Please save me from this mess! You are welcome to take my precious darlings for a week (or more, depending on how I feel). I know this is going to get worse. You don't need to tell me that. They're growing and growing... I just can't afford them. Sell one to feed the others? …
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Leanne
Katrina, I have bad news for you, it definitely doesn’t get better. My son – now 18 for the past 12 months has become a gym junkie, not only am I paying for the gym weekly, lunches just aren’t sanga’s anymore, has to be chicken breasts or steak with vegetable or salad, then he eats again at 5pm and then has the family meal for dinner as well, eating more on his plate than my husband. I have 2 girls also, and by far Jake is the most vain about his appearance. I wish you well having 3 boys! He has just finished school so I can’t wait for him to get a job, I feel that I am only working full time to feed him!
Katrina
Oh my goodness Leanne. I really am not looking forward to that! So, the key is, tell them to get a job at 14? ha! 😉
Leanne Wilkinson
Exactly, get them working early! Lol
le@third
dearie me … maybe it’s time for meatloaf 🙂 best to you K le
Nardia Burey
I know how you feel, I have 5 boys! Thankfully 3 are under 5 so still don’t eat too much. We are fortunate enough to have a small farm so we can grow our own fruit, vegies & meat eventually….it’s still a work in progress! But hoping to be pretty much self sufficient in 5 years time :)My only suggestion is home bake (I have a baking day once a week), add red beans (etc) to mince dishes, buy roasts, it’s cheaper per kg than steaks etc and you can use leftovers for sandwiches, bulk meals up with vegies etc. My grocery bill is about $400 a fortnight (with nappies & formula), hoewever I do have a husband that works 2 weeks on 2 off so is away those 2 weeks on, which helps with grocery costs! Good luck! 3 sleeps to go till school goes back! Yay!
Katrina
My problem is that I don’t bake. I hate it! I know I need to. I’ll just have to!!
Nardia Burey
get the kids baking 🙂
Katrina
Oh, and that grocery bill is great! Wish that was mine. Good work 🙂
Natalie Miller
Haha – I have 3 boys too…I think they have hollow legs. Every 5 minutes “mum I’m hungry”……argh!!
Deb
I have a 13 year old daughter and 7 year old son – and I can bearly keep up with them and their need for food! My daughter is great and often makes up some cupcakes or brownies to satisfy her and her brothers snacking appetite!
However my best friend has 3 sons, 16, 14 and 7….. and boy o boy! I don’t know how she does it… well actually she had a small meltdown the other day similar to yours! However her boys do work at a local small supermarket, which gives them the cash to spend on games, magazines and outings with friends, this helps to free up the family income to buy more food!!
Good luck and I can tell you we are all LOOKING forward to the kids going back to school!!!!!!!!
Katrina
That’s it, they need jobs! Ha! Ours aren’t back to school until the week after next!!
Lisa
Oh my you poor thing you have 3 boys! I have a 7.5 year old who recently ordered a adults hamburger & chips meal at a restaurant and then chowed down on it! He has hollow legs too. It’s so hard to fill them up because you don’t want them eating rubbish all the tine but what else fills them up? Good luck Nardia with 5! I am not a baker either, it bores me and I’m not good at it 🙁 good luck.
Jode
I am telling you…. You are not alone!
I love the look on the oldies faces when I do the groceries!
You hear “Oh, love is that all for one family???”
My three boys most definitely have hollow legs and those legs only get longer as they get older!
But, I’m a bit like you, I need to learn how to bake! Well! lol It would save us a fortune.
Have a great day.
x Jode
Katrina
Why can’t we bake Jode? Well, it’s not that I can’t, it’s just that I don’t like doing it! x
Penny barns
Lol you are a classic.
I have Gaby who is 14 jack 12 and James 9.
And YES I am hearing you. I have been told by other who have older teenagers that groceries can get to $500 a week when everyone is eating like adults at dinner. My boys love steak too but I do a lot of stirfrys with rice as that fills them up. I also buy loads of milk and cheap ice cream and I fill them up with milk shakes after dinner as most of the time they are still hungry after I have just feed them ( obviously not enough) so I find that
the milkshake helps fill that growing boy
Pen x
Katrina
Well then I need a job (or they can get jobs!) if my groceries end up $500 a week!!!!!
Cathy
I’m scared lol …at the moment my 3 boys don’t eat much but how will I afford them in 10 years time? Right, they can start looking for jobs now!! Lol
Cathy
Ps love the vlog! Lol
RosieRose
OMG my 4 year old is doing the same thing …. it gets worse??????????? Faaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrr########
I have been doing omlettes and toasted sangas and milkshakes too…. as well as pancakes to cut costs..
Karen
Last time my mum came to stay with the kids while we went away i came back to find she had brough 2 small, shallow frypans to use to cook pancakes(obviously not a fan of my one frypan for everything) which I thought was crazy but is saying that I now Love them! Pancakes are so quick, cheap easy and filling and best of all the frypans fit so easy in the dishwasher and leaves my big one free for cooking tea. Havnt tried the really cheap mixes in the packets from coles but maybe worth a try along with $1 bread for making toast for moring tea, buying a popcorn maker, Aldi pies, sausage rolls and dims sims etc for lunch? My 10yr old godson is up to 8 weetbix for breakfast and he is the eldest of 4 so I hear his mother talk often of hollow legs! Worm tablet time? lol
Something Gorgeous
I have 2 teenage boys and believe me you are only just beginning. Wait until you have to feed your boys plus their mates!!
niki
KC, I have 4 boys, aged 16,13,9 & 6 this year.
Man oh man, don’t even get me started.
So I am feeding basically 5 men on a daily basis.
Crazy amounts of food get bought & consumed in this house.
I truly think as they all get older & say I have a 20 year old, along with 17, 13 & 10, I reckon I will have to work to pay the food bill alone. I reckon $500 a week would sound about right, as another poster mentioned. Man they just eat ALL day & stay healthy & gorgeous, if I ate half the food they did I would be the side of a house.
Hang in there. I am not much of a baker either, ha, Niki
Annie
I only had one son Katrina and he kept me on my toes. Especially when he was in training year round with sport and needed to be constantly fed.
No joke… get baking baking baking. Only way to fill the bottomless pit and make pasta your new best friend!
Even if you lash out and purchase a beaut mix master that makes baking enjoyable and easy. Plus muffins are dead easy and the boys can help.
Lisa
After several viewings, the message my 3 y.o. daughter got from this was “YO!”. Thanks Katrina! For the record, she eats constantly when she’s at home and it drives me crazy so I can’t even imagine your pain with three boys. Xo
A-M
Oh I so hear you! I am saying the same thing… my boys are eating me out of house and home…. and people are telling me the same things… so I have started more baking. I hate it too…. but I do it. I buy just the healthy basic 5 food group things at the shops….plus a few varieties of crackers (vitawheats, corn thins)…and then fill them with fruit, homemade milkshakes, pasta after school, pancakes, muffins and seriously basic home baked stuff for school lunches (they think anything I bake is unreal, surprisingly)….. oh and bread… fill em up on bread… it’s cheap… get the $1 loaves at the store. They don’t drink anything other than water and milk… no juice, no soft drinks… so we’re not wasting dollars on stuff that you drink. It’s gonna get worse pet. My 14 year old eats every 2 hours… and he’s as lean as lean can be… they burn it up in growth! Takes a lot of calories to grow a man! A-M xx
Judie
I’ve got an 18-yr-old son and a 16-yr-old son, so I know all about the food problem! (I have 2 brothers, so I knew it was coming.) When they have mates over, it’s like a plague of locusts descended on my kitchen. I was never fond of baking either, until I got a KitchenAid. Makes it so easy and kind of fun. I also try to shop by reading the grocery catalogues, and stock up on sale stuff when I can. It all helps.
designchic
As a mother of one daughter, I never really had that issue, but I now have a 16 week old grandson and he is already an eating machine…have a great weekend!!
Tam
Ohhh, shhhhh. I have three of the little XYs – currently all under 6 – and I’m dreading the teenage years. Think I’m going to have to work at least three lucrative jobs to feed them…