Am I the sugar police winner?

[Theblackdogagain]

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 :-).

We always put sugar on cereal when we were children, but I don't have sugar now and my children never have. Nor honey as that is effectively sugar. So they wouldn't expect people to put sugar on cereal either.

Gob stoppers on long journeys strip you of your self-awarded sugar police title. All that sugar in their mouth for so long is probably worse for their teeth than months of sugar on cereal.

My dcs favourite thing about staying at their dads was that they were allowed sugar on cereal. Any cereal. Even frosties/cocoa pops. Whereas I didn't put sugar on any of their cereal.
I, on the other hand, will only eat it if its covered in sugar. I rarely eat cereal though.

Sugar on weetabix and shreddies as they are tasteless otherwise!

@HeyGirlHeyBoy

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

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 Bleurgh.

Porridge is unedible without a tonne of sugar and/or golden syrup!

People still put sugar on cereal?
I'm fifty and remember doing it as a child but didn't think anyone still did it today. Cereal's about 40% sugar already isn't it?
Likewise tea and coffee. I don't think many people have sugar in these anymore do they?

Porridge and weetabix only taste horrible without sugar if you've put sugar on them all your life. If you never hadit with sugar as a child, it tStes normal.

(Will no one think of the sugar i milk?!? )

I have sugar on Weetabix and on cornflakes because I'm 54 years old and have somehow survived with doing this on the couple of days a week I have cereal for breakfast.

Sillysop92 try banana and blueberries cooked with the porridge.... Unbelievable

I put sugar on weetabix as a child and I still have some kind of sugar on my porridge, usually brown, which melts over it and tasted divine. I used to have shreddies with hot milk and sugar too. That's about it though. Most cereal is quite sweet enough on it's own.

Oh and raisins. I used to think I was parent of the year not giving my children sweets when they were little and giving a box of raisins instead. Then the dentist told me raisins are the worse thing you can give them as they're full of sugar and stick to the teeth. Chocolate is much better apparently.
Lesson from this DON'T GIVE CHILDREN RAISINS!

@Sillysop92

Sugar on weetabix and shreddies as they are tasteless otherwise!

Ah, I've found my people.

You're saying that your child actually knows what sugar is? You've allowed them to know about sugar? I despair

Yep, it was the norm for us kids growing up in the late 70s/early 80s, especially Cornflakes, Rice Krispies, Weetabix, Porridge and Bran Flakes

We were only ever allowed to add sugar to cornflakes when staying at a hotel or B&B on holiday. Never even occurred to us to ask to do it at home as well and my kids now have never asked (but now I want to do it just once, if only for the sludge of sugar in the milk at the end!!!)

My parents are staying with us at the moment and keep asking for sugar to put in their tea and coffee - I had to drag out the sugar from the baking cupboard and put it in a dish for them as neither we nor anyone we know that's our age adds it. Doesn't stop my mum going on about my kids having "so much sugar" when she saw their packed lunch and when I took them for a hot chocolate after soccer camp though

Actually - if anyone's willing to be sugar police here for me, at risk of derailing - was this an ok packed lunch for a 9 year old today at camp:
Ham, lettuce and cucumber sandwich on brown multigrain bread
Tiny bag of mini cheddars
String cheese
Yoghurt
10 cherry tomatoes
An apple cut into quarters
Small portion yoghurt-covered dried cranberries (no more than 10)
Water to drink (no squash or juice)

I thought this was pretty parsimonious sugar-wise but she has got all on her high horse about it being "junk" (while asking me to pass the sugar bowl for her morning coffee...)

How strange. I just had cereal myself for the 1st time in ages and thought about how I DID used to have sugar on it as a kid. Weetabix, corn flakes etc.

My kids have cheerios, multi grain shapes, Weetabix mainly and have never sugared them. But they do eat sweets, chocolate etc and prob some most days!

Also no judgement on sugar here btw! I am about to bake a plum cake for the afternoon hungry gap, covered with lots of crunchy demarara sugar

@HeyGirlHeyBoy

Sillysop92 try banana and blueberries cooked with the porridge.... Unbelievable

Ugh no thank you 🤢

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

As for ketchup, isn't is supposed to be good for you?
I heard the first thing Ronald Reagan did when he became president was reclassified tomato ketchup as a vegetable so they could give it to children for school lunch. They had to serve children two vegetables with school dinners, chips and ketchup, job done!

Oh and raisins. I used to think I was parent of the year not giving my children sweets when they were little and giving a box of raisins instead. Then the dentist told me raisins are the worse thing you can give them as they're full of sugar and stick to the teeth. Chocolate is much better apparently.
Lesson from this DON'T GIVE CHILDREN RAISINS!
Surely the message is DO EAT CHOCOLATE!

Phew, @knittingaddict thought I was the only one!

Why did that not bold?
That was for you Kendodd!

Not a banana fan Sillysop92?

I might be wrong but I'm wondering if today's cereals are worse again/more sugary/full of crap than they were?

Is it normal to add sugar to cereal?!

My DM used to. There is no way I could put sugar on my cereal but I remember being allowed it when I was younger.

My girls (11, 7) wouldn’t know that it was a “thing” either. They like weetabix and porridge (and other cereals) without any toppings - just cold milk.

Did anyone else used to have mashed banana with sugar when they were wee?

Here we go, look, I was right (almost)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup_as_a_vegetable

Red sauce is 'bad'.. Give me a break That type of attitude to food is bad
Possibly you’ve misread? This is a toddler declaring it “bad”, meaning she doesn’t like it. I thought the made it clear it’s a lighthearted addition to the thread. Obviously we have ketchup in the house otherwise how would she know about it? I certainly don’t ascribe good/bad moral certainties to food around her. But I don’t expect her to choose a more accurate word when making her feelings about ketchup known. Have some