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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our team doesn't do snacks and I'm fine with that.  But I do think it is strange that people are questioning why kids might want a snack after an hour of pretty much nonstop running.  DS always asks for something to eat after soccer, and is genuinely hungry.  We generally bring one of those applesauce packets, or a yogurt tube, for the car.  It is fine not to have a "team snack," but it is reasonable that kids might want something to eat.[/quote]
I'm the manager of the no-snack team who posted above, and I agree that some kids will need snacks after a game or practice.  We always have granola bars and apples in our car for this reason, along with spare water bottles (and spare socks, balls, and T shirts in a variety of colors).  It's just going to depend on when the particular kid last ate and what sort of metabolism the kid has.

To be honest, the main reason I was hoping to avoid the group snack was because it causes anxiety for a lot of parents, especially ones new to kids' sports.  With our older kids, we definitely saw some snack-one-upmanship, fueled in part by kids' determination not to have their families be seen as providing lame snacks.  And then parents were nervous about being judged by the more health conscious cohort.  By the end of the season, some of the parents were bringing boxes with multiples of every variety of snack and kids were descending on the boxes like wild animals.  It was funny but unseemly, and it seemed like a waste of resources.[/quote]

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