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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:
user1493494961 · 31/08/2021 08:37

Back in the day, it was normal to have sugar on cereals. As children, we always had sugar on Weetabix, cornflakes and porridge (sometimes jam on porridge). Nowadays, I add a few raisins or berries.

SummerInSun · 31/08/2021 08:39

Because it's not normal to have sugar on cereal. It's breakfast, not dessert.

Lalliella · 31/08/2021 08:39

Gobstoppers? Yikes! They’re really bad for teeth OP, please stop them eating those.

I do have sugar on weetabix however.

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burritofan · 31/08/2021 08:40

Sugar on cornflakes was de rigeur in the 80s, surely?

Anyway, I win at sugar police because DD doesn’t like ketchup and will primly tell people “Not red sauce, it’s bad”. Grin

Alwayswonderedwhy · 31/08/2021 08:41

I didn't think people still had sugar an cereal. I used to pile it on my cornflakes as a kid in the 70s/80s but my kids have never had sugar on it.

OoglyMoogly · 31/08/2021 08:41

A bowl of porridge with sugar and cream on top. Blissful breakfast. Sadly I've not had it since I was a teenager, my Nan used to make it and it was the best.

DH makes porridge but he makes it with water not milk and it's tasteless.

turnthebiglightoff · 31/08/2021 08:45

Anyone who eats Rice Krispies without sugar on is weird.

I'm surprised someone hasn't done the usual MN "OMG! raisins? I'm horrified. They're basically little balls of sugar. Your DC's teeth will fall out and you will go to hell" type of thing. Well done all :-)

Bimblybomeyelash · 31/08/2021 08:48

We have sweets and cake in our house, but it has never occurred to me to put sugar on the kids cereal. I did as a child but that was the 80s! As a special treat I bought a variety pack of cereal for camping last week. My youngest declared that Frosties was too sweet for breakfast, and she’s a chocolate monster!

Stickytreacle · 31/08/2021 08:49

I still have sugar on cereal, I was brought up with sugar readily available and including things like sweetened condensed milk, sugar sandwiches, sugary drinks and sweet shops readily available. I've made it to my late fifties at a healthy weight and my teeth intact. Reducing sugar is a good thing, but I can't stand the over zealous policing of foods, I think it may well cause more issues than it solves.

3GreenPullups · 31/08/2021 08:52

yes sugar on cereal used to be normal when I was a child in the 80s, I think. I'm a savoury person so used to be horrified at this when on sleepovers.

FreeBritnee · 31/08/2021 08:53

My son will have honey on weetabix. They do have jam on toast but otherwise nothing too bad food wise. No sweets. I don’t mind them having I’ve cream or chocolate as at least there’s a fat component to balance the sugar. But any of the hard candy I just can’t put their teeth through it. No fizzy drinks.

yumscrumfatbum · 31/08/2021 08:58

As a child in the late 70's we had sugar on all cereals. We never had the pre sugared kinds. I remember my Nan putting sugar in yogurts, on strawberries, apples etc.

PattyPan · 31/08/2021 08:59

I didn’t know people had sugar on cereal (other than porridge) until a MN thread last year! I’m 26 so maybe it’s a generational thing.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 31/08/2021 09:00

My father was (still is) diabetic (not obesity related). I still sometimes get surprised by how normal adding sugar to things is. (Except sweets.). But hot drinks, cereal, fruit.... I can't drink full sugar soft drinks because they taste too sweet. Dont like jam as its too sweet.

But I have a haribo type sweet weakness. Blush

My kids would be confused by adding sugar to cereal. Their dad adds it to weetBix, but not in front of them. (He can only eat it hot too). He wraned himself of sugary tea after working out how much he had over the course of a day.

PattyPan · 31/08/2021 09:01

I don’t put granulated sugar on my porridge though, meant to say. I used to use golden syrup and now I use maple syrup. No one just puts regular white sugar on porridge do they?

AlrightThereSkippy · 31/08/2021 09:04

Brown sugar for me on porridge! Cream if it's a special occasion.

namesnamesnamesnames · 31/08/2021 09:06

Sugar on cereal was standard when I was a child in the 80s but I don't think people do it now. We don't.

TattiePants · 31/08/2021 09:06

As a child of the 70/80s I remember piling the sugar onto Rice Krispies and Cornflakes. I also remember cutting a banana into slices and dipping each piece into a pile of sugar! No wonder I have crap teeth.

KurtWilde · 31/08/2021 09:09

Any plain cereal needs sugar on - corn flakes, rice crispiest, weetabix etc, I've always put sugar on it since year dot. Would taste like soggy cardboard otherwise 😂

Miniroofbox · 31/08/2021 09:11

I put sugar on cereal when I eat it (which isn’t often I don’t keep it on the house).

CallMeRisley · 31/08/2021 09:14

Am I the only one nervy about gobstoppers in the car, not because of the sugar but the choking risk?! I get nervy about hard round lollipops, boiled sweets, haribo etc in the car where I wouldn’t be able to immediately pay on the back etc. I saw a girl of about 5 choke on a sweet on a plane while it was sitting in the tarmac just before the pandemic, it was horrific- the mum was screaming, the flight attendants rushed back and carried her, limp, down the aisle to the front, a passenger who was a doctor got up, the whole plane was silent. The girl and her family were taken off the plane in an ambulance.

JudgeRindersMinder · 31/08/2021 09:21

You’re years late to the party aim afraid, my 2 are 24 and 19 and have never had sugar, honey, syrup etc on cereal

PaperMonster · 31/08/2021 09:24

I was considered an odd child in the 70s for not putting sugar on my cereal! Although I did with Ready Brek but of course I only had that in winter so I could get the Ready Brek glow. My ten year old doesn’t have sugar on cereal, although when she was a toddler my mum tried to encourage her to have some on cornflakes.

itsgettingwierd · 31/08/2021 09:24

I did stop having 2 sugars in my coffee a few years ago and recently switched to decaf Halo

But did have a white chocolate marvellous creations for breakfast as I brought it yesterday to try and it was screaming at me to eat it Grin

HeyGirlHeyBoy · 31/08/2021 09:25

Red sauce is 'bad'.. Give me a break Hmm That type of attitude to food is bad Smile

OP I thought the same recently, that it was normal, I put a little on Weetabix up to maybe 10 years ago and brown on porridge growing up. Honey and raisins also too sugary I'm afraid but not as bad as my DH's porridge choice - golden syrup Shock Bleurgh.