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Am I the sugar police winner?

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Theblackdogagain · 31/08/2021 07:41

My dt are 12, I have always tried to make sure they have a healthy well balanced diet and have given vitamins etc. So they ate healthy weight and great teeth.
However my son yesterday was surprised that someone had sugar on their cereal. I can remember not giving them sugar when they were little and now they have honey and raisens in porridge but how do they do not know its normal to have sugar on cereal?
They do have sweets etc and I've found gob stoppers great long journey additions.
Ps this is a light hearted thread, no judging going on here and they have had as many Greg's sausage rolls as the next kid :-).

OP posts:
Pikamoo · 31/08/2021 07:43

Is it normal to have sugar on cereal? What kind of cereal? I don't know anyone who does this!

PepsiHoover · 31/08/2021 07:45

Nah. My kids eat a shit tonne of sweets and sugar. I am MN worst nightmare TBH. But they have never put sugar on their cereal either. Mainly because it's stuff like Krave and Coco pops

dementedpixie · 31/08/2021 07:48

But honey and raisins are basically sugar too
I did used to sprinkle sugar on corn flakes and rice krispies as a child as we never had the really sugary or chocolatey cereals in the house

Only one of mine eats cereal and it tends to be cheerios which are quite sweet anyway

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Theblackdogagain · 31/08/2021 07:50

Weetabix without sugar, tbf he sometimes has them dry as well. My husband eats dry rice krispies so he's odd as well.

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BarbaraofSeville · 31/08/2021 07:51

Grin. I'm always surprised about how much ketchup a lot of people use, but I do manage to stop myself from commenting.

We take years to finish a bottle and only have it on fish and chips which we don't have very often, but any time I eat with other people they always seems to use loads of ketchup.

BikeRunSki · 31/08/2021 07:53

but how do they do not know its normal to have sugar on cereal?

1-Surely they don’t know this, which is why they are surprised?
2- is it actually normal? Still?

TooManyAnimals94 · 31/08/2021 07:54

Surely the only way to make Weetabix bearable is to cover it in sugar? 😂

MiddleParking · 31/08/2021 07:55

I’d say it must be quite unusual now for people to let their kids add sugar to cereal.

Hekatestorch · 31/08/2021 07:59

@BarbaraofSeville

Grin. I'm always surprised about how much ketchup a lot of people use, but I do manage to stop myself from commenting.

We take years to finish a bottle and only have it on fish and chips which we don't have very often, but any time I eat with other people they always seems to use loads of ketchup.

We use loads one of those massive bottles about every 10 days. Mainly DP, though. Grin

Op, I haven't come across people putting sugar on coral for years. I am not sure people really do it now.

But when my kids come out with something they really should know, I usually ask 'oh my god. Who raised you?' 🤣

I said it the other day when DS said he didn't know who Will Smith was. Thankfully when I said 'Fresh Prince' he knew who I meant....Phew!

JuliaBlackberry · 31/08/2021 08:00

I'm very relaxed about sugar but unfamiliar with anyone putting sugar on normal breakfast cereals.

Makinganewthinghappen · 31/08/2021 08:04

I put sugar on weetabix or at least something like honey or something fruity.

I dont put it on other cereal but weetabix in my house always has some sort of topping.

NapoleonOzmolysis · 31/08/2021 08:11

My dad was a sugar freak - we weren't allowed to add it to anything, not cereal or even cooking Envy - so I remember the exact time and person who told me about sugar on cereal.

That said, it does seem pointless to add cereal to cornflakes or rice crispies when frosties and ricicles exist.

DelurkingAJ · 31/08/2021 08:14

Wonderful memories of staying with DGM and having a late evening snack of cornflakes with sugar and milk in my own mini milk jug. Frosties are not the same!

Fredoftheforest · 31/08/2021 08:17

I’ve never in my life seen anybody put sugar on cereal, I really don’t think that’s normal

Talipesmum · 31/08/2021 08:18

My feeling is that sugar on weetabix is pretty much the only “sugar on cereal” that’s more common - well, it’s the only cereal I would put sugar on, though the kids don’t. I don’t think it’s “normal” to put sugar on cereals in general though.

SkankingMopoke · 31/08/2021 08:23

Because it isn't normal any more.
We've just got back from camping, and one of our holiday 'treats' is getting the cereal variety packs. DD1 tried the Frosties and couldn't eat them as she found them too sweet (for balance she's a savoury person and would eat her body weight in crisps. DD2 LOVES sugar, and happily scarfed DD1's as well as her own). She looked at DH and I like we were bonkers when we said we used to sprinkle sugar on the top 😂

MyNameForToday1980 · 31/08/2021 08:25

I'm semi relaxed about sugar (DD rarely had sweets, but has honey on porridge, jam on toast, ice cream, etc. all in reasonable moderation) but I can't think of the last time I put, or I've seen someone put, sugar on cereal - I think it might've died out in the 80's.

Moonlight1972 · 31/08/2021 08:25

I saw sugar on rice crispies, sugar in weetabix too

TigersandTeddybears · 31/08/2021 08:27

My DC eat lots of biscuits and cake and ice cream but would be shocked that people put sugar on cereal or anything really other than a teaspoon in a cup of tea or pancakes with lemon

StylishMummy · 31/08/2021 08:28

My DC have lots of 'junk' food, but cereal is always whole grain plain stuff, not chocolate, frosted, super sweet etc. Think plain shreddies etc

GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 31/08/2021 08:29

I'd be horrified by the thought of gobstoppers on long journeys, what if they choke? We have jelly babies.

My two either have sugary cereal or honey drizzled on Weetabix. They almost certainly eat too much sugar - although actually we very rarely have biscuits or any kind of snack between meals, which hopefully mitigates it a bit.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 31/08/2021 08:32

@hekatestorch
Op, I haven't come across people putting sugar on coral for years. I am not sure people really do it now.

It`s the only way I can eat coral, but it's not the sugar that buggering up my teeth!

itsgettingwierd · 31/08/2021 08:33

My ds likes weeabix dry Confused

They are the chocolate minis though 🤣🤣

I have sugar on rice crispies but I don't eat them very often and have golden syrup on porridge!

We are not a sugar police household but when my ds (17) saw me put sugar on my rice crispies last week he thought it was really odd!

DiscoDown21 · 31/08/2021 08:33

Kids definitely still sometimes have sugar on cereals. Maybe that’s too much for mumsnet but in real life it does happen. We are asked for it in work at breakfast. Basic cereals served though. Although as an older kids when finally allowed coco pops we had sugar on that too😂

I have honey o porridge or yoghurt I’m fully aware it’s still sugar though!

AlrightThereSkippy · 31/08/2021 08:33

My DH thinks I'm mad for putting sugar on Weetabix and porridge. It just isn't 'a thing' in some families. He eats a lot of crap like jars of sauce with meat or pasta, crisps, cheapy biscuits, cakes etc and doesn't check labels for sugar, which I actually do, (I'd rather have half a teaspoon of sugar on my Weetabix than accidentally eat several tsps in my main meal or something, as I think he does). So no, I don't think you've won. Sorry FlowersWink

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