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

[TheOnlyColditz]

They are 14, 10 and 7. They don't need me in the room while they are eating breakfast. They aren't babies.

[NoCapes]

Oh sorry X-post
I have a 7 year old and wouldn't let him pour his own cereal or he'd be swimming in it
Can't you just nip down and pour the cereal while you make a drink or whatever and they add the milk when they're ready?
Or Cheerios do little 'snack bags' now like in crisp packets? And Cheerios don't need sugar so you wouldn't need to faff with that

[TheOnlyColditz]

That adds a lot to this discussion Communion, thanks.

[Crispbutty]

Fgs. Rest of diet ok.. no idea where the "not" came from

[glitterazi]

Sugar added on cereal is rank. Wean them off and they'll soon see the light.

[NoCapes]

Ps I think actually 7 is very little and I wouldn't leave them alone to get and eat any meal tbh
14 and 10 year olds obviously is different

[Crispbutty]

Shredded wheat without sugar would be like eating a mini bale of hay

[Serialweightwatcher]

I used to always eat cereal with sugar on and I do let my kids but I have to put it on because 13 year old would live on sugar alone and he can't be trusted to put a teaspoon full in ... have had the crunchy bowls also OP ... can you put theirs on for them?

[CommunionHelp]

Any reason for your unpleasantness towards me OP?

Seriously. Stop getting narky. I just gave my opinion. You know that's allowed, right?

[TheOnlyColditz]

The cereal mini boxes and snack bags are actually the sort of thing I'm hoping to emulate, Nocapes, but as I said we do have plain cereal so thought about adding a tiny bag of sugar. Hoping to avoid the shop bought ones as they are very pricey given the volume my kids will eat, the older two would need two each.

Someone said I could nip down and portion out the sugar - I could but it does seem to add an unnecessary level of interference when I could just do it all on a sunday afternoon. I could use reusable tubs, I suppose, rather than baggies.

[Somehowsomewhere]

My 3 year old pours her own cereal!

[TheOnlyColditz]

Honeslty Communion, thank you for taking the time to add your input. It's an interesting opinion and I have taken it into account.

[nothingpunny]

Yanbu to portion up the cereals op. I do this too....for my DH who apparently thinks that half a box of cereals is a portion

[Somehowsomewhere]

Anyway OP... YANBU. Sounds like a good solution.

[Crumbs1]

Rice Krispies are 10% sugar.

[TheOnlyColditz]

The 7 year old isn't alone, he's with his older brothers - while I don't trust the 14 year old to be sensible with sugar, I do trust him to yell if his little brother chokes. Fourteen is quite big and responsible.

[NoCapes]

Yeah I did think after I posted that that would probably get a bit pricey

I think I'm possibly going to be the only person to answer the original question then and say - yes, portion it out into little bags
That's the kind of Sunday night activity my wierd control freak, overly organised about pointless things self would love doing

[Soubriquet]

Rice Krispies are 10% sugar

And? Not your children, not your business

The OP wasn't asking advice on sugar but in bagging up the cereal

[MrsHathaway]

I used to have so much sugar on my Weetabix it was a visible layer even when saturated with milk - it crunched.

Point of order: 5 g sugar on 50 g bran flakes is 9% not 10%.

I think you can be cannier with cereal, OP. The lowest-sugar shitty sugary cereal probably has enough bran etc added as a desperate health measure to lower its GI, so in terms of how it batters your blood sugar it could be better than rice crispies which is almost 100% processed white carbs. Bran flakes are cardboard but somehow sultana bran (ie the same plus sultanas) is food of the gods - sultanas may be very sugary but it's not processed sugar.

[BlackeyedSusan]

if you are going to do it, do it with boxes, but why would they not search through the cupboard and find the sugar and add more anyway?

"poor old" ds was deprived learning life skills getting his own breakfast at 6 yrs.

[tiredofhavingtothinkofnewnames]

At 14 my DB used to have 14 weetabix microwed with milk. Now aged 45 he is not and never has been the slightest bit overweight.

Just saying

[LolDeLol]

I think the bagging it up idea isn't a bad one but perhaps it would be easier to get them to use scoops instead. Tell them they are allowed X number of scoops of cereal per breakfast and X amount of sugar per breakfast.
It would be less faff than bagging it up and, if they are trustworthy, should work. Pouring out cereal is a bit like pouring out pasta, it seems to come out painfully slowly then all of a sudden comes out in a big rush.

BTW, I let my DC have sugar on their non sugary breakfast cereal. I threatened them with hiding the sugar if I ever caught them putting more than a very light sprinkling on. It worked for us.

BTW No. 2. I used to put golden syrup on my weetabix as a child. 😁 It used to form a gooey crust.

[incywincybitofa]

I am another that says sachets of sugar are the best way to control amounts and avoid wastage which is what I think you are asking.

Cereal my kids are allowed to serve themselves, 3 scoops from the box (measuring cup 1/2) and go back for 1 or 2 more if they finish it and are still hungry.

Would a measured scoop system work for yours?

[StealthPolarBear]

" Crispbutty

Shredded wheat without sugar would be like eating a mini bale of hay"
Surely with sugar they are sugary bales if hay? :)

[TheOnlyColditz]

.. it IS 9%

Apparently the maths was not as simple as I assumed