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

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TheOnlyColditz · 09/02/2017 20:09

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

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difficultyear · 10/02/2017 18:19

I once saw a woman in Hyde Park pouring Coca Cola (the one with the red label, not that it makes much difference) into BABIES' BOTTLES and giving it to her twins who were about two years old

That's exactly it. If we are shocked to see it given to a toddler why feed this stuff to ourselves?
The government is working so hard on getting people to change their minds on consumption of sugar after being told that fat was the baddy incorrectly for so long.
Sugar is and we've been warned about it for long enough to decide for ourselves.
They are even talking of taxing it next because we are all so addicted and don't see it as being that bad 😆

motherinferior · 10/02/2017 18:21

Those 'natural juices' are also sugar.

difficultyear · 10/02/2017 18:23

Yes I disnt say it doesn't contain sugar but it's natural.
Just like you would eat an orange or banana and not a chocolate bat instead and think it had the same benefits

llangennith · 10/02/2017 18:23

Getting back to the topic which was actually about sugar...
I was always fine eating Weetabix without sugar but DC liked a bit of sugar. I thought half a teaspoonful of sugar sprinkled over two Weetabix was ok. When DS was 14 he started being a bit too liberal with the sugar and I wasn't about to start being sugar monitor so I stopped buying packs of granulated sugar and bought sugar cubes. As I don't take sugar it was not a problem for me. When DS had got over his outrage at my meanness he agreed to reduce his sugar intake.

Jellybean83 · 10/02/2017 18:23

My DS had heart surgery when he was a newborn, he was given medical grade Manuka honey by the tissue viability nurse for his scar. I was surprised that it's properly recognised as a healing product in modern medicine. I still wouldn't pay the price for it, DS is fit, rarely ill, active and healthy so we'll stick to slumming it with the cheaper shop bought stuff.

BillSykesDog · 10/02/2017 18:24

They also chop off infected limbs and seal the stumps with fire but I'm not trying that either. I'll have a cola instead.

rachmack · 10/02/2017 18:27

Haven't read all the posts but am always surprised by the fact anyone eats cereal regularly given the public health info about it and the serious health consequences of sugar consumption. Even the NHS website which is always a bit reluctant to shout too loudly for fear of upsetting industry talks about cereals specifically.
www.nhs.uk/news/2012/02february/pages/breakfast-cereals-still-too-high-in-sugar.aspx

OxfordMourning · 10/02/2017 18:27

Alaia Good on your DH's cousin for ripping off gullible Americans with his knowledge of Shamanic practices. I feel a bit sad for them.

motherinferior · 10/02/2017 18:29

Equating an orange with a bar of chocolate is an Olympic-style contortion. I eat an orange not because it's 'natural' but because it has fibre and vitamins.

Tooth-rotting dried fruit is natural. Doesn't make it good for teeth.

motherinferior · 10/02/2017 18:31

Rachmark, if you actually read that link you would see that weetabix, which the OP's kids consume, comes off pretty well for the sugar content.

Alaia5 · 10/02/2017 18:34

Oxford -well I wouldn't know. I'd be up for it but it's not DH's cup of tea.

IToldYouIWasFreaky · 10/02/2017 18:46

Yes I disnt say it doesn't contain sugar but it's natural. Yes, but why are those natural sugars better than the unprocessed ones? I am not trying to be goady, honest, just understand this! I get that it's just empty calories, so I limit mine and DS''s intake but what is it about white sugar that makes it so much worse than sugars found in fruit/honey/maple syrup etc?

IToldYouIWasFreaky · 10/02/2017 18:47

*better than the processed ones, obviously!

MrsHathaway · 10/02/2017 18:56

I was tangentially involved in a Ph3 clinical trial about wound healing. Stock fell off a cliff when they had to announce that their new wonder drug was precisely as effective as the control, dextrose.

Turns out putting sugar in a (surgical) wound really really helps.

OwlinaTree · 10/02/2017 19:30

The life expectancy of an Amazonian is 43. So their health tips are probably a bit shit.

AYankinSpanx · 10/02/2017 19:32

This thread is legendary

Really? After nine years on MN, I think it's a bloody awful example of low level bullying against any posters who are just trying to offer their own opinion.

The name calling on this thread directed towards anyone who dares to say anything other than how how terribly cool they are about their kids having sugar is unbelievable. We've got an OP who patently doesn't want anyone doing anything than telling her right she is, surrounded by some pretty unpleasant posters who are tripping over themselves to be the next one to pipe up 'sugar police' and their other hilariously unoriginal names.

I personally don't give a shit if the OP wants to roll her kids in sugar on a daily basis, but putting people off posting for - like every bloody thread on AIBU - just offering up an opinion is MN at it's worst.

BillSykesDog · 10/02/2017 19:40

ODFOD, they're getting a well deserved roasting for some very smug, pompous, ill informed responses designed to demonstrate how superior their parenting is to the OPs and it's a very tired cliche too.

AYankinSpanx · 10/02/2017 19:44

Don't be so bloody offensive BillSykes.

I'm not too bloody 'tired' to call out thread bullying when I see it.

The comments that have attracted the nasty remarks are nothing like very smug, pompous, ill informed responses

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TheOnlyColditz · 10/02/2017 20:12

I asked a question about baggies-as-portion-control.

I'm not interested in moralising but all props to those who are. Go for it. I absolutely do not mind, as long as nobody expects me to engage too much with it.

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FeliciaJollygoodfellow · 10/02/2017 20:17

I would love it if the OP was the same one from years ago who asked AIBU for not giving a visiting child milk with their weetabix she expected the kid to eat weetabix with water and nothing else! this was years ago so I imagine she lost that battle

FeliciaJollygoodfellow · 10/02/2017 20:18

Oh damn x post.

Are you that same person OP??

AYankinSpanx · 10/02/2017 20:37

I'm not interested in moralising but all props to those who are. Go for it

Generous. No OP. It's not moralising to have a different opinion to you or even to express it.

The comments that have attracted nasty little remarks have not been 'moralising' in the least.

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TheOnlyColditz · 10/02/2017 20:38

Oh GOD no Felicia, water on Weetabix! Can you imagine? Like trying to choke down liquid compost!

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TheOnlyColditz · 10/02/2017 20:39

OK Spanx, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it.

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Jenniferb21 · 10/02/2017 20:45

If they like bran flakes I imagine they'll like weetabix. Why not change to honey? A bit healthier and won't stick to the bottom of the bowel. Even honey on shredded wheat is yummy especially with some chopped banana

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