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

Oswin couldn't agree more, kudos to OP.

I am finding the 'OP why are you not more like meeeeeeeeee, WHY WHY WHY?' Post so
funny though. I know MN is all all about the parking threads but give me a foodie thread any day, hilarious. 😂

Good grief it's only a bit of sugar by the sounds of it. It sounds like it's being controlled.. I think it sounds like a good idea what you are doing

Honey is gross. Only like it in a honey glaze.

Sugar on cereal is great. And I was born in 1982

I love how people don't realise honey is still pretty much pure sugar. Nutella too! If you put those on your cereals it's still just as sugary as just pouring actual sugar on!

I think the OP has been brilliant too.
(sweetened with honey)

MrsHathaway that's fascinating. Why is sugar good for wounds? And do you literally just sprinkle it on, or are we talking a more sophisticated medical process?

If it's weetabix then my children will only eat it with a little sugar on top! But they're obsessed with Cheerios at the moment (but the cheap "honey hoops" from ASDA!)

If they were to have weetabix or porridge then that sounds like a good idea to me. I only add a sprinkle of sugar, they are just 5 and 3 so to them as long as they can see a little sugar then it's good enough. I can't eat them without sugar so I wouldn't expect the kids not to if they like it.

Fluffy24 has a point.

Have you ever seen the movies 'Fed Up' or 'That Sugar Film'?

urgh!

You'd have been as well title your thread "Calling the Sugar Police" OP

I don't really care about sugar on cereal (although personally I think it's disgusting). I just find the idea of bagging up portions of cereal and sugar in advance for a 14 year old completely ridiculous.

Get them to wash up their bowls when they come home from school and they will soon realise that rinsing them out after eating is much less hassle.

I have to say I've been literally laughing out loud at this thread. Op you've done well dealing with the sugar police. I never had sugar on my cereal growing up so when Ds started eating it I never offered sugar. I'll never forget his face when we went on holiday with friends and their kids put sugar on their cereal. He was incredulous and said you can have sugar on cereal? Sugar on cereal?

Re sugar and wounds - one of our cats somehow managed to take all the skin off of the top of one of his paws, the vet treated it with sugar. I had to take him every 24/48 hours to have the dressing changed and more sugar applied - it worked brilliantly

My Dd (10) has bran flakes and no sugar. I buy yoghurt and she has 2 spoonfuls of that on the top after adding the milk. But I've brought her up that way and I don't add sugar to anything.

I will try strawberries with balsamic vinegar.

It is not 'bullying' to say 'please produce proper evidence for your assertions'.

The wound healing trial wasn't about bacterial reduction but scar reduction (I guess the major real life application is in cosmetic surgery). Google "keloid scarring" if you want to see what can happen when the body scars badly. Er, but not if you're eating.

No idea why sugar works - it just struck me as amusing that a pp claimed that honey can help with healing but refined sugar can't. Because actually ...

And yes I don't think they just sprinkled it on!

Good morning!
Why are people so defensive about white sugar? Do you have shares in Tate and Lyle?
In answer to somebody asking about the benefits of honey, I simply mentioned that some cultures do use it for healing purposes, that's all.
To me it seems like common sense that the more natural or raw a product is, the higher it's nutritional content.
If that makes me a member of the food police, then I don't give to the monkeys.
If I buy manuka or any other honey, so what? If I make porridge, or wholemeal pancakes or kedgeree or whatever for my family In the morning, it does not make me a "servant" Meanwhile, other people are hurling bags of Silver Spoon into their supermarket trolleys and then having debates about leaving it out in mini plastic bags or various sizes of Tupperware containers for their children to find of a morning. Who are the loons?

Dangers of sugar are well documented.
"Breakfast cereals are easily broken down in the gut to release sugar into your system. Your pancreas responds by producing insulin..." Insulin turns sugar to fat. After eating breakfast cereals the blood sugar and insulin levels soar followed two hours later by a "crash" accompanied by the stress hormone adrenaline. Pre-diabetes and Type 2 Diabetes are on the increase; the physical costs are;
Hypertension
Cholesterol
Heart Attacks
Strokes
Blindness
Impotence
Dementia
Kidney disease
Amputations.

Give them more protein, butter, olive oil, full fat yoghurt and lots of vegetables. Fruit in moderation.

You don't always have to be fat to have diabetes, it's what is going on in the inside that matters. Set your DC up for a long and healthy life while you still have some control over what they eat.

Credit most of these facts to Dr Michael Mosley who I respect enormously.

My dad used to make us breakfast in bed every day - yes, we were spoiled, entitled, grabby children; we learned it at our mother's knee.

One morning he made us porridge with salt instead of sugar. He said that was the Scottish way. Maybe it was an act of rebellion, which is also the Scottish way. Anyway, he was sent back to the kitchen.

Processed starches are also very quickly turned into sugars in your blood - one could argue that the rice crispies are as bad as the sugar on them.

And this thread was started to help OP reduce the amount of sugar her DC have...

It wasn't, actually. I started this thread to ask if it was too weird to bag it up into portions to stop them just wasting it.

Porridge with salt and a little butter is delicious 😋

If you are just worried about the mess what about kids having to do breakfast dishes

I beg your pardon. It's been a very long time since your OP

I can see that ICJump. Probably a bit like polenta, which is a staple of my middle class existence.

I don't know how op hasn't abandoned this thread! I repeat- at no point did she ask if she was u to use sugar! Why are people so desperate to impart their words of wisdom! It's simple "great idea bagging up the cereal- no waste" or "no crazy bag lady of cause you are being u"! Not a bloody science lesson every 3rd post!!!

Chelaza Knowledge is power. No one has called the Op a bad mother. They have made suggestions out of kindness and/or interest in the subject. Those whooping from the sidelines about "sugar police" and other such names are the ones spoiling for a spat IMO.

I'm with the poster who called out MN for the low level bullying on this thread.

OP. Bag it up or not. Who cares, it's your call. Buy a dishwasher. Personally they sound old enough to wash up their own dishes or at least leave them to soak.