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[quote=Anonymous][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.
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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.  [/b]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[b].[/quote]

This makes me laugh! So true![/quote]

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