AIBU to bag up cereal with pre-portioned sugar to stop the kids wasting it?

[TheOnlyColditz]

I mean a sandwich bag of cereal with another little bag of sugar inside? Currently I'm scraping glued on cereal and sugar off the bottoms of bowls every day! Kids are 7, 10 and 14

I like shreddies with carnation milk

When we used our breadmaker, you could put it on a timer. I wonder if there's a suitable recipe/setting for banana bread.

The smell might also encourage us out of bed and downstairs.

Sure OP - I usually use semi-skimmed as a compromise between me and the DC.

Btw, I don't actually eat breakfast myself, though I can't function at all without a very large latte which I make myself before anyone is up. Then I have a banana or something mid morning.

I think a good large latte is a reasonable compromise for breakfast, it's not like a sip of lemon water is it? There's plenty of nutrition in milk.

On the Manuka issue, I have no idea if it does actually have anti-bacterial properties or not, but it was recommended to me by a friend who is a nutritional therapist. I was surprised to see it priced at £20. In Wholefoods it's more, I think. Also, I was surprised thst the Manuka 15 jars are sometimes empty in Waitrose and you have to ask someone to get it for you from the stockroom . Whiskey is more expensive yet that is still sold in its bottle.

It's a lot easier to slip a jar of honey in your bag / pocket than a bottle of whiskey! (I mean, I imagine. I've never tried!)

I agree skimmed milk is vile. So is most artificially low fat stuff.

I can happily eat 5 weetabix coated in sugar. We always used to put 2 desert spoonfuls at least on our cereal growing up. Tastes like shit otherwise. I'm thin with good teeth, btw, as are my siblings. You people telling the OP her kids have too much sugar - THAT'S NOT WHAT SHE ASKED!!!!!!

mickey I came on to say the same thing! I crush the wheetabix up a bit so they all fit and then dump a load of sugar on... Tasty!

Oh behave. Food police seem to be trolling this post.
When I was a kid, I used to put sugar on my rice crispies when my mum left the room so she couldnt tell me off! Im very healthy and not overweight for it.
I think you're being very sensible OP. They still get to eat the cereal they enjoy AND that little bit of sugar which makes it even better!
Better for you to know how much they're having rather than letting them pour the whole sugar jar into their bowls.
You're doing great, as long as your kids are happy, healthy and loved (which I've no doubt they are)!

loving the idea that kids don't catch colds because, umm, expensive honey .
Also meaningful breakfast conversations.
Anecdatally I survived and have always been slim despite my weetabix + cream+ sugar habit as a child....

miaow I'm on a local parents FB group and one mother wanted to know what she could give her child for the flu as her "usual remedies" of Manuka honey and raw garlic weren't helping

And also just to give balance I had a massively healthy diet growing up - no fizzy drinks, no biscuits, no chocolate, no crisps.

I'm now a junk food addict and weigh a good stone or three more than I should.

Ok I have a few solutions....

1. This bad boy (I don't even eat cereal and I want one). https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01H2T017I/ref=pdawwsim20111?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=GWQ5T6Z56MXAXKGJ6REF plus some sugar sachets that you leave out and hide to control how much they put on cereal.

1. Get 3 Tupperware bowl with lids and portion each with a spoonful of sugar already on. You could do this each night before or simply get 15 and do it for the whole week. Colour coded for ease.

1. Portion into bags, but not ideal as they might not keep the bags and use sugar packets for ease.

Is it really a serious concern that a 7yo shouldn't be getting & eating breakfast unsupervised?? I think I am from a different parenting planet.

Sugar with cereal? Is this the 1970's calling?

No sandwich bags with cereal would give consistent portions and stop waste.
In my house I say - almost every day - take a small portion of cereal and if you are still hungry get some more. No-one listens to me.

Why does the sugar need to be in a separate bag? Its all dry, cant it go in together?
What about sugar cubes?

90% of cereals without sugar are absolutely vile, do i don't blame anyone for adding sugar

Find cereal that's both healthy and reasonably sweet?

PS Couldnt help smiling about manuka honey its sugar and skag bags

Of course there will be people who ate all sorts of things in the 1970s and still have all their teeth and so on, but this is not the point surely?

The fact is this country has the highest obesity rates in Europe and there must be a reason for this. I don't know whether we have the worst teeth as well, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Yes children can survive on cereal and sugar for breakfast every day. They may never be overweight and maintain all their teeth due to good genes. But you don't need to be part of the food police to acknowledge that any child's performance at school will be hugely advanced by the odd egg or unprocessed breakfast ingredient. How hard can this be?

For all the sneering at the 1970s people were on average far more slim then.

It's just clicked with me that your problem is scraping off dried on sugary milk at the end of the day. Presumably because the Joel's get left in the sink until after work?

I have taught my 5yo to put her porridge bowl in the sink when she's finished and make sure to run the tap into it to half way. Only weetabix sticks more the porridge. Can't be doing with scraping up other people's detritus.

But still agree with my original Tupperware suggestion, with pre portioned cereal and sugar. Waste not want not.

What's with the sugar police. One tea spoon doesn't harm. You should start buying pinching those sachets for hot drinks OP. One each! Or there's Stevia. Doubt kids would tell the difference.