. Either he reheats leftovers from dinner or he makes something different for a second dinner.

[Anonymous]

The girls on my niece's crew team all do first and second breakfasts.

[Anonymous]

My brother was n sports year round. My mom kept the house stocked with peanut butter, pasta, bananas and whole wheat bread. She gave up trying to control what seemed reasonable, logically, and started just watching his growth to ensure all was well.

I recall many nights of watching him eat a loaf of bread iof sandwiches or an entire box of pasta, after dinner. He was, and remains, super fit. I also have a picture of my dh at the same age eating an entire box of cereal out of a mixing bowl.

It is going to get worse, if he is athletic.

[Anonymous]

Another vote for hard boiled eggs. When my son's medication wears off after dinner, he is hungry and defaults to eating cereal. I've started leaving a bowl of hard boiled eggs in the fridge and he will eat them.