I have two teenagers (my brother and sister) staying with us for an indefinate amount of time. My mum is giving us $100 a week. $40 of it is for my brothers bus fare, and the rest is for food. My sister can walk to school from my house.
I am lucky enough to get bread for free, so for breakfast they eat toast.
For lunch they take a salad roll, an apple, a frozen 100% juice pack, a muesli bar and a snack packet of vege chips.
They seem happy enough to eat a never ending amount of bread with peanut butter & honey, or anzac biscuits with tea, as a snack.
Dinners are usually spaghetti bolognaise, roast vegetables & salad, minestroni soup, homemade pizza, stirfries or curries with rice.
I know lots of you have growing children in your households, what do you feed them?!
And what do you get them to do?! I am at a loss. They are bored. I know teenagers are meant to be bored, like 90% of the time anyway, because it's some sort of annoying genetic mutation but really! I am not the type of person to let them sit on a computer all day, or go out whenever they want. So most of the time they are at home, but apparently there is nothing to do. *sigh*
what do you feed your teenagers?
October 24th, 2010 at 06:01 am
October 24th, 2010 at 12:53 pm 1287924821
Keeping costs in control you can do one pot meals of lentil stew, mac n cheese, veg curry & chili. I also do a spinach bread - NOT cheap but SOOO good.
Not sure if you do meat but stir frys (can do tofu), tuna salad, egg salad.
As for do:
keep up their rooms (vac, change linens, keep picked up)
Clean their bathroom if separate from yours
Each should have at 1-2 general household chores to do per week and they may rotate:
Vacuum/mop floors
Do all laundry (includes folding)
Cook 1x/week
Clean up after dinner for a week
October 25th, 2010 at 02:00 am 1287972035
Teenagers are going to be eating a lot of food, so I'd aim for the cheapest/healthiest choices. I think that marvholly has the right idea. Chores definitely. Are they in school or does Australia do summer vacation like the United States?
October 25th, 2010 at 02:15 am 1287972939
October 27th, 2010 at 03:59 pm 1288195159
And like mentioned above, you could always pull out the card "Oh, you're bored? Great! Here's a list of chores that need to be done!"