sports snacks question

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m not trying to be the healthy mom after a soccer game I’m trying not to be the mom that sucks and brings sucky snacks. So junk food it is.
Cucumbers and my kid would be devastated.

The thing is, kids are more sedentary than ever. More kids are overweight than ever. If they aren’t now, chances are very high they will be as adults. A huge part of the problem is the culture around junk food. Kids playing a sport and getting exercise is a positive thing, and we shouldn’t be sending the message that junk food is a reward.

And frankly, there is no such thing as junk food only once in a while anymore. It’s given out at the door as free breakfast at school, after every sports game, every occasion possible in school for parties and incentives, birthday parties, grandmas house, friends house. Rare is the kid that isn’t being given junk food multiple times per week from various places

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Omg not fruit, kids don’t want fruit as a snack after soccer.
Assorted chips
Small containers of pringles
Individual Oreo packs
Popcorn
Individual packaged Rice Krispie treats

All the above are huge hits after our soccer games. Some parents do Gatorade too

This clearly differs community by community because of someone brought this to our team, they’d be ostracized

Your community would…ostracize…someone for bringing the wrong snack?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for this evenings entertainment, all. Super easy to spot the posters whose kids play on organized sports teams versus those who are just looking on at this cultural phenomenon in horror!

My kids are athletes, play a combined six sports and they do not reach for the Oreos/chips after a game. Do we have them at parties and appropriate times, of course![/b] But after a game when your body is in recovery, [b]they know better.

Recovery?? Yes standing around the soccer field picking daises really requires some serious recovery.

Some of you are insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg not fruit, kids don’t want fruit as a snack after soccer.
Assorted chips
Small containers of pringles
Individual Oreo packs
Popcorn
Individual packaged Rice Krispie treats

All the above are huge hits after our soccer games. Some parents do Gatorade too

This clearly differs community by community because of someone brought this to our team, they’d be ostracized

Your community would…ostracize…someone for bringing the wrong snack?

Of course. We already have the Stanley/Lululemon vs. not sections. We may start a snack section as well.

[Anonymous]

C’mon guys. My kid loves seaweed and vegetables. And I’m a food label reader to the extreme. I’m anti food dye. I only buy organic clean processed underwear for my family, because of chemicals and pesticides in modern conventional clothing. In short, I am pretty much crazy.

And even I send mass produced cookies and Gatorade (full sugar, not the weird artificial sweetener kind). It’s what they want. It’s the norm. Don’t send cucumber spears and homemade hummus!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Popsicles if it’s hot, otherwise oranges and cucumbers.

Although I wish we would get away from snacks. They don’t need them and it’s another thing to organize and all the pre-packaged snacks create so much trash.

Cucumbers?

I would love to see this in the wild.

Not as bad as the lady who always brought seaweed snacks to ours.

My kid would destroy the seaweed snacks but I suspect he’s in the minority there.

They are extremely salty/high sodium so a very odd and stinky choice after kids have been running around on a soccer field for an hour.

If they are actually sweating from a 60 mins of up-tempo soccer, post-game salt intake could be very appropriate for older kids.

[Anonymous]

OP, I usually do capri sun or Gatorade (whatever is on sale that week), some sort of fruit bar/chew and a salty snack. My kids are on 7 different teams so we frequently have to sign up for snacks. Recently the K/1st like pirates booty and goldfish a lot, sometimes popcorners, Trader Joe’s fruit buttons. Kids 2nd-6th seem to prefer bags of plain popcorn, granola bars or fruit snacks. Sometimes people do bring homemade cookies or something and while many kids love it the allergy kids have to be careful and skip it since it’s not packaged. Please keep that in mind if you have celiac or nut allergy kids on the team.

[Anonymous]

My kid's 1 hour preschool soccer league is over the top with snacks. There are THREE signups for each week- one for juice, one for a shelf stable snack, one for fruit. None of them want whatever fruit is available when there are juice boxes and cookies/chips.

[Anonymous]

Pizza and wings

[Anonymous]

These threads are like the what should a do as a party favor threads. There is no right answer. Pay attention to what happens for your team and base the decision on that. If everyone brings fruit...bring fruit. If everyone brings donuts...bring donuts.

[Anonymous]

Popsicles. For DS's soccer team that's the snack every week. I like it, no need to be creative, figure out what to bring. Just buy the popsicles when it's my turn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These threads are like the what should a do as a party favor threads. There is no right answer. Pay attention to what happens for your team and base the decision on that. If everyone brings fruit...bring fruit. If everyone brings donuts...bring donuts.

+1

Just follow the crowd so your kid is not the odd one out, and no need to put much thought into this. If you are the first one on the list - something like individual package of chips/crackers & Gatorade or juice box is a relatively safe choice.

I’d be the first vote to get rid of snacks altogether but is easier to just go with the flow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for this evenings entertainment, all. Super easy to spot the posters whose kids play on organized sports teams versus those who are just looking on at this cultural phenomenon in horror!

Right. Dead ringer. Goldfish! Cringe. Lol! ON our signup genius, it has a list of what we and buy as snacks for which games. So....
I DO like the idea of a cool watermelon cut into slices after a game though. My daughter's fav snacks are baby bel cheese, mandarin oranges and goldfish.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks for this evenings entertainment, all. Super easy to spot the posters whose kids play on organized sports teams versus those who are just looking on at this cultural phenomenon in horror!

My kids are athletes, play a combined six sports and they do not reach for the Oreos/chips after a game. Do we have them at parties and appropriate times, of course! But after a game when your body is in recovery, they know better.

In elementary school?

[Anonymous]

I go to Division I football games in person.

The Division I football players get orange wedges, gatoraide and water.