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Tournament Food Guidelines
General Guidelines
These guidelines are not meant so replace parental guidance. Parents wishes must always be followed.
All full meals are to be eaten at least 2 hours before the next game. Lean meats, cheeses, and peanut butter may be eaten, but not within 3 hours of the game. Remember, we start to warm up 45 minutes before game time.)
Drink water before bedtime Saturday night.
Drink one glass of water for every glass of carbonated drink (soda). Better yet, don’t drink any carbonated drinks (soda).
Avoid food kept warm in steam tables unless you have seen it cooked before your very eyes.
Avoid creamed foods, fish dishes, and chowders.
Try to avoid fast food restaurants. Bacon cheeseburgers, French fries, and carbonated beverages are exactly what we want to stay away from. (If you absolutely HAVE to, maybe burritos from Taco Bell.)
Avoid junk foods such a potato chips and candy bars.
Within an hour of the game any of the following may be eaten in moderate quantities.
crackers/bread/plain “no-fat” unsalted pretzels
fruit or vegetable juices
fresh fruit, such as oranges or bananas
granola or “Power” bar
fruit roll-up
Gatorade
High carbohydrate breakfast foods - 3 hours before game time
Fruit, cold or hot cereal, toast, bagel, English muffin, bran muffin, pancakes, waffles, low-fat yogurt, crackers, pasta, etc.
Water, low-fat milk, fruit or vegetable juices.
No greasy foods or heavy meats (hash browns, breakfast steaks, ham, or sausage).
High carbohydrate lunch foods - 3 hours before game time
Salads, fresh fruit, turkey sandwich on whole wheat, low-fat yogurt, baked potato with chili, cornmeal muffin, minestrone soup, spaghetti with tomato sauce
Breads, dinner rolls
Water, juices, low-fat milk, or milkshake made from real ice cream
No French fries, sodas, or fried sandwiches (including toasted-cheese and Reubens)
High-carbohydrate dinner foods
Salads, pasta (spaghetti, noodles, ravioli, etc.), baked potato, fresh fruit, thick-crust cheese and/or vegetable pizza, minestrone soup, rolls
Most anything that you normally eat
Water, low-fat milk, or juices
Sherbet or milkshake made from real ice cream |
