I imagine you would also have to buy a Costco membership, which would add to costs.
So it sounds like you started with “we” and now have moved to a position of limited support. Perhaps just telling them that you don’t need high priced foods, maybe just some ground beef to fill you up so you’re not snarfing the steak and shrimp. Frozen veggies rather than the more expensive fresh. Having raised teen boys, I can say that it’s tough on parents - like living with locusts.
Talk to them about having protein that allows you to get full without consuming the entire family’s meat for the evening.
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Nothing productive to add here, but just wanted to mention i’ve been really impressed at the maturity you’ve shown as a 15 year old in this thread so far.
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We normally do have ground beef/chicken actually, and we don’t have shrimp often (I also don’t care much for shrimp)
We don’t get high priced foods. We get frozen vegetables, the only ones that aren’t frozen are canned, or are bell peppers lettuce and cucumber, the lettuce we mostly keep for our bearded dragon. I guess it might help saying, we have 4 cats to feed.
I’m gonna take a different approach. Get a job. No seriously. I got my first real tax paying job at 14 and saved up thousands for my first car by 16. Granted in Iowa 14 was a legal age to work whereas a lot of states are 15. If you can’t find one start mowing lawns, pressure washing, etc.
Why is this a good suggestion? One it will solve your money problem and two it teaches work ethic and responsibility. You may even have enough left over to buy you groceries AND help the household.
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I want to get a workers permit, but parents said I should wait for next year, mom wants to be able to do stuff now that she doesn’t have to take care of grandma all the time. For now though, yeah Il just be mowing lawns, and helping my brother with concrete work, that pays well but its not often.
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Are there jobs that you can realistically get at 15?
I’m British, and you can legally work from 16, but the chances of anyone actually hiring you before you turn 18 are remote. It’s a shit situation that’s not doing anyone any favours.
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I agree 100% by the way
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Parents went to the store today. They got Whole Greek yogurt like I asked, and they also got 2 8oz cans of chicken, protein granola, and protein bread (150 calories and 14g protein per 2 slices)
Well I worked at a dog kennel spending most of my time scooping dog doodoo. Are there jobs… yes. Are they glamorous? Not at all. I made $3.65 an hour and still saved up for an 89 firebird back in the mid to late 90s.
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This is expensive foods. Plain uncooked chicken and a huge sack of rice. Prob cost a quarter of this crap and it’s cleaner. You could eat for a week or more on what this stuff prob costs for a few days. I think the only prob here is your food selection.
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It was at Aldis, so it was cheaper, but yeah. I just don’t know how to tell them they can save money by buying stuff like that without mom yelling to stop telling her what to buy, and saying that we don’t need to buy super cheap stuff.
I can’t help you with that. You have a solution.
Yeah, eventually once I have a better income to 25 a week most weeks.
Also, I asked my dad how poor we were: He said “Were not super poor, but were not well off. We are just making it”. He knows what its like to be poor. He was dirt poor growing up.
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So by buying cheaper options and not all that protein fortified BS you’ll be saving them money.
I’m reallly not sure what the issue is. Ask nicely for chicken thighs and rice. Way more bang for their buck and better for you.
Again, food choices are the issue here. Not the amount of cals you’re trying to get in.
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I’l ask my dad. He doesn’t yell.
I get the impression it’s more a social issue than a nutrition one.
I was a 15 year old kid trying to eat different from the rest of the family 25 years ago. I went poorly then. It seems to still go poorly. Wanting a separate menu can cause a rift culturally and add expenses, so then its a matter of convincing everyone else to eat like you do, which goes poorly for those that have no interest in changing. And parents are pretty much always going to assume that their kids are knuckleheads when it comes to nutrition and default to “I am the grown up: I know beat and have to protect you”
There is also the whole “Oh, so my cooking isnt good enough for you?!” Element that goes into this. Its sensitive
My parents had no issue buying me poptarts and balked the first time I asked for protein powder.
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I get it but it would seem(and I may be wrong as I don’t think he’s mentioned) but they are buying all this protien crap for him.
When I was young I asked my parents for foods I wanted and I cooked for myself. We weren’t week off but by no means struggling. I didn’t expect they would cook me different foods than they were eating.
It just seems he needs to grow a set and just ask. I. Ant see how if they are saving money it would even be an issue. But again, he needs to ask and maybe explain why he wants to eat a certain way.
Idk. Just seems like every suggestion made is followed by an excuse.
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I feel like they are buying protein versions of the stuff they normally buy. Getting hoodwinked by the industry.
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Part of that I suppose yeah, it’s mostly just because I said that I want to eat more protein, so mom just buys protein stuff.
Offer to cook dinner a couple nights of the week. I’m sure your mom would appreciate it.
Nothing fancy, meatloaf and mashed potatoes and a veggie, chicken and rice with a side salad, one of those stir fries @SkyzykS mentioned, just stuff that is real food, and you’re in control of.
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