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 agree pictures

Daily mail also ran article that cited same amount of sugar in coke as orange juice.
Whole fruit is by far the best and as someone else pointed out how many of you would eat 6 oranges at a time.
But of course journos are very knowledgeable and absolutely brilliant at extrapolating just what they need to create a headline and sell newspapers.
If you use Google to research the latest fad,claim or diet use Google Scholar. It filters out all the wacko sites and above all read the complete paper rather than selecting the sentence that supports your individual view point.

Y Y to reading real, peer reviewed research, instead of bloody "natural news" and it's ilk..

Cereal is shit in a box....

.... right....

I shall only feed my child kale and wheatgrass rice cakes on every other day. On the days in between, she shall only consume nice fat-free oxygen (none of that full-fat oxygen!).

Surely it's all about moderation?

Moomin - people are suggesting yogurt, cheese, eggs, avocado, nuts etc... Regular food. How did you get air and wheatgrass?

it isn't aimed at the thread in general, is that one particular poster who suggested cereal is sit in a box. it's the sort of sanctimommy crap that the kale and wheatgrass brigade come out with ;)

no need to be so defensive... I'm not suggesting we should feed our kids sugar puffs every meal, just that this demonization of foods that are fine in moderation will cause a backlash when the kids grow up and have a bit more freedom - I spent a year in halls at uno, I've seen it happen!

If the child is properly educated it won't cause any backlash.

But that relies on the child actually being educated properly about why it's being done, rather than "cereal is shit in a box", that's the point I'm trying to make.

Moomin if you take every lighthearted or silly comment on here seriously, then you'll be chasing your own tail and getting wound up about an AWFUL lot while happily missing the point.

its what my kids eat but i dont fool myself it is healthy

It didn't read like a light-hearted comment, it seemed like the poster actually believed what they were saying. I wasn't getting wound up, I found it funny that someone might actually feel that way

Lots of hysterical over reacting here.

He is having breakfast, that's a good start. OP States he is fussy.

I would personally give water, but if it is squash or nothing I would stick with squash. I wouldn't swap with pure fruit juice for a child described as on the 'chunky side'

Then I would try and cut the nesquik with something non sugary like shreddies. Just a few initially and then slowly over months reduce the nesquik and increase the shreddies until you have a bowl of shreddies with a few nesquik on top.

My DC are 3 & 1, they have a weetabix with full fat milk
& half a banana, milk to drink. There is nothing wrong with this breakfast.

I'm not convinced that many of the anxious cereal haters live in the real world.

I don't know about "hysterical over reacting". A bit of exaggeration and sarcasm from some more extreme posts.

Cereal isn't shit in a box.

Nesquick cereal is shit in a box.

AND it's made by Nestle.

Squash is fine if water is refused.

Sugar free squash is not fine, not at all.

Sugar free squash is fine though.
There is no proven health risk to using sweeteners and they have been very very comprehensively studied.

I was petrified about aspartame after reading stuff on here. But now it seems to have been debunked.

Everything in moderation.

The only proven problem with artificial sweeteners is that they make the body crave sweetness - seeking out real sugar in the short term, generally getting used to anything sweet in the long term.

Acclimatising to less sweetness does you no harm at all, of course.

They also taste disgusting.

"Cereal isn't shit in a box,Nesquick is shit in a box."

What exactly is in it that makes it shit in a box as all I can see are pretty similar ingredients to Weetabix minis.10% less whole grain and only 4% more sugar per 100g.As sugar goes it's by no means the worse.

Hate to say it but most cereals contain very similar ingredients.

FFS I used to eat pop tarts.

Don't agree with everything in moderation. That would include cocaine and also alcohol for alcoholics (and sugar for sugar addicts) . For many people they are much healthier and happier with none of the junk at all and live very happily without it. Not all, but some, people cannot have small quantities of addictive foods and need to steer clear. Others will get chocolates and eat one a week. Those people indeed can have just that one sweet. Most people aren't like that and cannot eat junk food in moderation and are much happier if they give it up as indeed have so many healthy mumsnetters on the healthy eating threads.

"Most people aren't like that".

Really I'm surrounded by people who can have alcohol and sugar in their house without being an alcoholic or obese.

My own kids at 10,10 and 9 can have a stash of Xmas crap in their room and either not touch it,eek it out or eat the lot in a couple of days without wanting more.

I used to try low fat, whole grain stuff and it made me fatter and sick. (At the time I had undiagnosed celiac disease though!)

If I stick with lots of veggies, protein, and good fats the weight falls off.

For breakfast my kids either do a meat/cheese/cracker/fruit type plate, or something like a muffin (full of sugar I know!) with a protein like a hardboiled egg or a piece of cheese. Or scrambled eggs, toast, and banana. If I have time we all like smoothies made with fruit and plain yogurt. I've been tossing in chia seeds as they're apparently good for you but I don't know why.

Daphnemoon I have never eaten a pop tart. I feel like I might be missing out. Are they yummy?

I've had a pop tart and it wasn't all that.