to think DH is over-reacting to the kids' breakfast?

[EmGee]

Kids generally have homemade banana bread (I do add some dark choc pieces...), or other homemade cakey/bread/muffiny thing sweetened with fruit puree, a bit of brown sugar or some maple syrup. I add ground almonds and things like chia seeds or oat bran as much as possible, and try to use alternatives to white flour to vary things. Always cut down the amount of actual sugar that is given in the recipe to the absolute minimum.

I also make flapjacks and have successfully reduced the sugar content dramatically by using mashed banana for example. Kids are less keen on the banana version though.

My reasoning is that these things are homemade and I know exactly what has gone into them. The kids like them. It's quick and easy in the mornings. Is it so wrong?

They normally have water, milk or I make hot chocolate using unsweetened dark cacao powder and add a bit of brown sugar to sweeten.

He thinks weetabix is 'better' and it's ridiculous that they eat 'cake'.

AIBU or is he????

If they are having wheat baguettes for lunch, then aim for oats in the morning rather then more wheat. Or have eggs. Or meat. Or fish. Or Greek yogurt with berries.

Giving them sugar will result in a sweet tooth.

has anyone ever tried to eat a dry weetabix?

seriously?

That's a once in a while breakfast, do it as a treat occasionally.

Porridge provides a good slow burn fuel source.

Oats. That's the problem here.

You can do what you're doing perfectly well, right down to using a muffin tin, but substitute oats for the flour. Pinterest is coming down with recipes. They'll basically be having porridge in a solid form but don't tell them that...

Giving them sugar will result in a sweet tooth.

And yet you recommend giving them porridge with berries. Which contain sugar.

Weetabix still has 2 or 3 teaspoons of sugar per 2 pieces No it definitely doesn't Vandree - I just looked on their website.

Per serving (2 biscuits) Carbohydrates 26g of which sugars 1.7g

That works out about a third of a teaspoon per two biscuits, not much more than a pinch.

To put it another way, Weetabix has 4.4g of sugar per 100g. That's 4.4%.

A serving of 2 biscuits weighs 37.5g so 4.4% = 1.65 grams.

Pfffft, YANBU OP. Weetabix is rubbish - it takes about 6 to manage to stay vaguely full. When I was living in France most of my schoolmates had hot chocolate and something like brioche in the morning except for the ones who just had coffee.
Your baking sound lovely and filling and you've obviously reduced the sugar drastically.

After the update post, I am 100% with OP! You're right, your homemade creations are a much better option than Cheerios! Did you really get them shipped over from the UK?!

We also do what you do for food but add smoothies to our breakfast list (often mostly green ones). Our breads and cakes tend to be snacks or puddings.

'has anyone ever tried to eat a dry weetabix?'

Gilles it's like that challenge people do with Cream Crackers - how many can you eat without a drink of water

Good for you EmGee.

I'd stick with your banana bread - they could be eating far worse things Tweetabix

I spent years having to eat dry cereal as I hated the milk.

it's disgusting.

wish I'd have had banana bread

Mine eat chocolate cereal, or pain au chocolate . Your offering sounds much healthier!

For me it's a bit sugary for an everyday brekkie. I'd save it for weekends and give more savoury stuff during the week, eggs, cold meat on toast, overnight oats....stuff like that.

has anyone ever tried to eat a dry weetabix?

Actually I used to and I used to enjoy it. In fact I still have those mini weetabix dry on occasion, but they're a bit sweeter.

My brother had trouble getting it together to have fresh milk when he was at University, so he used to eat dry Weetabix with butter on

How many breakfasts does that banana bread do?

50g of sugar is a lot if it only does 1/2 days if it lasts 5 that's different.

I wouldn't want dcs to have more than 10g sugar at breakfast max inc drinks.

I make that banana bread. It makes about a standard loaf cake-about 10 1" slices. It's vegan and wholemeal and actually not very sweet at all. In fact, I add a good squeeze of extra honey on top of the stated sugar...

Fruit smoothies and chocolate brioche in this house. I hate cereal, it's not filling and it's too expensive.

Sometimes we have porridge or ciabatta with oil and vinegar. Sometimes eggs with a tomato daal and roti. Sometimes potato cakes with eggs and fried spinash and tomatoes.

Usually it's brioche and smoothies. At least 5 times a week, I have slim healthy kids. Cereal isn't as good as it's made out.

I think the banana bread sounds more nutritious with the other stuff than a Weetabix would be, BUT I would still want to watch the sugar as NHS/WHO recommend no more than 19g a day for children aged 4 to 6 years old. So 50g is potentially a lot unless it is split into loads of smaller portions. I say that knowing how hard it is to come in at under 19g- on our best days we may manage it, when I manage to dilute fruit juice massively, treat ketchup as their only other treat and home cook everything else from scratch. But I have no doubt my kids usually consume more than that, I imagine their school dinner puddings often come to more on their own! I think the brekkie sounds lovely but maybe try to do some protein/more savoury stuff to fill them up and keep the banana bread for weekends only or something. And Weetabix or homemade banana bread is still loads better than half a bottle of coke or indeed nothing!

treat ketchup as their only other treat

That's better than the raisins mentioned as a treat earlier in the thread!

You could also toast the banana bread if it's a bit stale.

Good topped with, you got it, mashed banana!

If you stick to it properly it comes it at around about 5g of sugar per slice, so not actually that bad. not like me who leaves it on the side and picks at it every time I walk past, oh no