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

[DropZoneOne]

Rather than bags, why not buy a set of baby weaning pots from eBay. Just the right size for a teaspoon of sugar in each, and you can reuse over and over.

[Serialweightwatcher]

Sorry OP just realised I'd missed a whole page out of 3 doh where you said you won't be about to put the sugar on

[Batteriesallgone]

Which sugar do you use? Interested in this as a tactic to make breakfast more interesting. Just granulated? Or something finer?

I would portion up yes, but use reusable mini Tupperware pots, not bags. But then I have a bit of an aversion to sandwich bags awkward fiddly things that I can never seem to pour out of properly

[CatchTheRainbow]

My aunt never let my cousins have sweets, chocolate or crisps growing up.

Now they've grown up, two of them are very overweight.

I think when you restrict something or turn it into a bad food then you make it more appealing. Nothing wrong with any food in moderation.

Sorry OP because that doesn't answer your question. Just sick of the pearl clutches.

[Somehowsomewhere]

OP's oldest is 14. He could probably buy 15 Freddos on the way to school with his dinner money if he wanted to. A spoonful of sugar on his cereal isn't going to make or break his diet.

[Batteriesallgone]

Oh and baby weaning pots for the sugar is a great idea too

[MongerTruffle]

And? Not your children, not your business
This is a public forum. The OP can't dictate what others post.

[Maryann1975]

Op, thanks for starting his thread, I now know what a terrible parent I am. I also let my children get on and make and eat their own breakfast and they are far younger than your dc, 10, 8 and 6. They have been doing this for months, maybe over a year. I didn't realise this was frowned upon.
We don't have any issues with portion control though, dd1 has 2 weetabix, with a bit of sugar and raisins, ds has coco pops (shock) and dd2 has those mini chocolate weetabix things and counts them out into her bowl (she has 12). Copious amounts of sugar all before 8am.
If you need to portion it out, I would put it into plastic containers so they get the right kind of amount. I imagine when I was a teenager I would have happily eaten my cereal out of a plastic tub too.

[StealthPolarBear]

Catch just as an opposite example my parents never restricted anything. I have gemrown up overweight and with no willpower and no concept of moderation.

[PoohBearsHole]

why don't you just buy 3 x little snack tubs and put in each night the amount they're allowed? I've got some tiddlers from when dc were tiny. Easy, rinseable so simples.

Then if the 14 yo takes everyone's sugar they can kill each other with the spoons 😂 (ok not so funny!).

My 9 and 6 yo do breakfast daily, and shock horror even use the toaster and microwave themselves i'm a terrrriiiible mother 🤗

[bobberybobble]

I don't think you are being unreasonable bagging up the cereal, but 14 and 7 is quite different ages so I would be worried about portion sizes, unless you was writing names on bags, which seems more of a faff than your original problem.

What about one of the poached egg microwave things, I am sure M&s do like a 6 egg one (Amazon I am sure will have some invention if I am wrong)! And get eldest DC to (or the most sensible helpful one) whip up Poached eggs and toast each morning? Or you do it!!




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[TheOnlyColditz]

MongerTruffle, I am the OP and am perfectly happy with WHATEVER people want to post.

I like the idea of scoops for cereal and baby weaning pots for the sugar - I could then take the rest of the sugar away - they are quite strict about not eating each other's treats so I think they will respect this

[LolDeLol]

How about buying presaged sugar sachets, cheap and easy.
2.5g each

[LolDeLol]

Pre-bagged

[LolDeLol]

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[Batteriesallgone]

I was being serious asking what sugar you use though. I don't eat cereal but it is the easiest breakfast for DCs if I can get it down them

[kateandme]

best bit when me and sibs were young.all that sugar milky goodness at the end!

[Somehowsomewhere]

Catch just as an opposite example my parents never restricted anything. I have gemrown up overweight and with no willpower and no concept of moderation

My parents were lax. I was making my own packed lunch for school at 6 (absolutely true, I used to pull a chair up to the worktop to stand on to make my sandwiches). I ate whatever I wanted. I had sugar on my cereal .
I'm slim and healthy. Eat well. Normal BMI.
I guess my point is that our anecdotes are irrelevant. OP is confident that her DC have a healthy diet overall. That's not what she was asking.

[FourKidsNotCrazyYet]

I have a double cereal dispenser from Amazon (cost about £12). Turn the handle and out pops your cereal (doesn't work with weetabix though). Best gadget in the morning. No sugar though. We have honey in a pump that they are allowed one pump onto their porridge if they don't want fruit. Other cereal doesn't need sugar. Try a small pot of yoghurt instead?

[BoomBoomsCousin]

I'm a bit draconian and would tell them if they put too much on they won't have sugar for the rest of the week and try again next Monday. But that's mainly because I can't be arsed with bagging up. But YANBU to do it your way if you want to.

(PS. loving the way you handle all the off-topic holier-than-thou moralizing about your sugar use )

[TheOnlyColditz]

Actually I am REALLY liking the idea of a tupperware each with their name on - each night I could portion out their cereal with the sugar on, and leave it in the cupboard for morning. That way, they oculd still have sugar, it's sensible, and I know who did and didn't rinse their bowl!

[BestZebbie]

Could you use a sugar jar that has a pourer in the lid that only tips out one portion at a time like this one (other brands exist):
mahahome.com/p/Apollo/Dining-Serving-Pourers-Shakers/Apollo-Small-Glass-Sugar-Pourer/5026180063777?gclid=CLmopfP0g9ICFc277QodGJoOgQ

[FireInTheHead]

I think it's a great idea to portion up the cereal and the sugar, OP, that way you're reducing waste with the added bonus of controlling their sugar intake without looking like your controlling it.

Re the whole sugar is bad for you argument - yes, the jury's in and it patently is in excess but a teaspoon or so on a bowl of cereal is neither here nor there. I don't like sugar on cereal myself, never have, even growing up in the 60s when it was the norm, it wasn't about tooth decay or health, I just don't like the sweetness (nor do my grown dc since they never had it any way but mine). Most of my contemporaries and their kids had/have sugar but I don't presume to police other people's choices.

[Suchalovelyday]

Give them a chopped up strawberry instead of a bag of sugar (I'm a bit puzzled why the sugar - how have they got to 'like it') and I can't see a problem (unless it's Frosties or any of the other 'kids' brands which are just sugar and chemicals)

[TheOnlyColditz]

Sorry Batteries! It's just white granulated, nothing special