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?

It's not a juvenile term though. It's just what it's called in a lot of places

This!

Oh come on, “eggy” is a kids’ word! When would you use it on a formal or professional context?

Oh who cares I let my child eat cheerios most mornings she's perfectly healthy and has great teeth she also has plenty of fruit and veg in her diet and all the other things she needs. It sounds exhausting to be one of those parents.

Oh come on, “eggy” is a kids’ word! When would you use it on a formal or professional context?

When talking about eggy bread, I suppose.

I rest my case.

Really? That wasn't a very good argument, I think you'd lose the case on that basis!

Look, the dictionary says:

SUFFIX: -y

A native English suffix of adjectives meaning “characterised by or inclined to” the substance or action of the word or stem to which the suffix is attached, i.e.:

juicy; grouchy; rumbly; dreamy; ....eggy!

Oh come on, “eggy” is a kids’ word! When would you use it on a formal or professional context?

How often do you discuss what you feed your children for breakfast in a formal or professional context?

Which is what we’re talking about here. It’s perfectly acceptable to use that at home. Just like I don’t tell my children ‘they need to do some blue sky thinking on the tidying up their bedroom agenda’.

Incidentally I googled it and Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the BBC (multiple times), The Bell Ramsbury (pub of the year and in very posh Marlborough to boot) and quite a few chic London breakfast places serve ‘eggy bread’ so it’s not exactly verboten in polite company is it?

I just googled what the Queen has for breakfast in the interests of research and the answer google has given me is ‘Gordon’s Gin’. Seriously.

Wonder if she puts the gin on Coco Pops.

No, because quite frankly, if DD eats anything for breakfast it's a bonus, she brushes her teeth afterwards and she doesn't eat anything else sugary during the day, apart from yoghurt at school. Pick your battles.

The Bske Off thread has just reminded me that I spent my student years troughing through all the junk food my mum wouldn't allow me as a child (mostly Angel Delight and Kinder Eggs), so there could be a lot of Coco Pops in some of your kids' futures.

Gerard170 I don’t think that people are only using the phrase in relation to children’s food though- the impression I have is that an adult eating this food would also refer to it as “eggy bread”? Restaurants with it on the menu are clearly using it ironically, the point being that it is supposed to evoke some sort of nursery food nostalgia.

To draw a comparison- I might say to my son “yummy rice, nana and gurt” for tea tonight. But if I were telling my husband, or a fellow adult on Mumsnet, what my son had eaten, I would say “he had rice and vegetables, a banana and some yoghurt”.
To my ears, “eggy bread” is a phrase you use to a child. Perhaps because I am not English.

yummy rice, nana and gurt

Is nana and gurt really comparable to eggy bread?

To my ears, yes pumpkinyael.

Eggy is an actual word (according to the Cambridge dictionary). So is bread.

Gurt however doesn't seem to be in the dictionary... And nana happens to mean grandmother (according to the same dictionary)

I don't care what my teenagers have for breakfast, as long as they have breakfast.

I was asked to pick up some honey nut shredded wheat today. I did... Its not a subject I could get hung up about - sorry

When I was a child (1980s) my nan used to give me custard creams and sweet tea for breakfast 😂 I loved staying at her house!!

I didn’t say “eggy” wasn’t a word! I said it was a childish word.

Comparable to nana and gurt.

To draw a comparison- I might say to my son “yummy rice, nana and gurt” for tea tonight

"yummy rice, grandmother and nonsensical-word" for tea tonight.

Whereas eggy bread means (and is...) eggy bread.

Oh well, whatever. I'm too tired for this. Good night. 😊

Nobody forced you to tire yourself out getting all forensic trying to “disprove” what I clearly said was my own opinion pumpkinyael. Sweet dreams.

Don't flatter yourself, you're not the one responsible for that...

we only used to have weetabix and oats. On the weekends sometimes we have crumpets, toast. Last weekend i let them try rice krispies, they were not that fussed about them.

I myself have coco pops or frosties.

I thought gurt was only from that Chaz and Dave song Gertcha? ‘Gurt you cow son gertcha’.

To my ears, “eggy bread” is a phrase you use to a child. Perhaps because I am not English

I would guess that's why. In England it's a fairly normal term for the food, including among adults.