Chicken Dippers for breakfast AIBU

If you are feeding them for other meals then it seems the chicken dippers aren’t the problem, it’s more a case of what you believe should and shouldn’t be eaten in the morning. “Normal” breakfast foods are high in carbs and sugar to provide energy for the day, but other countries around the world eat savoury foods for breakfast. Both dippers and cornflakes are quite processed anyway, but if they will both be eaten in a day I don’t see why it makes much difference to eat dippers for breakfast and cornflakes for lunch.

Personally my favourite breakfast is last night’s leftovers - it’s hot, healthy and filling. But cereal or toast are quicker to eat and more convenient

I don't have any friends with young children so I'm aware my frame of reference will be different to that of many here, but I have never heard anybody utter the words 'ultra processed food' outwith this site.

The obsession with protein isn't unheard of, but it's usually in the context of not being hungry again right away rather than any lofty ideas about nutrition (for those who can afford to buy lots of lean protein food, at least).

Not as bad as cereal, but still processed! Weird choice though lol.

Could he not have made them some eggs? 😂

Which is why the OP posted 😈

I think it's great.

I've just had a can of coke, a piece of cheese and 3 Jaffa cakes for breakfast.
It was a lovely breakfast, all on my own. 🤣

I've eaten chicken dippers recently. Bit sceptical about the amount of protein you'll find in there... But as long as your kids were happy and ate something who cares really.

It's MN, and there's usually a massive crowd wave of hilarity and approval over this kind of thing.

There'll be several references to chicken nuggets being 'the food of the Gods' and fights will break out over someone daring to say they bake bread and anyone who prefers to avoid UPFs.

By this afternoon, there'll be a breakout handful of posters locked in their own scrap, telling each to piss off over giving kids a Big Mac once a day or being a leftie vegan middle class snobby fuckwit.

Mark my words.

I mean it’s not the norm but why not?! It isn’t a balanced breakfast so maybe served with an egg and some fruit why not!! Not everyday though!

It's possible that I've read the OP all wrong, but I don't think she posted here in the hope of being offered healthy and nutritious breakfast alternatives to chicken dippers. I'm pretty sure she posted her in the hope of being offered a large baseball bat with a nail through it with which to beat up her husband.

It depends on the alternatives on offer. If chicken dippers were instead of nothing I’d have been delighted. If he could have made avocado on toast with porridge and waffles with a drizzle of organic honey and almond nut butter I’d have probably thought that would have been preferable.

I get hunger pangs if just eating cereal / carbs alone. Used to get lots of tummy aches as a kid, took until adulthood to figure out my body needs protein and/or fiber for breakfast. So for me personally chicken dippers are better. Check the ingredients, you can get nuggets that are less processed.

I’d take dippers over cornflakes.

Both are ultra processed.

If there good enough for lunch or dinner then I don't see the issue with having them for breakfast.

I couldn't get upset over this as they've been fed 🤷‍♀️ not ideal but better than nothing

What's wrong with them for breakfast now and then? It's not every morning right?

Bit weird but not a problem unless they’re eating them every day
IMO this isn’t really an issue

About 9.30 at my desk going through emails.

Never been able to stomach modern UK breakfast-type foods and cannot be doing with sitting around eating before leaving for work, but pre-coeliac days and when I was usually waiting in the freezing cold for a 5.45am train that was never guaranteed to arrive (muttering bloody trains all the while), I had been known to have a hot steak and kidney pie flipped lid side down to prevent explosive leaks or a cheese & onion pasty.

Oooh I need to try that. And leftover curry is the best for breakfast. DH hates it the day after so I get all of it 😁

I wouldn't want to serve chicken dippers for breakfast - processed and high in fat. Like most things, it's ok once in a while, and depends how things balance out over the day/week.

Well they’re definitely ultra processed but so are corn flakes. Agree probably slightly more nutrition in chicken dippers than cornflakes if you’re going to go for one or the other for breakfast or any time.

Mine had chocolate mini rolls for breakfast on the first day of the holidays, with TV and chocolate milk. I wouldn’t do it every day but for the first day/week of the holiday, pretty much anything goes while we all chill a bit.

As a one-off it’s fine but I wouldn’t be impressed on a regular basis.

He is being unreasonable because the chicken dippers are also UPF so that reason makes no sense.

My dc would have thought this was so silly and fun for breakfast when they were little. It's not traditional and it's not the end of the world either.

Chicken dippers are ultra processed. They have dextrose and caramel colouring in them. I wouldn’t feed it to my children for breakfast, lunch or dinner!!
Cornflakes is basically 100% carb. Maize and malt barley extract. It has nothing nasty in it at least, but isn’t a balanced meal.
Of the two, cornflakes is less harmful.

Just read the ingredients in your food.