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

Andy Burnham is a prat. Sorry, bit of a sidebar, but he is.

Frosties have lots of sugar - well no shit Sherlock. What is he actually going to do? Force Kellogg's to stop making them.

He's going to have Tony the Tiger shot and mounted.

We get our milk fresh from the farm at the bottom of the garden. We know the name if the cow that brought it forth and I think that's terribly important.

That is fundamentally important Harold. Very important to know the precise provenance of your milk.

Exit - most supermarket milk is homogenised to prolong the shelf-life (i.e. the fat micelles are broken down to such fine particles that their specific gravity is no longer low enough to rise above the rest of the milk and the micelles can't re-coalesce). Milk from the milkman is not homogenised so you still get the cream on the top. If you want your top-of-milk cream then you need to support your local milkie and get your milk from him/her instead of the supermarket. :)

Or from Waitrose. Duchy milk isn't apparently, which makes sense as the full fat version has obvious thick cream at the top.

That's interesting Thumbwitch. I wondered why they had a homogenised version on the shelves.

I am so grateful for homogenised milk. I couldn't bear to drink milk as a child because it involved navigating a layer of solid cream. summer was hideous. We had those little quart pint bottles at school with a straw and it was like drinking skimmed yogurty milk through a layer of cheese.
Actually, thanks for dumping that Maggie.

That's right, LittleBear - Duchy milk is indeed unhomogenised, at least in the pint sized cartons.

I live in Australia now and can get a litre of unhomogenised milk in one particular brand, but if I wanted to get 2L, it would be homogenised, because of the shelf life issue, I assume.

We don't drink milk at all.

This doesn't surprise me

Not even if you happen upon a cow when foraging for nuts that asks to be milked...

We use the cheapest semi-skimmed UHT from ASDA. But we don't drink it, as such - we have it with tea and cereal. The cows were probably fed with lard, nettles and excrement, but it tastes fine to me.

To be fair, Jaded, I think that pretty much all dairy cows in the UK are grass fed. It's only in the USA that they're "factory farmed" and kept in barns, fed on soy and grains and not grass or silage.

depends where you are in the country. In NI the vast vast majority of dairy stock is fed on grass and silage

I am unconvinced by blethering on about demon sugary cereals or demon milk sources

portion sizes and variety are the things that are very important for kids and adults

I finally looked at this thread after watching it grow in amazement that it was one of the popular ones.

Well that is disappointing, Jaded - my info is out of date then. I don't see any good reason for moving towards such a factory farming method, especially when the movements for other farm animals have been away from such styles - how aggravating. :(

how can one "sleepwalking into a health issue" by eating cereal or drinking milk?

frequently when I read the number of things that people fret over on mn I wonder if we are underemployed or undersocialised

For the first time in history more people on the planet are fat than underfed and in the UK 60% of people are overweight. We have never had this problem before. It is because we are gorging on surgary cereals and carbs and the nation is getting less and less healthy. It is one of the biggest issues of our age. If you want healthy children give them eggs for breakfast.