Aibu to give my dc 3 weetabix?

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Following on from the thread about a 3 year old weighing a little too much where several people have commented it's "crazy" to let a 3 year old eat 2.5 weetabix, and how they themselves as an adult would only eat one

I am now wondering Aibu to let my 5&6 year olds eat 3 each? Sometimes they follow it with a piece of toast or fruit

They are both healthy weights and tbh, in the past they have eaten 4/5 each. I have actually cut them down to three as it was costing a bomb!

Actually. Aibu that my 15 month old eats 2 weetabix sometimes?

Just be careful if he farts, that he does not take off and rocket himself into space. That would be my only concern!

I guess it depends how much he eats the rest of the day.

DS1 can put away an adult potion of porridge with fruit for breakfast, but usually when he does this he doesn't want much for lunch, so it kind of balances out over the day.

DS1 being 2.11 yrs, to put that into context.

1 for an adult? Give over!

DS is nearly 3 & he has 2, he'll then be telling me he's hungry an hour later...

DH has just given our 3yo 4 weetabix, 2 lots of 2. He wouldn't take my advice and just give him 1 at a time because DS always asks for more breakfast.
DS rarely eats anything at dinner but eats loads at breakfast and lunch.
His breakfast today was 4 weetabix with whole milk, bowl of banana, grapes, apple, blueberries, raspberries and strawberries, a piece of eggy bread and a milk shake.
DH is taking them on a 6-7 mile walk, DS will walk all the way.
For lunch he will eat a large whole meal roll with butter, salami, cream cheese, cucumber and lettuce, a nectarine, half a red pepper and half a bag of hula hoops.
He will probably have a biscuit or cake for a snack.
Dinner is roast beef or chicken with leek, cauliflower and broccoli cheese, carrots, parsnips, mashed potatoes, roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding.
DS will eat a tiny bit of meat and a couple of carrots.
Pudding is peach and apple crumble with creme fraiche, he will eat a bit of that.

Ds1 ate 7 occasionally as an 8 yo. He was and is very skinny.

But surely the important thing is to look objectively at the child's over all diet and weight before deciding whether 3 is too many?

DS 4 has had 1.5 weetabix since he was about 2 1/2. Sometimes he polishes off the lot, sometimes he doesn't.

He's a skinny minny and we're currently worried he's not consuming enough iron, so no way we'd stop him eating weetabix. Of all the commercial breakfast cereals it's by far the healthiest, bar porridge oats. Some people are frankly paranoid.

My dc ate 2 weetabix followed by a banana when they were 6 months old. They're skinny children, active with big appetites. I'd never restrict their food intake if their weight is ok and their overall diets are balanced.

Are your kids putting sugar on top of their weetabix? DS' portion size went down dramatically when I realised how much white stuff was going with it and put a stop to it...

Nope, no sugar here. No sugar on any of our cereal. Most cereal has a fair bit of sugar in it anyway, I certainly wouldn't be adding more.

No added sugar to cereal here either. I don't ban sugar from their diets generally - far from it. I just don't think breakfast cereals need it.

No sugar here either

Seeing this thread it seems as though we are talking about cheeseburgers, not Weetabix. It is healthy, nourishing and has lots of fibre. I would rather dc have an extra Weetabix, than start looking for junk because they are still hungry.

I was surprised at 2.5 for a 3 year old too.

But I don't give weetabix to mine or have it myself nowadays.

In the 70's and early 80's, through my chilhood, my mum would have told us off if we had more than 2 -even in to my teens.
Two biscuits a day was the limit also.

my 5 n half year old have 4 this morning. two followed by two.

no sugar.

Weetabix is a good breakfast cereal, comparatively, where sugar is concerned, but is medium in the salt ratings, according to a quick google.

Ds front loads in the morning. 2 or three weetabix, banana, some grapes, toast, maybe some cheese.

He will have a normal lunch, soup, sandwich, wrap or small pasta dish. Snacks on oatcakes and fruit or carrot sticks.

But he rarely eats a proper tea. Hardly any meat either. But I think he is doing ok.

3 weetabix is fine. As long as they eat it and don't just mess around with it.

I used to eat 3 shredded wheat when I was a kiddie. Now I think my appetite is shrinking as I can only eat 2 weetabix or 1 slice of toast for breakfast.

I give mine 2 plus a banana or something chopped up - none of them are overweight. If I had one weetabix I would be starving!

As a small toddler, 1.5 - 2, my DD would have 3. As a 9 year old she wll occasionally have one.

No sugar on any cereal here unless daddy is doing breakfast which is rare tbh

We call it "70s style" when adding sugar to cereal.

YAdefNBU. How does this person think they know more about your child's appetite than your child does?!?

Weetabix are highly processed carbs so not surprising that 2,3 or 4 is not enough