tland
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Post by tland on Mar 2, 2016 7:51:06 GMT -6
I'm wanting to talk with my boosters about "cleaning up" our pregame meal and am looking for suggestions that would give the kids the best benefit. We typically eat around 3:15pm for a 7pm kickoff. Any suggestions for both food and drink that you guys serve?
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Post by coachg13 on Mar 2, 2016 7:58:22 GMT -6
We rotate between baked chicken, spaghetti or hamburger steak. We throw in a roll and mashed potatoes and some salad. We just use the gatorade mix in big cooler for drinks.
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Post by John Knight on Mar 2, 2016 8:05:17 GMT -6
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Post by John Knight on Mar 2, 2016 8:18:29 GMT -6
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Post by bluboy on Mar 2, 2016 9:45:25 GMT -6
Our kids get a piece of chicken (about the size of one's fist), elbow pasta or rice, salad, fruit, bread, and gatorade. We eat at 3 or 3:30 (depends if traveling) for a 7 PM game.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Mar 2, 2016 9:58:09 GMT -6
We always eat around 3 or 3:15.
It's pretty frequently some form of pasta, and quite often sandwiches. Our boosters have dropped the ball a few times and gone with pizza or McDonald's.
I'd love to just sit down with them and plan the meal each week, to ensure that it's something that's going to be a good fit.
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tland
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Post by tland on Mar 2, 2016 11:02:31 GMT -6
Thanks for the input, for the most part we're on the right page. I just wanted to provide our new meal coordinator with something solid and love the first pdf that John Knight shared. We're going to scrap the deserts(obvious reasons) and salads(kids didn't like anyway and they're hard to digest). We'd have pastas, subs, baked chicken but occasionally their'd be a chicken tender day that would pop up and I don't want the kids eating fried food like that. A couple years ago we had a parent smoke some pork and we had pulled pork, damn near lost half my staff to heartburn during pre-game. Kids loved it though. |
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Mar 2, 2016 11:09:27 GMT -6
We eat Thursday night as a team. I don't want ANYTHING to deal with on game day other than winning. Just my opinion.
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Post by John Knight on Mar 2, 2016 11:31:55 GMT -6
Yeah I think it is over rated too. Teach them what to eat, give them the handout with recommended pre game meals and let them eat at home or at subway/chikfilla/chipolte whatever. My Dad said when he played college football he ate whole fried chicken and mashed potatoes and gravy every game, he could not play hungry.
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Post by hunhdisciple on Mar 2, 2016 12:10:37 GMT -6
What about the kids who don't really have the means to eat on their own? We are a pretty poor area, and I'm positive that if we didn't feed our guys on Friday afternoon, they wouldn't eat more than a bag of chips they could find around the locker room.
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Post by 60zgo on Mar 2, 2016 12:14:31 GMT -6
I've never really understood the big pre game meal. They have already had lunch... We offer them a sandwich, and either pizza or chik fil a after the game.
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Post by blb on Mar 2, 2016 12:16:14 GMT -6
What about the kids who don't really have the means to eat on their own? We are a pretty poor area, and I'm positive that if we didn't feed our guys on Friday afternoon, they wouldn't eat more than a bag of chips they could find around the locker room.
Our Touchdown Club moms collected $40 from each kid before season for Pre-Game meals and picked up the tab for Post-Game snacks at away games.
If a kid-family couldn't come up with the $40, I paid for it out of my fund raiser account.
By having them at school for meal, film, meetings we didn't have to worry about what they were eating, getting into trouble-accident, or girl problems before game.
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Post by fantom on Mar 2, 2016 12:19:12 GMT -6
We eat Thursday night as a team. I don't want ANYTHING to deal with on game day other than winning. Just my opinion. We have our team meal on Thursday and it's whatever the team moms cook (And it's pretty good). They also make a bag lunch for Friday. Asking a teenage boy to go from lunch time until after the game is pretty tough. |
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Post by PSS on Mar 2, 2016 12:47:49 GMT -6
Our pregame meal consists of PB&J sandwiches made by the mothers, assortment of fruit (bananas, oranges, apples), bottles of water, and Gatorade.
We put this out on tables in the dressing room 2 hours before a game. Nothing special but enough of the right ingredients to fuel their bodies for a game. We also have a pregame meal on Thursday that rotates each week from one place to another.
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tland
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Post by tland on Mar 2, 2016 13:01:17 GMT -6
I get the Thursday meal, but our team leaders have done a great job of getting the team out to different restaurants and spending time together. It'd be another night for my staff and myself to be away from our families. I'm more concerned with getting food in them after school Friday before the game. Thankfully, this is the most work I'll have to spend on meals all year. Thanks again for the input.
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Post by WingTheT on Mar 2, 2016 13:20:23 GMT -6
We always had salads with some sort of baked meat such as chicken or pork (not fried) and some carbs to with it (rolls).
The other school I coached at, we always had chickfila sandwiches. We always won so I think maybe fried chicken sandwiches are the way to go. Who knows?
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Post by coachtua on Mar 2, 2016 23:24:04 GMT -6
At my last stop we ate as a team Thursday night after practice. It started as parents making spaghetti and bringing it to the school. Now there is a local Italian restaurant that provides the spaghetti and Caesar salad, and an Albertsons does the garlic bread. Game day meal at 315 at Dennys. $3 choice of spaghetti or pancakes.
Currently being at a military prep school we have a mess hall. Our meal is what ever is for chow that night. Fried chicken and waffles, BBQ chicken, pizza, orange chicken, fish vera cruz, etc. Each athlete is expected to eat a salad from the salad bar as well.
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Mar 3, 2016 7:16:23 GMT -6
We eat Thursday night as a team. I don't want ANYTHING to deal with on game day other than winning. Just my opinion. We have our team meal on Thursday and it's whatever the team moms cook (And it's pretty good). They also make a bag lunch for Friday. Asking a teenage boy to go from lunch time until after the game is pretty tough. Agreed. They are responsible for any meal before the game, although we will provide (through donations) some fruit and snacks (like the little packs of pretzel goldfish or granola bars) if they need it. We used to try to get them to eat well before a game, but what we found was that kids who typically eat McDonald's during the week were getting the runs/stomach aches from eating healthy food. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2016 7:39:56 GMT -6
We've always done a pre game meal on Fridays at 255. Schools out at 215, and we eat after we clear the halls and etc. we have varied the menu but general meals were veggies, water, and a select meat. The meats have varied from chicken breast, hamburger steak, baked chicken wings, pasta dishes, and others.
We will get out of school, eat, relax, and do mental prep. It's been the same for years.
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Post by raymul313 on Mar 6, 2016 5:59:53 GMT -6
We have our team meal on Thursday and it's whatever the team moms cook (And it's pretty good). They also make a bag lunch for Friday. Asking a teenage boy to go from lunch time until after the game is pretty tough. Agreed. They are responsible for any meal before the game, although we will provide (through donations) some fruit and snacks (like the little packs of pretzel goldfish or granola bars) if they need it. We used to try to get them to eat well before a game, but what we found was that kids who typically eat McDonald's during the week were getting the runs/stomach aches from eating healthy food. The kids bodies are rumbling and cleanung up all the junk they've eaten lol |
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Mar 6, 2016 21:44:24 GMT -6
Agreed. They are responsible for any meal before the game, although we will provide (through donations) some fruit and snacks (like the little packs of pretzel goldfish or granola bars) if they need it. We used to try to get them to eat well before a game, but what we found was that kids who typically eat McDonald's during the week were getting the runs/stomach aches from eating healthy food. The kids bodies are rumbling and cleanung up all the junk they've eaten lol I think you're absolutely right. But on game night that's the last damn thing I want my kids to be worried about. This is more of a year-round commitment to eating right approach in my mind. |
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Post by coachwoodall on Mar 7, 2016 6:38:09 GMT -6
Chik fil a sandwich
Bag of chips
Banana
Cookie
Tub of gator water
Nothing heavy, 3 hours before kick off
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coachpsl
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Post by coachpsl on Mar 7, 2016 6:48:30 GMT -6
My biggest take away from this thread....we get out of school really late (3:35).
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