Refusing to buy certain cereals for my DC?

[Ricekrispie22]

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?

I’ve never heard it called anything but French toast? Well DS1 couldn’t say French so called it venge toast, but apart from that.

No social climbing aspirations here.

I buy it...loads of the stuff...no one fucking eats it though!

I thought eggy bread was literally just bread soaked in egg and french toast included sugar and cinnamon? Either makes me feel a bit queasy for some reason YUCK!

This is the only thing DP and I argue about, food wise. DS happily eats shreddies or weetabix every day, but if he's shopping with DP a box of sugar puffs finds its way home.

Apparently DP grew up on them and they didn't do him any harm. Fair enough, but breakfast is an easy win, why let them have more sugar? He eats plenty crap later in the day.

I give up.

We called it eggy bread at Brownie camp randomly, but otherwise it’s always been French toast.

We have a very healthy diet in my opinion. Lots of fruit and vegetables. My children do have things such as chocolate pillows for breakfast though. This is one of the only cereals my daughter will eat. I never thought I should feel a bad parent because of this. Like other have said, everything in moderation. Some parents must be so perfect!

We never have cereals, it’s always fruit yoghurt and a handful of nuts for breakfast. Cereals are just processed junk mainly.

I don’t care what anybody calls it. I was just having a dig a Jessie for saying other people sound like 5 year olds for using a different name when she was using a term other people would consider vulgar and look down on her self.

Neither DC here likes cereals so we've always just gone with wholemeal toast and fruit for breakfast, pancakes if we've time.

They love, love, love the free tat they get in cereal boxes at my Mum's house, but still refuse to eat the cereal. She's the only one foolish enough to continue buying the boxes for a "free" spoon or other plastic nonsense.

Has anyone on here said that people who have sugary cereals are a bad parent? Apologies if I’ve missed it.

The only thing that comes to mind when I read eggy bread is that I assume they’re not Scottish (I could well be wrong, but no Scot I know says it).

Nothing about what sort of person they are.

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’

We call them arme Ritter (=poor knights) in German as well.
Nothing French about them (imo)

French toast seems like an American term to me personally. But I might be wrong...

What in the name of god is wrong with calling it French toast?

Can all the wannabe Nancy Mitfords reign in their ridiculousness for one second.

Eggy bread fine too. I've never heard the other names, but each to his own.

I just found research that is suggesting that oats (unless organic) have the highest residues of glyphosate of all grain

Yep. However the organic oats we buy are happily only a few pence more than regular. I buy organic flour for this reason as well. Always keen to reduce our toxic load!

I'll throw in Gypsy Toast for the whole eggy bread/Poor Knights debate

I’ll call it pain perdu so there

We call them arme Ritter (=poor knights) in German as well.

I thought you’d won the Mumsnet posh prize until I saw this corker:

I’ll call it pain perdu so there wink

Bow down ladies, Her Majesty is among us.

Calling eggy bread erm....eggy bread is ‘frightfully vulgar’. How? How? HOW?

Sometimes I log on here and I feel like I’m in another realm.

Using the phrase frightfully vulgar is about as Hyacinth as it gets.

We buy cheerios/alphabites as well as other less sweet cereals (weetabix, rice krispies) and the limit is 1 bowl of the sweeter ones per day. We are working round two people's dietary restrictions (DP's IBS and DS1's autism-related ARFID) so I've kind of had to make my peace with it, though it's not the protein-packed wholegrain breakfast of my dreams.

I thought you’d won the Mumsnet posh prize until I saw this corker

I call them arme Ritter because I'm a German speaker. No posh prizes for me, I'm afraid.

I don't care what people call eggy bread, but I do think it's rude to call someone posh because they share a fact about (presumably) their own language. Thanks for arme Ritter pumpkinyael, I didn't know that one!

x-posted :)

Using the phrase frightfully vulgar is about as Hyacinth as it gets.

Well I was taking the mickey out of somebody else who was chastising people for saying eggy bread because it’s proper name is French Toast.

But technically calling something ‘common’ is more common/vulgar than calling something vulgar. And actual posh people used to say Non-U or NQOCD or raise an eyebrow. But nowadays they either wouldn’t say anything and if under 40/not related to Jacob Rees-Mogg would probably have a mockney accent, go to the ‘loo’ and have a post ironic loo brush in there as well and would consider Eggy Bread the sort of nursery food that might give away their upper class background so would have a bacon sandwich with brown sauce and a cup of builders tea, call everybody mate and pretend they went to a comprehensive in Croydon when they actually went to Harrow.

Hope that’s cleared that one up.

They are actually called Arme Ritter at some British boarding schools. I suspect (not certain) that this may be a hangover from when most of Britain’s forces were based in West Germany and most of the children of those forces boarded.

Had a craving for Cocopops the other day - bought a box and the new 'low sugar' recipe is actually disgusting!! If you're going to have something that indulgent it should at least taste nice