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 |
Your community would…ostracize…someone for bringing the wrong snack? |
Recovery?? Yes standing around the soccer field picking daises really requires some serious recovery. Some of you are insane. |
Of course. We already have the Stanley/Lululemon vs. not sections. We may start a snack section as well. |
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! |
If they are actually sweating from a 60 mins of up-tempo soccer, post-game salt intake could be very appropriate for older kids. |
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. |
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. |
Pizza and wings |
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. |
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 |
+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. |
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. |
In elementary school? |
I go to Division I football games in person.
The Division I football players get orange wedges, gatoraide and water. |