Dinner before practice

[Anonymous]

Question for those with teens with late practices. What does your player eat for dinner before practices and how far in advance? DS leaves the house at 7 for practice at 8, but I’m just not sure what is best to keep him fueled but not slow him down. I’d love some advice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question for those with teens with late practices. What does your player eat for dinner before practices and how far in advance? DS leaves the house at 7 for practice at 8, but I’m just not sure what is best to keep him fueled but not slow him down. I’d love some advice.

Chicken and pasta or rice, maybe a vegetable. Also, just enough to fuel. Mine usually eat after practice as well.

[Anonymous]

Two dinners. Avoid leafy greens and lactose heavy in the first dinner for sure. Often second dinner is a giant bowl of cereal.

[Anonymous]

Any healthy dinner is fine as long as as it's balanced with protein and carbs. You need carbs for energy and the protein to level it so that he doesn't spike in energy and then crash. Maybe 6 oz of protein and 1.5 -2 cups of carbs depending on the size (assuming a teenager with 8pm practice).

And not too heavy to slow him down -a medium dinner is fine. My son is always starving when we get home and generally eats something small again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any healthy dinner is fine as long as as it's balanced with protein and carbs. You need carbs for energy and the protein to level it so that he doesn't spike in energy and then crash. Maybe 6 oz of protein and 1.5 -2 cups of carbs depending on the size (assuming a teenager with 8pm practice).

And not too heavy to slow him down -a medium dinner is fine. My son is always starving when we get home and generally eats something small again.

Sorry missed your "teens"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two dinners. Avoid leafy greens and lactose heavy in the first dinner for sure. Often second dinner is a giant bowl of cereal.

"Avoid leafy greens" is the one piece of dietary advice my teen adheres to. Unfortunately, it's before AND after practice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Two dinners. Avoid leafy greens and lactose heavy in the first dinner for sure. Often second dinner is a giant bowl of cereal.

"Avoid leafy greens" is the one piece of dietary advice my teen adheres to. Unfortunately, it's before AND after practice.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Any healthy dinner is fine as long as as it's balanced with protein and carbs. You need carbs for energy and the protein to level it so that he doesn't spike in energy and then crash. Maybe 6 oz of protein and 1.5 -2 cups of carbs depending on the size (assuming a teenager with 8pm practice).

And not too heavy to slow him down -a medium dinner is fine. My son is always starving when we get home and generally eats something small again.

Said no Sports Nutritionist Ever

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any healthy dinner is fine as long as as it's balanced with protein and carbs. You need carbs for energy and the protein to level it so that he doesn't spike in energy and then crash. Maybe 6 oz of protein and 1.5 -2 cups of carbs depending on the size (assuming a teenager with 8pm practice).

And not too heavy to slow him down -a medium dinner is fine. My son is always starving when we get home and generally eats something small again.

Said no Sports Nutritionist Ever

As joyous as snark is - providing detail on what then would be recommended with a link is even better!

[Anonymous]

Honestly, kids need to figure out what's best for them. Every kid is a little different. Experiment. For practice...my kid often eats a sandwich on the drive there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, kids need to figure out what's best for them. Every kid is a little different. Experiment. For practice...my kid often eats a sandwich on the drive there.

I agree with this.

[Anonymous]

My kid doesn't each a big lunch so when he has soccer at 5-6pm he eats right when he gets home (3:30pm). Always carbs so it's mainly pasta. If there's no time for a full meal he'll eat fruit with a wrap or something similar. Anything that's fast to digest.

When he gets home he sometimes eats a small meal like pasta, chicken, etc.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the suggestions. DS has been eating PBJ on the way and a big dinner after but we wanted to move dinner to before since now he has time beforehand. We’ll experiment with these ideas.

[Anonymous]

My husband and I WAH.

So---we eat our dinners at 5pm so our HS boys have tons of time before club practice at 7:30 and 8pm, respectively.

They just eat whatever we are serving. Tonight it is grilled salmon, small salad and fries. The 18-year old is now usually good post-practice or will have a yogurt or a protein shake he mixes up...but the almos 16-year old will inevitably get in the car and beg to got to McDonalds for 2nd dinner (he's skinny as sh*t).

Tomorrow--meatballs and spaghetti--small side salad.

you get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband and I WAH.

So---we eat our dinners at 5pm so our HS boys have tons of time before club practice at 7:30 and 8pm, respectively.

They just eat whatever we are serving. Tonight it is grilled salmon, small salad and fries. The 18-year old is now usually good post-practice or will have a yogurt or a protein shake he mixes up...but the almos 16-year old will inevitably get in the car and beg to got to McDonalds for 2nd dinner (he's skinny as sh*t).


Tomorrow--meatballs and spaghetti--small side salad.

you get it.

Very helpful! A regular balanced dinner at 5 will work for me.