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

They won't get it out of the fridge, you need to put it on the table with the cereal, right in front of their eyes, day after day.

The whole point of bagging the cereal is to save waste though, not create more

Well, completely ignoring all the hand wringing about the sugar (because I allow it too - who wants to eat a weetabix anyway let alone with no sugar?!) what a brilliant idea!

My boys are younger than yours and we often have a bowl full of sugary milk left over. I might start portioning it out. They get up on their own and get their own cereal - I guess I could also combat this by getting up before them but I'm not sure I want to

I thought sugar on cereal was one of those things that went out of style in the 70s like white dog shit and casual racism.

What a waste of bags why don't you make mini tin foils with the portions of sugar?

EastMidsMummy hah! Agree, we only have sugar cubes in the house in case guests want it in their tea/coffee.

To be fair.. An after thought is that you could re use the bags since they won't have anything wet in them? Maybe zip lock or the re sealable ones?

Go to Mcdonalds, steal a handful of their sugar.......do this at multiply mcdees, until have acquired a reasonable stash. Then limit them to one sachet each per morning

What a waste of bags why don't you make mini tin foils with the portions of sugar?

It's sugar, not skag.

I do love a completely nuts thread.

To save yourself an annoying chore have you tried giving them a measuring spoon or something and telling them that that's what a 'spoonful' looks like? Maybe they just don't know.

Actually the skag wrap idea is a good one! Op?

But massive packs of cheap supermarket own brand cereal and portion out a bag of sugar that you think should see the three of them through the week. That way they can go nuts on the cereal then how they apportion the sugar between them over the 5 days is their problem not yours? Or if they would fight, do weekly a food bag of sugar each then it's up to them how they split it Monday to Friday.

If you put 5g of sugar on 50g of bran flakes that's 55g so 5/55 is 9%.

But that's wrong anyway, it's not 9% sugar, 50g bran flakes have 7g of sugar in so that's 22% (ignoring the milk). Around half total daily allowance for a 7-10 year old.

we have weetabix with raisins do you know how much fucking sugar there is in a portion of raisins? sultanas and chopped apricots. dd needs the fibre.

ds has weetabix with milk but they have to be the exact consistency otherwise they are rejected.

quietbat 5 / 50 is 10% however the scenario posed was 5g of sugar on 50g of cereal which is 5 / 55 which is 9%

I can't eat certain cereals without sugar, so I wouldn't expect a 14 year old to do so either - Cornflakes with no sugar? Yuck!

Making up little bags of pre-portioned cereal sounds like a good idea, I'd have no issue with it but if you were my mum and you handed me a bowl of Rice Krispies with no sugar I'd make a mental note not to invite you to my future wedding!!

It's sugar, not crack cocaine. People in MN sometimes get so uptight about sugar and salt. They're kids. They burn a fuckton of energy by just sitting still and growing. They need carbs by the bucketload. OP sounds like she knows about healthy eating. Seriously. I just don't get what it is about food in particular that makes so many people so self-righteous.

At home mum put the sugar on (we were poor). 1 tsp exactly each then the sugar tin was put away. But we ate really plain breakfasts - porridge/milk-gruel/maize porridge. We were never allowed sugar on packaged cereal - most of it, even corn flakes or rice crispies has a lot of carbs which turn to sugar.

Out of curiosity, do they eat lots of veg?

Why not add the sugar to a fridgefitting milk jug so it's ready made to pour on? This makes it easily identifiable from ordinary milk.

You.will find less sugar is needed because it would have time to dissolve and not end up coated on the bottom of the bowl.

Get each child to scrub out their own bowl!

How much cereal do they each eat a week?

Would they get through a box individually?

If so, buy them a box each (let them choose if you are feeling nice) and they get one a week - if you run out you get yourself some toast or something (maybe a bit of flexibility for the little one).

Definitely go individual sachets of sugar as well, whack them in the top of the cereal box? enough for a week.

That way the only portioning you have to do is the sugar sachets. There will be a whiney adjustment period.

What a hysterical bunch.

Sugar is not the work of the devil.

If you have time YANBU to bag up portions, I couldn't be bothered to do it though. Could you buy a box of sachets? Give them 1 sachet each for cereal?

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Yes, gangstrat- they do eat lots of veg. Not necessarily the exotic veg, but plenty of brassicas and roots. Why do you ask?