Refusing to buy certain cereals for my DC?

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Does anyone else refuse to buy Coco Pops, Krave, Cookie Crisp and such like for their DC on the principle that 11g of sugar (more than a Freddo) for breakfast is just wrong?

Oatibix, shreddies, cornflakes and Rice Krispies here. Usually mixed.

Multipack sugary shite for holidays only. But even then we have eggs a lot instead!

I think I will get flamed for saying this but - active, growing children need a lot of calories and sugar certainly provides this.
I'm not for a moment suggesting that jam sandwiches are an appropriate lunch, and I'm quite happy to join in excoriating Rice Krispies as the handiwork of Satan, but I think sugar per se has its place in a balanced, high-energy diet.

I miss sugar puffs. I really fancy a bowl with full fat milk .

Another one here who gives sugar cereals a firm no. Go the n.European way so it's eggs, cheese, fish or meat. Probably all wrong too, but sugar is a no in my house. Yes I'm a precious unicorn flying with fairy dust (probably icing sugar) around the house.

Absolutely nothing wrong with Aldi meat to the PP. However, being a unicorn, I do try and check my meat for sources and provision. Now I've given it up, it's a whole lot easier - but I do try and make sure the chicken I cook for the family is free range. Not just for the chicken's sake - if it's proper chicken which has been allowed to roam, the bones make better stock ... and more meals.

yes free range chicken may be nicer but don't pretend you care about the chicken as you still eat it. Just admit, it's nicer! That's it....

I presume tons of the healthy kind is a no no too. Has anyone ever weighed cereal?! 30g isn't much 😤

Always available:

Grape nuts
Cornflakes
Rice crispies
Weetabix

Only available when on holiday abroad of camping (usually once a year):

Variety packs (cocoa pops is the favourite with frosties as a close second.

On weekends we occasionally have special treat of pancakes and fruit with maple syrup.

Very rarely we go out for full English in a restaurant.

But DH eats muesli with yogurt and I have porridge every day!

Mine have coco-pops, amongst other things (including Nutella) One of my DC in particular loves chocolate. Never, ever drinks sugary drinks though, no squash, no fruit juice, no fizzy.

So I still get to be a bit smug 😜

All you posters talking about “eggy bread”- you sound about 5 years old! It’s always been French toast to me.

Returning to cereals, I have been eating Weetabix every day for 45 years and only in the last year or so stopped adding a teaspoon of sugar to it. Got used to it very quickly. My DS (2) doesn’t know yet that cereal other than weetabix exists and I don’t plan to tell him any time soon. He does get those Organix oaty snack bars in the afternoon though, sounds like one of them is about as sugary as a bowl of coco pops...

Bimgy85 did you miss the bit where crosstalk said she didn’t eat chicken herself any more, just cooks it for the family?

No guilt here. Chocolate mini weetabix are a staple favourite in our house.

Breakfast choices in this house are egg on toast or porridge with berries and seeds.......... Ive bought rice crispies and cornflakes for dp in the past but he only has weetabix now which he keeps in work.

@JessieMcJessie oh yes, thanks pet!

Served up breakfast to DC this morning and laughed when I thought of this thread.

They had homemade yoghurt, topped with homemade granola (flapjacks gone wrong) and a slice of homemade banana bread. -With a layer of jam, but no one needs to know that!-

Coco pops and Krave are weekend treats here (the aldi versions), usual breakfasts are toast, weetabix, porridge or yogurt with fruit. There are not many things I ban outright, I think kids need to be taught balance, and has DH is diabetic, they also need to learn about balancing sugar intake etc.

No, I try to get them to eat a breakfast with a decent amount of protein so they usually have eggs in some form with toast and some fruit. If not then they have porridge, occasionally avocado on toast or sausages. I let them choose some 'foreign' cereal when we go on holiday. More than anything I find that when they have had cereal for breakfast they are starving hungry within an hour or so. I don't think it's a good thing to go to school on.

I buy the middle ground cereal, eg Shreddies and Cheerios both of which I think have about 17/18% sugar. People seem to forget there are good nutrients in cereals beside the sugar.

What do you do if your kids don't like porridge/overnight oats? Porridge is rank anyway, I couldn't eat something that looks like sick.

Eggs, porridge, peanut butter with banana, avocado... much better than sugary cereals. Weetabix have sugar too as do most brands of muesli.

katharine I tend to agree with you. My six year old never stops moving and is slender bordering on thin despite eating like a horse so frequently my worry is getting enough calories in him rather than too many so I’m relaxed about sugar intake as he obviously needs the energy.

I think there is tendency amongst mothers (I’m one too, need to change that username) to assume the appropriate diet for a sedentary 30/40 something woman is appropriate for an energetic child. I’ve even heard people talk about low carbing primary children, it’s just nuts.

All you posters talking about “eggy bread”- you sound about 5 years old! It’s always been French toast to me.

How frightfully vulgar. It’s ‘Bombay Toast’ or ‘Poor Knights’ to anybody who has ever eaten in public school chambers. French Toast is terribly lower middle class and a bit Hyacinth Bucket tbh. :p

I don't buy it, because I would eat it.

I just found research that is suggesting that oats (unless organic) have the highest residues of glyphosate of all grain. Brown bread pretty bad too because they use the whole kernel. Soya (unless GM) and beloved by healthy folk, is also laden with pesticides.

Hey ho, I will stick with my white bread and nutella then

French Toast is terribly lower middle class and a bit Hyacinth Bucket tbh

We call it cinnamon toast for this very reason (usually have sugar and cinnamon on it but not always)

Yes. Those are treats once a year at his grandparents.