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Post by Momof20613 on Aug 3, 2022 14:48:41 GMT -6
I am in charge, for the second year in a row, with feeding our band before football games. On home game days they practice from 3:30-5pm then have a quick dinner break at school, then into uniform and to the football field, which is on our campus. This year that means 6 games, 2 pep band only away games (the rest are the night before contest so we aren’t going) of approximately 85 students and 4 home games of approximately 200 students and staff.
I am curious to know how other programs go about this. We have money set aside to feed the kids at contests, but before football games we use donations. We have a few go-to churches in the area that help every year. One always brings a baked potato bar, the others all provide pizza. A couple of churches donate money for us to buy whatever. A few local restaurants donate a portion of a meal. A BBQ place is donating enough cobbler to feed the kids dessert for example.
This year we have a car dealership donating enough to buy a couple of meals.
So that is how we do, how does your band feed the kids before games if they aren’t expected to eat at home.
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Post by WoodlandsMom4ever on Aug 3, 2022 20:45:29 GMT -6
We have meals built into the band fee’s. Game day meals are always the same food- the kids choose once and fill out their order form of chic-fil-a or whichwhich. Each week our food crew verifies with the director who might ineligible or out that week and they send the order in a few days before the game day- and then on the game day it’s delivered for the kids to eat between their practice and bus load time.
Contest or travel meals will vary and be different things. But game day meals are always the same for all 8-10 games of the season. (Home and away games)
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Post by 70sguardchick on Aug 4, 2022 7:39:30 GMT -6
We do it very similarly - it's a combination of donations from local restaurants and money from donations buying food. Sometimes they ask the parents to help and buy cookie platters or bunches of bananas or something like that.
Competition day food depends on whether it is a local contest (pack a lunch) or a travel day (pack a lunch for the bus, food brought in for everyone at the competition site). But either way, parents donate a variety of snacks, but healthy and not.
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Post by nd on Aug 4, 2022 8:55:21 GMT -6
Long time lurker, first time poster...
We rarely feed on football game days, but when we do it is purchased food like pizzas, subs, etc. This comes from the booster budget.
For contest days we provide 1 hot, home-cooked meal and snack bags. Food/supplies are provided via parent donations (sometimes the parent purchases food sometimes they donate cash) and cooked by a group of volunteers. Snack bags are assembled by the kids from tables organized by the parents. The goal is to provide a fruit, a protein(usually yoghurt or cheese stick, but sometimes a protein bar) and a snack/sweet.
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Post by LeanderMomma on Aug 11, 2022 11:58:47 GMT -6
Ha, this whole subject reminds me of how different feeding the band is from most other high school organizations. When my middle daughter played softball at Leander, the moms took turns preparing a meal and feeding the entire team before Varsity games. Can you imagine signing up to feed the BAND?! 🤣🤣
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Post by dbalash on Aug 11, 2022 12:27:44 GMT -6
Back in my day, we only got fed for Illinois State, regionals and Nationals. Football games/practices/local competitions, we were on our own.
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Post by LeanderMomma on Aug 11, 2022 12:35:58 GMT -6
Back in my day, we only got fed for Illinois State, regionals and Nationals. Football games/practices/local competitions, we were on our own. back in mine, we didn’t get fed at all except for competition days. And we had to walk barefoot in the snow to get there. |
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Post by Allohak on Aug 11, 2022 17:22:46 GMT -6
Back in my day, we only got fed for Illinois State, regionals and Nationals. Football games/practices/local competitions, we were on our own. back in mine, we didn’t get fed at all except for competition days. And we had to walk barefoot in the snow to get there. Uphill both ways or just one? |
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Post by LeanderMomma on Aug 11, 2022 19:44:27 GMT -6
back in mine, we didn’t get fed at all except for competition days. And we had to walk barefoot in the snow to get there. Uphill both ways or just one? oh both, absolutely. Five miles each way! 😁 |
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Post by hewhowaits on Aug 12, 2022 5:38:28 GMT -6
Uphill both ways or just one? oh both, absolutely. Five miles each way! 😁 You lived close to your school! |
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Post by LeanderMomma on Aug 13, 2022 7:40:57 GMT -6
oh both, absolutely. Five miles each way! 😁 You lived close to your school! That was just to the wagon stop. 😜 |
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Post by Marching Observer on Aug 16, 2022 16:35:38 GMT -6
Yeah I'm pretty sure we were told to pack our own food on competition days. But honestly, I can't remember because it was such a small part of the experience that it is something that never stuck out to me.
I do know on football days we'd be given about an hour and a half between ending rehearsal and when to check back in to go home and eat.
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Post by ilikeguard on Aug 20, 2022 16:53:42 GMT -6
We had all of 3rd quarter to eat during games. I’m not sure if they’ve started doing them since, but when I was in high school the band didn’t play any stand tunes. We rehearsed during 1st, took the equipment down to the field 2nd, performed at half, ate 3rd, and left during 4th. Our band program was a bit more known than the football team, so after halftime the crowd was fairly sparse if it wasn’t homecoming.
We were fed for competitions, usually parent prepared or whatever chain nearby was willing to take such a large catering order. For San Antonio and GN, we had quite a bit of free time, so those meals were on our own. Dinners were usually together, while lunch on a competition day was up to you.
I think the best meal I’ve ever had was provided by our boosters my senior year. We were leaving that night for a BOA comp, and they had the most incredible pulled pork and baked potatoes 🤤 There’s really nothing quite so holy as parents feeding 200 ravenous teenagers! You could have put anything in front of us after a few “one last time”s and it would be delicious.
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Post by MadScientist on Aug 23, 2022 13:24:57 GMT -6
I can't think of a single time when we got fed by the band, when I was in high school. We always just brought our own lunch/dinner or, if we went on a long trip, just brought money and we would stop somewhere where there many fast food choices.
Of course, I'm old, so our band might have been old school, or my mind might be failing me. Or a little of both...
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Post by 78haworth on Aug 24, 2022 11:27:51 GMT -6
At Franklin, TN the band would go to the mall and eat in the food court on your dime for local contests and away football games. If the game was around 2 hours away, the director would contact the school to let them know our students would need to eat and request that whoever ran the concessions stand be ready early to feed them - again students pay. Local BOA and Contest of Champions is always a Booster pot luck - tons of great food and no one went hungry.
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Post by jmike16 on Aug 28, 2022 10:26:47 GMT -6
When I was in band, for almost every Thursday practice, we got fed by our band boosters. For football games however, we were on our own. Home games we had about an hour and a half to get dinner, and then for away games, we had between 15 minutes to 45 minutes to get dinner. For competitions, specifically if they were in Houston or San Antonio, after our contest performance, they would take us to a local mall to eat and walk around. If the contest was local, then concession stand food.
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