Teen Rugby Eats

Recipes for teenagers playing Rugby – easy, healthy, high protein and family-friendly

Category: Protein

  • Post training protein snack

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    Easy, lean and high protein post training snack when you have a very long commute home. When you’re starving after your evening training session and don’t want to spend money buying yet another sandwich from the petrol station. These meatballs take 5 min to prep and 12 min to cook in the air fryer. Make… Read more

  • No Bread High Protein Lunch

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    When a rugby game is scheduled on a school day afternoon, this no bread high protein packed lunch fuels your body without the sluggishness of a sandwich. Lean protein and rice to provide energy, keep you full and digest well before you head out to the pitch. Apparently plain rice is dry and boring in… Read more

  • Sausage & Pesto Pasta

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    Chicken sausage and pesto pasta makes for a tasty carbohydrate and protein balanced meal. Using 5 chicken chipolatas in this dish provides 25g of lean protein and only 4g of (protein) fat, before adding the pesto and light cream cheese. My teen eats this as his lunch before a long training session. Ingredients Method Boil… Read more

  • Turkey & Spinach Pasta bake

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    Turkey bolognaise and pasta topped with creamed spinach for added iron and flavour. This dish is packed with nutrients for a well-balanced meal that meets the needs of a rugby playing teen and a busy family. Ingredients For the pasta bolognaise: For the creamed spinach: Method Prepare the wilted spinach first, as it needs time… Read more

  • Creamy Lemon Chicken Pasta

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    Comforting and tangy, this chicken pasta dish with a dash of lemon is not only easy to make it’s also flavoursome and easy to consume after late-night training. Quantities for this dish feeds a family of 4, which includes a hungry post-training rugby teen. Ingredients Method Start the pasta- Put the pasta in a pan… Read more

  • Salt & Pepper Chicken

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    Delicious high protein Chinese-style “fakeaway” combining this salt & pepper chicken with special fried rice. I have shallow fried the chicken in this recipe, but you can reduce the oil by using your air fryer. Leftover chicken keeps well in the fridge and then into a tupperware for packed lunch. Volume of this recipe feeds… Read more