sports practice at 6pm - eat dinner before or after?!
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Anonymous
| My kids have soccer practice about the same time... they get a snack after school, usually some version of an energy/protein type bar (kid friendly) or vegetables. They eat dinner when they get back... eating a full meal before running for 1.5 hours is a recipe for disaster. |
Anonymous
Why’s that |
Anonymous
You go eat a big dinner and then go run on the treadmill for 1.5 hours. Check back and let us know how it went. |
Anonymous
| Who has the time & the availability to cook dinner and feed home cooked dinner to kids before 6pm practices? I and DH do not. Mostly we do carryout fast food to feed them. |
Anonymous
💩 |
Anonymous
| We have the same thing. We have tried it both ways. She always ends up eating 2 dinners if we do dinner before so we've landed on a big healthy snack and dinner after. |
Anonymous
| +1 on two smaller meals. Have something for her at 4 and then after she comes back from practice. Full dinner at 5 will be hard, but left overs or a small meal (leftovers, soup and sandwich, etc) that she could eat, would be better. |
Anonymous
When my kids were younger, they just packed two lunches. I sent one to school and stuck one on the fridge at home (if we were going there) or work. If something was better hot, I microwaved it for them before I picked up. |
Anonymous
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This is a ridiculous time for a practice.
Eat before. She can have a snack on way home. |
Anonymous
| We split dinner in two and make it easy. Like bowl of Cheerios before and then a yogurt, banana, apple, and cheese stick after. But my child is 6. A 10 year old can probably figure out how much to eat before and after exercise, right? |
Anonymous
I carefully arrange my week so I cook on non-practice nights a meal that has enough leftovers to feed everyone again on practice nights. It's a little tricky right now with 3 kids with full schedules, but that just means the equivalent of a "non-practice" night is just whenever I actually have some time. Back when I was worried about one kids' practice at 6 pm I could easily do this. But yeah, a lot of my kids' teammates do carryout fast food because when you have things like 3 kids on 4 travel teams (real scenario, but not mine) and both parents work full time, you're just making it. |
Anonymous
| Hahaha. We have to do two dinners. My third grader will eat before and then always wants another meal after practice. |
Anonymous
Truthfully- this is partly why I haven’t gone back to work full time. I know some people can handle the kids activities and full time work, but I just couldn’t. So no judgment from me if you’re using fast food to get you through |