Produce an Athlete Snack Suggestions

Youth sports practice and game events are great opportunities to include fruits and vegetables. There are endless and creative ways to include a diversity of flavors, colors and textures. Presentation modes, offering choices and role modeling by coaches and parents can help to “produce” youth sports athletes.

Please always follow safe food handling suggestions … refer to safe food handling checklists and newsletter leaflets:

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The following are examples...

Combination Ideas for after the Game

sweet bread tuna sandwiches, 1% or skim chocolate milk, banana or apple, hard pretzels and fruit
soft pretzels and fruit
peanut butter sandwiches and fruit
popcorn and fruit
animal crackers and fruit
trail mix and fruit
baked chips, salsa and fruit
small boxed cereal (with or without milk) and fruit
pudding and fruit
flavored gelatins and fruit
yogurt and fruit
tortilla chips and fruit salsas
cookies and fruit

Water - a splash of 100% of juice?
Chilled bottled water
Chilled lemon water
Chilled lime water
Frozen water “iced cakes”

Fruits - Chilled fresh, frozen, canned/whole, peeled, sliced, cubed fruit cocktail

acerola
apple
apricot
banana
orange
papaya
peach
plum

persimmon
pineapple
pommelo (jabon)
star fruit (5 fingers, carambola)
surinam cherry
tangerine
watermelon
honeydew melon

cantaloupe
kiwi
lychee
mango
cherimoya
grapefruit
grape
cherry

dried fruit and cereal (example: toasted oat cereal and dried cranberries/cherries/raisins)
frozen fruit pieces or frozen whole fruit (examples: drain canned fruit, lay on tray, freeze; peel oranges, freeze whole; peel bananas, dip in orange juice, freeze whole)
“bottled/canned/boxed” 100% fruit juices
100 % juice “iced cakes” (example: 1 can 100% frozen juice concentrate with 1½ - 2 cans water … freeze in small paper cups)
fruit “sandwiches”: bread/rolls/peanut butter/sliced fruits; cinnamon optional
bananas, mangoes, papayas and other fruits “marinated in 1) skim milk and coconut flavoring, 2) orange juice and almond flavoring, 3) pineapple juice and coconut flavoring, 4) evaporated skim milk and almond flavoring … also good as frozen fruit slushies
any of the above with: flavored yogurts, pina colada sauce

Vegetables - Chilled fresh, frozen, canned/whole, peeled, sliced, cubed fruit cocktail

cabbage slaws with fruit
vegetable sticks with dips
pumpkin chunks
somen salads
pasta salads (use local ethnic pastas like saimin, somen, pansit, etc.)
tomato salsas with vegetable chunks
potato chunks with dips
peanut butter rolled in manoa lettuce leaves
tomatoes, green onions, and round onions lomi-lomi style

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