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Lidl, as a proud partner of grassroots football across England, Scotland and Wales, are encouraging children to get involved in football and lead an active healthy lifestyle, but they know that fuelling budding sports stars can be tricky.

So they'd love to hear how you keep your DCs fuelled after charging round a football pitch, netball court, or each other! Maybe you make a mean energy bar to stick in a sports bag - or a super quick supper you can have on the table in minutes after a long game? Whatever it is, share all the details of your recipe, and of course any photos of your food in action would be great too!

Share your ideas below and you will be entered into a prize draw where you could win one of five £50 Lidl vouchers.

Thanks and good luck

MNHQ

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My daughter plays football. After training she likes a nigella breakfast bar - see recipe below.
Breakfast Bars by @nigella_lawson www.nigella.com/recipes/breakfast-bars
Really tasty and you can omit peanuts if you wish.

Cheese cubes and grapes

I love lidl. Dd plays football and is a keen runner, swimmer and does triathlons. She's 10. Her fave snack is a big plate of sliced bananas, watermelon and cucumber - all Lidl. She also loves the individual boxes of multivitamin juice - I keep those in the car for a quick energy boost. Plus I cook a couple of chicken breasts and keep them in the fridge, she loves cold chicken!

We cycle as a family, and one of ds (10)s criteria about riding in a road event is whether it will be long enough to justify making Soupdragons flapjack - this is strictly reserved for proper endurance events as its a shedload of calories. Perfect for keeping in your cycle jersey pocket. It'll be powering him round 50 hilly miles in 3 weeks.

Less than 40 miles, and its just sweets in his pocket - we like the Lidl cola bottles - and a banana and milk when we get back

Seedy oatcakes
100g oatmeal
100g flour
25g fat rubbed in
50g mixed seeds
salt to taste
cold water to bind
Rollout dough and cut into desired shapes. Cook on a medium griddle.
Easy to carry and eat. Crunchy texture and go well with toppings and dips

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/food_and_recipes/1138375-Tell-me-how-to-make-delicious-soft-flapjacks-please

For a savoury snack I make my dairy allergic son his own pizza slices - shop bought pizza base and spread with vegan cheese and ham/vegetables on top.

A lovely smoothie

3 tablespoons oats
3 tablespoons plain yoghurt
Mixed berries 2 handfuls(frozen works well)
Half a banana and about 330ml of milk

Other ingredients can be added to change composition and add. Ore nutrients depending on age of child. Eg spinach

I make cheese and ham pinwheels for mine as a filling snack to eat in the car after school on the way to taekwondko.

Puff pastry sheet, spread with mash potato that has cheese mashed up with it. Sometimes I spread pizza topping on the puff pastry first to make pizza pinwheels, sometimes I add ham to the mash, sometimes onions and pepperoni always goes down well.

I also don't think you can go wrong with a sandwich. I make sandwiches as snacks to eat on the go for the kids quite often. Muffins and flapjacks aren't healthy although put oats in anything and everyone thinks ohh oats how healthy. Not that puff pastry is that healthy either

DS does football on a Sunday morning. He'll have cereal for breakfast which seems to keep him going but he is starving afterwards so I usually take a 'bar' with us - something oaty or fruity to give him some more energy!
He'll have raisins or a fruit pouch on occasion too if he needs a quick sugar pick me up.

Bananas do the trick. if I am feeling fancy I do homemade Bounce style protein balls.

Post match/cycle milk milkshake of milk, some cocoa, strawberries or raspberries and a couple of teaspoons of powdered skimmed milk for added protein, shoved into the blender . Would add a banana but ds hates bananas

my children like to make fruity skewers with grapes, apple, chunks of pineapple, strawberries . you can put any fruit on really and because they make them themselves they love to eat the fruit.i use wooden skewers and make sure the ends are not too sharp then they can do it them selves

That would be lovely as a fruity treat Rupert but would not sustain them during training.

Forgot to say you roll the pastry up with thr filling, slice, egg coat and bake.

If I'm feeling bored in the holidays I sometimes make malt loaf but my ds doesn't notice if it's bought or homemade so I don't often bother.

Just fruit wouldn't be enough for my dc. They do 2hrs of taekwondko 3x a week plus athletics and basketball. They're very active and need calories.

Massive bowl of fruit, oatcakes and some of those Kinder Buerno style bars from Lidl which the kids go mad for! Home-made popcorn is also a winner.

A slow release energy boosting milkshake made with whole milk, oats (better if they have been soaked in the milk for 15 mins first), honey, dates and a big dollup of peanut butter.

Chocolate Brownies are a real favourite sporty treat in my househole

225g butter, melted
400g of brown sugar (or more depending on your taste)
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
4 eggs
225g plain flour
140g unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
125g mini chocolate chips

1. Pre-heat oven to 180/gas 4

2 Grease 23 X 30cm tin

1. Cream butter, sugar vanilla until light and add eggs singly
2. Sift flour, cocoa, salt and baking powder and stir into creamed mixture, add choc chips
3. Pour into tin and bake around 20 mins
4. Let it cool then cut into small squares

Freezes well

Banana on toast with cinammon

I love to make frozen snicker bites. I slice up a whole banana and lay on a baking tray. Add a half a teaspoon of peanut butter on top of each slice of banana. Freeze for an hour. Remove bites from the freezer, melt some chocolate in a bowl and dip each bite in the chocolate and place back on the tray. Keep in the freezer. Delicious TBH the kids are lucky if they get one of these they are too nice!!!!

This isn't after football, but another sport. My dc will have banana on most or porridge. High energy and keeps them going.

If we are in the car they'll have an apple or a banana.

I do make energy bars but my recipe changes depending on whatever nuts, seeds and other dried fruit etc that I have in stock at the time.

Asparagus & New Potato Frittata

Ingredients

250g baby new potatoes (in their skins) cut into 1cm cubes
250g asparagus tips, cut into 3cm pieces
100g petit pois
½ large onion, finely chopped
½ red pepper, finely chopped
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
5 large eggs
1 tbsp Olive Oil
1 tbsp dried mixed herbs
Salt & ground black pepper

Boil the cubed potatoes for approx. 8 minutes or until tender. Remove from water with slotted spoon & set aside. Blanch the asparagus in the same pan for 2 minutes. Drain & set aside

In the meantime whisk the eggs in a large bowl, season & stir in herbs

Heat oil in an ovenproof frying pan, add the onion, peppers & garlic & stir fry for approx. 6 minutes, or until soft.

Add the potatoes, half the asparagus & the peas & stir fry for a further 2 minutes

Pour the eggs evenly over the asparagus mixture & scatter over the remaining asparagus.

Turn the heat to medium & cook for approx. 12 minutes or until the base has started to set.

Preheat your grill to high. Place the frittata under the grill in the frying pan for approximately 4 minutes or until the top is golden & set.

Remove from the heat & allow to cool slightly then loosen the edges with a spatula & carefully slide onto a large chopping board.

Cut into 4 pieces & serve warm (also delicious cold for the kids in their lunchbox)

my sporty snacks would be my famous flapjacks, which have complete goodness in them, including sunflower seeds, cashews, raisins, honey and banana chips.

My kids love food thankfully. Good healthy snacks on the go are so important! I make up stuff in a little Tupperware box of chunks of cheese, olives, cherry tomatoes, cucumber and grapes. Bananas are always great for us too.

Greek yogurt, raspberries, strawberries and banana is a great snack meal and peanut butter on rice cakes is a favourite too :)