to think nesquick whole grain cereal, fat free milk and no added sugar juice is relatively healthy for a fussy eater

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Hi,

My 7 year old Ds is a very fussy eater, tried everything!

I would love it if he would eat kale with cottage cheese on rice cakes for breakfast but get real no child eats perfectly like that.

Today he had a normal sized bowl of whole grain nesquick cereal with skimmed milk.I know it has some sugar in it but its only about the same as a banana and to counter this he has a glass of sugar free orange squash. Both the cereal and juice have added vitamins. Does everyone else agree this is pretty healthy and realistic breakfast?

Thanks

Marie

I got Rocks for DD, but she didn't like it. I just buy supermarket own brand high juice because it is aspartame free. Robinsons high juice doesn't seem to exist any more.

A lot of sugar free squash now has sucralose rather than aspartame, which is much better because it comes from the fruit juices.
Agree with semi or full fat milk would be better, and diluted fruit juice if you can.
However, much better than crisps & chocolate & fizzy pop

Of course I wouldn't recommend Rocks if I hadn't tasted it. What on earth is wrong with it? I love the lime variety. Makes a proper grown-up non alcoholic drink with fizzy water, or ginger ale.

Sugar, well, sweetness preferences can creep up on you. When i started giving food to my PFB one of the things I gave him was those "plum" fromage frais things. Quite low in sugar. He liked them. Then for some reason I gave him a petits filous which, of course, he preferred as its much sweeter. Now dd will eat the plum ones but ds will only eat petits filous or similar (Peppa pig ones being a favourite- )
So I need to knock that on the head and look at cutting the sugar and giving him the chance to enjoy more fresh and savoury foods. It's an easy trap I think.

I used to buy rocks for myself pre DC, I like the way the orange tastes of oranges.

Harold! dangit, I think you deserve Rocks squash even though you are now a Mum. Please allow yourself this small treat.

Haven't read the thread - that's a shitty breakfast. He'd be better off with full fat milk and proper fresh orange juice. You think you've made it healthier, but you've not, you've made it worse.

Trolls rtft

Ive always wanted to say that,

Soo, should juice with sweetners be avoided, or just with aspartame?

Also, you know, if he's overweight, he's got room for a lot of fussy eating before it becomes a problem. Give him some fruit and plain Greek yoghurt, or some scrambled egg with seeded bread, and a dose of multivitamin. If he doesn't eat it, it doesn't matter. If he's not clinically underweight then skipping a meal will do less hArm than the sugarfest he's been having.

It is ok to say no. He won't hate you when he's eighteen and person shaped.

Dont go to Sainsburys, cant STAND Rock its vile and cant afford M&S :o

We get through a small bottle of squash a day (8 of us) so Co op 35p value stuff is fine for us!

Havanas both! Juice isn't necessary at all anyway....fruit is better. If you must have juice of course it's better if there's nothing IN it but juice!

EllyPoo No. Sucralose is awful, awful stuff...nothing "better" about it. Cba to explain why....but it's VERY unhealthy. WHOLE FOODS are ok...chemicals and processed foods are NOT ok. Simple.

"That's a shitty breakfast"

Hmm little bit over hysterical.

A 30g bowl of Nesquick would be just over 3 tea spoons of sugar.Considering your sugar intake is supposed to be no more no more than 10% of your daily calorie intake I'm not sure ss need to be called just yet.

If he really won't eat anything else but you watch the sugar intake the rest of the day I'm not seeing the hoo ha.Yes in an ideal world a sugar free breakfast would be best but to be frank I'd be more worried if one of mine ate nothing than had a bowl of cereal in an otherwise low sugar day.Studies repeatedly show how much better kids do if they've had breakfast.

My dd hates breakfast and goes through phases.She's out of the Gk yog phase and into banana Weetabix which had less sugar than Nesquick but is hardly sugar free.She has zero squash and very little other sugary food the rest of the day.Maybe a yog at lunch time,don't do puddings.

I can live with a banana Weetabix,buttered toast(if I'm lucky)and fruit as it's part of a whole days diet.This thread is sounding like a nutritional tennis ball match and very like the lunch box police ie over scrutinising what is one meal in a whole day of food.

Oh and many granolas have more sugar in than both.

For the OP - smaller portions and more exercise will help him achieve a healthy weight. So long as he isn't eating chocolate/sweets/crisps, it is about quantity of food overall, not what food it is. I knew a lady once who did slimming world. She'd take three bananas and four muller light yoghurts for an evening snack. The calories still added up and she lost no weight!

Morrisons squash is aspartame free too.

Good grief ppl talk a lot of shit about food.

Skimmed or semi skinmed milk is perfectly acceptable for a 7 yo child. Ff milk has the advantage for smaller dcs that it contains more calories and more vitamin d. Most cereals are fortified with vitamin anyway. Skimmed milk will often contain more calcium than ff milk.

There is actually such a thing as eating too much fat? Especially saturated fat.

Sugar is not good for us. So we should all probably consume less of it. That INCLUDES things like orange juice. The sugar fom orange juice is no better for your insulin resistance than the sugar in cereal. Its quite different from the way sugar is consumed from the eating of an orange. The cereal will at least have a broader range of nutrients and will be satisfying to eat.

The erroneous belief and frenetic assertion that sweeteners are far worse for your health than sugar is becoming a bore.

And besides, there's far too much moral outrage attached to food. It's quite astonishing how ppl can spout about what other ppl feed their children -Calm down.
And so much rubbish spouted that reads like the strap line from the last couple of years of diet trends rather than actual knowledge.

And yes, we'd all be better off drinking water rather than squash. I don't know how we all get started on it but most of us do. Hey HO.

Oh. Agree with Retropear

I can't agree that skipping breakfast would be a good thing, even (especially?) for a child who is slightly overweight

yeah I once put on half a stone quickly when I started eating granola for breakfast. I don't know about home made but when I read the packet I nearly passed out at how bad it is.

Did you know that new evidence shows that aspartame can cause children to grow extra limbs?

mrs yep, the little ones dont have juice but the older ones are 19 & 11 so have it now, I hadnt even noticed till recently that most have added sweetners

I do laugh at these threads and the 'my Tarquin only has oatcakes and hummus strained from the sock of virginal nuns from Vatican City'

Urghh. Food is meant to be enjoyable people

Research also shows you eat more if you skip breakfast.