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

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.

Because they don't want 'sweet milk' on their cereal, they want sugar. Sugar has texture and colour, not just flavour.

I like the skag wrap idea. I'm sure some of the sanctimonious posters on here who only feed their child one teaspoon of roughage plus a plate of steamed wheatgrass, alfalfa quinoa a day will be clutching their pearls like it's real skag!

Sorry I have not RTFT, but the last time I saw anyone put extra sugar on cereal was in the 1970s! Do people still really do this? Is there not already about 5 teaspoons of sugar in a bowl of Cheerios? Something like Crunchy Nut Cornflakes is basically a bowl of sugar.

That's why RTFT is handy Alaia

Weetabix is only edible with a sprinkle of crunchy brown sugar.

But obviously here on MN these days admitting you allow your kids either cereal or sugar invites a torrent of excoriation.

I feel the urge to eat a large Chelsea bun now. I won't - I've had a bowl of nauseatingly virtuous porridge - but boy that urge is strong. An iced bun.

You guys are mental

Well I've now read the full thread and don't want to sound like a demented draconian, but I still have not heard anything like this since the 1970s.
Also what a faff. Just do porridge with whole oats, bananas on it for sweetness, blueberries or other fruit and/or Manuka honey. Eggs and toast the next day and be done with plastic bags etc.
Do people really eat cereal for breakfast EVERY day. It's like munching on cardboard and sugar.
The only time I use granulated sugar is for baking and we are not a food police family.

Manuka honey may be posher but it's still sugar. And if you have RTFT you'll have seen that the kids get their own breakfast. Which is what also happens in my house, fwiw - with some nutritional mishaps don't mention the cake incident but also quite a lot of hummus and pitta bread (actually that might be an option, achingly middle-class though it is?).

Loving the idea of a dystopian future in which people furtively deal in wraps of sugar while the Sugar=Death Faction are shooting anybody caught with a Freddo with their photon ray guns.

Getting the kids to do the dishes would be my solution, failing that buy smaller bowls The cereal bowls DH and the kids use are meant to be used for dips/nibbles, the ones that came with the dinner set hold half a box of cereal and a pint of milk. Also invest in a sugar bowl and only put in a few table spoons at a time.

To me cereal with milk is disgusting and can only be made mildly edible with a tonne of sugar. I never eat it anymore.

Love the Manuka honey suggestion! That is MN vintage, that is!

If it's sweet, it's sugar, whether is seven quid a jar or £1.50 a kilo.

I think it's eminently sensible of the OP to give sugar free cereal with a teaspoon of sugar added. That way she's controlling how much they consume while making the fibre rich cereal palatable.

She's brave to admit it on here, too.

Kudos.

Oh I do love a good food thread, this one hasn't dissapointed. 😂

Manila is £10-20 a jar so use sparingly! I was just trying it out a bit this winter. The kids have not had colds, but that could be just luck.
Don't even get me started on the protein powder DH mixes in the porridge.

I love that spoon!

Manuka even!

My brother used to hate milk. He would eat dry weetabix like a biscuit with a layer of sugar on top - licking up the sugar that fell off!!

Colditz I LOVE you. DD hasn't eaten properly for a couple of days - 2 and teething - I put the tiniest sprinkle of sugar on weetabix just now and she demolished it! I'm sure some of her grouchiness in the last few days has been hunger and I've finally got something substantial down her.

I have that spoon! I got it from Paperchase.

Yuck
Weetabix tastes of cardboard
Even with sugar

I think it's pretty sad a 7 year old has breakfast without parents daily. Even the 10 and 14 year olds. It takes what 15 mins for then to eat. Get up 15 mins earlier, then spend some time talking to them before then leave for hours at school. It's an important time for them to express any worries, and tell you anything casually.

Art, my daughters are teenagers but I can assure you that first thing in the morning is not when they want to do anything but grunt. Our house is a series of bad-tempered people stomping in and out of the bathroom and getting themselves ready - in fact I absent myself and go running and that makes everything quite a lot smoother.

We are all quite functional and mainly eat together - very conversationally - in the evenings.

I was going to suggest prepacked sugar sachets, @TheOnlyColditz - but I see a pp has beaten me to it!

My mum used to ration sugar on cereal, and in coffee, so my dad, my sister and I used to sneak more, if we thought we could get away with it. I remember going to a concert with dad and dsis - mum didn't come, so when we had coffee in the interval, they spooned loads into their drinks (I had just given up sugar in coffee, so didn't) - unfortunately the venue had made a mistake, and it was actually salt!!

I was the picture of smug, with my delicious, unsugared coffee whilst they choked on their salty drinks!

Artandco That post is a cracking example of what drives me mental about MN sometimes...you post about an issue and someone picks one little point and makes all kind of negative assumptions about your parenting

Seriously, does ANYONE sit with their kids eating breakfast and talking meaningfully about their days? DS (9) eats his (un-sugared, but honestly who gives a crap at this point?) breakfast at the dining table, I eat mine in the kitchen while making lunches etc. We've got the morning dance round the kitchen into a fine art! It's not at all sad, I do manage to talk to him at other times of the day, including the 20 min walk to school.

I have a bowl of porridge , two sugars, and a dollop of cream. Sometimes I add a chopped banana .