Team snack - what to bring
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Anonymous
| This is the first time we signed up my DD for soccer and we are supposed to bring team snack at some point. What do people bring? I googled this and are we supposed to individually packaged snack for each kid like a party favor? There were a lot of pictures of a ziploc of 3-4 things. I’ll be honest. It never occurred to me that we need to put these in bags for each players. Is this the thing to do? |
Anonymous
| Hi OP, soccer mom and coach here. I don’t think there is a wrong answer, but parents bring anything from orange slices to popsicles, to individual bags of chips or sweeter things like Rice Krispie bars. I guess in the covid era, some people would feel more comfortable with individually wrapped items. In general, my soccer girls love just about anything parents bring. |
Anonymous
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Bring one drink and one thing to eat.
And next season speak up early that it's dumb and you don't want to do it. |
Anonymous
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No. You buy the box ar coatco or target that has
A variety of individually packaged chips. Or a set of indovidually packaged goldfish, or pirate booty, etc. No one takes a bunch of snacks and puts them in a ziploc bag. Thats weird. |
Anonymous
| That's too much fricking work. Don't do that shit. Get some Gatorade and granola bars. |
Anonymous
| The expectation for our team was a big package of individual Pirate’s Booth and Goldfish. One each. Juice boxes if you’re feeling wild. Leftovers go to siblings or the next week’s snack parent. The parent who brought the multipack of Doritos/Cheetos/Fritos was the hero of the season except all of the kids fought like baby raccoons over the Fritos. They were the least favorite when I was a kid. |
Anonymous
| Couple boxes of granola bars, couple bunches of bananas or some apples, water, small juice boxes and/or Gatorade and some chips. Healthy and junk, options for allergies covered. Don’t put it in baggies, just grab a big blanket and throw everything on it they will grab what they want. Most will grab chips and juice and maybe a piece of fruit if they’re hungry. Most will take Doritos or plain potato chips or Cheetos. I let them grab whatever they want starting with 1 of each item until everyone has chosen something then it’s a free for all for kids or parents. |
Anonymous
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I am bringing snack tomorrow—chips and juice boxes. 12 kids on team — bringing 20 chips/juice to have extra for siblings.
I have also done popsicles instead of chips on hot days. |
Anonymous
It’s not that hard to bring some individual bags of pirates booty to a rec game. Are you five years old? This is dumb and I don’t want to do it! ::stomps feet:: |
Anonymous
It's extremely dumb, it's wasteful, it adds to the mental load of moms, and it's fully unnecessary. I could get behind end of season cupcakes or some celebration like that, but the weekly snack routine for rec games is INSANE. |
Anonymous
100 percent agree with this. You want your kid to have a snack? Bring one. Stop with the team snacks. |
Anonymous
| Clementines and pirates booty |
Anonymous
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You buy a box of individual snack bags (pretzels, goldfish, sunchips, whatever).
You buy a thing of juice boxes. Done. The kids will be thrilled (it takes very little). No need for Pinteresty- cute baggies. |
Anonymous
There are countless threads on post-game snacks discussed to death already^^^ Move along |
Anonymous
| Clementines and pretzels/goldfish |