Wow, some of you are rough on the kids lol. My teenage boys are completely healthy, not at all overweight and know enough about nutrition to realize this is the only time of their life they can eat what they want. I make them a bagel or waffle or toast every morning and they have plenty of pasta/potatoes and bread for dinner (with their meat and vegetables) I always have cookies in the pantry and ice cream in the freezer although they don't abuse it. There's nothing wrong (IMO) with 2 boys sitting down to cookies and milk. I don't eat cookies or like milk but there's no way I would deny them that. They usually have pizza or subs one day on the weekend. I don't feel they should be on MY diet, they don't need it. We made Italian on Sunday, I seperated my ground meat and rolled into meatballs (and marked with toothpicks) while we added cubed bread and breadcrumbs to the remaining mix. They had Pasta and garlic bread, I had mine with spaghetti squash and no bread. We all had caesar salad.
Funny side note-when we put the leftovers away I put my meat in a separate container with a little sticky note that said "Atkins" stuck on it (so if they came home from school hungry they wouldnt eat mine) Last night my son had Taco Bell leftovers and didn't want his brother to nab it so he put an Atkins sticky on the Taco Bell bag lol