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[quote=Anonymous][quote][quote][quote=Anonymous]Op again

My eldest sons play soccer and ice hockey 3x a week. Anytime I try to give them a soup for dinner they freak out and basically refuse to eat it. Last week I made 10 chicken legs for dinner. Every last one was eaten in about 25 mins. When I feed them till they are full, it's like preparing a meal for an army. They managed to eat 10 potatoes worth of mashed potatoes the other day. I cooked a rack of ribs and they were still hungry after. [/quote]

A rack of ribs each?  or one rack total?  One rack is definitely not enough.  10 chicken legs?  I would think teenage boys would eat 4-5 each, my 8 year old will eat 2-3.  Seems to me you are not making nearly enough food, especially for an active family.[/quote]

One rack for the whole family. It seems like my toddler has gone from eating a few pieces of fruit and some crackers to eating the same amount as my dd[/quote]

NP here.  That is not enough.  We go through one rack of ribs for my family which is 2 adults and 3 yo twins.  We are not overweight and not particularly athletic.

It sounds like you have two adults, 2 teen boys (15 and 17), one 8 yo daughter and a 3 yo.  With six to feed including 2 teenage male athletes, I would think that you would need 2 or 3 racks of ribs to feed them.  I would assume each teen would eat a half rack of ribs themselves, then about 1/3 rack for the adults and 8 yo and about 1/4 rack for the 3 yo.  This plus sides and bread.  My two 3 yos can easily polish off a 1/4 rack of ribs each plus steamed veggies, bread and some fruit for dinner.

When you make your dinners, make a double batch, serve half for dinner and then put the second half in the fridge.  If/when your teens get hungry in an hour (and it does happen, often teen athletes each a full meal 4-6 times a day) they can snack on the healthy dinner leftovers that you have in the fridge.

Also, $800 is not that much.  $200 per week?  For a family with 2 adults, 2 teen athletes and two other children?  No wonder everyone is starved all the time.  I know two families similar to you and they spend about $600/week, so about 3 times what you spend.  Yes, with teen athletes, it is not unusual to go through a gallon of milk a day, a full large fruit bowl, a dozen eggs, 2-5 lbs of meat, and a loaf of bread a day.  And that is just for meals.  Then add in additional fruit and veggies, dips (like hummus), cheese, nuts, etc for snacking between meals.  It seems like you are feeding your family like a family of dieting middle age women rather than a family of an adult male and two teen athletes plus 2 other children.[/quote]

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