18-Year-Old Boy Food

18-Year-Old Boy Food

Justin, our 18-year-old nephew, has come to live with us. I am constantly in awe of his eating habits...specifically, his voracity and capacity. He loves Ramen soup; a serving for him is three packages. He will come home from the gym and eat two cans of tuna fish, fried with Sriracha hot sauce and eaten quickly with a spoon, before getting down to dinner. A snack is a box or two of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.

Tonight, after eating a few servings of stir fry, he was still a bit peckish and so invented a new treat.





The recipe, he said, is simple:

1. Heat sesame oil and peanut oil in a pan
2. Add some spoons of peanut butter and about 1/3 cup milk; stir until smooth
3. Drop in lots of chocolate chips (he added sugar because “the chips were SEMI-sweet”)
4. When everything is mooshed up together, spoon onto cookies
5. Eat quickly
6. Repeat

Justin pointed out that the cookies are better when they cool so, you know, you don't burn your mouth as you're wolfing them down.

He was very eager to have me try one. I did; it wasn’t bad; the peanut butter and chocolate combo with crunchy cookie was good. Later, we discussed.

JUSTIN: Uncle David, how would you make it better?
ME: I’d add miniature marshmallows…
JUSTIN: I LIKE THE WAY YOU THINK!!

Most satisfying compliment I've received in a long time.

Uncle Hammond

That's how we youngins eat these days.

I've gotta load up on my ramen stock...

Jayz wrote:That's how we youngins eat these days.

T'was ever thus.

that's hilarious.

The only pithy comment that I can add to this discourse is that this concoction could soon be featured on Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee.

It seems like something right up her alley---

he seems to have foodie potential.

I'm so impressed that he actually cooked something-
my kids (admittedly younger (12)
would just put the peanut and chips directly ON the cookies and eat.
repeat
repeat
Then ask if there was any yogurt in the frig....
or maybe ice cream
(about 1/2 an hour after a complete dinner)

cito wrote:The only pithy comment that I can add to this discourse is that this concoction could soon be featured on Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee.

It seems like something right up her alley---

Seems a bit complicated and maybe too much work, though.

David Hammond wrote:The recipe, he said, is simple:

1. Heat sesame oil and peanut oil in a pan
2. Add some spoons of peanut butter and about 1/3 cup milk; stir until smooth
3. Drop in lots of chocolate chips (he added sugar because “the chips were SEMI-sweet”)
4. When everything is mooshed up together, spoon onto cookies
5. Eat quickly
6. Repeat

teatpuller wrote:he seems to have foodie potential.

My favorite part is that the recipe involves heating both sesame and peanut oil. Clearly, some thought went into this!

I have a recipe for a crunchy peanut butter no-bake bar cookie that used to be my go-to late-night snack in grad school. I'll have to find it and see how Justin could make it better.

I'll never forget visiting friends in Holland. I was 16 and their two boys were 15 and 17. The oldest boy sat down at the breakfast table, opened a package of sliced bread (the stuff sold in much of Europe as "toast bread"), and started laying out the slices like a blackjack dealer.
He worked quickly, his butter knife flashing in the early morning sunshine, and quick as a wink, he was ready for the final dousing. Boxes of sprinkles and chocolate shavings appeared and most of the bread vanished under a shower of sugary goodness. A few unsprinkled slices were dressed with cheese. I had barely had time to drink my cup of tea and get halfway through my one slice of rye bread, and he was already working his way down the table, inhaling slice after buttery slice, interspersed with gulps of hot chocolate.

My guess is that, an hour and a half later, he was at school having his morning snack break.

MariaTheresa wrote:The oldest boy sat down at the breakfast table, opened a package of sliced bread (the stuff sold in much of Europe as "toast bread"), and started laying out the slices like a blackjack dealer.
He worked quickly, his butter knife flashing in the early morning sunshine, and quick as a wink, he was ready for the final dousing. Boxes of sprinkles and chocolate shavings appeared and most of the bread vanished under a shower of sugary goodness.

I still eat that way if chocoladehagel is involved! Way better than Nutella on bread...

Hm, I'm not a fan of marshmallows. Perhaps a layer of dulce de leche would put the cookie over the top?

that needs some bacon!

mhill95149 wrote:that needs some bacon!

I am certain that suggestion would meet with great approval.

mhill95149 wrote:that needs some bacon!

Pie Lady, please stop taking over Mhill's account.

What kills me is that your nephew looks to go -- maybe -- a buck sixty, dripping wet, yet somehow my pants got tighter just reading the post. Man, being 18 was fun.

woolfolk wrote:What kills me is that your nephew looks to go -- maybe -- a buck sixty, dripping wet, yet somehow my pants got tighter just reading the post. Man, being 18 was fun.

One advantage he has is that he's still growing vertically, so what adults would consider a crippling amount of calories, he needs just to maintain his current rate of growth.

The Wife actually remembers how I used to eat when I was very close to 18, and it was similarly shocking, or so I'm told. One of the major injustices of life is that men always seem to be able to eat much more than women before they start gaining weight; we seem to be able to lose it faster, too. Them's the breaks.

I have a 16 year old son...so I'm relating to this thread. It is interesting to me that my son can at times be "un-fillable", while at other times can go for long periods of time without any food. Might have something to do with a growth spurt. However, at 6'2" I hope that is just about done!

Tonight, I got back from a satisfying dinner at Boka to find Boy, recently returned from a friend’s house, preparing a new and improved version of his chocolate treat.



He was very excited that he found some peppermint oil in our cabinet, and he added that to the usual mixture of peanut and sesame oil, milk, chocolate, etc., and spooned it all into a warm flour tortilla.



Boy felt it looked perhaps a little drab, so he added some chocolate sprinkles, et voila. Gone in 60 seconds.

Child after my own heart....

The Wife made a few dozen chocolate chip-date cookies. They were really good. I felt overindulgent after eating two. The Wife stopped counting after the Boy knocked back sixteen.

16 cookies in one sitting, I really miss doing that. I used to stand in the kitchen and eat them fresh out of the oven as my Mom would make them.

I have a nephew of approx the same age. He has earned the nickname "Ten Taco Mike".

Boy got wind of the fact that some people find the idea of chewing aluminum foil abhorrent. He couldn't see what the problem might be, so he volunteered to chow down on some Reynolds Wrap. I got my camera.

First, Boy took out a large sheet of foil.



Boy dug into the foil and munched it around, enthusiastically.



He seemed unaffected by activities that would sicken a normal person.



After fiercely bearing down on the foil, Boy reflected on the experience. He said, “It felt so odd and unique, it actually felt kind of good.”



There's really no explaining Boy.

Hi,

Does he have any filled cavities? If yes, I will guess it is not amalgam, which is a composite of silver and mercury. I have chewed aluminum, which I have a sense may be reacting to the other metal in my mouth. The thought of chewing aluminum gives me shivers.

Regards,

woolfolk wrote:What kills me is that your nephew looks to go -- maybe -- a buck sixty, dripping wet, yet somehow my pants got tighter just reading the post. Man, being 18 was fun.

Ehhh.....what the heck???? lol

there is a italian hazelnut choclate spread called nutella or someting like that
and bring him to wood dale
tell them i said he can eat all he wants for 10 bucks
also a non food tip
take him to the rolling stone record store by harlem and irving
he will love you more and know that you are hip slick and kool

baby ray wrote:there is a italian hazelnut choclate spread called nutella or someting like that

We buy him Nutella double-packs from Costco...and he eats slurps those down very quickly -- in addition to his chocolate smoosh.

Boy like chocolate.

Crepes + Nutella + Banana = Bliss

Pointed here by Ronnie's rec...

My 16-year-old son practices a kind of urban gymnastics called parkour. Other kids bounce off him like he was a tree... he's 6'2" and 180+. His friends call him The Fridge, not just for his size, but because that's where you put the leftovers.

He just got back from visiting friends in Kansas City. He said he really missed our kitchen, because it has "lots of ingredients." He just chowed down on a bowl of cereal, leftover risotto, a turkey sandwich and... it went so fast, I'm still not sure I saw it all... a batch of chips and Fresh Farms salsa.