Saturday, July 16, 2016

We All Need to Eat

Here we are mid July, and I've got Teens that have reached the "What do we have to eat" phase of their time off.  My lackadaisical weekend options are out, they are tired of mini pizzas but Hello McCain I really do love your mini pizzas for teens it's the go to all year round. Love the sale prices this time of year too. They really aren't complaining about the pizza every other day thing but I am ,it can't be a good plan. They would live on it if they could, well there is one odd child here that doesn't like pizza sauce so sees Garlic sticks and thinks they are all his? 3 teen boys I'm calling it survival...
mine mine mine? (anyone else seeing Nemo's seaguls?)

We can't have pizza daily so what are you all eating this summer? What are you doing on those really hot days when you just want to have the food find it's way to your stomach and be healthy? I was using fruit trays, due to cost I have been cutting up the fruit myself and reusing the trays. The kids will stop by the tray look at it pick out what they want and eat it, both nutritious and hydrating.

It's the Main meals of the evening I'm stuggling with, I can only do : Hamburger, Hotdogs, chicken burgers, oh look rain, chicken strips and fries, then pizza, and Weekend "if you find it in the fridge eat it?" so many times before I get the "moooooooooooooooom again?"I can almost feel the eye roll from here and they are all still in bed!

I converted cheese hotdog buns to sub buns, they eat 2 now they aren't loading the up enough, it's meat and cheese for them unless we are calling a pickle a vegetable?  PB and J while great for the summer since they aren't doing sports or camps is a novelty for the first week, but what's next. No they wont eat salad, well one will but he's not going to do that daily and when we say salad it's got cheese, bacon, croutons and half a bottle of creamy ranch in there.

So I ask you blog world what are you feeding your Campers At Camp MOM! :)

  

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

ALL THE FOODS!

ALL OF THEM!

We have perpetual requests for snacks, treats, nibbles, and full blown feasts.

I keep fruits and veggies chopped and ready to go at all times. We haven't purchased potato chips since Grading Day because they started to make their appearance at BREAKFAST! This weekend we will have leftover pizza... and movie theatre popcorn. ;)

OH! In awesome teenager development news, Thing 1 made supper on Wednesday - and technically he also made breakfast because we had breakfast for dinner! WINNING!

Debby@Just Breathe said...

Well I am way past those years with my kids so I'm no help. God Bless You!!!

Stephanie said...

I LOVE your idea to re-use those fruit trays!
My latest trick, but a dozen buns (that are all connected) leave them together and create one giant sandwich. Then the teens can just rip or cut off one sandwich as they need it. Easy peasey!

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