Chocolate cereal for breakfast is just wrong

[justaweeone]

Probably been done before ,however just saw an advert about a new and improved chocolate breakfast cereal.
Is chocolate for breakfast just wrong?

I agree - what a crappy start to the day. I have never once bought any cereals like coco pops - another reason is that I'd be snarfing fistfuls at around 4pm.

Our dcs love Weetabix, strangely, as I think it's noisome. Mostly they have eggs, bleurgh.

That reminds me, off for some Coco Orange Shreddies for supper. They must be healthy, orange is one of my 5 a day.

I think you are right Don'tmind

YABU, nothing wrong with coco pops or any other choc cereal, as long as rest of diet is healthy.

My teenage DD has toast with banana and chocolate spread for breakfast or coco pops its all she will eat before school, so id rather she eat something. oh actually that's not true she will eat porridge when its cold but has jam on that. life's to short to argue with teenagers about breakfast.

i think it is more important that my DC have breakfast than not and if that means it is chocolate cheerios then so be it.

I can't see how it is any worse than jam on toast or honey on your porridge, so i think YABU.

Why do people think a 'treat' has to be sugar?

And how often are these 'treats' doled out? Too often

And milk isn't the most effective way of obtaining calcium.

Your kids ( and junk food advertisers) have got most of you exactly where they want you.

dont the French and Spanish dip pastry in hot chocloate for breakfast just saying and that is seen as cultural while chocolate breakfast isnt ideal all the time least children are eating and it tastes nice nothing wrong in breakfast tasting sweet and nice

pastry dipped in chocolate

yummmmmmm

am starving now

HeySoulSister - indeed a treat does not have to be sugar.

I consider chocolate to be a food like any other, and a treat to be (if we are talking edible treats) anything unusual, that I am unable to cook myself.

My DC consider edible treats anything which looks impressive. Think Strawberries and cream, or artichokes they have persuaded someone to give them from their allotment .

Freshly sqeezed apple juice is as much as a treat as tango for us.

It's all about balance.

My DC are all slightly underweight for their height (according to their red book), and have healthy teeth. So I must be doing something right.

Panckakes and nutella and sliced bananas for breakfast tomorrow kids?

a treat is something nice to eat it is all just food I do think we can have an unhealthy obsession about food sometimes be it junk or uber healthy sugar is not herion

I love chocolate cereal. Especially the really luxurious chocolate granola types with huge chunks of chocolate on.

Buy those as an occasional treat though as otherwise I nail through the pack too quickly and eat too much for breakfast.

Mainly breakfast of porridge, or marmite on toast, or granolaor musli with a chopped up banana and yog.

Bother you've made me want a bowl of chocolate granola now!

Yabu i love coco pops....as kids we were allowed them on a saturday morning, it was the highlight of the week! I think its fine, i wouldnt have them every day but do normally have a box in the house. Very nice as a supper goes for a bowl

YANBU. To be fair i don't (yet) have children but am quite happy with my mums example.....normal cereal or toast for breakfast. I still can't eat chocolate or crisps before lunch.

Chocolate cereal (actually any cereal) is a treat in the school holidays for my 3DS. Term time it's scrambled egg (DS3 likes it with smoked salmon), beans on toast or porridge/weetabix. If I've got the time I'll do a proper cooked breakfast. They would be flagging before they even got to school if they had sugary cereals otherwise!!!

Relax - chocolate cereal is fine. Read the nutritional info on the side, work out whether that's better than no breakfast or significantly less good than other fast breakfasts when you're getting several kids at once off to school. Really, it's fine.

conor are you serious? Scrambled eggs with salmon as standard but Coco Pops are a treat?

Different world.

I love coco pops.

Have been eating clean ever since DD was born, but I have just woken DP up to ask if we have any. We don't

Scrambled eggs or poached are standard here too.

Salmon would be a treat tho.

My kids treat today was doughnut peaches. They have wanted them for a while

We have chocolate weetos in the cereal cupboard, along with cornflakes, weetabix, porridge, granola, honey nut loops... my DC are like me and end up having something different every day! I grew up with a mum with all sorts of food hang ups and I'm not about to pass that on to my kids. Anything in moderation is my attitude to food.

I even ban toast. Far too complicated. They each want different jams or honey or marmite and given the slices of toast required in a short space of time it the toast would always be burned. All the DC are fine and healthy. Maybe that's country living though, not early morning eggs and salmon.

I do sometimes do mine egg or beans on toast (DS eats neither of those though), left over sausages and beans, a bacon roll, or very rarely pancakes.

surprised so many appear to offer eggs daily - what's the latest guidance on how many eggs it's OK to eat in a week then?

YABU in France practically every breakfast I can think of includes some sort if chocolate :
Pain au chocolate
Brioche with Nutella
Croissants dipped in hot chocolate
Yum!

I believe I read somewhere that it is better to have a larger part of your calories in the morning, as you have the whole day to work them off, as opposed to the evening, when you reduce your activity.

But sugar is empty calories? Doesn't matter when you eat them, they are useless

Coco Pops isn't only sugar it contains rice, sugar, chocolate (4%), cocoa powder, salt, barley malt flavouring and flavouring. Also calcium carbonate, niacin, iron, vitamin B6, B2, B1, D, B12 and folic acid.

For those who don't like Coco Pops I make Mary McCartney's granola. I'm not in the least fussed which of the children eats what.