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Chocolate Weetabix

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LadyThumb · 08/03/2011 16:54

AIBU in thinking that Chocolate Weetabix is taking things just a little too far? I thought we were supposed to be feeding our kids healthily!

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nurseblade · 08/03/2011 16:56

YANBU, I cringe every time I see the ad for this:
www.krave.com/

withagoat · 08/03/2011 16:56

they are vile anyway

altinkum · 08/03/2011 16:59

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LadyThumb · 08/03/2011 17:00

25 years ago I used to do Market Research. One of them was for cereals, and EVERY child said they hated Cocopops. Hasn't stopped them selling them, though.

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withagoat · 08/03/2011 17:00

god no
mine love those and nesquick
only get em in half terms though

colditz · 08/03/2011 17:05

That krave stuff is, basically, sweets. It's 30% sugar. They have an extremely similar nutritional profile to chocolate digestive biscuits - I'm assuming milk and chocolate biscuits is not considered a meal?

issey6cats · 08/03/2011 17:06

argh no either chocolate or weetabix but together sounds so sickly

colditz · 08/03/2011 17:07

Don't get me wrong - I do buy them. but they are for mid afternoon Saturday foraging, not breakfast! I made a CAKE last night that is healthier than that!

Gemsy83 · 08/03/2011 17:09

Wow its got chocolate in it Shock someone call the poison police.....its also got a huge amount of fibre in..call the COPS

GrimmaTheNome · 08/03/2011 17:11

The chocolate weetabix (the big ones, not the sugary mini ones with chocolate chips) aren't as bad as a lot of cereals... but they aren't chocolaty enough for a good forage either.

colditz · 08/03/2011 17:11

Gemsy, I would get deleted if I responded the way I want to, so I shan't bother.

messagetoyourudy · 08/03/2011 17:12

Chocolate weetabix doesnt have much sugar in it though does it? I thought that was one of it's selling points ?

TBH my kids prefer original weetabix with a layer of sugar on them Smile

lottiejenkins · 08/03/2011 17:24

My ds eats them but i have to be careful and he doesnt have them often. I founda box of chocolate cereal the other day with no additives. DS was very excited, went back to get another box and they were gone!! Sad

Tryharder · 08/03/2011 17:29

I must admit to owning (and eating) a packet of chocolate weetabix but in my defence, they were in the reduced bin at my local convenience store for about 50p (M'lud)

nickelprincess · 08/03/2011 17:29

they already did mini chocolate weetabix.
i didn't like them (it's the lumps)

i like normal weetabix (but then i'm not a child, so...)

nickelprincess · 08/03/2011 17:30

Grimma - i didn't realise these new ones weren't with chips! Shock

i just assuemd they were the same as the mini ones.

(still don't think i'll try them though)

beachholiday · 08/03/2011 17:30

The new oatcakes with dark chocolate chips are excellent though.

GrimmaTheNome · 08/03/2011 17:31

They do have chips, but I think proportionately less - but they don't have the sugariness that all the minis have.

NettoSuperstar · 08/03/2011 17:32

One thing I do let DD have is crap cereal, even Krave, well the Asda own brand one.
I don't eat breakfast at all, so I feel it'd be a bit hypocritical of me to bleat on about healthy breakfast food.

She does eat porridge though, and fruit and natural yog, and such, but likes her shit cereal too.

I believe in a healthy diet, and healthy in this house means balanced.

I balance out the shit cereal days with other, less shit, stuff.

GrimmaTheNome · 08/03/2011 17:33

The new oatcakes with dark chocolate chips are excellent though

who makes those? (tempted to try making some, got some medium oatmeal today for making salt-free oatcakes for DH)

tralalala · 08/03/2011 17:34

yanbu no wonder everyone is getting so lardy

SoupDragon · 08/03/2011 17:34

It's really white simple - if you don't want your children to eat them don't buy them.

Dancergirl · 08/03/2011 17:35

Dd loves those mini weetabix with choc chips in - is that what you mean?

HumphreysCorner · 08/03/2011 17:41

DS alternates between the choc Weetabix and the choc chip minis-he loves them.

GrimmaTheNome · 08/03/2011 17:51

chocolate weetabix is a different thing to minis

The former are a bit less sugary.