The student is eating huge amounts of food, yet is still hungry all the time – what should I do?
This is actually one of the most common issues faced by our hosts when teenage students are involved. Below are some ideas as to how you can help with this situation: • Make sure you have carbohydrates as the main part of the student’s meal – rice, pasta, potato etc. As students have very different foods back at home, they tend to over-eat when it comes to Western meals. • Like many Aussies travel with a jar of Vegemite – Asian students feel a meal is not complete unless it includes rice! A rice cooker is a good investment when hosting Asian students. It’s easy to cook up some rice to go with your evening meals. • Try not cooking any more food than what is required for a meal for the family. Sometimes students eat more because they think that they are paying a lot of money to stay with a family, so they think that they need to eat a lot to get their money’s worth from the hosts. • Try to get the student to eat slowly and also encourage them to improve their table manners. Some students
