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[quote=Anonymous]This is helpful and thank you for not flaming me for buying junk food.  I had never thought about it being a "control" issue.  They do not act out in other ways, so perhaps this is a way of asserting their independence.  They do also say eating junk food is a way of "relieving stress" from school, which is sad.  They feel so much pressure to be perfect in every area at school that I think it is one area where they feel they can rebel and just do what they think feels good (even though I would think it would make them feel terrible).

I have talked to them until I am blue in the face about nutrition, but they say they are old enough to make their own decisions, and they've weighed the pros and cons and decided they'd rather eat stuff they like than be healthy.  They are not fat now but they surely will be.  Sadly they only play a spring sport and I can't get them to exercise the rest of the year (that's another battle I'm losing), so the incentive to be fit for competitive reasons is not there.

Would love to hear more ideas of reasonably healthy things you can keep around for big teenage boys.  Especially things that take virtually no prep time and/or can be thrown in the car so that I can give them something directly after school.  Unfoctunately, sandwiches and fruit have always been available to them and they turn up their noses.

Thanks, all.  [/quote]

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