to make my dc eat healthy cereals for breakfast????

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Apparently EVERYONE else has chocolate type breakfast cereals.

Mine have to have things like shreddies/weetabix/cornflakes/rice crisps etc etc. They are allowed honey on it.
During school holidays they choose their own cereals (frosties, coco pops type stuff)
Am I a horrible mother?

You couldn't eat 200g of fibre a day- you'd explode!

I think the recommended daily intake for adults is about 30g.

there isn't a recommended daily intake of fibre.

Yes there is ivykaty4 There's no recommended LIMIT on fibre that I know of, (but 200g would be extremely difficult without exceeding limits on other things) but lots of organisations publish RDA's of fibre, the UK guidance used to be 18g per day but now 24g. Other's such as WHO go up to 38g for adult men, but I've never seen higher. I think you should maybe take a more critical view on your lecturer.

It isn't 200g?! Thank goodness for that - I didn't think it was but I didn't get a chance to google it and I was worried I had it wrong. I was thinking that is about 40 slices of wholemeal bread and nobody could eat that in a day. Thankfully they don't need to.

I'm so glad I've converted people to the way of french toast/eggy bread/gypsy toast. It is a hugely filling way to start the day. Guaranteed Dc will not be peckish til lunch. Serve with a rasher of crispy bacon for fulle ffect.

The trouble as I see it with sugary cereals is they just don't keep you full for long enough.

I'm not remotely fadtastic about sugar and recommended intakes etc...but I do require food to do its job. Particularly for growing kids who are endlessly active.

Sugary cereals are full of sugar and salt but don't deliver. For the amount of sugar and salt in them you could keep kids seriously going til lunch with proper food.

A bowl of somehting for fun is okay if you can eat again at ten. But hopeless if you've got another few hours and a hockey sesion to get through.

Mine have a choice of six to ten different cereals ranging from a ridiculously priced granola (for the older girls) to revolting looking Cookie Crisp (for the littlest girl) with Coco Pops/ Honey Cheerios/ that sort of thing for the boys inbetween. They can have orange juice if they want, and the older ones have coffee or tea, and the 16 yr old boy has dried apricots too, but I've always banned toast on account of it being far too much hassle. And forget anything cooked, unless we're on holiday and it's someone else doing it.

If they're hungry mid-morning at school, they top up with a pizza slice or a bun.

Btw, what's gypsy toast?

Just another name for eggy bread/french toast .

I know it seems an awful faff but even cack handed DS (12 years) can whip it up in five mins. And does at least twice per week.

DD really struggles to eat first thing (has to be up and off very early). We often make smoohties the night before. Bananas, strwberries, apple juice, greek yog, honey. Sometimes she can manage a bit of porridge.
She doesn't eat sugary cereal because whatever she get down really ahs to work hard if you see what I mean. Though school is very good and food is availabale at breaktime (sarnies, fruit, scones etc).

So not being on the fuckbuck in mn gangs I want to ask do
Elope who set up as their mn nickname still publish photos etc, just thinking it would look quite interesting if they all had profile pics that reflected their mn nicknames.

Anyways, it's al wrong and a nonsense

I can't believe rice crispies and cheerios are being counted as healthy!!!!

My dd either has porridge or weetabix. Never with any sugar of any form. Occasionally muesli.

Oh wrong thread

I put so much sugar on rise crispies, that I'd be better off with frosties.

Anyway given the thickness DH spreads jam almost anything is healthier.

i give mine cornflakes as a treat, nothing more suagrly than that. they will sometimes eat porridge, but on the whole they are not that keen on cereals (although i do suspect they will eat sugary cereals if offered to them!). They usually have omlette, cashew nut butter on rye toast and some fruit (although not all of it is eaten all the time).

Their nursery serves them breakfast of cornflakes or toast with marg...yuk. I make sure they eat their omlette/nut butter on toast before going to nusery, so at least they have something healthy inside them and they will eat some fruit on the way too.

fred you are welcome to be critical, take a look at his lectures - Dr. Robert Lustig. see what you think

OP - no, sensible. We only have porridge and occasionally Weetabix. Variety means toast, eggs or buns/croissants. Enough chocolate and sugar at pudding time at school or at supper.

Margarine isn't actually that healthy, now that we know what it contains. Supermarket butter shouldn't cost that much more than margarine. Dairy intolerant children could have alternatives, eg raisin buns made with no milk in the dough.

Mine get Weetabix, porridge, shredded wheat or corn flakes. That's it. Giving them chocolate cereal is just crap - might as well give them a Mars bar.

My understanding is that there is no scientific evidence at all to link fibre with health improvements or privations of bowl cancers, etc.

I do not have processed cereals in the house because they're full of sugar.

That should be prevention.

I figure if you're goig to have so much sugar then it should be bloody delicious. Proper food.

Or if you're gonna have junk, then have it. Enjoy it of course. I do. So do my kids. but don't dress it up as breakfast.

This is such a mumsnet thread!

we have a variety of things for bfast, fruit, toast, porridge a lot, sometimes scrambled eggs or boiled eggs, but with cereals they tend to have a plain cereal like weetabix or shredded wheat and then they are allowed a small amount of a 'treat' cereal like cheerios or coco pops etc on the top, otherwise they would want a massive bowl full of the sweet cereal.

anyway thats the compromise reached in this house, so they get a bit of what they want with something thats slightly more filling.

ivykaty Lustig is almost a quack as far as I'm concerned, he's certainly way too extreme in his views wrt to fructose, and his popular youtube lectures have quite a few holes. However I don't believe his 200g fiber suggestion was actually a serious recommendation on what to eat, it was his suggestion on how much fiber you'd want to have if you continued with a north american level of fructose in the diet. All assuming he's right in that ingesting fibre with fructose is correct.

Not good to have too much fibre going into school.......for some its interactions with the bowel might mean either you spend way too much time in the loo, or experience too much bloating which is uncomfortable. Not great for lessons or sports.