I agree that early dinners are the way to go. Although saying that, my hubby snacks later on after dinner.

I’ve started using chia seed on breakfast cereal, cooked in bread & can be added to sliced or cakes as my Dr said it expands in the stomach & makes you feel less hungry.

I’m a stay at home Mum of three and I cook dinner during the day and have it ready when Hubby comes home. He is ready to eat then. We all sit and eat and talk about our day. Then because we have daylight savings we take the kids out to the park or a bike ride or walk. Filling in the evening. We find this works well.

My fiancé does the exact same thing. I started making dinner earlier and stopped buying anything remotely junk food. Instead there are vita wheet crackers in the cupboard he can have with vegemite or tuna so at least he is eating something healthy

I would aim dinner for 5.30….im sure he can wait half an hour and set a good example for the kids 🙂

Any chance of having dinner ready earlier? I find you restrict too much, they’ll grab something on the way home from work anyway!

Oh come on….. give the poor bloke some chips! Then get him to make dinner and he’ll burn off the extra calories! Win – win!

I would try and have dinner as soon as hubby gets home, if at all possible. If not, then ask him to cook dinner for everyone, and that way he can be occupied with a task and you get to relax while he cooks.

If possible try to all have dinner as soon as he comes home. If not, maybe put out some healthy, protein rich snacks that can be made/plated earlier or even the night before so they are ready when he’s hungry, such as a small serve of cottage cheese, sml tinned flavoured tuna or a hardboiled egg. Otherwise maybe some nuts/ trail mix or a few vege sticks with a healthier dip such as humous?

When the kids were younger and needed to go to bed early we always ate dinner as soon as hubby got home and that seemed to continue until this day. Means everyone is fed and then can just have a ligth supper afterwards. So I’d try that option first if you cna manage it. may mean a bit of adjusting if you find it difficult to find the time for it but if you plan ahead and in winter do slow cooked meals it’s not that hard. Now our kids are grown up we try to have the bigger meal in the middle of the day and a ligther tea so we don’t have all that food sitting in our stomach when we go to bed. So that’s another option – see if he can buy or take a bigger lunch with him. Something hot if he can heat it up and maybe padded with rice or noodles with those carbohydrates to help fill him up and protein like chicken, fish or eggs to help give him energy to last tthe day. The he can maybe have a lighter meal when he gets home. Alternatibely put our a fruit/vege platter for the whole family to graze on when they get home from school or work and encourage that. It doesn’t take long to fill up on that and much better all round. Similarly a fruit/vege juice or smoothie helps fill you up and healthy too. Once you get used to healthier foods you’re not so inclined to snack on the less favourable ones and you also find you starting eating smaller proportions of snacks and meals as well.

11.30 – 5pm is a very long time between meals. No wonder he’s hungry! Is it possible for him to have afternoon tea at around 3.30? Maybe a piece of fruit and a muesli bar or even an Up and Go. That way he won’t be ravenous at 5pm. Being so hungry at that time of day will usually always lead to snacking on biscuits/Lollies/chocolate/chips as they make you feel full quickly.

i would make up a dip and carrot ,cucumber and celery sticks or dinner as soon as he gets in the door

I would just have dinner earlier! otherwise something like carrot and celery sticks with Hummus !

I would tend to try and keep all snacks to a minimum and either go with fruit of a salad, pasta dish for lunch. When he gets homesomething high fiber, vegie shake, or high protien, egg flip etc, of course he will feel fuller if he is actually chewing on something. Toasted sandwiches sometimes lead to more. Good luck.

My husband often does that too, but he does it AFTER dinner (depending on his shift times he either has dinner at work or sometimes at home). Corn Thins or Rice Cakes with Hommus and tomato/cucumber are reasonably filling, easy on the bank balance (compared to packaged bars, etc), and pretty healthy. I would not recommend nuts – even though they are full of protein and good fats, men tend to hoe them down by the fistful, so unless he’s a lean greyhound type I would steer clear of those.

You could just have your main meal earlier. He might be still hungry after but maybe less inclined to go for junk food. Just try to have healthy options available likes nuts, cheese or you could whip up a quick omlette. He needs to keep up his fluids too.

Maybe do some bulk baking and freeze them so you can take out cakes, muffins or a slice for him for after work?

It’s my teen son (6ft and like a man!) that I have trouble filling! We’ve recently started making smoothies after school and they satisfy him until tea time. There are some great recipes here in the “Real recipes” section and I’ve tried quite a few. We love banana, yoghurt, skim milk, a handful of oats and a squirt of honey. Frozen berries are also good.

IS HE HAVING ENOUGH CARBS THE NIGHT BEFORE? THIS CAN LEAD TO BLOOD SUGARS BEING ERATIC AND CRAVING WRONG FOODS.

Buy some fruit and nuts for him to nibble on and that should help him get through until dinner time. or if he eats yoghurt buy for me or something similar which wont put the weight on him