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Adventures in Feeding Teenagers

It's been a good bit of time since I have posted.  I am pretty frustrated by that, mostly because I really wanted to create the discipline of writing a couple of times a week.  As it turns out, my discipline for writing needs more...discipline.  So, for now, I'm going to try to write things at least once a week, and see if I can get on some sort of schedule.  It's debate season, and I'm going to be spending a fair amount of time sitting at tournaments, so the new goal is one time a week on Saturday.   And here comes the first of those posts.  It's a rant about feeding teenagers at a tournament and ordering pizza.   I have a friend and coaching colleague who's fairly new to coaching (3-4 years), who occasionally laments that there has to be a better solution to feed the kids than pizza every Saturday. Joe is correct.  The problem is that his concern is both correct, and there isn't a better option.  Debate tournaments don't afford hu...