I think there are some parents here with food issues. I eat 3 meals and 2 snacks a day. At 5'5 and 120lbs I'm not exactly overweight or obese. Letting a child eat a small midday snack doesn't after running around for an hour isn't going to turn them into obese adults. Get serious! If you don't like the snacks a parent provides, say 'no, thank you' and go on with your life. My children know how to politely refuse unhealthy things. It's good practice for when they have to make decisions on their own. Not a big deal some of you are making it out to be.

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.

Our upper NW DC Stoddert team at Pringles for a snack at 9:30am on Saturday. Woo hoo!
I love our friends. Not a crazy among them.

Anonymous wrote:I grab some capri suns and one of those big bags of chip-type snacks, and clementines. Y'all can let your kids eat some/all of them or not according to your parenting beliefs. BTW folks on this area can be crazy.

How can we not let our kids eat the snacks? No, honey, everyone else can enjoy the chips, just not you. Really? Don't think we should have to put our kids through that.

I just wish it wasn't snacks, snacks, snacks, snacks, snacks, snacks, snacks all of the time. We do have a food issue in the US. And all of these parents saying "it's no big deal," I really, really wish we could track whether your kids become overweight as adults. Because, likely, they will be...

From google this morning: "More than one-third (35.7 percent) of adults are considered to be OBESE. More than 1 in 20 (6.3 percent) have extreme obesity. Almost 3 in 4 men (74 percent) are considered to be overweight or obese. The prevalence of obesity is similar for both men and women (about 36 percent)."

Don't those numbers make you want to raise your kids to understand healthy eating and snacking? Your skinny little boy will end up as an overweight man. But who knows, that may not bother you. It does bother me.

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Anonymous wrote:So glad my kid's team doesn't do snacks. Why on earth would my kid need a snack at 9:30 in the morning after running around for an hour? The parents on her previous team brought both halftime fruit and post-game snacks and drinks. Absolutely ridiculous.

Not all games end at 9:30. Ours ended at 11 a.m. last weekend. My child ate breakfast at 8, so after running around for an hour, my child and the others on the team were understandably in need of a snack.

Really? An hour or two before lunch? Were they understandably in need of cupcakes?

Who said anything about cupcakes? A small apple or a clementine after soccer isn't going to ruin their appetite for lunch.

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Anonymous wrote:So glad my kid's team doesn't do snacks. Why on earth would my kid need a snack at 9:30 in the morning after running around for an hour? The parents on her previous team brought both halftime fruit and post-game snacks and drinks. Absolutely ridiculous.

Not all games end at 9:30. Ours ended at 11 a.m. last weekend. My child ate breakfast at 8, so after running around for an hour, my child and the others on the team were understandably in need of a snack.

Really? An hour or two before lunch? Were they understandably in need of cupcakes?

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Anonymous wrote:Someone brought frozen tube yogurt and animal crackers as a snack to our soccer game yesterday.

So is that good or bad? Hard to tell on this board. Cupcake objectors team would have all kinds of problems with that - dairy, wheat, food dye, possibly fruit, and who knows what else lurks in those yogurt tubes (besides the sugar of course).

I think this weekend should be declared soccer cupcake weekend. Cupcakes all around.

I am cupcake objector - none of those allergies exist on the team at issue; you just made that up based on other people's responses. The only allergies on our team are nut allergies, and parents were told to avoid nuts. Baked goods don't work for kids with nut allergies. You should know that by now.

Does this mean you won't be participating in Soccer Cupcake Weekend? If you change your mind here's a recipe to try: http://www.kidswithfoodallergies.org/page/recipe-page.aspx?recid=45&name=Kathy%20P%27s%20Wacky%20Cake. It says it's free of: Milk, Peanut, Egg, Soy, Tree nut. Gluten, Wheat, Fish.

What do you do for a living that you had time to look that up, presumably as a "joke?"

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Anonymous wrote:Someone brought frozen tube yogurt and animal crackers as a snack to our soccer game yesterday.

So they maybe burned 100 calories running around and then ate about 200+ calories of snack afterwards. And we wonder why kids emotionally eat and there is an obesity problem.

Is tube yogurt less healthy than regular yogurt? does it depend on the kind of yogurt?

It depends on what brand - some are ok, some are heavily flavored and a lot of dyes.

OP, it was strawberry tube yogurt from trader joes and the letter crackers from trader joes. She put maybe 10 in a baggie for each child. The mom froze the tube yogurt. Kids loved them.

Seriously, are we really counting calories at this age. They are out getting exercise, running around, learning about teamwork, but most of all having fun. Let them have a 200+ calorie snack.

Anonymous wrote:I am managing a first grade soccer team, and decided to stay silent on the snack issue. Much to my delight, no kids or parents have asked for them. The parents bring water bottles to the games, and feed their kids on their own schedule after practices and games.

We will do a team party for extra bonding at the end of the season, but that's about it. The kids are all happy just to be playing together, and I assume the parents are relieved not to have to deal with one more thing.

Love this! That's exactly how it should be!

Anonymous wrote:So glad my kid's team doesn't do snacks. Why on earth would my kid need a snack at 9:30 in the morning after running around for an hour? The parents on her previous team brought both halftime fruit and post-game snacks and drinks. Absolutely ridiculous.

Not all games end at 9:30. Ours ended at 11 a.m. last weekend. My child ate breakfast at 8, so after running around for an hour, my child and the others on the team were understandably in need of a snack.

I am managing a first grade soccer team, and decided to stay silent on the snack issue. Much to my delight, no kids or parents have asked for them. The parents bring water bottles to the games, and feed their kids on their own schedule after practices and games.

We will do a team party for extra bonding at the end of the season, but that's about it. The kids are all happy just to be playing together, and I assume the parents are relieved not to have to deal with one more thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone brought frozen tube yogurt and animal crackers as a snack to our soccer game yesterday.

So is that good or bad? Hard to tell on this board. Cupcake objectors team would have all kinds of problems with that - dairy, wheat, food dye, possibly fruit, and who knows what else lurks in those yogurt tubes (besides the sugar of course).

I think this weekend should be declared soccer cupcake weekend. Cupcakes all around.

I am cupcake objector - none of those allergies exist on the team at issue; you just made that up based on other people's responses. The only allergies on our team are nut allergies, and parents were told to avoid nuts. Baked goods don't work for kids with nut allergies. You should know that by now.

Does this mean you won't be participating in Soccer Cupcake Weekend? If you change your mind here's a recipe to try: http://www.kidswithfoodallergies.org/page/recipe-page.aspx?recid=45&name=Kathy%20P%27s%20Wacky%20Cake. It says it's free of: Milk, Peanut, Egg, Soy, Tree nut. Gluten, Wheat, Fish.

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Anonymous wrote:Oreos, cheetos and gatorade


Yay! Dcum soccer snack season

Oreos, Cheetos, and SODA! There, fixed that for you.

When my son moved from MSI to travel soccer, the coach surprised us by telling the team that he would be in charge of providing snacks for the kids after every game. We were assuming that he had very high standards for the kids' nutrition as he did for their skill development, and waited expectantly to see what he thought was appropriate post-game fuel. I wish someone had been around to videotape the parents' reaction as he opened the cooler after the first game to reveal...blue Gatorade and Twix bars. And that's what the kids had after every game all the rest of that year.

So glad my kid's team doesn't do snacks. Why on earth would my kid need a snack at 9:30 in the morning after running around for an hour? The parents on her previous team brought both halftime fruit and post-game snacks and drinks. Absolutely ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:Someone brought frozen tube yogurt and animal crackers as a snack to our soccer game yesterday.

So is that good or bad? Hard to tell on this board. Cupcake objectors team would have all kinds of problems with that - dairy, wheat, food dye, possibly fruit, and who knows what else lurks in those yogurt tubes (besides the sugar of course).

I think this weekend should be declared soccer cupcake weekend. Cupcakes all around.

I am cupcake objector - none of those allergies exist on the team at issue; you just made that up based on other people's responses. The only allergies on our team are nut allergies, and parents were told to avoid nuts. Baked goods don't work for kids with nut allergies. You should know that by now.