I'd talked to Nathan, talked to Coach (found out he'd just given a lecture on the importance of eating and getting plenty of liquids in them), Nathan still claims to not be hungry during the day - the hunger just hits as soon as practice is done - but Nathan and I now have a compromise.
He takes "trailmix" (nuts, seeds, bits of dried fruit, bits of jerky, low salt content)
and a "crunchy granola bar" (the whole grain, hard, non-rice krispy treat type)
to school EVERYday
and EATS it EVERYday - or he can go get and EAT a real lunch
and he HAS TO drink plenty of water/gatorade EVERYday.
The trail mix doesn't take up a lot of room in the backpack,
it can be snacked on throughout the day
he doesn't have to worry about it getting smashed in his backpack - if the granola bar crumbles, he can just add it to the ziplock of trail mix.
happy Mommy again
(and they played a Scrimmage Game against eachother yesterday! We'll have some exciting games ahead! As long as these guys are still those nice sweet kind polite wise respectful young men the rest of the time, I guess I can cringe my way through a season of watching them slamming into, shoving down, and plowing over people DURING their games)
