S/O sports and dinner

[waverly]

I usually have time to rush home and make a quick dinner before sports like tacos or grilled cheese, but baseball starts earlier at 6, so I don’t have time. And I don’t really want to eat dinner afterwards at about 7:15/7:30. We have 3 fast food places in town so going out to eat twice a week to the same places will get old.

What could I pack that morning and put in a cooler for dinner or a picnic or a snack to tide us over? All I can think of right now are those crustless PB&J sandwiches. DS would eat in the car and DD and I would eat at practice. Or I could leave him there at practice and DD and I go get something but food choices by the field are even slimmer maybe one restaurant....

I get out of work at 5 and pick them up at 5:30. Field is 15 minutes away, so I have 15 minutes to figure out food if I don’t pre-pack.

[covergirl82]

Sandwiches (PB & J, as you mentioned, or meat & cheese), Lunchables, hard boiled eggs (if your kids will eat them, mine won't), cheese sticks, yogurt tubes, bagel & cream cheese, pieces of fruit, baby carrots.

[CrazyLucky]

We do a lot of granola bars. Honestly, during baseball season, we are not even close to being the all-American family eating dinner together around the table. We have baseball practice five days this week (two kids). We can't eat before either, so it's generally something very easy like pasta or leftovers after practice/game. Sometimes I will cook a meal after they go to bed, and then we can just heat that up for dinner after practice. I love baseball, but this season is definitely the most difficult regarding schedules.

[rere]

Can you do some wraps? Turkey, cheese and veggie, buffalo chicken, pepperoni and cheese, various chicken wrap recipes on Pintrest.

[2chatter]

We do a lot of uncrustables before practice and dinner after. I pre make dinner so it’s just heating it up. My kids can’t eat right before sports so the active kid eats in the car on the way home.

Other ideas we have done.
- Caesar wraps (pack grilled chicken, salad, dressing, wraps separately).
- solar oven grilled cheese - was fun but wasn’t crispy - pretoast bread.
- crudités and salami and cheese
- tomato, buffalo mozzarella, balsamic, prosciutto, melon (messy because no bread)
- sandwiches (pack all separately) kids like BLT/Clubs
- cold pasta (red sauce wasn’t good)
- shrimp tacos (pack an avocado and a knife)

[twinmomma]

For school lunches we used to get bento box style containers and fill it with some cut up cold chicken, veggies and dip, and cheese slices. My kids loved it and it would definitely keep in a cooler for you. Super easy to prep ahead too - I'd buy rotisserie chicken.

[erinshelley21]

Last year I would get DS some of those Oscar Meyer snack packs that have a protein, cheese and then nuts of some kind to eat before games. Dinner was always after and it was a quick something like something from the crock pot that went with a bag of veggies that I could throw in the microwave or leftovers from another night.

How do you and your kids feel about salads? Salad kits plus some precooked chicken or deli meat is a quick and easy option. Or create your own lunchables, eat with veggies and dip, and some fruit maybe? I don't know where you are located, but I wouldn't want to fill your DS up with a full dinner then send him to practice if it's getting warm out.

[jlaok]

Thick cut deli meat, turkey kielbasa sausage, cold pasta salad with rotisserie chicken, pre-made sandwiches on rolls (so they don't get soggy), tuna or chicken salad

[186momx]

Could you ask aftercare if they would be willing to allow your DS to eat at X time on X days? I did this and they agreed and even told me DD could use the microwave. I pack a sport bag with her change of clothes on M/W with a container of leftovers in a cooler lunch tote. She eats before my mom picks her up for practice. Then after practice she has a snack or I cook her eggs. I just fix myself something after she goes to bed at 7:30. This was a lifesaver the last 4 months.

If they won't do this...could you swing by the grocery store and get one of the deli chicken dinners, subs, sushi. Or call ahead and order pizza and have it delivered to the ball field or pick it up as take out?

[librarychica]

Apr 18, 2018 7:51:55 GMT -5 twinmomma said:

For school lunches we used to get bento box style containers and fill it with some cut up cold chicken, veggies and dip, and cheese slices. My kids loved it and it would definitely keep in a cooler for you. Super easy to prep ahead too - I'd buy rotisserie chicken.

This is what we do — for lunches and for nights we eat on the go. In addition to chicken, I’ve put pepperoni/crackers/cheese, fruit, hummus and pretzels, edamame, cold fried chicken, turkey or roast beef roll ups, chickpeas, that sort of thing. The little containers stack nicely in my small cooler.