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Spring Sports Schedule
Posted by Beth Ann Bentley on Mar 04 2009
iLunchbox Blog >> Beth Ann

I am in the throes of the Spring Sports Schedule. I don’t know why it is that the spring sports schedule seems more hectic than the fall but it does. Maybe it is because there seems to be a break between summer swim team and football or maybe it is because there is an overlap of winter sports and extracurricular activities I don’t have at the beginning of the school year. Either way it is busy and I am not alone. Many of the moms I see, in passing, are racing from practice to game to pick up and trying to figure out dinner on the fly. Here are few tips I have picked up on the way and a few easy dinner solutions.

Tip:

• Pack up a bag with all the supplies you need to get through the day: (maybe extras if you have little kids with you too.)
• Team contact numbers including the coach’s and a back up ride home for your child if need be.
• Sunscreen
• Hat
• First aid kit
• Extra shoe laces
• Pony tail holder or head bands (for girls)
• Extra mouth guards
• Extra cup (for boys)
• Towel
• Something to sit on (I recommend getting a folding chair with umbrella)
• Rain poncho and umbrella
• Sweatshirt
• Wipes
• Water
• Snack bars and dried fruit-nonperishable healthy snacks
• Book or magazine
• Disposable camera (because you never remember the good one when you need it)
• Blanket for other kids to sit on and activities for them to do like coloring or puzzles

• Soup, grilled cheese sandwich and a salad
• Scrambled Eggs, toast and vegetables
• Pasta with Peas and parmesan Cheese and a salad
• Cold Roast Chicken, Potato Salad and Green Salad (all made during the day when the kids are at school)
• Hors’ d oeuvre Platter: Leftover cold roasted meats, cold cuts, cheese, pickled vegetables, salad, whole grain bread and crackers
• Crockpot Solutions: everything is done without much fuss.

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