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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Volunteer to coach. Send out a welcome email. If the kids are 2nd grade or younger, say that there won't be time for snacks at practices, but if parents would like to sign up to provide orange slices at half time, here's the sign up. If the kids are older than 2nd grade, remind the parents that the kids need to bring their water bottles to every practice and game, and say you can't have snacks at every game because you need half time to prepare the kids for the second half of the game and thank the parents for getting their kids to practices and games at the scheduled time. The 3rd grade parents might be shell shocked at the lack of snacks, but they'll quickly realize it wasn't necessary and their kids survived.[/quote]

I did that in the fall.  Alas, it didn't work.

I was the coach.  I sent an email asking parents to be sure to bring water to every practice and game, and stating that they were, of course, welcome to bring something for little Timmy to eat if they thought he was going to get hungry.  I made no mention of team snacks or a schedule.
Sure enough, the day before the first game, I got a panicky email from Alpha-mom that I hadn't sent out the snack schedule yet.  I told her I wasn't planning on doing a snack schedule, and as I said at the beginning, parents need to make sure their kids have a water bottle at every practice and game.  
10 minutes later, she responded that she'd be happy to take over the group snack responsibilities from me.
So, despite my best efforts, we still had group snacks all season.

Thankfully DS switched leagues and his current team doesn't do group snacks.  And shockingly enough, despite working WAY harder in this league, all the kids seem to survive the 10 minutes drive home after practice.[/quote]

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